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#11903764 - 01/26/10 05:18 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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A thread to post your favourite spiritual quotes
I'll start with this quote from Gautama Buddha, he is said to have spoken these words just as death was approaching...
"Be a light unto yourself, betake yourselves to no external refuge.
Hold fast to the Truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves."
Another quote attributed as being the last words of Gautama Buddha was...
"All compounded things are subject to vanish. Strive for your own liberation with earnestness!"
Edited by The Chronic (03/20/10 10:02 AM)
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#11903773 - 01/26/10 05:26 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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be still and know that i am god - psalms
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If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
--Wittgenstein
You will not be punished for your hate, you will be punished by your hate.
--Buddha
Blessed is the lion which becomes man when consumed by man; and cursed is the man whom the lion consumes, and lion becomes man.
--Christ
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the dark conscious.
--Jung
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rules of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
-- St Paul
We yearn for some explosive, extraordinary escape from the inescapable and, none forthcoming, we put our faith in an apocalyptic rupture whereby the inevitable is solved by the unbelievable grasshoppers, plagues, composite monsters, angels, blood in industrial quantities, and, in the end, salvation from sin and evil--meaning anxiety, travail, and pain. By defining human suffering in cosmic terms, as part of a cosmic order that contains an issue, catastrophe is dignified, endowed with meaning, and hence made bearable.
--Eugene Weber
Only when you forget you are human will you remember you are a god.
--Beastmaster
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#11903939 - 01/26/10 06:43 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."
-Buddha
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Turn off your mind, relax and floatdown stream. It is not dying. Lay down all thought, surrender to the void. It is shining.
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#11904744 - 01/26/10 10:15 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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"He is the greatest hypocrite, who, himself being one, asks others not to be hypocritical."
"He who harms nothing is a good man, he who is harmed by nothing is a God-Man"
"To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!"
"How can a finite mind realize an infinite reality without its own annhilation?"
"The infinite truth latent in everything reveals itself only when life is accepted in its totality."
"There is the eternal Now from the beginningless beginning to the endless end. There is one moment only—the ETERNAL NOW. He who experiences the ETERNAL NOW finds all doubts, wounds, everything dissolved like mist, and remains in eternal bliss."
"Being is Dying by Loving."
"The ONE is one complete whole and simultaneously a series of ones within the ONE. Illusion is a ZERO and simultaneously a series of zeros within the ZERO. These zeros have no value, except a false value according to their position in relation to the ONE. In actual fact the zeros have no existence - their existence is mere appearance in Illusion, the big ZERO."
1 000 000 - the zeros only have value because of the 1.
"Live more and more in the Present which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future."
~ All Meher Baba
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..and may the zelda theme song be with you at all times, amen.
Edited by soldatheero (01/26/10 10:29 AM)
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#11906627 - 01/26/10 03:45 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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His disciples said to Him: "When will the Kingdom come?"
Jesus said: "It does not come by expecting it. It will not be a matter of saying, "Here it is!" or "There it is." Rather, the Kingdom of Heaven is spread upon the earth and men do not see it." - The Gospel of Thomas
Long accustomed to be carefree,
I have forgotten worldly shame.
Long accustomed to the mind coming and going
By itself, I have forgotten how to hide things. - Milarepa
The choiceless truth of who you are is revealed to be permanently here permeating everything. Not a thing and not separate from anything - Gangaji
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#11906908 - 01/26/10 04:41 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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'He who is doing his true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe.'
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#11907999 - 01/26/10 07:33 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one; and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner; and the upper like the lower; and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female; when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image; then you will enter the Kingdom." - Gospel of Thomas
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#11908783 - 01/26/10 09:14 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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pretty epic quote that last one
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#11911061 - 01/27/10 10:22 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light" Jesus
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#11922082 - 01/29/10 12:59 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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See my sig.
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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#11922153 - 01/29/10 01:41 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Pretty much everything by Alan Watts:
The only real crime is that you won't admit that you are God.
Camus said there is only really one serious philosophical question, which is whether or not to commit suicide. I think there are four or five serious philosophical questions:
The first one is: Who started it?
The second is: Are we going to make it?
The third is: Where are we going to put it?
The fourth is: Who's going to clean up?
And the fifth: Is it serious?
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lion]
#11922753 - 01/29/10 07:09 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one; and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner; and the upper like the lower; and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female; when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image; then you will enter the Kingdom." - Gospel of Thomas
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#11923293 - 01/29/10 09:20 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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"The saints of today are the sinners of the past"
"Any attempt on the ego at loving is merely a calculated form of selfishness."
"A man who has no interests in the world either becomes the greatest of saints or the worst of sinners."
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..and may the zelda theme song be with you at all times, amen.
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#11924534 - 01/29/10 01:06 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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"A man who has no interests in the world either becomes the greatest of saints or the worst of sinners."
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
--Aristotle
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Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one; and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner; and the upper like the lower; and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female; when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image; then you will enter the Kingdom." - Gospel of Thomas
That a real crop circle? I think I understand the majority of that quote with the exception of the eye in the place of the eye... image in place of the image part. 
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#11924685 - 01/29/10 01:28 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Its hard to put it into words but i feel its saying go within yourself, thats how i feel it anyway, the words dont logically make any sense at all, but when i read them i can feel what they mean, the you within you, the eye of the eye, InI
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#11924868 - 01/29/10 01:57 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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an image in place of an image; then you will enter the Kingdom.
I see it as not having an ego and never entertaining the idea of yourself and just be yourself &then you will become your true self. The real self must take the place of the false self-asserted self. Being occurs before the perception of it's own being(which is the mind) so "reside in the self".
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#11924913 - 01/29/10 02:05 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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I agree apart from you are already your real self, the false self just dissolves away & leaves the real self as it is, theres no moment in time where the true self is allowed to be, it already is being right now.
I know you probly meant that anyway, but i reckon its good to look at these things in detail, because if we feel we have to or can become our true self, thats a pipe dream, its never gonna happen, its just the mind postponing its own execution! Giving itself another job to do...
We can never ever become our true self, we can only stop being our false self, the true self is being always.
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#11926491 - 01/29/10 07:34 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Food eaten in anger turns to poison. - Sufi proverb
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#11926998 - 01/29/10 09:37 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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soldatheero said:
"A man who has no interests in the world either becomes the greatest of saints or the worst of sinners."
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
--Aristotle
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Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one; and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner; and the upper like the lower; and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female; when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image; then you will enter the Kingdom." - Gospel of Thomas
That a real crop circle? I think I understand the majority of that quote with the exception of the eye in the place of the eye... image in place of the image part.
Yes that is a real crop circle, it appeared this year...It is one of the biggest one's ever formed...
If you COMPLETELY understood that parable...You would be eternal.
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#11931340 - 01/30/10 05:01 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Good man of natural medicine once told me , Regarding Sweat Ceremonies in Lakota culture....
"Theres a difference between suffering and Sacrifice: When you sacrifice you give something up and thats it your done with it, but to suffer you have no choice and your prayers to tunkasila are more sincere cause you are in a humbled state and you have no choice but to give all you got."
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Hillbilly prints to trade pm me!! 
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"As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind."
"You know you are a Mystic when you wake up one day and ask, am I crazy or are they?"
"These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness."
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Not all spiritual but I believe that most of these help expand the mind which is good enough.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to percieve with our frail and feeble mind. - Albert Einstein
Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. - Albert Einstein...
Whatever is flexible and flowing will tend to grow, whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die. - Tao Te Ching...
By means of meditation we can teach our minds to be calm and balanced; within this calmness is a richness and a potential, an inner knowledge which can render our lives boundlessly satisfying and meaningful. While the mind may be what traps us in unhealthy patterns of stress and imbalance, it is also the mind which can free us. Through meditation, we can tap the healing qualities of mind. - Tarthang Tulku...
There seem to two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the ego, by realizing its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure being. - Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon by Wei Wu Wei...
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes...
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
George Carlin
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
--Friedrich Nietzsche
"Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its course. It will go its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, and the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you."
-Sheng-yen
"Some of the ego's strategies are extremely clever, yet they never truly solve any of its problems, simply because the ego itself is the problem."
- Eckhart Tolle
"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."
"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.--Homer
I have argued that every human being is born with an innate drive to experience altered states of consciousness periodically -- in particular to learn how to get away from ordinary ego-centered consciousness. I have also explained my intuition that this drive is a most important factor in our evolution, both as individuals and as a species. No ordinary experiences are vital to us because they are expressions of our unconscious minds, and the integration of conscious and unconscious experience is the key to life, health, and spiritual development, and fullest use of our nervous systems. - Andrew Weil, M.D.
He who finds a thought that enables him to obtain a slightly deeper glimpse into the eternal secrets of nature has been given great grace. - Albert Einstein
When you give a shilling to a beggar - do you realize that you are giving it to yourself? When you help a lame dog over a stile - do you realize that you yourself are being helped? When you kick a man when he is down - do you realize that you are kicking yourself? Give him another kick - if you deserve it! - Why Lazurus Laughed by Wei Wu Wei...
The world is like a ride at an amusement park. It goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey - don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride ..." And we ... kill those people. Ha ha, "Shut him up. We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. Jesus murdered; Martin Luther King murdered; Malcolm X murdered; Gandhi murdered; John Lennon murdered; Reagan ... wounded. But it doesn't matter because: It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love.
The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace. Thank you very much, you've been great.
Bill Hicks
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true." - Mark Twain
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
"Humanity without religion is like a serial killer without a chainsaw."
-- unknown
"A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents."
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." ~Gandhi
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
- Rudyard Kipling
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power" -P.J. O'Rourke
"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein
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"Please see that I want nothing from you. It is in your own interest that I speak, because above all you love yourself, you want yourself secure and happy. Don't be ashamed of it, don't deny it. It is natural and good to love oneself. Only you should know exactly what do you love. It is not the body that you love, it is Life - perceiving, feeling, thinking, doing, loving, striving, creating. It is that Life which you love, which is you, which is all. Realize it in its totality, beyond all divisions and limitations, and all your desires will merge in it, for the greater contains the smaller. Therefore, find yourself, for in finding that you find all."
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Religion is for people who are afraid to go to hell, whereas spirituality is for people like me who have been there" -Dave Mustaine
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"The saints of today are the sinners of the past"
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
#12010954 - 02/11/10 05:04 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Your wisdom naturally arises
and you don’t differentiate suffering and joy
Actually, this joy and this suffering..
they are the same.
The same.
Quiescence and action you can’t separate
Don’t distinguish these, there is no difference
Work with one mind
with one mind, all of this is done in no time
isn’t that right?
All of this is the practice
it’s not just sitting quietly somewhere
All of this is balanced and tranquil
even work is very calm
don’t think this or thatwhen you work,
just work
Practitioners are working towards liberation
The Buddha said there’s too much suffering in this world
so we all want to become buddhas
You can live a hundred yearsor live a thousand years…
The buddhas and bodhisattvas will take care of you
But the purpose of this life is to become a Buddha
People eat dirt, dirt eats people
no matter what you do, we must return to this earth
none of this is real, everything returns to this
If you see through this world and let go of it
this is wisdom
if you see through it, but don’t let go…
that’s just “talking Zen”
“ten thousand things
all in this breath
grasping hold of emptiness
there’s really nothing to say”
“Ten thousand things, all in this breath…”
why are people in this world so busy?
just for this one breath
they say, “busy, busy, mine, mine….”
busy a whole lifetime for “Me”
when this breath is cut off..
you let go of the whole universe
why not let go from the start?
There’s nothing real from the start
everyday, morning to night, gathering things..
big and small, valuables...
money, name and recognition...
gathering it all up into your lap
like you're holding the golden key
busy your whole life for nothing
acting like a thief
why not put all this energy to liberation?
put this mind to the Path
everyone in the world is controlled by this
shed this control and then you'll be free, content
liberated
The Lengyan scriptures say
"though there are words to speak, none of these are real"
talk and talk, like flowers falling from heaven...
it's all worthless
and so, "there is really nothing to say"
If you think what you are grasping is real...
there's no good in that
you can't take it with you
- Buddhist hermits of Zhongnan Mountain
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^Love it.
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
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I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge and Delight & bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all! It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocense is a lie. Be strong, o man! Lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this. I am alone. There is no God where I am.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deCypher]
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Fuck yea!
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: rebus_minus]
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Really nice rebus! 
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12025304 - 02/13/10 11:53 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand,
but the passages that bother me are those I do understand."
— Mark Twain
JESUS ON SALT - Mark 9:50
"Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other."
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: DJ_avocado]
#12027173 - 02/14/10 11:38 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
--Oscar Wilde
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12030187 - 02/14/10 07:16 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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"I have no reason to fight monkeys. This lesson has no value." - Cord "Circle of Iron"
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deCypher]
#12030244 - 02/14/10 07:28 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
deCypher said:
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
--Oscar Wilde
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.
How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.
Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.
— W.H. Auden
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Perception is delicious.
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GoshAllMighty you love donuts. that was a beautiful poem.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: DJ_avocado]
#12049348 - 02/17/10 05:34 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deCypher]
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“I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamed of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?” - Zhuangzi
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lion]
#12052474 - 02/18/10 06:55 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Pretty much live by these three:
"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."
"Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven."
"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace."
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Just a dude who loves everything and wants to spread enlightenment throughout. Peace be with you all!
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: theVoidKing]
#12086302 - 02/23/10 09:31 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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"I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act" Abraham Maslow
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(Thanks to Sui for letting me use this!)
"....buy small portions of say 1/2 gram...buy from a reliable internet source (they're out there) and store in a cool, dark, secret place"
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12092314 - 02/24/10 09:36 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared. -The Buddha
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"Do what thou wilt"
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: SilkyB]
#12094012 - 02/25/10 08:31 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Welcome, thanks for the quote 
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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True religion consists in developing the attitude of mind which should ultimately result in seeing One Infinite Existence prevailing in the universe; when one could live in the world and yet be not of it, and at the same time be in harmony with everyone and everything; when one could see the same divinity in art and science and experience the highest consciousness and indivisible bliss in everyday life.
Meher Baba
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..and may the zelda theme song be with you at all times, amen.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
#12122603 - 03/01/10 05:45 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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"this is my commendment: love one another as I have loved you. No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends" jesus christ
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"The best way to live life is with death as a companion. Not in any gothic or pessimist way, more as a present companion that may touch you at any given time. If we lived our lives with death walking by our side no one moment would go wasted in our lifetimes."
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"A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence." - Sigmund Freud
"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world." - Sigmund Freud
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Perception is delicious.
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The sensual pleasure women provide,
the joy of wine, the taste of meat:
It's the undoing of fools,
but for the wise, the pathway to salvation.
--Kalarnava Tantra
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deCypher]
#12131317 - 03/02/10 09:23 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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"Modern physics has thus revealed that every subatomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction. The dance of Shiva is the dancing universe, the ceaseless flow of energy going through an infinite variety of patterns that melt into one another."
"Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the mystics, but has become a problem in science only very recently."
-- Both are from Fritjof Capra.
You have no form,
even though with the help of Maya,
you take on myriads of forms.
You have no beginning,
though you are the beginning of all.
It is you who creates, upholds and dissolves the worlds.
-- Mahanirvana Tantra
Being in Samadhi
in the state of supreme bliss
that arises from seedless yoga,
his knowledge free from constraint
he meditates constantly
within himself upon Himself.
-- Umapati Sivacarya (14th century Tamil poet)
"Miserable fools alone laugh at the conduct of Lord Shiva who tasteth the bliss of his own self; they by whom this carcass of a body, food for the dog and the wolf, is mistaken for the soul amd pampered by adorning it with clothes, ornaments, garlands and pastes; they do not understand, but scoff at the strange ways and behaviour of Lord Shiva, who knoweth and tasteth the bliss of his own self."
-- Bhagavantam
The Good Foot
which is lifted up
I've seen.
I've seen the light too:
I've seen the dancer inside
the Pure Space:
the feet imprinted on
the attacking head
are the True Guru's Feet,
so
dance snake!
Dance!
-- Pampitti Chittar (Tamil Shaivite poet)
Ganga and Bhanga are sisters
Who live in Gangadhara
Ganga will give you wisdom,
Bhanga will show you the way to heaven.
-- Bihar folk saying
Ganga: Ganges river personified as a deity.
Bhanga: Cannabis personified as a deity.
Gangadhara: Shiva, as the upholder of the Ganga
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The Chronic
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Nice quotes!
I especially like the Mahanirvana & Umapati Sivacarya
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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fucking awesome quotes I have alot of reading to do on this Fritjof Capra guy
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12143703 - 03/04/10 04:25 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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"It's all make-believe, isn't it?" - Marilyn Monroe
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lion]
#12154099 - 03/06/10 01:01 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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An extract from Meister Eckhart's 'Poverty Sermon', he's referring to poverty as a spirtiual attainment, not the poverty meaning lack of material things, but rather the lack of personal will & desire.
"So long as a person has his own wish in him to fulfill even the ever-beloved will of God, if that is still a matter of his will, then this person does not yet possess the poverty of which we want to speak. Indeed, this person then still has a will with which he or she wants to satisfy God's will, and that is not the right poverty. For a human being to possess true poverty, he or she must be as free of his or her created will as they were when they did not yet exist. Thus I say to you in the name of divine truth, as long as you have the will, even the will to fulfill God's will, and as long as you have the desire for eternity and for God, to this very extent you are not properly poor, for the only one who is a poor person is one who wills nothing and desires nothing."
Edited by The Chronic (03/06/10 01:10 PM)
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12154156 - 03/06/10 01:14 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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nice
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deff]
#12207132 - 03/15/10 02:37 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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"If you want some good advice, listen to your own advice"
Me
"Everything you know, I forgot"
My Father
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Remember It]
#12209335 - 03/15/10 08:46 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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This is a great thread and so many I have never heard, keep them coming 
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: SilkyB]
#12210347 - 03/15/10 11:26 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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"Father forgive them, for they know not what they do."
--Jesus
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Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high. 
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Computerism]
#12218423 - 03/17/10 11:29 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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“A man who uses his hands is a laborer. One who uses his hands and mind is a craftsman. He who uses his hands, and his mind, and his heart is an artist.”
~ St. Francis of Assisi
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: c-ray]
#12218452 - 03/17/10 11:34 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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"What we are looking for, is what is looking"
St. Francis of Assisi
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12243739 - 03/21/10 04:26 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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love is love and not fade away.
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lorddavidone
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Fifty-One
Those who want to know the truth of the universe should practice the four cardinal virtues. The first is reverence for all life; this manifests as unconditional love and respect for oneself and all other beings. The Second is natural sincerity; this manifests as honesty, simplicity, and faithfulness. The third is gentleness; this manifests as kindness, consideration for others, and sensitivity to spiritual truth. The fourth is supportiveness; this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. The four virtues are not an external dogma but a part of your original nature. When practiced, they give birth to wisdom and evoke the five blessings: health, wealth, happiness, longevity, and peace.
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The Chronic
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Or just recognize the original nature...
"All auspicious qualities manifest spontaniously within the mind awake to its true nature"
Means no effort to cultivate any virtues, as virtues come naturally after you wake up...
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12296842 - 03/30/10 12:27 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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See my sig for my favorite quote :]
my favorite spiritual quote:
"What we think, we become." - Buddha
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"Yeah well, you know...that's just like...your opinion, man." - The Dude
 
Edited by ph34r (03/30/10 12:29 AM)
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12298864 - 03/30/10 11:13 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Pranava AUM omkara
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ABSENCE OF EVIDNCE IS NOT EVIDENCE OF ABSENCE
A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"the fact has not created in me
a sense of obligation."
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I just saw this one and liked it, so I thought I would share it here:
"He said he was tired of my acting as an ultimately important being that has to be given proof over and over that the world is unknown and
marvelous."
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TheMushroomJesus said:
"Doesnt that actually make the most sense? These are intelligent beings that are capable of creating anything, including what you call 'science'. And the suicide cults are a sacrifice to these intelligent beings."
"If any of you knew about Applewhite you would know that he represented JESUS..as we all do. He believed he and all of us were jesus to the point he would kill himself to get the message out...while your here..typing away pointless thoughts on a website pretending to make a difference, when in reality, you will never come close to making as much of a difference as even Applewhite."
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: the bizzle]
#12303314 - 03/31/10 12:18 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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It doenst end so think twice. lol
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: hairybear]
#12334181 - 04/05/10 07:47 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
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Go see the sounds of the universe
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The world is nothing but turning white into black, and black into white. - Akira Yamaoka
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Hajnal ['hɒjnɒl] - An elegant mixture of blood and circuitry; sorrow and love fill your systems, like the stars and black holes encompass the ∞.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Hajnal] 1
#12370212 - 04/10/10 10:17 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Eight
I confess that there is nothing to teach: no religion, no
science, no body of information which will lead
your mind back to the Tao.
Today I speak in this fashion, tomorrow in another,
but always the Integral Way is beyond words and
beyond mind.
Simply be aware of the oneness of things.
-Lao Tzu.
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~The Cultivators Motherload~
"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein
"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies.
My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."-Dalai Lama
Live long and prosper.
Edited by Kada (04/10/10 10:22 PM)
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Kada]
#12370237 - 04/10/10 10:22 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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lao tzu invented LOL
-yogabunny
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I did it for the LULZ Tao
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lion]
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-me
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Zenman
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"As long as we do not have an inner experience of the soul, we remain in utter darkness" - Kirpal Singh
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Crucify.the.Ego
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"It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation." - Alex Grey
"Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego." - Terrance McKenna
"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one conciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves!" - Bill Hicks
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"It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation."
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"Those who say they will die first and then rise are in error. If they do not first receive the resurrection while they live, when they die they will receive nothing."
- Gospel of Philip (Nag Hammadi)
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I am not a human being in search of a spiritual experience, I am a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
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"Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers."
- Peter Matthiessen
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Quote:
TrippyHippie74 said:
I am not a human being in search of a spiritual experience, I am a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
I am not a human being. I am a human becoming.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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circastes
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Quote:
TrippyHippie74 said:
I am not a human being in search of a spiritual experience, I am a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
I like.
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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soldatheero
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#12394492 - 04/14/10 07:03 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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A man who really understands becomes..
Upasni Maharaj - an mostly unknown enlightened being.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
#12396610 - 04/15/10 04:59 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."
Helen Keller
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: c-ray]
#12396646 - 04/15/10 05:19 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.
-Bob Marley "Zion Train"
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Let the first step be one you believe in, and the second one might be profound.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Aser]
#12414889 - 04/18/10 12:20 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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He who can see through all fear, will always be safe.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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PsychedelicQueer
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12446655 - 04/23/10 08:51 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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They are song lyrics, but I've found immense spiritual wisdom in them.
Quote:
Words are flying out like
endless rain into a paper cup
They slither while they pass
They slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow waves of joy
are drifting thorough my open mind
Possessing and caressing me
Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Images of broken light which
dance before me like a million eyes
That call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a
restless wind inside a letter box
they tumble blindly as
they make their way across the universe
Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Sounds of laughter shades of life
are ringing through my open ears
exciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which
shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on across the universe
Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Jai guru deva
Jai guru deva
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All I know is that I'd rather take a pile of physically harmless mushrooms every couple of months to bring me back to nature and the universe, than to chug a large cup of coffee every morning just to have the energy and will to go to school/work.
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this might not be entirely spiritual but I felt it was.
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on."
~Winston Churchhill
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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao ~Tao Te Ching/Daodejing
"Find what you're looking for by not looking for it." ~Old Hippie Philosophy
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Cracka_X]
#12468797 - 04/27/10 09:11 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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I dont know about quotes but Krishnamurti is great stuff
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The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
J. B. S. Haldane
The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
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"Bring forth what is within you, or what is within you will fucking destroy you" Jesus Christ .. - the fuck
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..and may the zelda theme song be with you at all times, amen.
Edited by soldatheero (05/09/10 03:27 PM)
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
#12482303 - 04/30/10 07:01 AM (2 years, 30 days ago) |
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12482376 - 04/30/10 07:33 AM (2 years, 30 days ago) |
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I love this one....
The peace that surpasseth all understanding.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: steveareno]
#12482393 - 04/30/10 07:39 AM (2 years, 30 days ago) |
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"Do geese see God?"
It's the most beautiful palindrome I've ever seen, and carries intense spiritual meaning to me for some reason.
(PS: in case you not be knowing what a palindrome is, it's a word or phrase that can be spelled forward and backward and still mean the same thing. For example, "mom|mom" "toot|toot" "race car|race car.")
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All I know is that I'd rather take a pile of physically harmless mushrooms every couple of months to bring me back to nature and the universe, than to chug a large cup of coffee every morning just to have the energy and will to go to school/work.
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Cool
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12487669 - 05/01/10 07:08 AM (2 years, 29 days ago) |
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Here's one of moi's in the form of a "The Da Vinci Code" parody.....
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I'm not sure if this is one, but if you know this it's a VERY famous line from a poem and it gives you a warming sensation at first thought.
Do not go gentle into that good night...
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.
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hrmmmmm
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'we of the industrial democracies can either chose to explore these unfamiliar dimensions now or we can wait until the advancing destruction of this planet makes all exploration irrelevant'
-Terance Mckenna, Food Of The Gods
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: YouNeedMT]
#12535890 - 05/10/10 07:46 AM (2 years, 20 days ago) |
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"Everything I need to know I knew so early" - Noah Lennox
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The Chronic
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“Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth!
House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again”
Buddha
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12536511 - 05/10/10 10:36 AM (2 years, 20 days ago) |
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Quote:
Chronic777 said:
“Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth!
House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again”
Buddha
cool /goesbacktohousebuilding
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Freedom]
#12555005 - 05/13/10 11:03 AM (2 years, 17 days ago) |
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"Monks, this concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing, when developed & pursued, is both peaceful & exquisite, a refreshing & pleasant abiding that immediately disperses & allays any evil, unskillful [mental] qualities that have arisen. Just as when, in the last month of the hot season, a great rain-cloud out of season immediately disperses & allays the dust & dirt that have been stirred up, in the same way this concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing, when developed & pursued, is both peaceful & exquisite, a refreshing & pleasant abiding that immediately disperses & allays any evil, unskillful [mental] qualities that have arisen.
"And how is concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing developed & pursued so as to be both peaceful & exquisite, a refreshing & pleasant abiding that immediately disperses & allays any evil, unskillful [mental] qualities that have arisen?
"There is the case where a monk, having gone to the wilderness, to the shade of a tree, or to an empty building, sits down folding his legs crosswise, holding his body erect, and setting mindfulness to the fore. Always mindful, he breathes in; mindful he breathes out.
"[1] Breathing in long, he discerns, 'I am breathing in long'; or breathing out long, he discerns, 'I am breathing out long.' [2] Or breathing in short, he discerns, 'I am breathing in short'; or breathing out short, he discerns, 'I am breathing out short.' [3] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in sensitive to the entire body.' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out sensitive to the entire body.' [4] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in calming bodily fabrication [in-&-out breathing].' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out calming the bodily fabrication.'
"[5] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in sensitive to rapture.' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out sensitive to rapture.' [6] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in sensitive to pleasure.' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out sensitive to pleasure.' [7] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in sensitive to mental fabrication [feeling & perception].' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out sensitive to mental fabrication.' [8] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in calming mental fabrication.' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out calming mental fabrication.'
"[9] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in sensitive to the mind.' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out sensitive to the mind.' [10] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in gladdening the mind.' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out gladdening the mind.' [11] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in steadying the mind.' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out steadying the mind. [12] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in releasing the mind.' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out releasing the mind.'
"[13] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in focusing on inconstancy.' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out focusing on inconstancy.' [14] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in focusing on dispassion [literally, fading].' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out focusing on dispassion.' [15] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in focusing on cessation.' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out focusing on cessation.' [16] He trains himself, 'I will breathe in focusing on relinquishment.' He trains himself, 'I will breathe out focusing on relinquishment.'
"This is how concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing is developed & pursued so as to be both peaceful & exquisite, a refreshing & pleasant abiding that immediately disperses & allays any evil, unskillful [mental] qualities that have arisen."
Vesali Sutta: At Vesali (SN 54.9)
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: bodhicitta]
#12555933 - 05/13/10 02:11 PM (2 years, 17 days ago) |
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Longing is the core of mystery.
Longing itself brings the cure.
The only rule is, Suffer the pain.
Your desire must be disciplined,
and what you want to happen
in time, sacrificed.
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Why am I part of this disaster, this
mud hole for donkeys? Is this the place
where Jesus spoke? Surely not. A table
has been set, but we have not been served
sweet spring water yet. Evidently we came
here to be bound hand and foot. I ask
a flower, "How is it you are so wise so
young?" "With the first morning wind and
the first dew, I lost my innocence." I
follow the one who showed me the way. I
extend one hand up, and with the other I
touch the ground. A great branch leans
down from the sky. How long will I keep
talking of up and down? This is not my
home: silence, annihilation, absence!
I go back where everything is nothing.
Rumi
Edited by bodhicitta (05/13/10 02:49 PM)
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12608577 - 05/22/10 07:30 AM (2 years, 8 days ago) |
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I ran across this artist after October 11 2008, the Saturday night that I reached this point myself.
This is the point from which I can never return,
And if I back down now then forever I burn.
This is the point from which I could never retreat,
Cause If I turn back now there can never be peace.
This is the point from which I will die or succeed,
Livin's a struggle, I know I'm alive when I bleed.
From now on it can never be the same as before,
Cause the man that I was doesn't exist anymore.
- Immortal Technique
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Mycomyth]
#12608585 - 05/22/10 07:31 AM (2 years, 8 days ago) |
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I haven't heard any immortal technique for years!
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12616386 - 05/23/10 08:00 PM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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God is love
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12618543 - 05/24/10 05:48 AM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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Krackatus: We as a species will never be intelligent enough to understand the universe, just as chickens will never be intelligent enough to understand rocket science.
Edited by BlueCoyote (05/24/10 05:51 AM)
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: BlueCoyote]
#12618829 - 05/24/10 07:49 AM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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"When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick; every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once."
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: BlueCoyote]
#12619602 - 05/24/10 10:36 AM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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Quote:
BlueCoyote said:
Krackatus: We as a species will never be intelligent enough to understand the universe, just as chickens will never be intelligent enough to understand rocket science.
Bullshit
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12620045 - 05/24/10 12:07 PM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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True, nobody knows what we can know.
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“What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.”
― Ernest Becker
"Beneath the civilized veneer, man remains the supreme predator. Cursed with what he believes is understanding, his true soul blossoms godlike in the heart of the nuclear inferno."
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: NastyDHL]
#12620281 - 05/24/10 12:56 PM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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Quote:
NastyDHL said:
"When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick; every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once."
great quote 
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12633313 - 05/26/10 04:22 PM (2 years, 4 days ago) |
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Quote:
Chronic777 said:
Quote:
BlueCoyote said:
Krackatus: We as a species will never be intelligent enough to understand the universe, just as chickens will never be intelligent enough to understand rocket science.
Bullshit
Everybody knows what he wants to know...
Like chicken who feel themselves so full of knowledge about the outer space.
And if they can't get it, even some just make 'nothing' out of it 
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: BlueCoyote]
#12639423 - 05/27/10 02:21 PM (2 years, 3 days ago) |
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Words are a shortcut to thinking. "Understand the universe" is meaningless. Recognizing one's identity with it and representing perceptions of it's functions are different stories.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Mr. Middle]
#12654940 - 05/30/10 09:18 AM (2 years, 10 hours ago) |
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I wont discuss about citations here. They are not mine and they stand as they are
It only says: We in trying to understand the universie are like chicken trying to understand rocket science.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: BlueCoyote]
#12715145 - 06/09/10 12:47 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Thomas Pain sayed "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good"
I love this quote because it shows a non nationalistic person who is atheist, whos morals are based on what is good, and not what is in the bible. I try and live my life by this quote.
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Realize that there comes a time in the life of every individual when he or she knows for a fact that it is not possible to continue with his or her existing life as it is. In that moment the individual knows that if peace and happiness is to be found, then a most drastic change is called for. This event is known as the Knock of the Spirit. When it comes, the Spirit of man metaphorically knocks upon the individual's door, and the message given is brief, but overwhelming in its implications: "Follow me now without question, or remain where you are. I offer you freedom, but know that if I leave without you, I will not be returning." Such is the Spirit's message, and the decision of the man or woman to go with the Spirit must be instantaneous if he or she is not to miss this fleeting moment of chance." -Theun Mares, Toltec
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I honor the place in you in which the entire universe dwells. I honor the place in you which is of love. of truth. of light, and of peace. When you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me. We are one.
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“ . . . the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation—a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.” - Franz Kafka
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Mr. Middle]
#12787901 - 06/22/10 09:48 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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I contemplate in my heart the nonfearful divinity of shining darkness.
-Shivatoshini 1.1.14
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Mr. Middle]
#12787964 - 06/22/10 10:06 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Mr. Middle said:
“ . . . the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation—a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.” - Franz Kafka
Superb
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Mr. Middle]
#12787973 - 06/22/10 10:08 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Mr. Middle said:
“ . . . the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation—a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.” - Franz Kafka
nice quote. Sounds like Kafka knew how to read. I bet I could read the same books he read and hardly be moved
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#12788155 - 06/22/10 10:46 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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I think he described the feeling well. I get it real bad reading Carl Jung. I think the intellectual exhaustion 'upgrades' you.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#12788274 - 06/22/10 11:14 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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well the closest I've come to that is reading Joseph Campbell, who was continuing Jung's line of thought.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Freedom]
#12788530 - 06/23/10 12:41 AM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Freedom said:
well the closest I've come to that is reading Joseph Campbell, who was continuing Jung's line of thought.
Yep. That's interesting, I've been reading Jung all day and I'm about read some more Joseph Campbell. Coincidence, synchronicity? Mmm...
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#12792367 - 06/23/10 05:31 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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"The way to peace and fulfillment in union with God, the divine Beloved, is a daring dive into the "eternal now." Not by fruitless surveys of the past, nor by elusive longings for the future, nor by enslavement to the fleeting moment, but by staking everything for God, is it possible for you to experience yourself as the illimitable ocean of love. Here and nowhere else is the final solution of all your problems. Love born in the Truth liberates without binding and fulfills without overpowering; it is a pure blessing not only for yourself, but for each and all, for ever and ever, in the "eternal now." Meher Baba
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
#12820830 - 06/28/10 09:49 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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"The individual, through prolonged psychological disciplines, gives up completely all attachment to his personal limitations, idiosyncrasies, hopes and fears, no longer resists the self-annihilation that is prerequisite to rebirth in the realization of truth, and so becomes ripe, at last, for the great at-one-ment. His personal ambitions being totally dissolved, he no longer tries to live but willingly relaxes to whatever may come to pass in him; he becomes, that is to say, an anonymity. The Law lives in him with his unreserved consent."
Joseph Campbell's "hero"
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#12821791 - 06/29/10 03:21 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Nice one, in other words - chill the fuck out dude
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But_Alice
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Freedom]
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I am a node of Server,
Born of flesh and blood,
But enhanced by the power of it's web,
My scripts are a focus of my will,
My strength is my knowledge,
My weapons are my skills,
Information is the blood of my body,
I am part of the greater network,
I am host to the vast data of server,
My flesh is weak,
But my connection is eternal,
And therefore I am god.
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c-ray
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: But_Alice]
#12844322 - 07/03/10 09:13 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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the ultimate goal is to become a galactic being and eventually attain a universal consciousness
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Computerism
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: c-ray]
#12846750 - 07/03/10 10:20 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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"Physical separateness can never be overcome by electronics, but only by 'conviviality,' by 'living together' in the most literal physical sense. The physically divided are also the conquered and the controlled. 'True desires' - erotic, gustatory, olfactory, musical, aesthetic, psychic, & spiritual - are best attained in a context of freedom of self and other in physical proximity & mutual aid. Everything else is at best a sort of representation."
--Hakim Bey
"To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers."
--Hakim Bey
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Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Computerism]
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I  Hakim Bey and his writings, thanks for sharing that, makes me want to crack out his books, I think I will right now!
"If we are bound by any ethic or morality it must be one which we ourselves have imagined, fabulously more exalted & more liberating than the "moralic acid" of puritans & humanists. "Ye are gods"--"Thou art That."" - Hakim Bey
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"Cosmic Love is absolutely ruthless and highly indifferent: it teaches its lessons whether you like/dislike them or not." John C. Lilly
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There is only one dreamer, the one Self,
dreaming many dreams
In every body there is a dream, but the dreamer is the same, the
one Self, which reflects itself in each body as "I am".
To me all [persons] are equal. Differences in appearance and expression are there, but they do not matter. Just as the shape of a gold ornament does not affect the gold, so does man's essence remain unaffected. (301)
There is absolutely no difference between me and others, except in my knowing myself as I am. I know it for certain and you do not. The difference is only in the mind and temporary. I was like you, you will be like me. (123)
My self and your self are one. I know it, but you don't. That is all the difference - and it cannot last. (88)
This [helping people] is mere imagination. In truth you do not help others, because there are no others. (313)
In reality there are no others, and by helping yourself you help everybody else. (383)
I am the other person, the other person is myself; in name and shape we are different, but there is no separation. At the root of our being we are one. (511)
Where are the many points [of consciousness]? In you mind. You insist that your world is independent of your mind. How can it be? Your desire to know other people's minds is due to your not knowing your own mind. First know your own mind and you will find that the question of other minds does not arise at all, for there are no other people. You are the common factor, the only link between the minds. Being is consciousness. "I am" applies to all. (257)
The dreams are not equal, but the dreamer is one. I am the insect, I am the poet - in dream. But in reality I am neither. I am beyond all dreams. I am the light in which all dreams appear and disappear. I am both inside and outside the dream. Just as a man having a headache knows the ache and also knows that he is not the ache, so do I know the dream, myself dreaming and myself not dreaming - all at the same time. I am what I am before, during and after the dream. But what I see in dream, I am not. (117)
Ultimately nothing is mine or yours, everything is ours. Just be one with yourself and you will be one with all, at home in the entire universe. (462)
Even to talk of re-uniting the person with the self is not right, because there is no person, only a mental picture given a false reality by conviction. Nothing was divided and there is nothing to unite. (143)
There is no "my self" and "his self". There is the Self, the only Self of all. Misled by the diversity of names and shapes, minds and bodies, you imagine multiple selves. We both are the self. (137)
The one witness reflects itself in the countless bodies as "I am". As long as the bodies, however subtle, last, the "I am" appears as many. Beyond the body there is only the One. (157)
I am one, but appear as many. (529)
Delve deeply into the sense "I am" and you will surely discover that the perceiving centre is universal, as universal as the light that illumines the world. All that happens in the universe happens to you, the silent witness. On the other hand, whatever is done,is done by you, the universal and inexhaustible energy. (519)
All the dreams are of a common imaginary World
and influence each other.
The variety of personal worlds is not so great. All the dreams are superimposed over a common world. To some extent, they shape and influence each other. The basic unity operates in spite of all. At the root of it all lies self-forgetfulness; not knowing who I am. In a hospital there may be many patients, all sleeping, all dreaming, each dreaming his own private, personal dream, unrelated, unaffected, having one single factor in common - illness. Similarly, we have divorced ourselves in our imagination from the real world of common experience, and enclosed ourselves in a cloud of personal desires and fears, images and thoughts, ideas and concepts. (92-93)
Love is seeing the unity under the imaginary diversity.
When all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love. (195)
To see myself in everybody, and everybody in myself, most certainly is love. (91)
The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love. (70)
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#12891966 - 07/13/10 09:16 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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"You will know in due course that your glory lies where you cease to exist"
Ramana Maharshi
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12910242 - 07/17/10 01:14 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Shawn Mikula
1. We are the universe conscious of itself.
2. At the Singularity, history as we know it, will cease.
3. All 'I's are but Me, taking many forms.
4. It's all a state of mind.
5. Can you sympathize with an exploding star?
6. Man is but potential. Overcome! And go thee beyond.
7. I am content with leaving small science to the small scientist, whose narrow view is tantamount to blindness.
8. At the heart of every religion lies mysticism.
9. Whoever controls consciousness controls the universe.
10. Fear not, for all shall pass in accordance with the Divine Will.
11. The vast majority of mankind is trapped within perceptual prisons. We, as a species, must escape from our perceptual prisons.
12. Break thru your perceptual shells. Only then will you find me.
13. I admit that I'm human, but I've had the fortune of not being too human.
14. The world is what we make it.
15. Man is just a big potential. Almost nothing has yet been realized.
16. Life is a game, and you must know how to play, or else you lose and can only blame your own stupidity or lack of motivation.
17. What I admire in others and in myself: producing great works and living life to its fullest in spite of being vividly aware of always standing over the gaping maw of Nihilism..... To look Nihilism straight in its face and laugh hard, because one has gotten beyond it, because one possesses the strength to get far, far beyond it.....To play the game of life on one's own terms, as creator, as divinity realized.
18. When encountering a new philosophy or religion, do not convert, but rather assimilate.
19. All philosophies and religions are but partial truths. One must meld them together to arrive at greater truths.
20. Those who see and feel beyond illusion have acquired a far greater gift than could ever be derived from studying scripture and philosophy books, for these were meant only to guide the blind.
21. Each of us is confined to a world of our own making.
22. Those who experience the 'Self' lose all fear, including fear of death itself.
23. All things are in God, and God is in all things. The face of God is everywhere. Find it in yourself, see it as a latent seed, and stop at nothing to actualize it.
24. Beauty inspires us towards greatness.
25. Creative expression of one's power is what makes Man more like God.
26. One must learn the art of turning disadvantage into advantage.
27. All that is divine is but a product of the human mind. It is our responsibility to actualize this divinity.
28. Each of us conceals an abyss, though few of us are aware of its existence, and even fewer dare to explore its vastness.
29. 'The world is my idea.' 'Everything that we are is the result of what we have thought.' This should be one's starting point. This should be how one begins each day.
30. Do not inhibit the expression of what you find within yourself. The outpourings of our inner worlds on the outer is necessary.
31. It is noble to seek to remake this world in our own image, to impose our inner worlds on the outer so as to transform the latter.
32. Meaning is self-created. Those who believe that life is meaningless have only themselves to blame.
33. One can never desire too much.
34. God is but the aspiration of Man.
35. The life without meaning or intensity is no life at all.
36. Desire, born within the vast, dark depths of the subconscious, only finds expression after surfacing to the light of consciousness.
37. One should learn how to shift one's philosophical/religious perspective so as to maximize one's advantage.
38. A profound sense of mystery is invariably experienced upon realizing just how much is hidden.
39. Never let go of your goals or aspirations, for these are sacred.
40. Man has so much potential! Those who take it upon themselves to actualize this potential out of sheer curiousity know well what life is all about.
41. Within each of us is contained vast stretches of mental space seen only by our own eyes, unable to be communicated verbally to the outside world even if we wanted to. There is something frightening about this, about the vastness and incommunicability of these hidden places.
42. There is more in this world than is contained in all of your philosophy, religion, and science.
43. What we take to be reality is but a construct of the brain. The way we ordinarily perceive reality is but one of many ways...there are multiple ways to construct our mental worlds. The exploration of these different modes of consciousness and perception beckons as a liberation into a fuller, deeper understanding of the hidden, underlying reality, of which we are normally only dimly aware of the surface and the shadows.
44. One must act from inner necessity. Feel it from deep within, from the very core of your being, surging forth, empowering, invigorating, inexhaustible. Focus your attention on this feeling, on this raw energy, and feel it thereby increase manyfold in intensity and strength.
45. Inhibitions are an illusion. Inhibitions do not even exist. It's all a state of mind. Feel only your desires and their fulfillment. Never let inhibitions get in the way of these.
46. Those who have looked deep enough into themselves know that the Self is an infinite source from which springs all strivings and desires.
47. Who has felt the seething inexhaustible chaos deep within oneself, uncontainable, bursting ever forth from we know not where, this explosive, overcoming, frenzied, primordial, unstoppable, unquenchable force within oneself?!
48. You who feel so comfortable and secure in your world, what if I told you it was but illusion. Who among you can boast of looking beyond illusion to the Self of selves?
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#12975517 - 07/30/10 01:35 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.
Joseph Campbell
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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grasshoppa
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#12981960 - 07/31/10 04:38 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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[gradient:#050402,#]1 Corinthians 1:18-31 (New International Version)
Christ the Wisdom and Power of God
18For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19For it is written:
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."[a]
20Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 22Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 23but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.
26Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, 29so that no one may boast before him. 30It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. 31Therefore, as it is written: "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord."
Footnotes:
a.1 Corinthians 1:19 Isaiah 29:14
b.1 Corinthians 1:31 Jer. 9:24[/gradient]
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THE FIVE PRINCIPLES OF REIKI
Just for today I will not be angry.
Just for today I will not worry.
Earn your living honestly.
Honor your parents, teachers and elders.
Show gratitude to every living thing.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: grasshoppa]
#12982136 - 07/31/10 05:28 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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man, I just can't stand the way they wrote in the middle east. And I really abhor the way it was translated into english.
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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao ~Tao Te Ching/Daodejing
"Find what you're looking for by not looking for it." ~Old Hippie Philosophy
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Cracka_X]
#12993600 - 08/02/10 10:07 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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"Putting a value on status
will cause people to compete
Hoarding treasure
will turn them into thieves
Showing off possessions
will disturb their daily lives"
Tao Te Ching
This is one of the biggest reasons I am a Taoist. This quote. Here.
I would love to talk to more people about Taoism as I am quite new to it and Taoism allows room for so much discussion. PM me if you are interested!
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: swiftnglow]
#12994577 - 08/03/10 04:54 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Do you know who allan watts is?
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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao ~Tao Te Ching/Daodejing
"Find what you're looking for by not looking for it." ~Old Hippie Philosophy
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soldatheero
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Cracka_X]
#13023476 - 08/08/10 07:09 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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The Universe
What if someone said to an embryo in the womb,
“Outside of your world of black nothing
is a miraculously ordered universe;
a vast Earth covered with tasty food;
mountains, oceans and plains,
fragrant orchards and fields full of crops;
a luminous sky beyond your reach,
with a sun, moonbeams, and uncountable stars;
and there are winds from south, north and west,
and gardens replete with sweet flowers
like a banquet at a wedding feast.
The wonders of this world are beyond description.
What are you doing living in a dark prison,
Drinking blood through that narrow tube?”
But the womb- world is all an embryo knows
And it would not be particularly impressed
By such amazing tales, saying dismissively:
“You’re crazy. That is all a deluded fantasy.”
One day you will look back and laugh at yourself.
You’ll say, “ I can’t believe I was so asleep!
How did I ever forget the truth?
How ridiculous to believe that sadness and sickness
Are anything other than bad dreams.”
-Rumi
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..and may the zelda theme song be with you at all times, amen.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Mr. Middle]
#13024463 - 08/08/10 10:24 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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"The goal is not to get high but to BE high." -- Ram Dass
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Mr. Middle]
#13025410 - 08/09/10 06:28 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
Mr. Middle said:
Love it! I watched the old movie last night
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Go see the sounds of the universe
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circastes
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"To me, death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's treacherous." - Jim Jones
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#13049444 - 08/14/10 03:43 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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There are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is the same as that of the religious fanatics, and it springs from the same source.
They are creatures who can't hear the music of the spheres - Einstein
We rarely hear the inward music,
but we’re all dancing to it nevertheless - Rumi
I saw you and became empty.
This emptiness, more beautiful than existence,
it obliterates existence, and yet when it comes,
existence thrives and creates more existence!
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To praise is to praise
how one surrenders
to the emptiness. Rumi
Edited by The Chronic (08/14/10 04:45 AM)
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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Quote:
Chronic777 said:
There are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is the same as that of the religious fanatics, and it springs from the same source.
They are creatures who can't hear the music of the spheres - Einstein
We rarely hear the inward music,
but we’re all dancing to it nevertheless - Rumi
I saw you and became empty.
This emptiness, more beautiful than existence,
it obliterates existence, and yet when it comes,
existence thrives and creates more existence!
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To praise is to praise
how one surrenders
to the emptiness. Rumi
some good shit right there.
It's funny how simple It really is. And I will agree, if you miss the forest for the trees, that one may get distracted by silly details. I just wish people who are the way they "actually" are would just be as they are. And I mean that in the best way possible.
The first step is realizing the "mess" you've been living. If you don't panic out of regrets of the past and scorn whatever catalystic event made this reality apparent, you might learn something and "better" yourself to reverberate with what's actually going on. And when you do get to a certain point of realization and maintain a pragmatic understanding of the relationships everything has with each other then you know there no other place to go but of right this moment. All else is just a clashing of poles (+,-) in all its beauty and grace. Once you stop looking at the big picture under a microscope, you realize you might as well stop observing everything happenings and just be a part of it. In the entropic dance of life, where the configuration of a protein is based on what its present environment is, I couldn't be more pleased with ease to live the same way everything else is "living".
~Xeng Xhi Wu
For those who are missing the forest for the trees.
In one previous book, I read this, "Words are mere pins by which we may hang ideas and concepts from."
From that, I hope you will see the similarities and differences in everything and not get bogged down by the "definitions" of words but of the ideas and concepts they are trying to put an extremely loose shape around.
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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao ~Tao Te Ching/Daodejing
"Find what you're looking for by not looking for it." ~Old Hippie Philosophy
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
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Quote:
soldatheero said:
The Universe
What if someone said to an embryo in the womb,
“Outside of your world of black nothing
is a miraculously ordered universe;
a vast Earth covered with tasty food;
mountains, oceans and plains,
fragrant orchards and fields full of crops;
a luminous sky beyond your reach,
with a sun, moonbeams, and uncountable stars;
and there are winds from south, north and west,
and gardens replete with sweet flowers
like a banquet at a wedding feast.
The wonders of this world are beyond description.
What are you doing living in a dark prison,
Drinking blood through that narrow tube?”
But the womb- world is all an embryo knows
And it would not be particularly impressed
By such amazing tales, saying dismissively:
“You’re crazy. That is all a deluded fantasy.”
One day you will look back and laugh at yourself.
You’ll say, “ I can’t believe I was so asleep!
How did I ever forget the truth?
How ridiculous to believe that sadness and sickness
Are anything other than bad dreams.”
-Rumi
I can remember the first time I read that, thanks for it again
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Freedom]
#13053573 - 08/15/10 01:28 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
Freedom said:
Quote:
soldatheero said:
The Universe
What if someone said to an embryo in the womb,
“Outside of your world of black nothing
is a miraculously ordered universe;
a vast Earth covered with tasty food;
mountains, oceans and plains,
fragrant orchards and fields full of crops;
a luminous sky beyond your reach,
with a sun, moonbeams, and uncountable stars;
and there are winds from south, north and west,
and gardens replete with sweet flowers
like a banquet at a wedding feast.
The wonders of this world are beyond description.
What are you doing living in a dark prison,
Drinking blood through that narrow tube?”
But the womb- world is all an embryo knows
And it would not be particularly impressed
By such amazing tales, saying dismissively:
“You’re crazy. That is all a deluded fantasy.”
One day you will look back and laugh at yourself.
You’ll say, “ I can’t believe I was so asleep!
How did I ever forget the truth?
How ridiculous to believe that sadness and sickness
Are anything other than bad dreams.”
-Rumi
I can remember the first time I read that, thanks for it again
I like that too
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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao ~Tao Te Ching/Daodejing
"Find what you're looking for by not looking for it." ~Old Hippie Philosophy
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Cracka_X]
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All right then here is another from Rumi:
I've said before that every craftsman
searches for what's not there
to practice his craft.
A builder looks for the rotten hole
where the roof caved in. A water-carrier
picks the empty pot. A carpenter
stops at the house with no door.
Workers rush toward some hint
of emptiness, which they then
start to fill. Their hope, though,
is for emptiness, so don't think
you must avoid it. It contains
what you need!
Dear soul, if you were not friends
with the vast nothing inside,
why would you always be casting you net
into it, and waiting so patiently?
This invisible ocean has given you such abundance,
but still you call it "death",
that which provides you sustenance and work.
God has allowed some magical reversal to occur,
so that you see the scorpion pit
as an object of desire,
and all the beautiful expanse around it,
as dangerous and swarming with snakes.
This is how strange your fear of death
and emptiness is, and how perverse
the attachment to what you want.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Freedom]
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I have never seen that one thanks.
Here is another from Meher Baba
"Infinite consciousness can never lessen at any point in time or space. Infinite consciousness includes every aspect of consciousness. Unconsciousness is one of the aspects of infinite consciousness. Thus infinite consciousness includes unconsciousness. It sustains, covers, pierces through, and provides an end to, unconsciousness — which flows from and is consumed by infinite consciousness.
In order to assert infinite consciousness unequivocally I declare that I have infinite consciousness; and I can do this most emphatically because I am infinite consciousness. I am everything and I am beyond, beyond everything. I am ever conscious that I am in you, while you are never conscious that I am in you. Daily I support you and share your consciousness. Now I want you to uphold me and share my consciousness one day.
Man being unconscious of actually possessing the never-ending continually conscious experience that God is everything and all else is nothing, for him everything is everything: Air is. Water is. Fire is. Earth is. Light is. Darkness is. Stone is. Iron is. Vegetation is. Insect is. Fish is. Bird is. Beast is. Man is. Good is. Bad is. Pain is. Pleasure is — and thus there is no end to what all else is, until he arrives at "nothing is" and instantaneously he realizes "God Is..."
Read the continuation here http://www.avatarmeherbaba.org/erics/godalone.html
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
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God is a concept, by which we measure our pain
- Lennon
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: edithpiaf]
#13079157 - 08/20/10 02:24 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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"Signs and symbols control the world, not phases and laws" - Confucius
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: BiG_StroOnZ]
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Crumpet]
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Just Be
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#13097936 - 08/24/10 09:17 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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P. D. Ouspensky a Russian mystic philosopher:
"It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning."
"Two things can get people to make efforts: if people want to get something, or if they want to get rid of something. Only, in ordinary conditions, without knowledge, people do not know what they can get rid of or what they can gain."
"here exist moments in life, separated by long intervals of time, but linked together by their inner content and by a certain singular sensation peculiar to them."
"The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time is simple in comparison with the problem of Eternity."
"The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious."
"People who think they can control their negative emotions and manifest them when they want to, simply deceive themselves. Negative emotions depend on identification; if identification is destroyed in some particular case, they disappear. The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them. "
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
#13106773 - 08/26/10 06:23 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience, you are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
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no one here gets out alive
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"Nirvana is a very exclusive club - no one is in it." - Zen Master Rama
"People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no point, and all of the achievements of the human race are meaningless." - Rama
Edited by deff (08/26/10 10:51 PM)
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deff]
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Quote:
"People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no point, and all of the achievements of the human race are meaningless."
haha sick.. intense.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
#13115309 - 08/28/10 04:06 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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"The good news is that we don't last. Thank heavens! Because to continue the drama of who you are, is boring, ultimately. The universe is our friend because it kills us - and that's what friends are for." - Rama
this site is full of great quotes by him - www.ramaquotes.com
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deff]
#13115434 - 08/28/10 04:40 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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I really like that one.
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“What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.”
― Ernest Becker
"Beneath the civilized veneer, man remains the supreme predator. Cursed with what he believes is understanding, his true soul blossoms godlike in the heart of the nuclear inferno."
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Icelander]
#13155405 - 09/06/10 01:26 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Keep the faith-Bonjovi
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The arrogant cat stalks the humble mouse, the self important dog chases away the cat and is in turn unable to stand it's ground against the Proud lion. Then the lion is almost trampled underfoot of the enlightened elephant, who surprisingly and paradoxically yields to the humble mouse.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Brainstem]
#13155671 - 09/06/10 02:32 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream–and not make dreams your master,
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings–nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And–which is more–you’ll be a Man, my son!
–Rudyard Kipling
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Brainstem]
#13168861 - 09/09/10 02:11 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Commit your mind to me and the task of knowing me
Devote all your heart to loving & worshipping me
Serve me in all your actions
Be as nothing before me, that i may be all of you
Make me your only duty and your refuge
I will deliver you from all division & separation
Grieve no more
Bhagavad Gita
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#13196024 - 09/14/10 06:03 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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If the doors of perception were cleansed all things would appear as they are, Infinite. -William Blake
The finger points at the moon, and the fool stares the finger. -Zen Proverb
If you take [a copy of] the Christian Bible and put it out in the wind and the rain, soon the paper on which the words are printed will disintegrate and the words will be gone. Our bible IS the wind and the rain. -Indian Proverb
The brain has replaced the genitals as the forbidden organ that must not be touched or turned on by the owner. -Timothy Leary
Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia. -R.A. Wilson
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. -Crowley
Every man and woman is a star. -Crowley
Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. -Thoreau
The moon and entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. -Dogen
Five severed fingers do not make a fist. -Daniel Quinn
To see the world in a grain of sand
and to see heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hands,
and eternity in an hour. -William Blake
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. -Buddha
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -Malcolm S. Forbes
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There is one real birth and one real death. You are born once and you die only once. What is the real birth? It is the advent of individuality through a glimmer of the first most finite consciousness, which transfixed cognizance of limitation into the unlimited. What is the real death? It is consciousness getting free from all limitations, it is liberation. . . Therefore I say, die for God and you will live as God.
Meher Baba
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
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The only zen you will find on top of mountains is the zen you bring up there
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: sector9]
#13274070 - 10/01/10 07:08 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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The Christian Heaven, the Pure Land of Buddhism: are we suddenly whisked away to them, or do we gain them by becoming the kind of person who would live in such a place?
- David Loy, The World is Made of Stories
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Quote:
Astronomicon said:
Every man and woman is a star. -Crowley
There is literal truth to this if you realize what the five pointed star literally represents.
It is the five senses extending out from the intelligent center.
Did you think they just picked a pentagon to be the building that stores all military intelligence at random?
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It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
-George Washington
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Hashishin13]
#13292962 - 10/05/10 09:59 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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"
Stop buying unnecessary things.
Toss half your stuff, learn contentedness.
Reduce half again.
List 4 essential things in your life,
stop doing non-essential things.
Do these essentials first each day,
clear distractions focus on each moment.
Let go of attachment to doing, having more.
Fall in love with less. "
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: floes]
#13293732 - 10/05/10 12:44 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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"Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life."
-also Aleister Crowley 
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Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#13295215 - 10/05/10 05:57 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
Buddha
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"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
Mohandas Gandhi
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: fungivore]
#13378480 - 10/23/10 10:48 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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To know all things, learn to know nothing.
To possess all things, resolve to possess nothing.
To be all things, be willing to be nothing...
When you stop at one thing, you cease to open yourself to the All. For to come to the All you must give up the All. And if you attain to owning the All, you must own it, desiring Nothing. In this spoliation, the soul finds tranquility and rest. Profoundly established in the centre of its own nothingness, it can be assailed by naught that comes from below; and since it no longer desires anything, what comes from above cannot depress it; for its desires alone are the causes of its woes.
If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.
- Saint John of the Cross
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vsaluki
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: NlightNd1]
#13394501 - 10/27/10 09:24 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
NlightNd1 said:
"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."
-Buddha
Sometimes I can't help but feel that Buddha took himself too seriously.
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starstrike
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: cesarmd7]
#13437301 - 11/05/10 02:29 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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I like this one:
"life ain't worth living until you've found something worth dying for"
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: starstrike]
#13460031 - 11/09/10 04:53 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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The Beliefs of a Witoto shaman and the beliefs of a Princeton phenomenologist have an equal chance of being correct, and there are no arbiters of who is right. Here is something we have not assimilated. We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.
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“He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun”
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""Now men are planning to go to the Moon. And the first to get there will plant his nation's flag on it, and that nation will declare: 'It is mine.' But another nation will dispute the claim, and they will fight here on this Earth for possession of that Moon. And whoever goes there, what will he find? Nothing but himself. And if people go on to Venus, they will still find nothing but themselves. Whether men soar to outer space or dive to the bottom of the deepest ocean, they will find themselves as they are, unchanged, because they will not have forgotten themselves nor remembered to exercise the charity of forgiveness." (Meherazad, 31 August 1962)
Meher Baba
& What will he find? Nothing but himself.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Mr. Middle]
#13520058 - 11/21/10 02:27 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.
--Charles Bukowski
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deCypher]
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Mr. Middle]
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"Do, or do not. There is no try."
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Lion
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deCypher]
#13524738 - 11/22/10 01:35 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
deCypher said:
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.
--Charles Bukowski
Bullshit, IMO.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lion]
#13524746 - 11/22/10 01:37 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Care to elaborate why you think so? IMO, it's a beautifully written paragraph.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deCypher]
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deCypher said:
Care to elaborate why you think so? IMO, it's a beautifully written paragraph.
To me it smacks of masculine overly mythological thinking. IMO there is no great journey/hero's journey, whose existence the paragraph (as I read it) implies, nor is there some golden reward like "perfect laughter" or some magical state that is "better than anything you can imagine."
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lion]
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Anyway, I'm sure I've posted quotes with similar sentiments before. That was just my gut feeling when I read it, a reflection of where I'm at now mentally (no place special).
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lion]
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Hmm, the way I read it Bukowski perfectly illustrates the feeling of getting into an extremely creative zone and stopping at nothing to let the energy just pour through. To each his own. 
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deCypher]
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Yeah, I suppose it would help to have some context before I dismissed the quote as BS. To me it seemed like he was talking about a Hero's Journey type thing, not just artistic creativity. The abandoning the wives/girlfriends bit, and the isolation bit, seemed to parallel the stories of Buddha and other world-renunciants who are considered spiritually "complete."
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lion]
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Quotes from Great Physicists!
"I am a scientist: I trace the lines that come from God."
(Einstein, letter to Gandhi)
"The cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research." (Einstein)
"The most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being." (Isaac Newton)
"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter." (Max Planck)
"God forever does geometry." (Plato, according to Plutarch).
"Nature's great book is written in mathematical language". (Gallileo)
"Modern physics has definitely decided for Plato. For the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense of the word; they are forms, or in Plato's sense, Ideas, which can be unambiguously spoken of only in the language of mathematics." (Werner Heisenberg)
"The Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician... The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine." (Sir James Jeans, early founder of Quantum Theory)
".... a world created out of pure intelligence." (Sir James Jeans)
"All through the physical world runs that unknown content which must surely be the stuff of our consciousness.... The stuff of the world is mind-stuff." ( (Sir Arthur Eddington, early founders of Quantum Theory and president of the Royal Academy of Science - and a Quaker)
I assert that the nature of all reality is spiritual, not material nor a dualism of matter and spirit... I contemplate a spiritual domain underlying the physical world." (Arthur Eddington)
"The next revolution in physics will occur when the properties of mind will be included in the equations of quantum theory." (Eugene Wigner)
“For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present and future is only an illusion.” (Einstein)
"The universe does not exist out there, independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be happening. We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense, this is a participatory universe." (John Wheeler)
"There is nothing in the world except empty curved space. Matter, charge, electromagnetism, and other fields are only manifestations of the curvature of space." (John Wheeler)
"Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?"(John Wheeler)
"If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day." (John Wheeler)
John Wheeler, who died in 1995, was one of the 20th Century's most important teachers of physics, at Princeton and the University of Texas.
"The cosmos is also within us. We are made of stars. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." (Carl Sagan)
"If you want to make an apple pie, you first have to create the universe." (Carl Sagan)
"The vacuum of physics contains in its faculties everything that the laws of nature will permit. It fluctuates - the virtual particles come and go. The only thing they are missing is the energy it would take to make them appear as real particles. All that can appear in reality must be present as a possibility - as a state of virtual particles - in the vacuum. Add energy to the vacuum and those virtual states may appear as particles." (Henning Genz) *
"The physical vacuum... carries within itself the possibilities of everything that can exist in the physical world. Once we attain true knowledge of the vacuum, we will have a comprehensive knowledge of everything, including the laws of nature. It is as in the thinking of the ancient philosophers. The knowledge of the void, the "nothing," is intimately connected with the knowledge of the "something."... We take it as a matter of course that empty space is not really empty." (Henning Genz) *
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
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"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted"
-- Aesop
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth."
-- Muhammad Ali
What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
-- Aristotle
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In every being true love towards oneself exists as one's own nature.
Therefore the duty of those who desire to obtain supreme love is to know, through thorough inquiry, their real nature.
Ramana Maharshi
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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very very very true; know thyself
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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao ~Tao Te Ching/Daodejing
"Find what you're looking for by not looking for it." ~Old Hippie Philosophy
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Cracka_X]
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Everyone and everything is everyone and everything,
at the same time, and for all time
Meher
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
#13575577 - 12/02/10 09:56 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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soldatheero said:
Everyone and everything is everyone and everything,
at the same time, and for all time
Meher
I think people should just stop crediting quotes altogether. (novel speeches and paragraphs aside) This one especially as it says, Meher wouldn't be the only contributor to the quote; the universe would be.
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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao ~Tao Te Ching/Daodejing
"Find what you're looking for by not looking for it." ~Old Hippie Philosophy
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#13575585 - 12/02/10 09:58 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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"When you can walk on water, take the boat."
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: newshOne]
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I think people should just stop crediting quotes altogether. (novel speeches and paragraphs aside) This one especially as it says, Meher wouldn't be the only contributor to the quote; the universe would be.
I agree from a certain perspective but not overall.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#13587937 - 12/05/10 08:58 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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"Religion is poison"
Mao Tse Tung
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" ... and then there are the unknown unknowns. Those things that we don't know that we don't know that we don't know."
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: blinkybill]
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See my sig.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: shamantis]
#13622435 - 12/12/10 04:14 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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I'm not a big fan of McKenna for statements exactly like that. There are plenty of people out there, scientists included, that see these details from discoveries as another part of the grand picture.
I believe McKenna either lacks the pragmatic understanding of this or he, like so many others, would rather use the US vs THEM rhetorical technique.
I've tried to like McKenna but every time I read or hear his thoughts, I can't help but think that he's missing the forest for the trees. I believe he experienced life in a comparable way to a great many of us, but I don't think he understands his own upbringing might shape the way he communicates these/this Idea(s).
He does speak out to those who are open to "That". Unfortunately, I haven't been able to appreciate him like so.
All in all, he conjectures waaaaaayyyy too much for my taste and I wish he would be a bit more vaguely all-encompassing.
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The best way to live
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For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao ~Tao Te Ching/Daodejing
"Find what you're looking for by not looking for it." ~Old Hippie Philosophy
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Cracka_X]
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Been a minute since Ive visited the site... Hi everyone!
Heres one Ive liked for a while now...
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather." -Bill Hicks
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: XxShibbyxX]
#13693711 - 12/27/10 09:27 PM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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I always loved the way Hicks put that. What a great quote.
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"To know Reality is to become it. It is nearest to you - for, in fact, it is you. Owing to ignorance God who is nearest appears to be farthest. But when the veil of ignorance is rent by the grace of the Perfect Master you become you—the real Self which is the innermost Reality that you are, ever were and ever will be." -Meher Baba
Reading The Everything and the Nothing atm. I swear to, erm, God, that the idea that he is somehow special and an avatar is something kind of lost in translation... or else I am yet to understand something due to my limited consciousness.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
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Good to hear that is one of my favourite books.
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I swear to, erm, God, that the idea that he is somehow special and an avatar is something kind of lost in translation..
I think I know what you are getting at but can you rephrase that or elaborate?
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
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I just don't get how any of us can be special. I'm pretty sure, all being one, that we are all equal? After all there's no competition but with oneself - all intellects are one. Literally. And I don't understand why we would need something like an avatar to 'come down' and say again the only truth that exists, which is already innately known.
Everything else he says seems right to me, just this idea that he was 'ACTUALLY' God 'ITSELF', and then obviously he says that everyone is God... but has this special place reserved for himself - as the avatar of the age, God personified. Are we not all God personified?
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#13700994 - 12/29/10 12:36 PM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah I hear this a lot. As in people claiming no one can have any spiritual authority because we are all one and ultimately the same in reality. Someone else even said something similar a few posts back.
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I think people should just stop crediting quotes altogether. (novel speeches and paragraphs aside) This one especially as it says, Meher wouldn't be the only contributor to the quote; the universe would be.
Thing is we are not in reality, we are in illusion, duality the world of relativity's.
From the perspective of the ultimate reality everything is indeed one and identical, even a rock or a dog is no different then yourself. Yet it would be pretty silly to think a rock or a plant has as much power as you do wouldn't it? Although it technically does it is unconscious of it's power or its power is latent.
There is no difference in the Souls but there is a difference in the experience of the soul and therefore the state of the soul.
Just as a dog is not equal to a man not all men are at the same level of spiritual advancement. Normal people in this world have a partial view of reality which is determined by impressions on the mind (the sanskaras). Of course the way one sees reality doesn't change reality itself hence no matter how one perceives oneself, oneself remains the same.
A real Guru or a perfect master does not have any sanskaras, no impressions, and they are therefore not limited by them. It is incredibly difficult for one to rid himself of his own impressions, throughout Meher's books he gives numerous analogies of why this is so.
Now the Avatar is a unique Guru or perfect master as he was the first soul in the universe to become god-realized or to become one with the oversoul.
According to Baba, being the first soul, he was the only soul that did not need a master to attain godhood. All others need the aid of the master because it is supremely difficult to become one with another conscious soul.. they have to merge with the Avatar. This is explained in further depth in 'The Discourses'.
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Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
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So Meher Baba claims he was the FIRST soul in the entire Universe to become god-realized? Seems kinda egotistical to me.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deCypher]
#13701095 - 12/29/10 12:58 PM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah sure it seems egotistical from your own egotistical perspective. It is not the same coming from someone who has eliminated that kind of ego.
He would also say it does not matter that he was the first soul to become God-realized - it has no meaning. From the perspective that we are all one, no one is more special then anyone else.
It is possible it is true. Plus if it is true does that mean he should not ever tell you because it would be egotistical? Should he not tell anyone for the sake of being modest? What if it is necessary for people to know?
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Beware of modesty. Modesty, under the cloak of humility, invariably leads one into the clutches of self-deception. Modesty breeds egoism, and man eventually succumbs to pride through assumed humility.
modesty is the basis of guise, true greatness is free from camouflage.
Mehers own words
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
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Sure, it's possible that it's true... but it seems funny saying that Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, and many other influential spiritual figures prior to Baba all weren't God-realized.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deCypher]
#13701179 - 12/29/10 01:12 PM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Mohammud and Meher Baba are all the same person.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
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I see.
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GOD IS SATAN
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lion]
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So I'm beginning to piece together that, we need do nothing to realise we are God, it is already known, realised and we're already used to it. All we need do is stop ourselves from straying with these sanskaras or vasanas or whatever they are that cause us to fear, doubt, desire, and what not. And the funny thing is when you get rid of them, you realise, they were never really there. You were always perfect. Perhaps that is the true meaning of illusion. It works in this almost magical way. Merely remember who you are, without doing anything to remember because you already have, and that's it, game over. Literally - the cosmic game is over.
Sorry for the digression but I didn't know where else to say this. Start ANOTHER thread? Naahhh..
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
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circastes said:All we need do is stop ourselves from straying with these sanskaras or vasanas or whatever they are that cause us to fear, doubt, desire, and what not. And the funny thing is when you get rid of them, you realise, they were never really there.
This is the paradox
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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And here's perhaps a good poem by R.D. Laing about it:
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Before one goes through the gate
one may not be aware there is a gate
One may think there is a gate to go through
and look a long time for it
without finding it
One may find it and
it may not open
If it opens one may be through it
As one goes through it
one sees that the gate one went through
was the self that went through it
no one went through a gate
there was no gate to go through
no one ever found a gate
no one ever realized there was never a gate
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
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"Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go." -Osho
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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Hi everyone, cool thread! Mad seeing the different spiritual perspectives that inspire people aye. I find myself wondering at some of them, what is it about that quote from that text that speaks to your condition more than the others. Things like the Dao De Ching where nearly every verse is arguably as inspiring as the next, yet i myself still have ones that speak to my condition more than others.
He who sees all beings in the Self, and the Self in all beings, hates none. --- Isha Upanishad
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Nice quote
Epic realization
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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'A half-century from now no one will know the smells that prevailed in our streets and rooms. They will excavate some military hero of stone, of which there are hundreds in every city, and heave a sigh for Phidias of yore. Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar....Listen....today, we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous. We move in a gigantic, joyous world.' -Vladimir Nabokov, "Gods"
'The centuries will roll by, and schoolboys will yawn over the history of our upheavals; everything will pass, but my happiness, dear, my happiness will remain, in the moist reflection of a streetlamp, in the cautious bend of stone steps that descend into the canal's black waters, in the smiles of a dancing couple, in everything with which God so generously surrounds human loneliness.' -Nabokov, "A Letter That Never Reached Russia"
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lion]
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"Buy the ticket, take the ride."
Edited by SteezeMonkey (02/14/11 08:13 PM)
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"What is the path? the Zen Master Nan-sen was asked. Everyday life is the path, he answered."
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
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Man’s best chance of finding God is to look in the place where he left him --- Meister Eckhart
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"Those who believe are not religious, they are simply avoiding the great adventure of religion by believing." -Osho
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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"True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality: the emergence of the 'inner' archetypal mediators of divine power, and through this death a rebirth, and the eventual reestablishment of a new kind of ego-functioning, the ego now being the servant of the Divine, no longer its betrayer."
R. D. Laing
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
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hahaa, nice!...but, whats so great about Rolls Royces?
God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore, to argue that God exists is to deny him. --- Paul Tillich
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hahaa, nice!...but, whats so great about Rolls Royces?
True, i want my devotees to buy me a Ferrari not a Roller, Osho got it twisetd
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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hahaa, nice!...but, whats so great about Rolls Royces?
True, i want my devotees to buy me a Ferrari not a Roller, Osho got it twisetd
...you like your ferrari's aye!
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside. --- Sri Ramana Maharshi
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random_wanderer said:
hahaa, nice!...but, whats so great about Rolls Royces?
God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore, to argue that God exists is to deny him. --- Paul Tillich
I like that one.
I don't know what Osho was doing with all those cars but he seemed to believe life should be exploited of its potential experiences. I agree with that. I live impulsively some of the time, taking opportunities to just delight myself with pleasures, then I stop when I think it's enough. Like they say, everything in moderation, including moderation...
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
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random_wanderer said:
hahaa, nice!...but, whats so great about Rolls Royces?
God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore, to argue that God exists is to deny him. --- Paul Tillich
I like that one.
I don't know what Osho was doing with all those cars but he seemed to believe life should be exploited of its potential experiences. I agree with that. I live impulsively some of the time, taking opportunities to just delight myself with pleasures, then I stop when I think it's enough. Like they say, everything in moderation, including moderation...
Aye, I think that taking it easy, living peacefully and enjoying life (and or exploiting its potential) are definitely good messages to send out to the world. Sounds like you have things very sussed, i am not yet able to stop myself when i think it is enough, kudos to you xxx.
And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! Or, Lo there! For behold, the kingdom of God is within you. --- Luke 17:20-21
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"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and Demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, Beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and Its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, Even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and Bow to none. When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the food and For the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, The fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and nothing, For abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts Are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes They weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again In a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home." Tecumseh
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"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and Demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, Beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and Its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, Even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and Bow to none. When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the food and For the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, The fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and nothing, For abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts Are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes They weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again In a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home." Tecumseh
Nice...good share.
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"Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, The 2002 Olympic Winter Games, professional wrestling and Mormons baptizing dead Jews. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. Results like these do not belong on the résumé of a Supreme Being. This is the kind of shit you'd expect from an office temp with a bad attitude. And just between you and me, in any decently-run universe, this guy would've been out on his all-powerful ass a long time ago. And by the way, I say "this guy", because I firmly believe, looking at these results, that if there is a God, it has to be a man." - George Carlin
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." - John F. Kennedy
"The way I see it - when the desire for wealth becomes the sole purpose of existence (which is the case of corporate person-hood) great harm will befall the common man. It is compassion for each other and being morally responsible that makes for a good society while greed makes society a living hell." - Philip Pease
"Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world." - Jack Ruby
"In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble." - Ron Paul
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.” - Abraham Lincoln
"Religious suffering is, at the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - Karl Marx
"You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge." - George Carlin
"The ideals of Aldoph... took somewhere between 68-72 million lives to remove him from office. What will the cost be today?" - Michael Morris
"Be the change you want to see in this world" - Gandi
"Don’t damage computer systems you break into (including crashing them); don’t change the information in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your tracks); and share information" - Julian Assange
"I can only hope that one day man will rise against this oppression and truly make the mark he was meant to make on this earth, the statement that we are freethinking individuals, not throwaway slaves destined to rot a figurative eternity in the hell hole that we honestly try to call a democratically run country that is America." - DefectiveProduct
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"The purpose of life is a life of purpose." - Robert Byrne
"Life is all about self indulgence and prosperity. Your life is about YOU, not anyone else. There is no proof that there is after life. There is no proof that there will be a heavenly gate or roasting fire awaiting you after death. Christians, aside from their own biblical reference, has no support that their God is all forgiving, loving, and will grant a peaceful life after death. The writings done by the Christians were written to support THEIR claim, nothing more. Moreover there are hundreds of different Christian interpretations of their God. Which claim should I believe? Life is all about you. The objective of your life is to achieve the greatest pleasure you can possibly obtain from this world. Once we are dead, we are nothing but dirt. You achieve those pleasures through education, status quo, fame, and any thing that might quench your thirst. Life is all about you in the sense that you want to make yourself stand out among others. Laugh at others. You are the best in the world once you believe that you have accomplished the ultimate happiness in your life. The purpose of your life is to make yourself admire yourself. Open your eyes, my friend. There is no afterlife, thus you must enjoy your life during your sojourn. If others hurt you, hurt them back. Life is a fair game. Welcome to the real world." - Megan T.
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"It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are." - pokémon the first movie
"whatever. management wants you gone by the end of the day." - american beauty
"look, you can spend your whole life trying to win your parents acceptance, believe me. but at the end of the day, you've just got do it for yourself, baby!" - austin powers
"so cal is where my mind states, but it's not my state of mind" - eve6
"fuck da corporate world, biatch" - afroman
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace" - jimi hendrix
"you can do more damage from within the system, then ever out." - slc punk
"you decide your level of involvement" - tyler durden
"and then I remember ... to relax, and not try to hold on to it. And then it flows through me like rain. And I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. Don't worry ... you will someday." - american beauty
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"Knowledge is power, options are power, options are choices. People make up society. Social stimulation maintains welfare within society, it supplies the demand of the people (both from man-made, and natural resources). To make it more generally possible and manageable, currency is used. Currency is money. Money is created by the (pre)established government. Government regulates and standardizes general life of society. But within people, lays variations, due to choice. People are all different because of unique disposition and choice. Standardization is imperfect due to disposition and choice, but within choice, is the meaning of life itself. Government is all powerful, but is still created of people. People chosen to lead. People bear unprofessional tendencies (selfishness, stupidity, insecurities, naivety, generalization and ignorance) which can put our government's accountability into question. Fuck the status quo. But somehow, everyday is different, humans look forward, evolution prevails."
"Why we all subjected to learn what's so conveniently teachable in public schools? We learned alot of things in life, why should it be appropriated to the government to teach the future generations what we truly need to know? We usually forget a lot of the pointless things learned in high school, but in life, we remember our consistent character to yield as pride, and our variating philosophies that are rather constantly then consistent in such a "progressive" American life considering on how relativity should always be the factor. In that context, slowly perceiving this structure of how American life is perpetuated and elaborated in concurrent society shows major signs of fundamental corruption. Things could change for the better, but would things change for good? Look into this world and take it as example on what should/shouldn't be done/replicated/perpetuated in the future."
"once something out of nothingness is universally understood, the important things become acknowledged once more and cherished indefinitely."
"sharing information, replicating and elaborating intellectuality invokes evolution which perpetuates onto infinity"
"the answer to life is within yourself, and make you make of during your experience here. you are apart of the human race, the most predominate species on the planet. don't waste your gift of life."
"conformity is convenience, and so is money."
"unhappiness is contagious"
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"All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things." - LSD
"There's this great chemical called Lysergic acid diethylamide that helps you see and understand the science behind your own thought process and subconscious mind. LSD puts you in an introspective mentality that could possibly help you assort all the perceived complications and confusion in your own unique life. It's a great reminder to show how you aren't alone as you think you are. You have a solid understand of what is real and what isn't real. There's a counter-culture consisting of creativity and fundamental human compassion out there that you can finally call your own."
"How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just the once? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition and lies? I think it would be news-worthy. 'Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we're the imagination of ourselves' . . . 'Here's Tom with the weather.'" - Bill Hicks
"'Turn on' meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end. 'Tune in' meant interact harmoniously with the world around you—externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives. Drop out suggested an elective, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. 'Drop Out' meant self-reliance, a discovery of one's singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean 'Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.'" - Timothy Leary
"That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary’s trip. He crashed around America selling ‘consicousness expansion’ without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him too seriously . . . All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours, too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped to create . . . a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody—or at least some force—is tending the Light at the end of the tunnel." - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
"Of greatest significance to me has been the insight that I attained as a fundamental understanding from all of my LSD experiments: what one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous—that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego. One can also arrive at this insight through scientific reflections. The problem of reality is and has been from time immemorial a central concern of philosophy. It is, however, a fundamental distinction, whether one approaches the problem of reality rationally, with the logical methods of philosophy, or if one obtrudes upon this problem emotionally, through an existential experience. The first planned LSD experiment was therefore so deeply moving and alarming, because everyday reality and the ego experiencing it, which I had until then considered to be the only reality, dissolved, and an unfamiliar ego experienced another, unfamiliar reality. The problem concerning the innermost self also appeared, which, itself unmoved, was able to record these external and internal transformations. Reality is inconceivable without an experiencing subject, without an ego. It is the product of the exterior world, of the sender and of a receiver, an ego in whose deepest self the emanations of the exterior world, registered by the antennae of the sense organs, become conscious. If one of the two is lacking, no reality happens, no radio music plays, the picture screen remains blank." - Albert Hofmann
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." - P.J. O'Rourke
"Internet is the LSD of the 90's" - Timothy Leary
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"Inclination of direction, walk the turned and twisted rift
With the children of creation futuristic dreams we sift
Clutching violently we whisper with a liquefying cry
Any deadly final answers that are surely doomed to die
Won't you help me Mr. Jesus, won't you tell me if you can?
When you see this world we live in, do you still believe in Man?
If my songs become my freedom, and my freedom turns to gold
Then I'll ask the final question, if the answer could be sold" Black Sabbath - Thrill of it All
"So crucify the ego, before it’s far too late
To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical
And you will come to find that we are all one mind
Capable of all that’s imagined and all conceivable.
Just let the light touch you
And let the words spill through
And let them pass right through
Bringing out our hope and reason." Tool - Reflection
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And an old priest said, Speak to us of Religion.
And he said:
Have I spoken this day of aught else?
Is not religion all deeds and all reflection,
And that which is neither deed nor reflection, but a wonder and a surprise ever springing in the soul, even while the hands hew the stone or tend the loom?
Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?
Who can spread his hours before him, saying, "This for God and this for myself; This for my soul and this other for my body"?
All your hours are wings that beat through space from self to self.
He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.
The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.
And he who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.
The freest song comes not through bars and wires.
And he to whom worshipping is a window, to open but also to shut, has not yet visited the house of his soul whose windows are from dawn to dawn.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
Whenever you enter into it take with you your all.
Take the plough and the forge and the mallet and the lute,
The things you have fashioned in the necessity or for delight.
For in reverie you cannot rise above your achievements nor fall lower than your failures.
And take with you all men:
For in adoration you cannot fly higher than their hopes nor humble yourself lower than their despair.
And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles.
Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.
And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain.
You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hand in trees.
--- Kahlil Gibran
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
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 Bliss is not something to be got.
On the other hand you are always Bliss.
The desire for Bliss is born of the sense of incompleteness.
To whom is this sense of incompleteness?
Inquire. In deep sleep you were blissful.
Now you are not so.
What has interposed between that Bliss and this non-bliss?
It is the ego.
Seek its source and find you are Bliss- Ramana
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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The Chronic said:
Bliss is not something to be got.
On the other hand you are always Bliss.
The desire for Bliss is born of the sense of incompleteness.
To whom is this sense of incompleteness?
Inquire. In deep sleep you were blissful.
Now you are not so.
What has interposed between that Bliss and this non-bliss?
It is the ego.
Seek its source and find you are Bliss
- Ramana
I like it! 
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deCypher]
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PS and happy birthday!
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deCypher]
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Cheers man 
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deCypher]
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Bo Lozoff said:
"The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence:
Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not."
"Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are - as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy."
"Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God/the Divine Wisdom, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer."
White Buffalo Calf Woman
Friend do it this way - that is,
whatever you do in life,
do the very best you can
with both your heart and mind.
And if you do it that way,
the Power Of The Universe
will come to your assistance,
if your heart and mind are in Unity.
When one sits in the Hoop Of The People,
one must be responsible because
All of Creation is related.
And the hurt of one is the hurt of all.
And the honor of one is the honor of all.
And whatever we do effects everything in the universe.
If you do it that way - that is,
if you truly join your heart and mind
as One - whatever you ask for,
that's the Way It's Going To Be.
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Ramana on meditation experiences, awesome stuff
Question : When I meditate I feel a certain bliss at times. On such occasions, should I ask myself `Who is it that experiences this bliss?'
Ramana Maharshi : If it is the real bliss of the Self that is experienced, that is, if the mind has really merged in the Self, such a doubt will not arise at all. The question itself shows real bliss was not reached. All doubts willl cease only when the doubter and his source have been found. There is no use removing doubts one by one. If we clear one doubt, another doubt will arise and there will be no end of doubts. But if, by seeking the source of the doubter, the doubter is found to be really non-existent, then all doubts will cease.
Question : Sometimes I hear internal sounds. What should I do when such things happen?
Ramana Maharshi : Whatever may happen, keep up the enquiry into the self, asking `Who hears these sounds?' till the reality is reached.
Question : Sometimes, while in meditation, I feel blissful and tears come to my eyes. At other times I do not have them. Why is that?
Ramana Maharshi : Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind and you should not worry about it.
Question :The bliss causes a physical thrill in the body, but when it disappears I feel dejected and desire to have the experience over again. Why?
Ramana Maharshi : You admit that you were there both when the blissful feeling was experienced and when it was not. If you realize that `you' properly, those experiences will be of no account.
Question : When I reach the thoughtless stage in my sadhana I enjoy a certain pleasure, but sometimes I also experience a vague fear which I cannot properly describe.
Ramana Maharshi : You may experience anything, but you should never rest content with that. Whether you feel pleasure or fear, ask yourself who feels the pleasure or the fear and so carry on the sadhana until pleasure and fear are both transcended, till all duality ceases and till the reality alone remains.
There is nothing wrong in such things happening or being experienced, but you must never stop at that. For instance, you must never rest content with the pleasure of laya (temporary abeyance of the mind) experienced when thought is quelled, you must press on until all duality ceases.
Question : How does one get rid of fear ?
Ramana Maharshi :What is fear ? It is only a thought. If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear. Who sees things separate from the Self ? First the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is nothing external. For anything external to oneself implies the existence of the seer within. Seeking it there will eliminate doubt and fear. Not only fear, all other thoughts centred round the ego will disappear along with it.
Question : When I try to be without all thoughts, I pass into sleep. What should I do about it?
Ramana Maharshi : Once you go to sleep you can do nothing in that state. But while you are awake, try to keep away all thoughts. Why think about sleep? Even that is a thought, is it not? If you are able to be without any thought while you are awake, that is enough. When you pass into sleep the state which you were in before falling asleep will continue when you wake up. You will continue from where you left off when you fell into slumber. So long as there are thoughts of activity there will also be sleep. Thought and sleep are counterparts of one and the same thing.
We should not sleep too much or go without it altogether, but sleep only moderately. To prevent too much sleep, we must try and have no thoughts or chalana [movement of the mind], we must eat only sattvic food and that only in moderate measure, and not indulge in too much physical activity. The more we control thought, activity and food the more we shall be able to control sleep. But moderation ought to be the rule, as explained in the Gita, for the seeker on the path.
Sleep is the first obstacle, as explained in the books, for all sadhaks. The second obstacle is said to be vikshepa or the sense objects of the world which divert one's attention. The third is said to be kashaya or thoughts in the mind about previous experiences with sense objects. The fourth, ananda [bliss], is also called an obstacle, because in that state a feeling of separation from the source of ananda, enabling the enjoyer to say `I am enjoying ananda', is present. Even this has to be surmounted. The final stage of samadhi has to be reached in which one becomes ananda or one with reality. In this state the duality of enjoyer and enjoyment ceases in the ocean of sat-chit-ananda or the Self.
Question : So one should not try to perpetuate blissful or ecstatic states?
Ramana Maharshi :The final obstacle in meditation is ecstasy; you feel great bliss and happiness and want to stay in that ecstasy. Do not yield to it but pass on to the next stage which is great calm. The calm is higher than ecstasy and it merges into samadhi. Successful samadhi causes a waking sleep state to supervene. In that state you know that you are always consciousness, for consciousness is your nature. Actually, one is always in samadhi but one does not know it. To know it all one has to do is to remove the obstacles.
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"Nobody lives, nobody dies. Nothingness lives, nothingness dies. You are not. Have a good laugh at this situation. You are not and you exist. You are not and you are. This is the cosmic joke." -Osho
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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REVELATION
it's gates's shall not be
shut at all by day
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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I've been reflection on the Ramana Maharshi quotes the past few days, very cool 
I first heard of him in Rehab actually, read a book on him too while I was there. My roommate was a completely devote Buddhist 
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"Why do we close our eyes.. when we pray, when we cry, when we kiss, when we dream? Because in this world the most beautiful things cannot be seen, but felt only by the heart." - unknown
"To do, or not to do. Its the warrior's choice. But if you stand, stand. If you sit, sit. Whatever you do, don't wobble. Make each decision with every inch of your being." - The way of the peaceful warrior
"If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs. And maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance. Of how much you really want to do it. And you'll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods. And the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is." - unknown
"The only sane way to live is in acceptance of what is." - Eckhart Tolle
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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Psalm 23. Every single word of it is like a healing salve...
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When I was, God was not. When God is, I am no more.
--unknown Indian mystic
Know thyself, O divine lineage in mortal guise!
--Marsilio Ficino
The problem is that with magic, being in many respects a science of language, you have to be very careful with what you say, because if you suddenly declare yourself to be a magician, without any knowledge of what that entails, then one day you are likely to wake up and discover that that is exactly what you are.
--Alan Moore
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deCypher]
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lion]
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If Life offends us we have in some way offended Truth . Our former errors lie in wait for us and we are ambushed to ruin. All the generations struggle to reduce truth to unity, to a God-idea, to Justice, Love and Power. My God was Power, and in my powerlessness I realize that I have built upon foundations of sand.
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My house has collapsed, and great was the fall of it. Antichrist lies in ruins before the indestructible feet of Christ shod with the love of the world, the love made manifest in deeds. O life, mock me not! Thou hast conquered, Galilean, thou hast conquered in the very heart of thy greatest foe!
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Credo quia absurdum: I believe the absolute absurdity of Jesus, but still I cannot be saved. To the very last I cannot surrender my pride of intellect, my conviction that Jesus must stoop to Nietzsche, even though he is a heap of ruins! No more enemies--no more hate--only a world-embracing love! That is no kingdom for me! I must have lightning and thunder, and die while the world crashes about my ears!...
--from My Sister and I by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deCypher]
#14005055 - 02/21/11 11:17 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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"A Zen student went to his master one day and asked 'master, why must we always focus on the breath? Its so boring!' So then the master took his student and held his head under water for quite a long time. After he pulled him up, he asked 'while you were underwater did you find the breath boring?'"
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"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."
"Love is the law, love under Will."
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The Gods kicked us out of Eden, but they couldn't kick Eden out of us. - J.Haas
"It is not man who is transformed into god,
but god who undergoes transformation in and through man." - C.Jung
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#14105828 - 03/11/11 07:21 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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"Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening,
terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness; chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself."
- Dr. Timothy Leary
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
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"The prophecy was that I should be dismembered; and- Aye! I lost this leg. I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer. Now, then, be the prophet and the fulfiller one. That's more than ye, ye great gods, ever were. I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket-players, ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes! I will not say as schoolboys do to bullies- Take some one of your own size; don't pommel me! No, ye've knocked me down, and I am up again; but ye have run and hidden. Come forth from behind your cotton bags! I have no long gun to reach ye. Come, Ahab's compliments to ye; come and see if ye can swerve me. Swerve me? ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve yourselves! man has ye there. Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron way!"
~Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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"So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God." - Herman Melville
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Very meaningful, very holly and very hard to understand>
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: wilfried]
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Vladimir Nabokov, “life is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness”
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: timelapses]
#14192900 - 03/27/11 02:29 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Haha that is not a spiritually quote, it is completely wrong.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
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How so? What are your beliefs?
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: timelapses]
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timelapses said:
Vladimir Nabokov, “life is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness”
The void of pre-birth and the void of post-death? The blink of our Life is the crack?
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: WScott]
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To me it meant that light is consciousness, life and it being very brief compared to eternity. Death is darkness, the unknown, and a belief in eternity and reincarnation, though I don't believe that people reincarnate as animals.
I find it a spiritual belief.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: timelapses]
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Quote:
timelapses said:
Vladimir Nabokov, “life is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness”
I like it.
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"All ignorance has been started by shepherds. Shepherds are for sheep. I trust that you are lions. Lions are not to be herded; wherever they go they are on their own track." - Papaji
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: seylm]
#14438573 - 05/12/11 02:39 AM (1 year, 18 days ago) |
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Sri Bhagavan: People would not understand the simple and bare truth - the truth of their every day, ever-present and eternal experience. That Truth is that of the Self. Is there anyone not aware of the Self? They would not even like to hear it (the Self), whereas they are eager to know what lies beyond - heaven, hell, reincarnation. Because they love mystery and not the bare truth, religions pamper them - only to bring them round to the Self. Wandering hither and thither you must return to the Self only. Then, why not abide in the Self even here and now? The other worlds require the Self as a spectator or speculator. Their reality is only of the same degrees as that of the spectator or thinker. They cannot exist without the spectator, etc. Therefore they are not different from the Self. Even the ignorant man sees only the Self when he sees objects. But he is confused and identifies the Self with the object, i.e., the body and with the senses and plays in the world. Subject and object - all merge in the Self. There is no seer nor objects seen. The seer and the seen are the Self. There are not many selves either. All are only one Self.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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Difference is only by degree and not of kind, the secret to everything is oneness!
- Vivekananda
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Kettleballz]
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Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love,
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
Max Ehrmann, 1927
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"The description is not the described."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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"You can go as far as you want and as fast as you want. The choice is yours." - Medicine Man
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: OneU]
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When the ultimate reality is gained, what happens?
Nothing happens.
Even to speak of it as a 'gain' is to use figurative language.
It is the 'sahaja' (natural) state, one's eternal experience that was never truly lost. Only it appeared so.
Being 'that' is being oneself, for oneself is 'that'.
- Ramana (40 verses on Reality)
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: seylm]
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'Life is a waterfall, were one in the river and one again after the fall'
-system of a down
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lavo]
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Despite me being a Dharmic syncretic (mostly Hinduism and Buddhist elements), I have alot of respect for this quote as it shows Christianity as inherently anti-capitalist:
There was no needy person among them, for those who owned property or houses would sell them, bring the proceeds of the sale, and put them at the feet of the apostles, and they were distributed to each according to need. (ACTS 4:34-35)
I think christianity makes sense more when you look at it with an anti-capitalist perspective.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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I prefer to ask all that is for protection and continued guidance, because it can be known only to me how many times I have been delivered from the hand of the enemy. I ask only to renew old promises and remain in the good graces that life has always offered me, even in the drought. If I live or if I die, every breath I take can change. I hope to accomplish for the worlds sake the task of working with spiritual energy.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Two_Swarm]
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Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.
Baba
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: seylm]
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seylm said:
"All ignorance has been started by shepherds. Shepherds are for sheep. I trust that you are lions. Lions are not to be herded; wherever they go they are on their own track." - Papaji
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: WScott]
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"Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth." - Rumi
How will you become a clear mirror if you resent being polished? ~ Rumi
“No other means is better than the Sound (Shabd) for transcending the concealments of creation." ~ Maharshi Mehi
“The path of love is as sharp and as narrow as the edge of a sword. There is room for only one to tread it.” ~ Sawan Singh, the "Great Master"
"In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same." ~ Eckhart Tolle
"Good actions and bad actions are both binding, like chains of gold or chains of iron." ~ Lord Krishna
"The Truth is one, but the Wise speak of it in various ways." ~ The Rig Veda
"When Love lit up the cage, my soul was flooded with Light." ~ Kabir
“Stop talking and thinking, and there is nothing you will not be able to know.” ~ Seng Ts'an
“I never give God thanks for loving me, because He cannot help it.” ~ Meister Eckhart
"The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious." ~ P.D. Ouspensky
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I might have posted these before, but they're good enough to post again anyway.
Eternity belongs to those who live in the present. -Ludwig Wittgenstein
Long you live and high you'll fly
and smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
and all you touch and all you see
is all your life will ever be. -Pink Floyd
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. -Buddha
When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky. -Buddha
Quote:
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"The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious." ~ P.D. Ouspensky
Really digging this one!
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Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks--those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
One of my favorite Nietzsche quotes.
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"it seems we humans look for superiority. and the minute that happens the right to control the inferior is manifested..."
"to be saintly is as much a control mechanism as is to be beastly. if one is not to control and not to be controlled one must live in between the beast and the saint"
"one character we forget in war is Mother Earth."
~Violeta de Bocage
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Regarding quotes, I've observed that there is a certain category which say absolutely nothing except they connect opposites in an counter-intuitive way, and this artificially generates certain meaning to the reader. Most trivial examples: "All is Nothing (and eventually Nothing is All)", "I am God", "Eternity is the smallest time spec so live in the present to become immortal", "Everything is Illuminated" aso
And then there are the thefts. Some quotes are stolen and refurbished by some modern Babas or Gurus. Example: "Life is a bridge over the sea of changes. Do not build a house on it" - Sri Sathya Sai Baba. This is direct theft from the Thomas gnostic Gospel. And I am not surprised as long as Sai Baba was a total 100% fraud.
This is why it is preferable to discern through the fake meanings when adopting a quote, by having as a criterion the necessity that the quote be specific and smart in itself, not only getting great words copulating within the same phrase.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: CityZen]
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lmao, so true about the stealing of quotes. had an argument some months ago about a quote. i was swearing the quote was by a writer and the other person swore the quote was by j. lenin. after some research we found out that both had said the same thing. felt stupid after that.
anyway, don't care much if someone took it and revamped it or if it seems counter-intuitive. all that matters is if the reader gets something new out of it.
"all is nothing" yah its crazy such a simple quote of 3 words became so well-known. at same time, for spiritual people it has something important to say or something great to ponder on. like life is basically full of shit. if you reincarnate and return 10 centuries later to any planet, including earth, nothing will be the same. all your likes and interests will be different. everything you fought for--politics, religion, love, class, race--won't matter a damn. everything and all that you were and did will be worth nothing in this new life.
exception to the rule--if you could remember past lives then all is everything. but then again maybe thats why most of us can't remember a damn thing.
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here are another 3 quotes that i like...
I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.
~A Chieftan from Nigeria
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
~Henry David Thoreau
------he didnt know yet that we'd create a mass of flying objects that'd do the work for us. but still gotta admire the words.
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
~Henry David Thoreau
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: angel100]
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"All is Nothing" and quotes like this may be true, but they are logically and operationally null. Let's imagine there was a world where in fact "All" is not "Nothing" and someone would utter "All is Nothing". How do you prove him wrong? So the phrase is flawed even if it may be true.
It's second leak is that virtually anyone may impersonate a great mystical master by only emitting this sort of assertions and no one could contradict him even though he is an idiot.
The most important value of a message is the fact that it emanates from a certain human being as they form a whole sense only blended together. These generic quotes are like prepacked wisdom kits.
Ontopic, here is a recent quote from a Russian journalist in an essay on recent international politics:
"Conspiracy theorists seek to create a world that we can understand – a world in which someone is in control. The reality is much bleaker. Nobody is in control, not even those who sincerely believe they are." (http://en.rian.ru/columnists/20110707/165071379.html)
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 Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: CityZen]
#14752629 - 07/11/11 04:40 PM (10 months, 13 days ago) |
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"All is Nothing" and quotes like this may be true, but they are logically and operationally null. Let's imagine there was a world where in fact "All" is not "Nothing" and someone would utter "All is Nothing". How do you prove him wrong? So the phrase is flawed even if it may be true.
philosophically speaking, how do you prove anything wrong or right, logical or illogical? there is no absolute truth here. even a basic theory on the existence of a god has holes in it. life on earth is a consistent flaw, a big blob of truths, half truths, falsehood, relativity, and conditioning. lol!!! that's the great thing about philosophy, it's thoughtfully senseless. you can go around and around and never come to an absolute conclusion.
now in science, there are conclusions. but then there are how many fuck-ups too? the minute a scientist says he found a solution, a scientific law or a cure, some other problem or mutation comes up and then becomes the exception to that solution. sometimes the rule is even changed, an example, the planet being flat.
so, personally i don't believe any quote (that is meant to be thought-provoking) to be completely illogical and operationally null nor completely logical and unflawed. each has its relative validity, all depending on the person who reads it. if someone can say a quote makes sense, then the quote makes sense to them even when others say it's stupid. in other words, these words in my response to you, are full of crap for those that get nothing out of it, but then again full of gold for those that do get something out of them. the same goes with your theory. i totally get what you say. you make a valid point.
like i said earlier, philosophy is thoughtfully senseless.
It's second leak is that virtually anyone may impersonate a great mystical master by only emitting this sort of assertions
everyone who is striving to better himself is impersonating someone or something. everyone starting out in the mystical world imitates a mystic they admire until they are superior enough to create their own theories. it's the same thing in music. when you're learning to play the piano you start out mastering and copying great past musicians like chopin. that's the thing about putting great theories, art and recipes out to the public. people will read them, love them, use them and soon adopt them until it becomes so much a part of them it no longer belongs to the original owner. that is the case for everything in our society, even our laws came from an older source.
and no one could contradict him even though he is an idiot.
of course people can contradict him. if a theory is wrong (according to your views) then people should discuss why it is wrong. that's the only way for anyone to move forward, including the person with the theory. if you are afraid to disagree with an "imposter", then you yourself have issues (self-esteem, opportunistic, selling-out...) if people can disagree and criticize presidents, popes, rabbis, parents, newscaster, celebrities and teachers why can't they contradict and criticize mystics?
The most important value of a message is the fact that it emanates from a certain human being as they form a whole sense only blended together.
hmmh... so are you saying someone who is not enlightened or mystically trained can't provide a message that is valuable? if that's what you are saying, then your comment is spiritually/mystically classist and i must partially disagree with you. yes, an enlightened one has more enlightened beliefs to impart. but the less enlightened one has beliefs to impart that are valuable too. everyone has something to teach. even the homicidal, schizo, racist, relgio-extremist pig has something to teach.
Ontopic, here is a recent quote from a Russian journalist in an essay on recent international politics: "Conspiracy theorists seek to create a world that we can understand – a world in which someone is in control. The reality is much bleaker. Nobody is in control, not even those who sincerely believe they are."
interesting quote. irony is... conspiracy theories only create more confusion even for the conspiracy theorist. some of them look like they've gone to hell and back. and i guess they have. and here's another apropos generic quote, "ignorance is bliss". at the same time, someone's gotta do the dirty work. sucks for them it's a physically, psychically, spiritually and mentally dangerous job.
anyway, back to your topic, i can see how the quote probably doesn't do much for an international political essay. it's not specific; so one can come away believing anything. but then who cares... as long as someone got something out of the essay.
anyway, it's my belief people get what they are and what they know. if you are all about love and compassion then you will see it everywhere. if you're about conspiracy then you will see conspiracy everywhere. in this quote, i get once again, nothing is absolute on earth. here we thought policitians controlled absolutely everything. then came the illuminatis. then the new world order elitists. now, at last comes the ever-present aliens. it's like a cat chasing its tail.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: angel100]
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tl;dr
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: CityZen]
#14800667 - 07/20/11 09:20 PM (10 months, 3 days ago) |
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Quote:
Through these actions now performed
And all the virtues I have gained,
May the pain of every living being
Be wholly scattered and destroyed!
For all those ailing in the world,
Until their every sickness has been healed,
May I myself become for them
The doctor, nurse, the medicine itself.
Raining down a flood of food and drink,
May I dispel the ills of thirst and famine.
And in the aeons marked by scarcity and want,
May I myself appear as drink and sustenance.
For sentient beings, poor and destitute,
May I become a treasure ever-plentiful,
And lie before them closely in their reach,
A varied source of all that they might need.
My body thus, and all my goods besides,
And all my merits gained and to be gained,
I give them all and do not count the cost,
To bring about the benefit of beings.
Nirvana is attained by giving all,
Nirvana is the object of my striving:
And all must be surrendered in a single instant,
Therefore it is best to give it all to others.
This body I have now resigned
To serve the pleasure of all living beings.
Let them ever kill, despise, and beat it,
Using it according to their wish.
And though they treat it like a toy,
Or make it the butt of every mockery,
My body has been given up to them.
Why should I make so much of it?
And so let beings do to me
Whatever does not bring them injury.
Whatever they think of me,
Let this not fail to bring them benefit.
And if in my regard they have
A thought of anger or respect,
May these states always be the cause
Whereby their good and wishes are fulfilled.
All those who slight me to my face
Or do to me some other evil,
Even if they blame or slander me,
May they attain the fortune of enlightenment!
May I be a guard for those who are protectorless,
A guide for those who journey on the road.
For those who wish to cross the water,
May I be a boat, a raft, a bridge.
May I be an isle for those who yearn for land,
A lamp for those who long for light;
For all those who need a resting place, a bed;
For those who need a servant, may I be their slave.
May I be the wishing jewel, the vase of wealth,
A word of power and the supreme healing,
May I be the tree of miracles,
For every being the abundant cow.
Just like the earth and space itself
And all the other mighty elements,
For boundless multitudes of beings
May I always be the ground of life, the source of varied sustenance.
Thus for everything that lives,
As far as are the limits of the sky,
May I constantly be their source of livelihood
Until they pass beyond all sorrow
Quote:
And now as long as space endures,
As long as there are beings to be found,
May I continue likewise to remain
To drive away the sorrows of the world.
-shantideva, 'guide to a bodhisattva's way of life'
the whole text is unbelievably beautiful, worth many reads imo 
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deff]
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Leave your home land - this is the practice of a Bodhisattva.
-37 Practices of a Bodhisattva
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lion]
#14814662 - 07/23/11 05:16 PM (10 months, 1 day ago) |
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If you feel that you are not enlightened, you can always try to be.
-Harish Johari
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: husmmoor]
#14924547 - 08/15/11 05:31 AM (9 months, 9 days ago) |
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There is no greater mystery than the following: Ourselves being the Reality, we seek to gain reality.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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"Where have I read that at the end, when life, surface upon surface, has become completely encrusted with experience, you know everything, the secret, the power, and the glory, why you were born, why you are dying, and how it could all have been different? ... Now I know what the Law of the Kingdom is, of poor, desperate, tattered Malkhut, where Wisdom has gone into exile, groping to recover its former lucidity." - Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lion]
#14927520 - 08/15/11 05:34 PM (9 months, 9 days ago) |
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Those who cleanse their hearts of the embittering poison of selfishness, hate, and greed find God as their own true self. The truth of divine life is not a hope but a reality, all else is illusion. Have faith and you will be redeemed. Have love and you will conquer the limited self of cravings that veil your own true being as God.
-Meher Baba
'course I don't really know what this word 'God' is all about but yeahhh
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#14941001 - 08/18/11 04:39 AM (9 months, 6 days ago) |
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I would never join any group that would have me as a member.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: goodhuck]
#14941643 - 08/18/11 09:05 AM (9 months, 6 days ago) |
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The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given in books is this. We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long samskaras [innate tendencies] which are inside us. When all of them have been given up, the Self will shine alone.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#14942760 - 08/18/11 01:10 PM (9 months, 6 days ago) |
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"Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work."
"Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking."
"The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to go the second mile, to turn the other cheek, but Jesus says if we are His disciples we shall always do these things. There will be no spirit of--"Oh, well, I cannot do any more, I have been so misrepresented and misunderstood". . . Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is--Never look for justice, but never cease to live it."
~Oswald Chambers
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#14943966 - 08/18/11 05:39 PM (9 months, 6 days ago) |
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The Song of the Vajra
Unborn, yet continuing without interruption,
neither coming nor going, omnipresent,
Supreme Dharma,
unchangeable space, without definition,
spontaneously self-liberating--
perfectly unobstructed space--
manifest from the very beginning,
self-created, without location,
with nothing negative to reject,
and nothing positive to accept,
infinite expanse, prenetrating everywhere,
immense, and without limits, without ties,
with nothing even to dissolve
or to be liberated from,
manifest beyond space and time,
existing from the beginning,
immense ying, inner space,
radiant through clarity
like the sun and the moon,
self-perfected,
indestructible like a Vajra,
stable as a mountain,
pure as a lotus,
strong as a lion,
incomparable pleasure beyond all limits,
illumination, equanimity,
peak of the Dharma,
light of the universe,
perfect from the beginning.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deff]
#14953502 - 08/20/11 04:48 PM (9 months, 4 days ago) |
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Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be the Whole of The Law.
Love is the Law. Love Under Will.
Thou has no right but to do Thy Will.
Every Man and Woman is a Star.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: goodhuck]
#14954175 - 08/20/11 07:36 PM (9 months, 4 days ago) |
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"How can a friend be in debt?" James Bond
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"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes." ~Walt
"Surprised, are you? Yes, I am extra, a gift, superfluous to the necessary, a proof of the generosity concealed in everything." ~Doris Lessing
"I searched for God and found only myself.
I searched for myself and found only God." Rumi
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: sonoffox]
#14974858 - 08/25/11 03:11 AM (8 months, 30 days ago) |
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Devotee: Why cannot the mind be turned inward in spite of repeated attempts?
Ramana Maharshi : It is done by practice and dispassion and it succeeds only gradually. The mind, having been so long a cow accustomed to graze stealthily on others' estates, is not easily confined to her stall. However much her keeper tempts her with luscious grass and fine fodder, she refuses the first time. Then she takes a bit, but her innate tendency to stray away asserts itself and she slips away. On being repeatedly tempted by the owner, she accustoms herself to the stall until finally, even if let loose, she does not stray away. Similarly with the mind. If once it finds its inner happiness it will not wander outward.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#14980333 - 08/26/11 01:50 AM (8 months, 29 days ago) |
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If once it finds its inner happiness it will not wander outward.
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Thisssssssss
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#14980356 - 08/26/11 02:06 AM (8 months, 29 days ago) |
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I y'am what I y'am, and that's all that I y'am. ~Popeye
I am the sum of my parts. ~Anon
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: goodhuck]
#14980362 - 08/26/11 02:08 AM (8 months, 29 days ago) |
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i am none of my parts - me
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#14980505 - 08/26/11 03:34 AM (8 months, 29 days ago) |
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Quote:
The Chronic said:
i am none of my parts - me
while i am not ever truly there to 'challenge' you, what parts are you "of" then? and if truly 'none' of your parts, have you 1) been shown only what NOT to be
or 2) only shown what to be thru the nadir of negative action, eg, "oh this is what its like to be the underdog?" (or double neg. of the worst of the worst? to then make it thru?)
wow..
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: goodhuck]
#14982266 - 08/26/11 01:36 PM (8 months, 29 days ago) |
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Not necessarily spiritual, but this is one of the Secrets Of Power:
"You know how dumb the average person is? Well, by definition, half of 'em are dumber'n that!"
-Robert Anton Wilson, George Carlin, etc..
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Clean]
#14982506 - 08/26/11 02:16 PM (8 months, 29 days ago) |
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"Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter." -Longchenpa
I also saw this version searching for it just now:
"Since everything is but an apparition, perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good and bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter." —Long Chen Pa
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Hiro]
#15011011 - 09/01/11 08:04 AM (8 months, 23 days ago) |
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“What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.”
― Ernest Becker
"Beneath the civilized veneer, man remains the supreme predator. Cursed with what he believes is understanding, his true soul blossoms godlike in the heart of the nuclear inferno."
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Icelander]
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I thought it was particularly good on a forum about psychedelics haha.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Hiro]
#15094608 - 09/18/11 03:48 AM (8 months, 6 days ago) |
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When the mind moves even a little, that is samsara.
When the mind abides firmly and motionlessly (in the state of the Self), that is liberation.
This is certain.
Therefore know that the wise man must hold his mind firm
by supreme Self-Awareness.
Devikalottaram - Jnanachara Vichara Padalam - The Knowledge That Transcends Time
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#15104387 - 09/19/11 11:37 PM (8 months, 4 days ago) |
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Man issues forth from bodily identification to assume his real form upon attainment of the great liberation. Such a man lives like a king--eating, playing, and enjoying women, possessions, and family, without identification with the body.
--Chandogya Upanishad
You can't do good unless you feel good.
--Abbie Hoffman
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deCypher]
#15115615 - 09/22/11 02:33 AM (8 months, 2 days ago) |
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Quote:
The Chronic said:
When the mind moves even a little, that is samsara.
When the mind abides firmly and motionlessly (in the state of the Self), that is liberation.
This is certain.
Therefore know that the wise man must hold his mind firm
by supreme Self-Awareness.
Devikalottaram - Jnanachara Vichara Padalam - The Knowledge That Transcends Time
Quote:
deCypher said:
Man issues forth from bodily identification to assume his real form upon attainment of the great liberation. Such a man lives like a king--eating, playing, and enjoying women, possessions, and family, without identification with the body.
--Chandogya Upanishad
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#15121378 - 09/23/11 04:49 AM (8 months, 1 day ago) |
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6. Those who seek everlasting liberation,
should not engage in repeating various sacred syllables
(mantras), in breath-control (pranayama), breath retention
(kumbhaka) or concentration (dharana).
17. (Neither) is there room for performing puja, paying homage,
chanting, meditation and the like.
Hear it from Me: the highest truth acclaimed in the Vedas
can be known only through jnana (wisdom)
There is absolutely no need to know anything outside oneself.
Devikalottaram - Jnanachara Vichara Padalam - The Knowledge That Transcends Time
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless like water. you put water into a cup it becomes the cup, you put water into bottle it becomes the bottle, you put in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash, be like water my friend."
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 "Perfect Chaos"
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Guesstimate]
#15141921 - 09/27/11 12:15 PM (7 months, 28 days ago) |
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For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Begotten Son,
that whosoever believes on Him shall not die, but have everlasting life.
The Disciple John
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: greenthumb]
#15149837 - 09/28/11 08:31 PM (7 months, 26 days ago) |
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"Form is solidified energy; energy is an expression of mind; mind is the covered mirror of Eternity; and Eternity is Truth that has thrown off the mask of mind."
Meher
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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Quote:
The Chronic said:
6. Those who seek everlasting liberation,
should not engage in repeating various sacred syllables
(mantras), in breath-control (pranayama), breath retention
(kumbhaka) or concentration (dharana).
17. (Neither) is there room for performing puja, paying homage,
chanting, meditation and the like.
Hear it from Me: the highest truth acclaimed in the Vedas
can be known only through jnana (wisdom)
There is absolutely no need to know anything outside oneself.
Devikalottaram - Jnanachara Vichara Padalam - The Knowledge That Transcends Time
Good one.
Quote:
Jed McKenna said:
"But what about when people explore their inner selves? Make journeys of self-discovery? Aren't they going within to find the truth?"
They're just exploring the ego, making a study of the false self, which is a life-quest as valid as any other. But you don't wake up by perfecting your dream character, you wake up by breaking free of it. There's no truth to the ego, so no degree of mastery over it results in anything true. Putting attention on the false self merely reinforces it.
The misconception about enlightenment stems from, or is at least compounded by, the fact that most of the world's recognized experts on the subject of enlightenment are not enlightened. Some are great mystics, some are great scholars, some are both, and most are neither, but exceedingly few are awake.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Mr. Middle]
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False false false true true true, there's no ego to master and no one to master it, anyhow.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: CityZen]
#15155730 - 09/29/11 09:37 PM (7 months, 25 days ago) |
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Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
Matthew 24:25
Probably one of my favorite bible quotes. Can really relate to it after taking mushies alone in the desert. Imagine it, death being nothing joyful, sorrowful, or anything of the sort. Simply an empty state of existing, with nothing to bring comfort to you but the words of attaining peace, and knowing that you did your best to follow them while you were "alive".....whatever that meant 
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 How many psychedelic users — in any country — actually give
time to the local church soup kitchen, helping to feed the homeless and
hungry? How many of us, having had the experience, under the influence
of the visionary drugs, of seeing all human beings as incarnations of God,
have gone down to the local hospital to give affection and a listening ear to
lonely patients who need somebody to talk to? How many of us regularly
visit a jail, to provide spiritual and emotional support to confused, damaged
people who have grown up unloved, uneducated and unguided by their
confused, damaged parents -Alexander Shulgin 
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Quote:
Ethnobotanical said:
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
Matthew 24:25
Probably one of my favorite bible quotes. Can really relate to it after taking mushies alone in the desert. Imagine it, death being nothing joyful, sorrowful, or anything of the sort. Simply an empty state of existing, with nothing to bring comfort to you but the words of attaining peace, and knowing that you did your best to follow them while you were "alive".....whatever that meant
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lion]
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Quote:
Lion said:
Quote:
Ethnobotanical said:
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
Matthew 24:25
Probably one of my favorite bible quotes. Can really relate to it after taking mushies alone in the desert. Imagine it, death being nothing joyful, sorrowful, or anything of the sort. Simply an empty state of existing, with nothing to bring comfort to you but the words of attaining peace, and knowing that you did your best to follow them while you were "alive".....whatever that meant
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How many psychedelic users — in any country — actually give
time to the local church soup kitchen, helping to feed the homeless and
hungry? How many of us, having had the experience, under the influence
of the visionary drugs, of seeing all human beings as incarnations of God,
have gone down to the local hospital to give affection and a listening ear to
lonely patients who need somebody to talk to? How many of us regularly
visit a jail, to provide spiritual and emotional support to confused, damaged
people who have grown up unloved, uneducated and unguided by their
confused, damaged parents -Alexander Shulgin
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lion]
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One should abandon all paths which are based on external supports
and meditate solely on that Reality which is beyond the world.
Devikalottaram - Jnanachara Vichara Padalam - The Knowledge That Transcends Time
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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All quotes by U.G. Krishnamurti
"All these godman, gurus and flunkies are offering us a new oasis. You will find out that it is no different from other mirages."
"To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a 'Natural Man'."
"The Natural State is a state of great sensitivity--but this is a physical sensitivity of the senses, not some kind of emotional compassion or tenderness for others. There is compassion only in the sense that there are no 'others' for me, and so there is no separation"
"We never look at anything. It is too dangerous to look because that 'looking' destroys the continuity of thinking."
"The body has no independent existence. You are a squatter there."
"A messiah is the one who leaves a mess behind him in this world"
"It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new sciences,new talks, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks."
"Cabbages are more alive than human beings."
"Your highly praised inventiveness springs from your thinking, which is essentially a protective mechanism. The mind has invented both religion and dynamite to protect what it regards as its best interests."
"I don't give a hoot for a sixth-century B.C. Buddha, let alone all the other claimants we have in our midst. They are a bunch of exploiters, thriving on the gullibility of the people."
"You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total surrender." It is a state of hopelessness which says that there is no way out... Any movement in any direction, on any dimension, at any level, is taking you away from yourself..."
"Real silence is explosive; it is not the dead state of mind that spiritual seekers think. This is volcanic in its nature; it's bubbling all the time--the energy, the life--that is its quality."
"You are trying to enforce peace through violence. Yoga, meditation, prayers, mantras, are all violent techniques. The living organism is very peaceful; you don't have to do a thing. The peacefully functioning body doesn't care one hoot for your ecstasies, beatitudes, or blissful states."
"Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, where as culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque."
"If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has taught, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place."
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
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Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true Self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes. - Sri Ramana
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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Nothing is forbidden to the kaula and to those who have achieved the condition of true siddha-vira, since they are and they know. They are lords of their passions, and they fully identify with Shakti [power]. As the supreme Shakti, or Parashakti, is over and beyond any pair of opposites, likewise the kaula is beyond good and evil, honor and dishonor, merit and sin, and any other value cherished by ordinary people, the so-called pashus.
--Julius Evola
Through enjoyment one gains liberation; for enjoyment is the means of reaching the Supreme Abode. Hence the wise who wish to conquer [the spirit] should experience all pleasures.
--the Kularnava Samhita
'The lord-of tears' (Rudra) has shown in the left-hand doctrine that spiritual advancement is best achieved by means of those very things which are the causes of man's downfall.
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Passion alone, when astutely directed, can overcome egoism and pride and sordid calculation. Alone it has the momentum to draw man away from the bonds that chain him to his interests, his beliefs.
--Alain Danielou
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: blinkybill]
#15231463 - 10/15/11 08:59 PM (7 months, 9 days ago) |
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Quote:
blinkybill said:
"Religion is poison"
Mao Tse Tung
"All for one, and one for all!" ~The Three Musketeers
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"A truly accomplished yogi is one who can live anywhere in the world without being disturbed or losing their divine joy." ~ Tibetan wisdom
"Patience and tolerance are antidotes to hatred. Sincere motivation is an antidote to anxiety. Honesty is an antidote to low self-esteem and inflated self-confidence. And reflecting on one's potential is an antidote to self-hatred." - Dalai Lama
"If you have the privilege of being with a person who is conscious at the time of his or her death, you find the questions such a person asks are very simple, 'Did I love well?' 'Did I live fully?' 'Did I learn to let go?'" ~ Jack Kornfield
"The true martial arts teach harmony and non-resistance - the way of the trees bending in the wind." ~ The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
"To a meditator who has a certain degree of inner stability, and realization, every experience comes as a teaching."
"Contentment with what you have and who you are is a seed to enlightenment itself."
"If only for just one moment we could accept ourselves with kindness and compassion rather than forcing ourselves to conform to some impossible ideal. The world would immediately be different."
"The ego is always grasping, but since everything is impermanent, it is always at a loss."
"When your heart is lit with compassion and you are beyond self interest or self-gratification, your message will get through."
Ah, Buddhism makes me 
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Quote:
Shrooomtastic said:
"The true martial arts teach harmony and non-resistance - the way of the trees bending in the wind." ~ The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
"Be like water." ~Bruce Lee.
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"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is mearly energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, that there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imaginations of ourselves."
-Bill Hicks
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"See I think drugs have done some good things for us. If you don't think drugs have done good things for us then do me a favor. Go home tonight and take all of your records,tapes and all your CD's and burn them. Because, you know all those musicians who made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years? Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreal fucking high on drugs, man."
-Bill Hicks
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Klarbauter]
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"fuck everything, love everything." - owls
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i love you ♥
you are beautiful! 
COME TOGETHER, JOIN THE PARTY!!
"what beith a man if he doth not enjoy cannabis?"
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: owls]
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"Dance like nobody is watching"
"Never changing. Always true. In the name of love, dance for paradise."
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"See I think drugs have done some good things for us. If you don't think drugs have done good things for us then do me a favor. Go home tonight and take all of your records,tapes and all your CD's and burn them. Because, you know all those musicians who made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years? Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreal fucking high on drugs, man."
-Bill Hicks
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"Don't let ur cocadile mouth get in the way of your hunny bee butt!" Dr. Phil
..or no?
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"To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear." Buddha
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: cateyes]
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It is not enough that one surrenders oneself.
Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being.
Do not delude yourself by imagining such a source to be some God outside you.
One's source is within oneself.
Give yourself up to it.
That means that you should seek the source and merge in it - Ramana Maharshi
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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This body holding me reminds me of my
own mortality.
Embrace this moment. Remember. we
are eternal.
all this pain is an illusion
Tool-Parabola
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Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: bigmike7104]
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"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need." ~ Tao Te Ching
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Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines
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"Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved." ~Soren Kierkegaard
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Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: bigmike7104]
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Quote:
bigmike7104 said:
"Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved." ~Soren Kierkegaard
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How many psychedelic users — in any country — actually give
time to the local church soup kitchen, helping to feed the homeless and
hungry? How many of us, having had the experience, under the influence
of the visionary drugs, of seeing all human beings as incarnations of God,
have gone down to the local hospital to give affection and a listening ear to
lonely patients who need somebody to talk to? How many of us regularly
visit a jail, to provide spiritual and emotional support to confused, damaged
people who have grown up unloved, uneducated and unguided by their
confused, damaged parents -Alexander Shulgin
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: bigmike7104]
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Quote:
bigmike7104 said:
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need." ~ Tao Te Ching
I really like this translation
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Klarbauter]
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Quote:
Klarbauter said:
"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is mearly energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, that there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imaginations of ourselves."
-Bill Hicks
One of my favorites of all time!
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Into this house we're born, Into this world we're thrown Like a dog without a bone, like an actor out on loan -The Doors
  
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Do what thou Wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Aleister Crowley
You should think of the world as a conspiracy run by a tightly-knit group of near omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.
All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense and by repeating this six hundred and sixty six times you will reach supreme enlightenment in some sense.
Robert Anton Wilson
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: abhorsen]
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Papaji -
Surrender to the Source.
Surrender to Awareness,
this is the only place of protection.
Surrender means to surrender your bondage
and simply Be Freedom
Surrender is the ego bowing down to its Source.
No more demands or commands,
but just putting all in the hands of the Source.
Surrender is to submit your stupidness, your wickedness,
to the will of Existence, to Consciousness and Bliss
and being happy. That's all.
Surrender.
Let Silence have you.
As the river surrenders to the Ocean,
surrender yourself to the Self, the Source.
And if you find you are still swimming
on the surface of the Ocean, stop swimming
and you will sink into depths of Love.
Love: Surrender to the Divine and KEEP QUIET
Wisdom: Inquire into the Divine and KEEP QUIET
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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"stay positive and love your life" - bob marley 
"have faith, for i will not leave you" - owls
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you are beautiful!
COME TOGETHER, JOIN THE PARTY!!
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: owls]
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Unless one looks upon death as a thing that is very near and might happen at any moment one will not be aware of the Self. - Ramana
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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^ hmmmmm!
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
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another one for you bro...
Robert Adams -
All levels and all teachings are an emanation of the mind, for there has to be someone to experience those levels. Vichara, or self-inquiry, goes right to the heart of the matter. It bypasses every system, negates every system, and awakens you immediately. The mind, as I, gives you the problem. When the mind, as I, goes, everything else goes with it, all of your past teachings, the world, the universe, God, reincarnation, karma. You become free of the whole mess and you awaken. So again, every system is a projection of the mind. You have to be present to do the work, whereas in this teaching we get rid of the you that does the work. So if the you is gone, there's no work to be done. In other words, who has to meditate? I do. there has to be somebody present for you to meditate. Instead of meditating, ask yourself, "Who meditates?" and the answer will be, "I do." Then, "who am I?" and the lights will come on and you'll be free. Once the I goes there is nobody left to do any spiritual work, for you become consciousness. You become absolute reality, omnipresent, infinite.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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Ramana on the role of the Master:
He who instructs an ardent seeker to do this or that
is not a true master.
The seeker is already afflicted with his activities
and wants peace and rest.
In other words he wants cessation of activities .
If the guru tells him to do something
in addition to, or in place of,
his other activities,
can that help the seeker?
Such a person cannot liberate the aspirant,
he can only strenghen his fetters.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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I've spent the last few weeks REALLY bored, but somehow content. Just last night I had dreams of being REALLY bored and just staring at stuff around the room like I've been doing during the day. Something seems obvious to me, it's like it's on the tip of my mind's tongue, but I can't say. It's a bit like that other fellow I quoted in the other thread just now - there's like some process going on within you and eventually once you've exhausted all avenues it makes you shit bricks. You see it... You get it... everything.
I hope I'm not far off.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
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I feel good about you, that can't be bad imo
I think me just staying with that feeling will 'help' you more than any verbal pointers can
When we catch the scent of our own being nobody else can sniff it out for us
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
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from the Vimalakirti Sutra (a mahayana sutra)
Quote:
At that time Shariputra, observing that there were no seats in Vimalakirti's room, thought to himself: "All these bodhisattvas and major disciples--where are they going to sit?"
The rich man Vimalakirti, knowing what was in his mind, said to Shariputra, "Did you come here for the sake of the Law, or are you just looking for a place to sit?"
"I came for the Law, not a seat!" said Shariputra.
"Ah, Shariputra," said Vimalkirti, "a seeker of the Law doesn't concern himself even about life and limb, much less about a seat! A seeker of the Law seeks nothing in the way of form, perception, conception, volition, or consciousness; he seeks nothing in the way of sense-realms or sense-media; he seeks nothing in the threefold world of desire, form, and formlessness.
"Ah, Shariputra, a seeker of the Law does not seek it through attachment to the Buddha, does not seek it through attachment to the Law, does not seek it through attachment to the order. A seeker of the Law does not seek it through recognition of suffering, does not seek it through renunciation of attachments, does not seek it through realization of how to end attachments, or through practice of the Way. Why? Because the Law has nothing to do with idle theorizing. To declare that one must recognize suffering, renounce attachments, realize how to reach extinction, and practice the Way is mere idle theorizing, not seeking the Law.
"Ah, Shariputra, the Law is called 'tranquil extinction'. But if one strives for birth followed by extinction, this is seeking birth and extinction, this is not seeking the Law. The Law is called 'unstained'. But if one is stained with the idea of the Law or of nirvana, then one is stained with attachment, and this is not seeking the Law. The Law has no goal of activity, but if one actively pursues the Law, one is pursuing a goal, and this is not seeking the Law. The Law knows no picking and choosing, but if one picks and chooses the Law, this is picking and choosing, not seeking the Law. The Law is independent of place, but if one fixes on the idea of place, this is fixation with place, not seeking of the Law. The Law is called 'formless'. If one tries to know it through form, this is seeking form, not seeking the Law.
"The Law is not something that can be resided in. If one tries to reside in it, this is trying to reside in the Law, not seeking the Law. The Law is not something that can be seen, heard, perceived, or understood. If one tries to see, hear, perceive, and understand it, this is trying to see, hear, perceive, and understand the Law, not seeking the Law. The Law is called 'unconditioned'. If one tries to approach it through the conditioned, this is seeking the conditioned, not seeking the Law.
"Therefore, Shariputra, if one would be a seeker of the Law, one must not seek it in anything at all."
When Vimalakirti spoke these words, five hundred heavenly sons gained the purity of the Dharma eye in their perception of phenomena.
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deff said:
from the Vimalakirti Sutra (a mahayana sutra)
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At that time Shariputra, observing that there were no seats in Vimalakirti's room, thought to himself: "All these bodhisattvas and major disciples--where are they going to sit?"
The rich man Vimalakirti, knowing what was in his mind, said to Shariputra, "Did you come here for the sake of the Law, or are you just looking for a place to sit?"
"I came for the Law, not a seat!" said Shariputra.
"Ah, Shariputra," said Vimalkirti, "a seeker of the Law doesn't concern himself even about life and limb, much less about a seat! A seeker of the Law seeks nothing in the way of form, perception, conception, volition, or consciousness; he seeks nothing in the way of sense-realms or sense-media; he seeks nothing in the threefold world of desire, form, and formlessness.
"Ah, Shariputra, a seeker of the Law does not seek it through attachment to the Buddha, does not seek it through attachment to the Law, does not seek it through attachment to the order. A seeker of the Law does not seek it through recognition of suffering, does not seek it through renunciation of attachments, does not seek it through realization of how to end attachments, or through practice of the Way. Why? Because the Law has nothing to do with idle theorizing. To declare that one must recognize suffering, renounce attachments, realize how to reach extinction, and practice the Way is mere idle theorizing, not seeking the Law.
"Ah, Shariputra, the Law is called 'tranquil extinction'. But if one strives for birth followed by extinction, this is seeking birth and extinction, this is not seeking the Law. The Law is called 'unstained'. But if one is stained with the idea of the Law or of nirvana, then one is stained with attachment, and this is not seeking the Law. The Law has no goal of activity, but if one actively pursues the Law, one is pursuing a goal, and this is not seeking the Law. The Law knows no picking and choosing, but if one picks and chooses the Law, this is picking and choosing, not seeking the Law. The Law is independent of place, but if one fixes on the idea of place, this is fixation with place, not seeking of the Law. The Law is called 'formless'. If one tries to know it through form, this is seeking form, not seeking the Law.
"The Law is not something that can be resided in. If one tries to reside in it, this is trying to reside in the Law, not seeking the Law. The Law is not something that can be seen, heard, perceived, or understood. If one tries to see, hear, perceive, and understand it, this is trying to see, hear, perceive, and understand the Law, not seeking the Law. The Law is called 'unconditioned'. If one tries to approach it through the conditioned, this is seeking the conditioned, not seeking the Law.
"Therefore, Shariputra, if one would be a seeker of the Law, one must not seek it in anything at all."
When Vimalakirti spoke these words, five hundred heavenly sons gained the purity of the Dharma eye in their perception of phenomena.
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"..but remember, unless you become mad, you cannot attain godhood" Upasni
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another section from the Vimalakirti Sutra:
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Entering the Gate of Nondualism
At that time Vimalakirti said to the various bodhisattvas, "Sirs, how does the bodhisattva go about entering the gate of nondualism? Let each one explain as he understands it."
One of the bodhisattvas in the assembly, whose name was Dharma Freedom, spoke these words: "Sirs, birth and extinction form a dualism. But since all dharmas are not born to begin with, they must now be without extinction. By grasping and learning to accept this truth of birthlessness, one may enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Virtue Garden said, "'I' and 'mine' form a dualism. Because there is an 'I', there is also a 'mine'. But if there is no 'I', there will be no 'mine'. In this way one enters the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Unblinking said, "Perception and nonperception form a dualism. But if dharmas are not perceived, then there is nothing to take hold of. And because there is nothing to take hold of, there will be no grasping, no rejecting, no action, no volition. In this way one enters the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Virtue Peak said, "Defilement and purity form a dualism. But if one sees into the tru nature of defilement, it is without the marks of purity but leads into the extinction of all marks. In this way one enters the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Good Constellation said, "The stirring of the mind and thought--these two form a dualism. But if the mind is not stirred, then there will be no thought. And if there is no thought, there will be no discrimination. The one who has thoroughly mastered this may in this way enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Good Eye said, "The unique in form and the formless constitute a dualism. But if one understands that the unique in form is in fact the formless, and then does not seize the formless but sees all as equal, one may in this way enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Wonderful Arm said, "The bodhisattva mind and the voice-hearer mind constitute a dualism. But if one regards the mind as empty in form, like a conjured phantom, then there is no bodhisattva mind and no voice-hearer mind. In this way one may enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Pushya said, "Good and not good form a dualism. But if one does not call up either good or not good but enters into the realm of the formless and truly masters it, in this way one may enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Lion said, "Blame and blessing form a dualism. But if one penetrates the true nature of blame, it is no different from blessing. When one can dispose of forms with this diamondlike wisdom, neither bound nor liberated, one may in this way enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Lion Will said, "Presence of outflows of passion and absence of such outflows constitute a dualism. But if one can grasp the fact that all dharmas are equal, then one will not give rise to the concept of outflows or no outflows. One will not be attached to form nor dwell in formlessness either. In this way one may enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Pure Understanding said, "The created and the uncreated form a dualism. But if one does away with all enumerations, then the mind is like empty sky, freed of all obstacles through pure clean wisdom. In this way one enters the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Narayana said, "The worldly and the unworldly form a dualism. But since the nature of the worldly is empty, the worldly is in fact the unworldly. Neither entering into it nor going out of it, neither exceeding nor falling short--in this way one enters the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Good Will said, "The realm of birth and death and that of nirvana form a dualism. But if one sees the true nature of birth and death, one sees that there is no birth or death, no binding, no unbinding, no birth, no extinction. One who understands in this way may thereby enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Direct Seeing said, "The exhaustible and the inexhaustible form a dualism. But whether dharmas are in the end exhaustible or inexhaustible, they are all without the marks of exhaustibility. And if they are without the marks of exhaustibility, they are empty. And if they are empty, they are without the marks of either exhaustibility or inexhaustibility. If one enters this realm of understanding, one may thereby enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Universal Guardian said, "'I' and 'not-I' form a dualism. But when one cannot grasp even 'I', how can one grasp 'not-I'? One who has seen into the true nature of 'I' will no longer give rise to these two concepts, and in this way enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Lightning God said, "Enlightenment and ignorance form a dualism. But the true nature of ignorance is none other than enlightenment. And enlightenment cannot be seized, but is apart from all enumerations. One dwells in the centre, in the equality without dualism, and in this way enters the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Joyful Seeing said, "Form and the emptiness of form constitute a dualism. But form is none other than emptiness; emptiness does not represent the extinction of form. Form is itself empty by nature. In the same way perception, conception, volition, and consciousness, and the emptiness of consciousness, constitute dualisms. But consciousness is none other than emptiness; emptiness does not represent the extinction of consciousness. Consciousness is itself empty by nature. Dwelling in the midst of these concepts and understanding them thoroughly, one may in this way enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Enlightened as to Form said, "To regard the four elements [earth, water, fire, and wind] as different from the element emptiness or space is dualistic. The nature of the four elements is none other than the nature of emptitness. Just as the past and future of these elements is empty, so too must their present be empty. If one can understand the nature of the elements in this way, one may thereby enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Wonderful Will said, "The eye and the objects it observes constitute a dualism. But if one understands the nature of the eye, then with regard to objects one will be without greed, without anger, and without stupidity. This is called tranquil extinction. Similarly, the ear and sounds, the nose and smells, the tongue and tastes, the body and touch, and the mind and phenomena constitute dualisms. But if one understands the nature of the mind, then with regard to phenomena one will be without greed, without anger, and without stupidity. This is called tranquil extinction. Dwelling at rest in its midst, one may thereby enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Inexhaustible Will said, "Almsgiving, and applying the merits gained thereby to acquire comprehensive wisdom, constitute a dualism. But the nature of almsgiving is none other than the applying of merits to acquire comprehensive wisdom. Similarly, keeping of the precepts, forbearance, assiduousness, meditation, and isdom form dualisms in contrast to the applying of merit to acquire comprehensive wisdom, etc. But the nature of wisdom is none other than the applying of merits to acquire comprehensive wisdom. By entering into an understanding of the singleness of form that all these share, one may thus enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Deep Wisdom said, "This is emptiness, this is formlessness, this is nonaction--to speak in this manner is dualistic. Emptiness is none other than formlessness, formlessness is none other than nonaction. If something is empty, formless, nonacting, then it is without mind, will, or consciousness. This single doctrine of emancipation is the same as the threefold doctrine of emancipation [regarding emptiness, formlessness, and nonaction]. In this way one enters the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Tranquil Roots said, "To speak of the Buddha, the Law, and the assembly is dualistic. The Buddha is none other than the Law, the Law is none other than the assembly. These Three Treasures are all uncreated in form, like the empty sky, and all dharmas are the same. One who can act in accordance with this understanding may thereby enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Mind Unobstructed said, "The body and the body extinguished constitute a dualism. But the body is none other than the body extinguished. Why? Because one who sees into the true form of the body does not give rise to thoughts of seeing the body or seeing the extinction of the body. The body and the extinction of the body are not two things, not a distinction to be made. One who rests in this understanding, neither alarmed nor fearful, may in this way enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Superior Goodness said, "To speak of the activities of body, mouth, and mind is dualistic. These three activities are all marked by the aspect of nonaction. If the body is marked by nonaction, then the mouth must be marked by nonaction, and if the mouth is marked by nonaction, then the mind must be marked by nonaction. And since these three activities are marked by nonaction, then all dharmas must be marked by nonaction. One who can go along with this wisdom of nonaction may in this way enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Merit Field said, "To speak of meritorious deeds, blameful deeds, and deeds that call forth no retribution is dualistic. The true nature of all three kinds of deeds is empty. And if it is empty, then there are no meritorious deeds, no blameful deeds, and no deeds that call forth no retribution. One who does not rouse any thought of distinctions with regard to these three types of deeds may thereby enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Flower Garland said, "From the concept of 'self' rises the concept of two things, [self and other], which creates a dualism. But one who sees into the true form of the self will not give rise to the thought of two things. And if one does not dwell in the thought of two things, then one will be without consciousness and without anything one is conscious of, and in this way may enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Virtue Storehouse said, "To suppose that there is some form or object that one can acquire is dualistic. But if one realizes that there is nothing to be acquired, then there will be no grasping and no rejecting. And when there is no grasping and no rejecting, one may in this way enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Moon in Midair said, "Darkness and light form a dualism; if there is no darkness and no light, there will be no dualism. Why? It is like entering the meditation that wipes out perception and conception, where there is neither darkness nor light. And the forms of all dharmas are the same as this. If one enters this state and views all with equality, one may thereby enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Treasure Sign said, "To yearn for nirvana and not delight in the world constitutes a dualism. But if one does not yearn for nirvana and does not loathe the world, there will be no dualism. Why? If there is binding, there will be unbinding. But if there is no binding to begin with, who will seek to be unbound? And when there is no binding and unbinding, there will be no yearning and no loathing, and in this way one may enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Jewel Crowned King said, "The correct way and the erroneous way constitute a dualism. But one who dwells in the correct way does not make distinctions, saying 'This is erroneous!' or 'This is correct!'. By removing oneself from both, one may thereby enter the gate of nondualism."
The bodhisattva Delight in Truth said, "The true and the not true form a dualism. But one who sees truly cannot even see the true, so how can he see the untrue? Why? Because they cannot be seen by the physical eye; only the eye of wisdom can see them. But for this eye of wisdom there is no seeing and no not seeing. In this way one may enter the gate of nondualism."
When the various bodhisattvas had finished one by one giving their explanations, they asked Manjushri, "How then does the bodhisattva enter the gate of nondualism?"
Manjushri replied, "to my way of thinking, all dharmas are without words, without explanations, without purport, without cognition, removed from all questions and answers. In this way one may enter the gate of nondualism."
Then Manjushri said to Vimalakirti, "Each of us has given an explanation. Now, sir, it is your turn to speak. Hows does the bodhisattva enter the gate of nondualism?"
At that time Vimalakirti remained silent and did not speak a word.
Manjushri sighed and said, "Excellent, excellent! Not a word, not a syllable--this truly is to enter the gate of nondualism!"
When this chapter on Entering the Gate of Nondualism was preached, five thousand bodhisattvas in the assembly were all able to enter the gate of nondualism and to learn to accept the truth of birthlessness.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deff]
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"When this chapter on Entering the Gate of Nondualism was preached, five thousand bodhisattvas in the assembly were all able to enter the gate of nondualism and to learn to accept the truth of birthlessness."
Wow.
"The Kingdom of Heaven is within You!"
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‘Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.’
Thomas Henry Huxley
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
-Confucius
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'I don't want to give you anything, i want to cut off your head'
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The denying of reality is the asserting of it,
And the asserting of emptiness is the denying of it.
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quote from dilgo khyentse rinpoche
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This troublesome ego which is so concerned about itself has in reality never begun to exist, it does not exist anywhere now, and so it cannot cease to exist. Not the slightest trace of it can be found. When you recognize the void nature, therefore, any notion of there being an ego to dissolve vanishes, and at the same time the energy to bring about the good of others dawns, uncontrived and effortless.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deff]
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The instructed disciple of the Noble Ones does not regard material shape as self, or self as having material shape, or the self as being in material shape. Nor does he regard feeling, perception, the impulses, or consciousness in any of these ways. He comprehends each of these aggregates as it really is, that it is impermanent, suffering, not-self, compounded, woeful. He does not approach them, grasp after them or determine "Self for me" ["my self"] and this for a long time conduces to his welfare and happiness.
The instructed disciple of the Noble Ones beholds of material shape, feeling, perception, the impulses, or consciousness: "This is not mine, this am I not, this is not my self." So that when the material shape feeling, perception, the impulses, or consciousness change and become otherwise there arise not from him grief, sorrow, suffering, lamentation, and despair.
-From the Samyytta Nikaya
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I like, i seem to find the Gems i find most affinity with from the Samyutta
Check out my journal for similar ones...
A translation of Buddha's 'last words'
"Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height."
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"you don't have a soul, you are a soul, you have a body" - C.S lewis
not sure if this is a repeat since i dint read every page but it's definitely one of my favorite quotes.
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Expect nothing, and you'll have everything. Be spontaneous. Concern yourself only with the present.
Forget the past and do not worry about the future. Be what you are, absolute reality.
-Robert Adams
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"Love is the power to burst out of limitations and experience unity with other forms. Curiosity is a form of this power. It is the impulse, expressed through the intellect, to imagine the truth of something other than self. Curiosity is a compound of consciousness formed by imagination and longing. Just as the divine Whim permeates creation, curiosity exists in divine potential as an experiment of consciousness."
Dan Tyler
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Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. Tyler Durden
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Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!
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The greatest spiritual quote is the Bhagavad Gita. 
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"It doesn’t matter, because it’s just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.”
-Bill Hicks
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check out my ambient/drone ep: http://idleocean.bandcamp.com/
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May the long time sun shine upon you, all love surround you, and the pure light within you guide your way on.
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How many psychedelic users — in any country — actually give
time to the local church soup kitchen, helping to feed the homeless and
hungry? How many of us, having had the experience, under the influence
of the visionary drugs, of seeing all human beings as incarnations of God,
have gone down to the local hospital to give affection and a listening ear to
lonely patients who need somebody to talk to? How many of us regularly
visit a jail, to provide spiritual and emotional support to confused, damaged
people who have grown up unloved, uneducated and unguided by their
confused, damaged parents -Alexander Shulgin
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There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way
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#15842131 - 02/21/12 10:00 AM (3 months, 5 days ago) |
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The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: trojan.exe]
#15842136 - 02/21/12 10:01 AM (3 months, 5 days ago) |
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Past and future are in the mind only - I am now
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: trojan.exe]
#15884365 - 03/01/12 02:18 AM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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Verse 622: When rightly considered, nothing will be more wonderful and laughable than one's toiling very much through some sadhana to attain Self in the same manner as one toils to attain objects, even though one really ever remains as the non-dual Self.
- Ramana
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#15885848 - 03/01/12 12:01 PM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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To see your end is to see your beginning
To see your beginning is to see your end
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#15886054 - 03/01/12 01:04 PM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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"In an honest service, there is thin victuals, low wages and hard labour. In this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power...
"No, a merry life and a short one shall be my motto."
-Captain Bartholomew Roberts aka Blackbeard.
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~The Cultivators Motherload~
"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein
"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies.
My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."-Dalai Lama
Live long and prosper.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Kada]
#15887938 - 03/01/12 08:13 PM (2 months, 26 days ago) |
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I subject my awareness to the perfection of being, the perfection of wisdom and perfection of love, all of these being co-present in the Vast Expanse. I share this panorama of Being and appreciate all I can share it with...the seamless interweaving of consciousness with each moment.
- Alex Grey
Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely openly lovingly. Love is what makes us alive, that is why we feel so alive when we love. Service is being available to love. Life is the combustion of love. That we love ourselves here, that is the true magnificence in the mountains of being.
-Alex Grey
The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.
-Alex Grey
The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes you violent, angry, jealous, competitive. It is the ego that is continuously comparing and feeling miserable.
- Osho
What is bliss but your own being ? You are not apart from being which is the same as bliss. You are now thinking that you are the mind or the body which are both changing and transient. But you are unchanging and eternal. That is what you should know.
- Ramana Maharshi
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.
- Deepak Chopra
Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.
- Deepak Chopra
If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.
- Deepak Chopra
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
- Deepak Chopra
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
-Eckhart Tolle
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is Life itself, it is an insane way to live.
-Eckhart Tolle
Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.
-Eckhart Tolle
I'm stopping myself from posting anymore.
These are all quotes that I found meaning within
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: nyck]
#15897171 - 03/03/12 11:41 PM (2 months, 24 days ago) |
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Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.
-Eckhart Tolle
Hmm he surprises me this guy. I didn't think much of him...
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#15902334 - 03/05/12 03:49 AM (2 months, 23 days ago) |
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‘Having arrived, there is no knowledge.’
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#15902342 - 03/05/12 03:58 AM (2 months, 23 days ago) |
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But where the world’s appearances
are left behind and self is found,
there self directly knows itself.
It knows because it is itself,
and thus no room remains for doubt.
Whoever realizes self
knows finally, beyond all doubt,
unbounded, deathless certainty.
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#15902360 - 03/05/12 04:16 AM (2 months, 23 days ago) |
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Find out for whom there is an I and you will discover something amazing. You
will discover that I never existed. There never was an I. You will discover that you never
existed. There's no such thing as you. You will discover that you are the imperishable Self.
That you are never born and you can never die. You will discover that you're omnipresence,
omniscient, omnipotent. That there are no others. There is no world. There is no
universe. There is no God. There is only the Self. All this is the Self. All that you behold is
the Self and "I-am" is that. This will give you a feeling of freedom, of bliss, of happiness.
You will not lose your awareness.
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#15909053 - 03/06/12 12:16 PM (2 months, 22 days ago) |
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One may wonder, "From where did all this come in the first place, and to where does it depart now?" Once examined in this way, [one sees that] it neither comes from anywhere or departs to anywhere. All inner and outer phenomena are just like that. Therefore, everything is the illusory magical display of one's own mind. It is appearing yet delusive, and delusive while appearing. Thus, all of it is contained in the body, and the body is again contained in the mind. As for the mind, it has no colour and no shape. It is natural luminosity that is primordially unborn. The very knowledge that discriminates this is also luminosity. In this interval, consciousness is nothing whatsoever, does not abide as anything, is not established as anything, and has not arisen as any aspect, and all discursiveness without exception is completely at peace. This meditative concentration of space-vajra that is without appearance and in which the entire dust of characteristics has vanished is like the very center of the sky that is lit up by the autumn sun. In it, dwell as long as possible.
-Atisha, Centrist Pith Instructions, Called the Open Jewel Casket
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic] 1
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From U.G. Krishnamurti
The natural state is not a 'thoughtless state' -- that is one of the greatest hoaxes perpetrated for thousands of years on poor, helpless Hindus. You will never be without thought until the body is a corpse, a very dead corpse. Being able to think is necessary to survive. But in this state thought stops choking you; it falls into its natural rhythm. There is no longer a 'you' who reads the thoughts and thinks that they are 'his'.
What is keeping you from being in your natural state? You are constantly moving away from yourself. You want to be happy, either permanently or at least for this moment. You are dissatisfied with your everyday experiences, and so you want some new ones. You want to perfect yourself, to change yourself. You are reaching out, trying to be something other than what you are. It is this that is taking you away from yourself.
Every time a thought is born, you are born. When the thought is gone, you are gone. But the 'you' does not let the thought go, and what gives continuity to this 'you' is the thinking. Actually there is no permanent entity in you, no totality of all your thoughts and experiences. You think that there is 'somebody' who is thinking your thoughts, 'somebody' who is feeling your feelings --- that's the illusion. I can say it is an illusion; but it is not an illusion to you.
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"Up until the mid twentieth century the mountain gorilla was considered a myth. Oddly enough, a legend not unlike Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster. The chance of actually seeing/experiencing this elusive shadow was as likely as finding one's soulmate. Rare. Precious. Even once discovered they seemed unapproachable. The only way to get close to this magnificent creature was to become empathetic. Abandon all pretense and preconceptions. To bare an open throat. To collapse into the arms of vulnerability. All but extinct, these beings/moments are threatened by the black hearted. The cold and oblivious. The empty eyed profit seekers that overlook these Rare. Precious. Moments."
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deff]
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One may wonder, "From where did all this come in the first place, and to where does it depart now?" Once examined in this way, [one sees that] it neither comes from anywhere or departs to anywhere. All inner and outer phenomena are just like that. Therefore, everything is the illusory magical display of one's own mind. It is appearing yet delusive, and delusive while appearing. Thus, all of it is contained in the body, and the body is again contained in the mind. As for the mind, it has no colour and no shape. It is natural luminosity that is primordially unborn. The very knowledge that discriminates this is also luminosity. In this interval, consciousness is nothing whatsoever, does not abide as anything, is not established as anything, and has not arisen as any aspect, and all discursiveness without exception is completely at peace. This meditative concentration of space-vajra that is without appearance and in which the entire dust of characteristics has vanished is like the very center of the sky that is lit up by the autumn sun. In it, dwell as long as possible.
-Atisha, Centrist Pith Instructions, Called the Open Jewel Casket
I like that
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#15952428 - 03/15/12 05:55 PM (2 months, 13 days ago) |
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There is the star, here I am.
Here is the star, there I am.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: andsome]
#15964083 - 03/18/12 04:07 PM (2 months, 10 days ago) |
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There’s nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don’t live up until their death. They don’t honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can’t hear it. Most people’s deaths are a sham. There’s nothing left to die.
— Charles Bukowski
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
— Hunter S. Thompson
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LSDenthusiast said:
From U.G. Krishnamurti
The natural state is not a 'thoughtless state' -- that is one of the greatest hoaxes perpetrated for thousands of years on poor, helpless Hindus. You will never be without thought until the body is a corpse, a very dead corpse. Being able to think is necessary to survive. But in this state thought stops choking you; it falls into its natural rhythm. There is no longer a 'you' who reads the thoughts and thinks that they are 'his'.
What is keeping you from being in your natural state? You are constantly moving away from yourself. You want to be happy, either permanently or at least for this moment. You are dissatisfied with your everyday experiences, and so you want some new ones. You want to perfect yourself, to change yourself. You are reaching out, trying to be something other than what you are. It is this that is taking you away from yourself.
Every time a thought is born, you are born. When the thought is gone, you are gone. But the 'you' does not let the thought go, and what gives continuity to this 'you' is the thinking. Actually there is no permanent entity in you, no totality of all your thoughts and experiences. You think that there is 'somebody' who is thinking your thoughts, 'somebody' who is feeling your feelings --- that's the illusion. I can say it is an illusion; but it is not an illusion to you.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: weshroom]
#15984531 - 03/23/12 02:52 AM (2 months, 5 days ago) |
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very nice
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“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes
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Buddha in Glory
Center of all centers, core of cores,
almond self-enclosed, and growing sweet--
all this universe, to the furthest stars
all beyond them, is your flesh, your fruit.
Now you feel how nothing clings to you;
your vast shell reaches into endless space,
and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow.
Illuminated in your infinite peace,
a billion stars go spinning through the night,
blazing high above your head.
But in you is the presence that
will be, when all the stars are dead.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: andsome]
#16056188 - 04/07/12 08:26 AM (1 month, 21 days ago) |
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'Be quiet don't think don't make effort. To be bound takes effort, to be free takes no effort. Peace is beyond thought and effort. Do not think and do not make effort because this only obscures That, and will never reveal That. This is why keeping quiet is the key to the storehouse of Love and Peace' Papaji
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#16057412 - 04/07/12 02:05 PM (1 month, 21 days ago) |
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"the feelings is the prayer"
also
and then a thought..time started thinking.. moving backwards, "maybe I can sneak up on someone like this"
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Life can be what it seems, or more than that.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic] 1
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one of my favourite quotes from the movie matrix describing the concept of Sunyata (Emptiness) in buddhism...
Do not try to bend the spoon — that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no spoon..Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: plantstein]
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" We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Cows in October are really saying shrROOOOMms.
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One shall not fear death, for death is not the end of life, but the beginning of your next.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: MushyMatt]
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plantstein said:
one of my favourite quotes from the movie matrix describing the concept of Sunyata (Emptiness) in buddhism...
Do not try to bend the spoon — that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no spoon..Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
Wow thats from the matrix, I completely dont remember it.
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" We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: MushyMatt]
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MushyMatt said:
" We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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..try to realize the truth: there is no spoon..Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: plantstein]
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Astronomers speak of time in terms of billions, trillions and aeons of years. Even these figures are not adequate for their mathematical calculations, and they may be required to coin new terms. If I were to try and explain in astronomical terms the beginning and end of time, it would never depict the beginning and end of time in eternity. There is always an 'ago' and there is always an 'after' to every point in time. The yesterdays of the past and the tomorrows of the future hinge on a point in time which is the now of the present moment in eternity.
In a flight of imagination, imagining the beginning and the end of the now of the present moment in eternity, one can at the most either add or subtract a measure of time. But this would be nothing more than an adding or erasing of zeros. No amount of swing, even of aeons of cycles in the sweep of time, can give an iota of concept of any beginning or end of the now in eternity.
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In what is called space, numberless universes are continuously created, sustained and destroyed. This procession of creation continues so long as God goes on imagining. And when God's imagination is suspended, as it is at moments in eternity when God withdraws himself into his sound sleep state (just as a man's imagination ceases when he is in deep sleep), the creation is withdrawn and dissolved - Mahapralaya.
Creation, preservation and dissolution are based on ignorance. In fact there is no such thing as creation, so preservation and dissolution never actually occur. The very cosmos has no foundation save that of ignorance. Ignorance believes: the cosmos is a reality; birth, death, old age, wealth, honor are real. Knowledge knows: the cosmos is a dream; God alone is real.
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God is infinite, and his shadow is also infinite. The shadow of God is the infinite space that accommodates the infinite Gross sphere, which, with its occurrences of millions of universes, within and without the range of man's knowledge, is the creation that issued from the point of finiteness in the infinite existence that is God.
In these millions of universes are many systems with planets, some in gaseous states, some in states of solidification, some which are stone and metal, some which also have vegetation, some which also have developed life forms such as worms, some also fish, some also birds, some also animals, and a few also have human beings.
Thus it is that throughout the myriads of universes, there are planets on which the seven kingdoms of evolution are manifested, and the evolution of consciousness and forms is completed. But only on the planet Earth do human beings reincarnate and begin the involutionary Path to Self-realisation. Earth is the centre of this infinite Gross sphere of millions of universes, inasmuch as it is the point to which all human-conscious souls must migrate in order to begin the involutionary Path.
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God is infinite reality, whereas cosmos is infinite illusion. But both are not infinite in the same sense. God is one infinite, and illusion is infinite in numbers. God is infinite unity, and illusion infinite duality. Always God is. All along illusion is not. Illusion or no illusion, God remains beginningless and endless, while illusion has a beginning in illusion and it also ends in illusion. The infinite illusion includes an infinite number of suns, stars, moons, planets and worlds. The whole of the creation goes on evolving ad infinitum in illusion.
Meher Baba the most recent incarnation of the Avatar.
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..and may the zelda theme song be with you at all times, amen.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Roanoke]
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"J'écoutais, attendant, et je l'entendis encore, ce bruit qui semblait sorti de moi-même, arraché à mes nerfs, ou plutôt qui résonnait en moi comme un appel intime, profond et désolé. Oui, c'était une voix cruelle, une voix connue, attendue, et qui me désespérait. Il passait sur moi ce son faible et bizarre, comme un semeur d'épouvante et de délire, car il eut aussitôt la puissance d'éveiller l'affreuse détresse sommeillant toujours au fond du coeur de tous les vivants. Qu'était-ce? C'était la voix qui crie sans fin dans notre âme et qui nous reproche d'une façon continue, obscurément et douloureusement, torturante, harcelante, inconnue, inapaisable, inoubliable, féroce, qui nous reproche tout ce que nous avons fait et en même temps tout ce que nous n'avons pas fait, la voix des vagues remords, des regrets sans retours, des jours finis, des femmes rencontrées qui nous auraient aimé peut-être, des choses disparues, des joies vaines, des espérances mortes; la voix de ce qui passe, de ce qui fuit, de ce qui trompe, de ce qui disparaît, de ce que nous n'avons pas atteint, de ce que nous n'atteindrons jamais, la maigre petite voix qui crie l'avortement de la vie, l'inutilité de l'effort, l'impuissance de l'esprit et la faiblesse de la chair." - Guy de Maupassant
In English: "I listened, waiting, and I heard it again, that sound that seemed to come from within myself, drawn up from my nerves, or rather that resonated in me like an intimate call, deep and desolate. Yes, it was a cruel voice, a well-known voice, long awaited, and it made me despair. It passed over me, this small, bizarre voice, like a sower of horror and delirium, for it had the power to immediately awaken the terrible, slumbering distress that is always at the back of the hearts of all the living. What was it? It was the voice that cries endlessly in our souls, and that reproaches us continuously, darkly and painfully, torturous, harassing, unknown, unappeasable, unforgettable, ferocious; that reproaches us for all we have done and at the same time for all we have not done: the voice of vague remorse, of regrets without return, days wasted, women who might have loved us, things we have lost, vain joys, dead hopes; the voice of that which passes, of that which flees, of what goes wrong, of what disappears, of what we have not attained, of what we will never attain; the tiny, frail voice that screams the abortion of life, the futility of effort, the impotence of the mind and the weakness of the flesh."
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lion]
#16213025 - 05/10/12 10:58 PM (18 days, 20 hours ago) |
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I was watching planet earth just a moment ago and got really tripped out by the first few lines from this section:
"Vast open plains. immense spaces. eerie silence. But any feeling of emptiness is an illusion. The plains of our planet support the greatest gatherings of wildlife on earth. At the heart of all that happens here is a single living thing."
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NARYA
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: White Beard]
#16214851 - 05/11/12 11:15 AM (18 days, 8 hours ago) |
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Who's is the hand that I will hold,
Who's is the face I will see
Who's is the name that I will call
When I am called to meet thee?
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circastes
i did it for tha bliss
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: NARYA]
#16223060 - 05/13/12 03:35 AM (16 days, 16 hours ago) |
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“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others…”
― Timothy Leary
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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The Chronic
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#16238365 - 05/16/12 01:53 AM (13 days, 17 hours ago) |
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Trying to become something is the first mistake you make.
Trying to overcome your problems is the second mistake you make.
Even trying to understand reality is a mistake.
The only thing left to do is to let go of everything else you've got,
your fears, your frustrations, your concepts, your ideas, your ego.
Everything must be given up. - Robert Adams
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The Chronic
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#16244598 - 05/17/12 09:37 AM (12 days, 10 hours ago) |
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A newcomer called Gajendra Mehta asked Ramana about the state of the soul after death.
Ramana: If you know the present you will know the future. It is strange that people don't want to know about the present, about whose existence nobody can have any doubt, but are always eager to know about the past or the future, both of which are unknown.
What is birth and what is death? And who has birth or death? Why go to birth and death to understand what you daily experience in sleeping and waking? When you sleep, this body and the world do not exist for you, and these questions do not worry you, and yet you exist, the same you that exists now while waking. It is only when you wake up that you have a body and see the world. If you understand waking and sleep properly, you will understand life and death. Only waking and sleeping happen daily, so people don't notice the wonder of it but only want to know about birth and death.
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circastes
i did it for tha bliss
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#16276979 - 05/24/12 04:04 AM (5 days, 15 hours ago) |
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Find me in the backyard, sailing my kettle. Playing poker with insects, wearing a cup of tea. A hat of brimstone, yellow-crimson, looking like a giant flea. Forever my friend: so my energy this day I lend, I practice faking it to pretend, and become the actor in the end. My folly hangs on the trees like leaves and drips in the falling breeze, the tock of a minute here shakes me to my knees.
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Mr. Middle
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#16277034 - 05/24/12 04:41 AM (5 days, 14 hours ago) |
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"On the slope of the knoll angels whirl their woolen robes in pastures of emerald and steel." - Arthur Rimbaud
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FishOilTheKid
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Mr. Middle]
#16278157 - 05/24/12 10:30 AM (5 days, 9 hours ago) |
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The Chronic
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Devotee: What is the purpose of creation?
Maharshi: It is to give rise to this question; investigate the answer to this question, and finally abide in the supreme or rather the primal source of all, the Self. The investigation will resolve itself into one of quest for the Self and cease only after the non-self is sifted away and the Self realised in its purity and glory.
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