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Chronic7
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Greatest Spiritual Quotes? 7
#11903764 - 01/26/10 06:18 AM (14 years, 5 days ago) |
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A thread to post your favourite spiritual quotes
I'll start with this quote from Gautama Buddha, he is said to have spoken these words just as death was approaching...
"Be a light unto yourself, betake yourselves to no external refuge. Hold fast to the Truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves."
Another quote attributed as being the last words of Gautama Buddha was...
"All compounded things are subject to vanish. Strive for your own liberation with earnestness!"
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Edited by Chronic7 (03/20/10 11:02 AM)
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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
-------------------- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
 
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: daturaplane] 6
#11907999 - 01/26/10 08:33 PM (14 years, 4 days ago) |
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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
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes] 6
#11922153 - 01/29/10 02:41 AM (14 years, 2 days ago) |
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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: Yellow Pants] 6
#26717580 - 06/03/20 07:42 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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“The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realize the Self. There is nothing else to do.” --Sri Ramana Maharshi
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"Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it." --Alan Watts
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7] 6
#28252489 - 03/29/23 05:58 AM (9 months, 26 days ago) |
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 "Oh Egypt! Nothing will remain of your religion but an empty tale, which even your own children will not believe. Nothing will be left to tell of your wisdom but old graven stones. Men will be weary of life, and will cease seeing the Universe as worthy of reverent wonder. Spirituality, the greatest of all blessings, will be threatened with extinction, and believed a burden to be scorned."
Hermes Trismegistus
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lithop] 6
#28252969 - 03/29/23 01:10 PM (9 months, 25 days ago) |
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Now that light which shines above this heaven, higher than all, higher than everything, in the highest world, beyond which there are no other worlds, that is the same light which is within man.
— Chandogya Upanishad 3.13.7
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7] 5
#11903939 - 01/26/10 07:43 AM (14 years, 4 days ago) |
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"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." -Buddha
-------------------- Turn off your mind, relax and floatdown stream. It is not dying. Lay down all thought, surrender to the void. It is shining. Pink Floyd
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: NlightNd1] 5
#11904744 - 01/26/10 11:15 AM (14 years, 4 days ago) |
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"He is the greatest hypocrite, who, himself being one, asks others not to be hypocritical."
"He who harms nothing is a good man, he who is harmed by nothing is a God-Man"
"To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!"
"How can a finite mind realize an infinite reality without its own annhilation?"
"The infinite truth latent in everything reveals itself only when life is accepted in its totality."
"There is the eternal Now from the beginningless beginning to the endless end. There is one moment only—the ETERNAL NOW. He who experiences the ETERNAL NOW finds all doubts, wounds, everything dissolved like mist, and remains in eternal bliss."
"Being is Dying by Loving."
"The ONE is one complete whole and simultaneously a series of ones within the ONE. Illusion is a ZERO and simultaneously a series of zeros within the ZERO. These zeros have no value, except a false value according to their position in relation to the ONE. In actual fact the zeros have no existence - their existence is mere appearance in Illusion, the big ZERO." 1 000 000 - the zeros only have value because of the 1.
"Live more and more in the Present which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future."
~ All Meher Baba
-------------------- ..and may the zelda theme song be with you at all times, amen.
Edited by soldatheero (01/26/10 11:29 AM)
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: TeamAmerica] 5
#11923293 - 01/29/10 10:20 AM (14 years, 1 day ago) |
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"The saints of today are the sinners of the past"
"Any attempt on the ego at loving is merely a calculated form of selfishness."
"A man who has no interests in the world either becomes the greatest of saints or the worst of sinners."
-------------------- ..and may the zelda theme song be with you at all times, amen.
Edited by soldatheero (01/29/10 10:21 AM)
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: charlespe] 5
#20282941 - 07/16/14 07:46 PM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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"The root of the whole of samsara and nirvana is the nature of the mind. To realize this, rest in unstructured ease without meditating on anything. When all that needs to be done is to rest in yourself, it is amazing that you are deluded by seeking elsewhere!" -- Saraha
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"When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger." -Confucius
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Foot] 5
#27539536 - 11/11/21 04:23 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Tibetan Buddhist teaching:
Prolong not the past. Invite not the future. Alter not your innate wakefulness. Don't fear appearances. There is nothing more than that.
-------------------- Vi Veri Universum Vivus Vici
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: spinvis] 5
#28258132 - 04/01/23 06:56 PM (9 months, 22 days ago) |
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I really like the intuition that speaks volumes in this quote
The Sun and the Earth
The Sun causes day and night on the earth, because of revolution, when there is night here, it is day on the other side, the sun does not really rise or sink.
—Aitareya Brahmana III.44 (Rigveda)[20][21]
Edit - another quote
The sun does never rise or set. When people think the sun is setting (it is not so). For after having arrived at the end of the day it makes itself produce two opposite effects, making night to what is below and day to what is on the other side. When they believe it rises in the morning (this supposed rising is thus to be explained for). Having reached the end of the night, it makes itself produce two opposite effects, making night to what is below and day to what is on the other side."
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 54. The true nature of things is to be known personally , through the eyes of clear illumination and not through a sage : what the moon exactly is , is to be known with one's own eyes ; can another make him know it?
Edited by connectedcosmos (04/02/23 08:38 AM)
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: spinvis] 5
#28410316 - 07/27/23 12:16 PM (5 months, 29 days ago) |
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A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge, but the mouth of the fool gushes folly.
Proverbs 15:1-2
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7] 4
#11903773 - 01/26/10 06:26 AM (14 years, 5 days ago) |
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be still and know that i am god - psalms
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero] 4
#11906627 - 01/26/10 04:45 PM (14 years, 4 days ago) |
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His disciples said to Him: "When will the Kingdom come?"
Jesus said: "It does not come by expecting it. It will not be a matter of saying, "Here it is!" or "There it is." Rather, the Kingdom of Heaven is spread upon the earth and men do not see it." - The Gospel of Thomas
Long accustomed to be carefree, I have forgotten worldly shame. Long accustomed to the mind coming and going By itself, I have forgotten how to hide things. - Milarepa
The choiceless truth of who you are is revealed to be permanently here permeating everything. Not a thing and not separate from anything - Gangaji
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lion] 4
#11906908 - 01/26/10 05:41 PM (14 years, 4 days ago) |
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'He who is doing his true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe.'
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero] 4
#11911061 - 01/27/10 11:22 AM (14 years, 3 days ago) |
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"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light" Jesus
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