posted December 26, 2008 06:46 PM              

God and I have become like two giant fat people living in a tiny boat.
We keep bumping into each other and laughing.
~Hafiz

The accumulated darkness of the ages is dispelled at once
by bringing light in, not by trying to chase the darkness out.
~Sri Aurobindo

Our first duty is not to hate ourselves.
Swami Vivekananda

Suppose it were forbidden to say "I know" and only allowed to say "I believe I know."
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

To be properly expressed, a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form.
~Meister Eckhart

It is more blessed to give and receive than to have and to hold.
~Dorothy Soelle

posted December 26, 2008 06:55 PM              

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
~Erasmus

Real religion is beyond argument.
It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
~ Swami Sivananda

The less you open your heart to others,
the more your heart suffers.
~Deepak Chopra

God has created the world in play.
~Sri Ramakrishna

Nothing external to you has any power over you.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
~Anonymous

The more we come out and do good to others, the more
our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
~Swami Vivekananda

If you are pained by external things, it is not they
that disturb you, but your own judgment of them.
And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.
~Marcus Aurelius

People are where they are because that's exactly where
they really want to be...whether they'll admit that or not.
~Earl Nightingale

Love, and do what you like.
~St Augustine

posted December 26, 2008 07:00 PM              

...nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.
~Teilhard de Chardin

The divine assails us, penetrates us, and moulds us.
We imagined it as distant and inassessible,
whereas in fact we live steeped in its burning layers.
~Teilhard de Chardin, The Divine Milieu

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him,
you will see yourself. As you treat him, you will treat yourself. As you think
of him, you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find
yourself or lose yourself.
~A Course in Miracles

All beings
are words of God,
His music, His
art.
~Meister Eckhart

God expects but one thing of you: that you should come out of yourself
and let God be God in you.
~Meister Eckhart

Every time we walk down the street, we are preceded by hosts of angels singing,
"Make way, Make way, Make way for the image of God."
~Hasidic saying

Whosoever sees anything at all is looking into the eyes of the Only One Who Is.
~Jesus

Not I, but the Father within me does these things.
~Jesus

This is not my body, it is the temple of God;
This is not my heart, it is the altar of God.
~Hazrat Inayat Khan

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things,
though they are ignorant that he is so.
~ Plotinus

posted December 26, 2008 07:03 PM              

“The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body,
the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him -
that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.”
Swami Vivekananda

Seek the unconditioned, indestructible pure Bliss within yourself...
You will then be in a position to appreciate God's creation rightly.
~Paramahansa Yogananda

posted December 26, 2008 07:09 PM              

Don't ask yourself what the world needs.
Ask yourself what makes you come alive,
and then go do that.
Because what the world needs are
people who have come alive.
~Robert Thurman
(Phillips, Jan. Divining The Body. Skylight Paths Publishing, VT: 2005, 55).

Most people are copies of someone else, imitating what others do.
They have no independent thinking. You should be a different individual,
expressing the very best of your own unique nature.
~Paramahansa Yogananda

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should
find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm
all hostility.
~ Longfellow

“There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone
is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.”
~Swami Sivananda

posted December 29, 2008 02:50 PM            

Men were thought of as free so that they could become guilty: consequently, every action had to be thought of as willed, the origin of every action as lying in the consciousness... ...Today, when we have started to move in the reverse direction, when we immoralists especially are trying with all our might to remove the concept of guilt and the concept of punishment from the world and to purge psychology, history, nature, the social institutions and sanctions of them, there is in our eyes no more radical opposition than that of the theologians, who continue to infect the innocence of becoming with 'punishment' and 'guilt' by means of the concept of the 'moral world-order'. Christianity is a hangman's metaphysics.

posted January 06, 2009 08:46 AM            

~Wilma Mankiller

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

~Peace Pilgrim

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

~Clark Gable.

By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.

~Sri Chinmoy