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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7] 3
#12030187 - 02/14/10 08:16 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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"I have no reason to fight monkeys. This lesson has no value." - Cord "Circle of Iron"
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: BlueCoyote]
#12639423 - 05/27/10 03:21 PM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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Words are a shortcut to thinking. "Understand the universe" is meaningless. Recognizing one's identity with it and representing perceptions of it's functions are different stories.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: HappyTrippin] 1
#12770609 - 06/19/10 07:42 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: soldatheero]
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7]
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deCypher] 1
#13521655 - 11/21/10 09:36 PM (13 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7]
#15153192 - 09/29/11 02:08 PM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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The Chronic said: 6. Those who seek everlasting liberation, should not engage in repeating various sacred syllables (mantras), in breath-control (pranayama), breath retention (kumbhaka) or concentration (dharana).
17. (Neither) is there room for performing puja, paying homage, chanting, meditation and the like. Hear it from Me: the highest truth acclaimed in the Vedas can be known only through jnana (wisdom) There is absolutely no need to know anything outside oneself.
Devikalottaram - Jnanachara Vichara Padalam - The Knowledge That Transcends Time
Good one.
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Jed McKenna said:
"But what about when people explore their inner selves? Make journeys of self-discovery? Aren't they going within to find the truth?" They're just exploring the ego, making a study of the false self, which is a life-quest as valid as any other. But you don't wake up by perfecting your dream character, you wake up by breaking free of it. There's no truth to the ego, so no degree of mastery over it results in anything true. Putting attention on the false self merely reinforces it. The misconception about enlightenment stems from, or is at least compounded by, the fact that most of the world's recognized experts on the subject of enlightenment are not enlightened. Some are great mystics, some are great scholars, some are both, and most are neither, but exceedingly few are awake.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#16277034 - 05/24/12 05:41 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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"On the slope of the knoll angels whirl their woolen robes in pastures of emerald and steel." - Arthur Rimbaud
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deff] 1
#17262147 - 11/22/12 12:49 AM (11 years, 2 months ago) |
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Time to cash in your chips put your ideas and beliefs on the table. See who has the bigger hand you or the Mystery that pervades you.
Time to scrape the mind’s shit off your shoes undo the laces that hold your prison together and dangle your toes into emptiness.
Once you’ve put everything on the table once all of your currency is gone and your pockets are full of air all you’ve got left to gamble with is yourself.
Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally for once in your life lose.
~Adyashanti
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deff]
#17551931 - 01/15/13 12:26 PM (11 years, 14 days ago) |
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Real compassion kicks butt and takes names and is not pleasant on certain days. If you are not ready for this FIRE, then find a new age, sweetness and light, perpetually smiling teacher and learn to re label your ego with spiritual sounding terms. But, stay away from those who practice REAL COMPASSION, because they will fry your ass, my friend.
- Ken Wilber
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: BootyYogi]
#17587011 - 01/21/13 07:32 PM (11 years, 8 days ago) |
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In the fading light of dusk, When the dew’s solace begins To well down to the earth, Invisible, as well as unheard — For the comforter dew slips on Delicate footwear as all gentle consolers — Then do you remember, hot heart, remember How once you thirsted After heavenly tears and dewdrops, Scorched and weary, thirsting While on yellow paths of grass The spiteful evening glances of the sun Ran around you through black trees, Glowing sun-glances, dazzling with malicious delight.
“The suitor of truth—you?"—thus they mocked me — "No! Only a poet! A cunning, plundering, stealthy beast, That must lie, That knowingly, willingly must lie, Lusting after prey, Colorfully masked, Self-shrouded, Prey for itself This—the suitor of truth? ... Only fool! Only poet! Merely speaking colorfully, From fools’ masks shouting colorfully, Climbing about on deceptive word-bridges, On misleading rainbows, Between false heavens Rambling, lurking — Only fool! Only poet!
This—the suitor of truth? ...
Not still, stiff, smooth, cold, Become an image, A pillar of God, Not set up before temples, A god’s gatekeeper: No! hostile to all such truth statues, More at home in any desert than in temples, Fraught with cats’ mischief, Leaping through every window Swiftly! into every chance, Sniffing for every jungle, That you in jungles Among motley-shagged beasts of prey Would run sinfully sound and beautiful and colorful, With lusting animal lips, Blissfully sneering, blissfully hellish, blissfully bloodthirsty, Plundering, prowling, lying would run ...
Or like the eagle that, for a long time, A long time gazes with a fixed stare into abysses, Into its abysses ... — Oh how they spiral downward, Down, down under, Into ever deeper depths! — Then, Suddenly, Plummeting straight down Wings pulled out To pounce on lambs, Right down, hot-hungry, Lusting for lambs, Hating all lamb-souls, Grimly hating whatever looks Virtuous, sheepish, curly-wooled, Dull, with lambs’ milk-goodwill ...
Thus Eagle-like, panther-like, Are the poet’s longings, Are your longings under a thousand masks, You fool! You poet!...
You that have looked upon man As god and as sheep — Tearing to pieces the god in man As well as the sheep in man, And laughing while tearing —
This, this is your bliss, A panther’s and eagle’s bliss, A poet’s and fool’s bliss!” ...
In the fading light of dusk, When just as the moon’s sickle In between green and crimson-reds Enviously creeps — The day’s enemy, With every stealthy step At rose hammocks Scything, till they sink, Sink down pale in nightfall:
Thus I myself once sank, Out of my truth-madness, Out of my day-longings, Weary of day, sick from the light — Sank downward, eveningward, shadowward, By one truth Burnt and thirsty — Do you still remember, hot heart, remember How you thirsted then? — That I be exiled From all truth! Only fool! Only poet!
~ Nietzsche
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Bridgeburner] 1
#17851330 - 02/23/13 06:17 AM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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“The uninitiate is a 'Dark Star,' and the Great Work for him is to make his veils transparent by 'purifying' them. This 'purification' is really 'simplification'; it is not that the veil is dirty, but that the complexity of its folds makes it opaque. The Great Work therefore consists principally in the solution of complexes. Everything in itself is perfect, but when things are muddled, they become 'evil.'” - Alastor Moody
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: lessismore] 2
#18072703 - 04/07/13 03:40 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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"When I look within and see that I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I look without and see that I am everything, that is love. And between these two, my life turns."
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: lessismore]
#18375830 - 06/06/13 12:26 AM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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“With courage conquering fear shall ye approach me: ye shall lay down your heads upon mine altar, expecting the sweep of the sword. But the first kiss of love shall be radiant on your lips; and all my darkness and terror shall turn to light and joy. Only those who fear shall fail.” - Liber Tzaddi
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7]
#18446331 - 06/20/13 09:50 AM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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"I wish to become a teacher of the Truth." "Are you prepared to be ridiculed, ignored and starving till you are forty-five?" "I am. But tell me: What will happen after I am forty-five?" "You will have grown accustomed to it."
Wellsprings : A Book of Spiritual Exercises (1985), p. 19 - Anthony de Mello
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The Parable of the Madman
Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market-place, and cried incessantly: "I am looking for God! I am looking for God!" As many of those who did not believe in God were standing together there, he excited considerable laughter. Have you lost him, then? said one. Did he lose his way like a child? said another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? or emigrated? Thus they shouted and laughed. The madman sprang into their midst and pierced them with his glances.
"Where has God gone?" he cried. "I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. We are his murderers. But how have we done this? How were we able to drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What did we do when we unchained the earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving now? Away from all suns? Are we not perpetually falling? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there any up or down left? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is it not more and more night coming on all the time? Must not lanterns be lit in the morning? Do we not hear anything yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God? Do we not smell anything yet of God's decomposition? Gods too decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? That which was the holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives. Who will wipe this blood off us? With what water could we purify ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we not ourselves become gods simply to be worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whosoever shall be born after us - for the sake of this deed he shall be part of a higher history than all history hitherto."
Here the madman fell silent and again regarded his listeners; and they too were silent and stared at him in astonishment. At last he threw his lantern to the ground, and it broke and went out. "I have come too early," he said then; "my time has not come yet. The tremendous event is still on its way, still travelling - it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even after they are done, before they can be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves."
It has been further related that on that same day the madman entered divers churches and there sang a requiem. Led out and quietened, he is said to have retorted each time: "what are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchres of God?"
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Hierophant]
#19086566 - 11/04/13 05:59 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Some people read Nietzsche as nihilist but he was actually the opposite.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Mr. U]
#19312929 - 12/22/13 06:01 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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"My life is my message." - Gandhi / Ram Dass
"My life is a mess. My message is my message." - Terence McKenna
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deff]
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Sse] 1
#20163160 - 06/21/14 09:05 AM (9 years, 7 months ago) |
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As long as you are interested in your present way of living, you will not abandon it.
Discovery cannot come as long as you cling to the familiar.
It is only when you realise fully the immense sorrow of your life and revolt against it, that a way out can be found.
- I Am That
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