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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7] * 3
    #11922082 - 01/29/10 01:59 AM (14 years, 2 days ago)

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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes] * 6
    #11922153 - 01/29/10 02:41 AM (14 years, 2 days ago)

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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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: rebus_minus] * 1
    #12017880 - 02/12/10 06:56 PM (13 years, 11 months ago)

^Love it.


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: TrippyHippie74] * 1
    #12387503 - 04/13/10 07:01 PM (13 years, 9 months ago)

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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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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Middleman]
    #12787964 - 06/22/10 11:06 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

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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: circastes]
    #12788155 - 06/22/10 11:46 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

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: Freedom]
    #12788530 - 06/23/10 01:41 AM (13 years, 7 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.



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: soldatheero] * 1
    #12820830 - 06/28/10 10:49 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

"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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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: KetamineKatalyst] * 1
    #12871175 - 07/09/10 04:46 AM (13 years, 6 months ago)

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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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7] * 1
    #12910242 - 07/17/10 02:14 AM (13 years, 6 months ago)

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  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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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes] * 1
    #12975517 - 07/30/10 02:35 AM (13 years, 5 months ago)

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.

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    #13039216 - 08/11/10 10:32 PM (13 years, 5 months ago)

"To me, death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's treacherous." - Jim Jones


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    #13699482 - 12/29/10 04:16 AM (13 years, 1 month ago)

"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: soldatheero]
    #13700833 - 12/29/10 01:10 PM (13 years, 1 month ago)

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: Lion] * 1
    #13701541 - 12/29/10 03:21 PM (13 years, 1 month ago)

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: Chronic7] * 1
    #13725271 - 01/03/11 03:04 PM (13 years, 27 days ago)

:zomgwtf:

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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    #13744975 - 01/06/11 11:23 PM (13 years, 24 days ago)

‎"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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    #13750772 - 01/08/11 03:55 AM (13 years, 23 days ago)

"What is the path? the Zen Master Nan-sen was asked. Everyday life is the path, he answered."


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    #13750816 - 01/08/11 04:46 AM (13 years, 23 days ago)

"Those who believe are not religious, they are simply avoiding the great adventure of religion by believing." -Osho


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    #13750873 - 01/08/11 05:54 AM (13 years, 23 days ago)

"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."
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