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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deCypher] 2
#12131317 - 03/02/10 10:23 PM (13 years, 10 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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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
-Confucius
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Almond Flour] 1
#16680085 - 08/11/12 12:37 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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At first the yogi feels his mind to be turbulent like a rushing river cascading through a narrow gorge. In the middle stage it becomes smooth and flowing like the Ganga. In the end it is like when the river enters the vast ocean, the meeting of child and mother.
--verse 22 of the Ganga-Mahamudra-Upadesa of Sri Tilopa
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: White Beard]
#16689632 - 08/12/12 08:13 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Lemme get in on this bible kick!
13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
-- 1 Corinthians 13 (New International Version)
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I offer obeisance to the God and Goddess, The limitless primal parents of the universe.
They are not entirely the same, Nor are they not the same. We cannot say exactly what they are.
How sweet is their union! The whole world is too small to contain them, Yet they live happily in the smallest particle.
These two are the only ones Who dwell in this home called the universe. When the Master of the house sleeps, The Mistress stays awake, And performs the functions of both.
When He awakes, the whole house disappears, And nothing at all is left.
Two lutes: one note. Two flowers: one fragrance. Two lamps: one light.
Two lips: one word. Two eyes: one sight. These two: one universe.
In unity there is little to behold; So She, the mother of abundance, Brought forth the world as play.
He takes the role of Witness Out of love of watching Her. But when Her appearance is withdrawn, The role of Witness is abandoned as well.
Through Her, He assumes the form of the universe; Without Her, He is left naked.
If night and day were to approach the Sun, Both would disappear. In the same way, their duality would vanish If their essential Unity were seen.
In fact, the duality of Shiva and Shakti Cannot exist in that primal unitive state From which AUM emanates.
They are like a stream of knowledge From which a knower cannot drink Unless he gives up himself.
Is the sound of AUM divided into three Simply because it contains three letters? Or is the letter 'N' divided into three because of the three lines by which it is formed?
So long as Unity is undisturbed, And a graceful pleasure is thereby derived, Why should not the water find delight In the floral fragrance of its own rippled surface?
It is in this manner I bow To the inseparable Shiva and Shakti.
A man returns to himself When he awakens from sleep; Likewise, I have perceived the God and Goddess By waking from my ego.
When salt dissolves, It becomes one with the ocean; When my ego dissolved, I became one with Shiva and Shakti.
--The Union of Shiva and Shakti
from the Amritanubhav, by Jnanadev english version by S. Abhyayananda
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