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 Brainstem
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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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The Chronic
Registered: 05/08/04
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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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 Astronomicon
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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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soldatheero
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Quote:
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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..and may the zelda theme song be with you at all times, amen.
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sector9
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
#13258187 - 09/28/10 08:13 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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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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The only zen you will find on top of mountains is the zen you bring up there
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johnnoc333
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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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Hashishin13
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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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floes
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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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Computerism
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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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OctoberLeigh
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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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fungivore
Old Friend
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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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Labyrinths
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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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cesarmd7
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#13397925 - 10/27/10 09:32 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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starstrike
Zen Master
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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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Meaning of Life?
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Trufflicious
Truffle Hunter
Registered: 09/25/10
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Loc: Central California
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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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soldatheero
lastirishman
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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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..and may the zelda theme song be with you at all times, amen.
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Mr. Middle
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Posts: 6,526
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: The Chronic]
#13510655 - 11/19/10 04:13 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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deCypher
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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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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
  
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Mr. Middle
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Posts: 6,526
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deCypher]
#13521655 - 11/21/10 08:36 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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