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If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. --Wittgenstein
You will not be punished for your hate, you will be punished by your hate. --Buddha
Blessed is the lion which becomes man when consumed by man; and cursed is the man whom the lion consumes, and lion becomes man. --Christ
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the dark conscious. --Jung
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rules of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. -- St Paul
We yearn for some explosive, extraordinary escape from the inescapable and, none forthcoming, we put our faith in an apocalyptic rupture whereby the inevitable is solved by the unbelievable grasshoppers, plagues, composite monsters, angels, blood in industrial quantities, and, in the end, salvation from sin and evil--meaning anxiety, travail, and pain. By defining human suffering in cosmic terms, as part of a cosmic order that contains an issue, catastrophe is dignified, endowed with meaning, and hence made bearable. --Eugene Weber
Only when you forget you are human will you remember you are a god. --Beastmaster
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: TeamAmerica] 4
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soldatheero said: "A man who has no interests in the world either becomes the greatest of saints or the worst of sinners."
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. --Aristotle
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Lion said: Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one; and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner; and the upper like the lower; and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female; when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image; then you will enter the Kingdom." - Gospel of Thomas

That a real crop circle? I think I understand the majority of that quote with the exception of the eye in the place of the eye... image in place of the image part.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes] 2
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I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge and Delight & bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all! It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocense is a lie. Be strong, o man! Lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this. I am alone. There is no God where I am.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: DJ_avocado] 2
#12027173 - 02/14/10 12:38 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. --Oscar Wilde
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: DJ_avocado] 2
#12049348 - 02/17/10 06:34 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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The sensual pleasure women provide, the joy of wine, the taste of meat: It's the undoing of fools, but for the wise, the pathway to salvation. --Kalarnava Tantra
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Kada] 1
#12370237 - 04/10/10 11:22 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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lao tzu invented LOL -yogabunny
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lion] 2
#12370763 - 04/11/10 12:50 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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 -me
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Aser] 2
#12414889 - 04/18/10 01:20 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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He who can see through all fear, will always be safe.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Middleman] 1
#12787901 - 06/22/10 10:48 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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I contemplate in my heart the nonfearful divinity of shining darkness. -Shivatoshini 1.1.14
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Middleman] 1
#13520058 - 11/21/10 03:27 PM (13 years, 2 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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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Middleman] 1
#13522213 - 11/21/10 11:54 PM (13 years, 2 months ago) |
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"Do, or do not. There is no try." --
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lion]
#13524746 - 11/22/10 02:37 PM (13 years, 2 months ago) |
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Care to elaborate why you think so? IMO, it's a beautifully written paragraph.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lion]
#13525497 - 11/22/10 05:05 PM (13 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hmm, the way I read it Bukowski perfectly illustrates the feeling of getting into an extremely creative zone and stopping at nothing to let the energy just pour through. To each his own.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
#13701004 - 12/29/10 01:38 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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So Meher Baba claims he was the FIRST soul in the entire Universe to become god-realized? Seems kinda egotistical to me.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
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Sure, it's possible that it's true... but it seems funny saying that Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, and many other influential spiritual figures prior to Baba all weren't God-realized.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
#13701223 - 12/29/10 02:20 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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I see.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7]
#13880640 - 01/31/11 07:48 AM (13 years, 6 hours ago) |
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The Chronic said:

Bliss is not something to be got. On the other hand you are always Bliss. The desire for Bliss is born of the sense of incompleteness. To whom is this sense of incompleteness? Inquire. In deep sleep you were blissful. Now you are not so. What has interposed between that Bliss and this non-bliss? It is the ego. Seek its source and find you are Bliss
- Ramana
I like it!
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deCypher]
#13880651 - 01/31/11 07:50 AM (13 years, 6 hours ago) |
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PS and happy birthday!
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When I was, God was not. When God is, I am no more. --unknown Indian mystic
Know thyself, O divine lineage in mortal guise! --Marsilio Ficino
The problem is that with magic, being in many respects a science of language, you have to be very careful with what you say, because if you suddenly declare yourself to be a magician, without any knowledge of what that entails, then one day you are likely to wake up and discover that that is exactly what you are. --Alan Moore
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