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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: sprinkles] * 2
    #22902760 - 02/14/16 05:34 AM (7 years, 11 months ago)

Joy is the companion of the mysterious. It is undefined, wide open, and unbound to time and space. When we realize our time is limited, we consciously choose to stop and look around. We take the time to locate ourselves, and our hearts respond with spontaneous appreciation and joy. In the simple act of slowing down and being aware, we allow life to interact with our senses. With affectionate appreciation we unite with the wonder that has always been right before our eyes.

Rodney Smith, "Lessons from the Dying"


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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander] * 1
    #22906179 - 02/15/16 01:27 AM (7 years, 11 months ago)

We don't have time my friend, that is the misfortune of human beings. Focus your attention on the link between you and your death without remorse or sadness or worrying. Focus your attention on the fact that you don't have time and let your acts flow accordingly. Let each of your acts be your last battle on earth. Only under those conditions will your acts have their rightful power. Otherwise they will be, for as long as you live, the acts of a timid man. . . . . but if you are going to die there is no time for timidity, simply because timidity makes you cling to something that only exists within your thoughts. It soothes you while everything is at a lull, but then the awesome, mysterious world will open its mouth for you, as it will open for every one of us, and you will realize your sure ways were not so sure at all.

Don Juan to Carlos Castaneda in Journey to Ixtlan


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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: PaulyAnna]
    #22906215 - 02/15/16 02:03 AM (7 years, 11 months ago)

The fact that we cannot know what death is until it occurs should not keep us from continually exploring it. One of the values of reflecting on death is that it allows us to work with the edge of our fears. It keeps us moving along with life so that we do not get stuck. No matter how knowledgeable we feel about death, there is always more to learn. We think we have journeyed as far as the subject can take us and then suddenly, through tragedy or illness, we discover we have been held in check by our fear. We begin to understand that death will never let us rest; there is always more to  learn.

Rodney Smith, Lessons from the Dying


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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
    #22918262 - 02/18/16 03:57 AM (7 years, 11 months ago)

To move through fear we need to convince ourselves that it is worth doing. Strategies like evasion and denial never work for very long and create more suffering than we imagine. Opening to the unknown fear cannot be any worse than what we go through to protect ourselves from it. Reality just keeps coming at us until our resistances are dropped, and we have no choice but to surrender to our worst-case scenario. Most people would rather stay in the fires of a known hell than risk shattering their world view and leap into the fireman's net.

Rodney Smith, Lessons from the Dying


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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Hindi420]
    #22932302 - 02/22/16 01:31 AM (7 years, 11 months ago)

Fear is found whenever we hold ourselves back from a full participation in life. The greater the fear, the more the resistance. Once we overcome our resistance and step through fear, however, we find ourselves immersed in the unknown. The more fear a situation contains, the greater potential for wisdom. Growth occurs when we pass through our fear. In moving through death, our fear transforms into an appreciation of the process itself. The heart moves into an affection for all things. In resistance, the heart is a fortress; the walls come up, and we lose our ability to become intimate. In affection, the heart is like an open field; we can reach beyond our individual concerns and intimately touch another person.

Rodney Smith, Lessons from the Dying


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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
    #22943534 - 02/25/16 04:54 AM (7 years, 10 months ago)

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Icelander said:
He hasn't died yet. :wink:

Check out some of the critiques of this book on Amazon if you wonder what I mean by that.




I read all the reviews on Amazon before I ordered Smith's book, and I'm aware he isn't dead yet.

Ice, have you considered purchasing the book? I think you'll find it leading to much contemplation and the practical exercises challenging to apply.


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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: PaulyAnna]
    #22943539 - 02/25/16 04:57 AM (7 years, 10 months ago)

The shadow exists only because we want life on our own terms and are unwilling to accept it as it is.

Rodney Smith, Lessons from the Dying


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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Kurt] * 1
    #23070045 - 04/01/16 04:49 AM (7 years, 9 months ago)

Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

Seneca, Letters from a Stoic


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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Kurt]
    #23302457 - 06/03/16 06:30 AM (7 years, 7 months ago)

Dying offers a rare opportunity to compare what the culture has told us about ourselves and what death shows us we are.

Rodney Smith, Lessons from the Dying


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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #23309456 - 06/05/16 05:22 AM (7 years, 7 months ago)

Are there perhaps colleges for forty-year-olds which prepare them for their coming life and it's demands as the ordinary colleges introduce our young people to a knowledge of the world? No, thoroughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we take this step with false assumptions that our truths and ideals will serve us hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie. I have given psychological treatment to too many people of advancing years, and have looked too often into the secret chambers of their souls, not to be moved by this fundamental truth.

Carl Jung


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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: tryptkaloids] * 1
    #23324737 - 06/09/16 05:40 AM (7 years, 7 months ago)

In attempting to perpetuate things long past their natural life span, we live at the expense of a greater harmony and contentment. If we include loss in our philosophy of life at all, it is only as tragedy or error, for which we blame anyone or anything. So grief catches us by surprise when it rudely interrupts our ideal world. Our emotional well-being fluctuates with each scratch and dent in life. Our grief is partially a self-righteous resentment of the laws of the universe. Our longing to recover what is lost is an indication of how little we attune to the rhythms of nature.

Rodney Smith, Lessons from the Dying


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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #23408864 - 07/03/16 11:26 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Don't try to love your neighbor as yourself, but rather endeavor to love your neighbor with the understanding that they are yourself.

PA


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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: tryptkaloids]
    #23408943 - 07/03/16 11:48 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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tryptkaloids said:
we hurt because we are hurting




I have similar sentiments, in that, hurt people hurt people because they themselves are hurting.

If we truly heal from hurting, we will, in turn, no longer hurt another.


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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: theshrumnub]
    #23414651 - 07/05/16 06:20 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Living is not hard, but dying is very difficult to face. With identity, attachment, ideology, ect being rooted in a sense of self, we often struggle and fight against losing such. If we would but let go and allow things to be just the way they are, peace of mind and contentment would follow.

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