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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: TeamAmerica] 3
#11927146 - 01/29/10 11:13 PM (14 years, 1 day ago) |
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damn I need to upgrade my spaceship
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7] 1
#12536511 - 05/10/10 11:36 AM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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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: Middleman]
#12787973 - 06/22/10 11:08 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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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]
#12788274 - 06/23/10 12:14 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.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
#13053559 - 08/15/10 02:23 AM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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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: Cracka_X] 1
#13053592 - 08/15/10 02:39 AM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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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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