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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#15909053 - 03/06/12 01:16 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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One may wonder, "From where did all this come in the first place, and to where does it depart now?" Once examined in this way, [one sees that] it neither comes from anywhere or departs to anywhere. All inner and outer phenomena are just like that. Therefore, everything is the illusory magical display of one's own mind. It is appearing yet delusive, and delusive while appearing. Thus, all of it is contained in the body, and the body is again contained in the mind. As for the mind, it has no colour and no shape. It is natural luminosity that is primordially unborn. The very knowledge that discriminates this is also luminosity. In this interval, consciousness is nothing whatsoever, does not abide as anything, is not established as anything, and has not arisen as any aspect, and all discursiveness without exception is completely at peace. This meditative concentration of space-vajra that is without appearance and in which the entire dust of characteristics has vanished is like the very center of the sky that is lit up by the autumn sun. In it, dwell as long as possible.
-Atisha, Centrist Pith Instructions, Called the Open Jewel Casket
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7] 1
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From U.G. Krishnamurti
The natural state is not a 'thoughtless state' -- that is one of the greatest hoaxes perpetrated for thousands of years on poor, helpless Hindus. You will never be without thought until the body is a corpse, a very dead corpse. Being able to think is necessary to survive. But in this state thought stops choking you; it falls into its natural rhythm. There is no longer a 'you' who reads the thoughts and thinks that they are 'his'.
What is keeping you from being in your natural state? You are constantly moving away from yourself. You want to be happy, either permanently or at least for this moment. You are dissatisfied with your everyday experiences, and so you want some new ones. You want to perfect yourself, to change yourself. You are reaching out, trying to be something other than what you are. It is this that is taking you away from yourself.
Every time a thought is born, you are born. When the thought is gone, you are gone. But the 'you' does not let the thought go, and what gives continuity to this 'you' is the thinking. Actually there is no permanent entity in you, no totality of all your thoughts and experiences. You think that there is 'somebody' who is thinking your thoughts, 'somebody' who is feeling your feelings --- that's the illusion. I can say it is an illusion; but it is not an illusion to you.
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"Up until the mid twentieth century the mountain gorilla was considered a myth. Oddly enough, a legend not unlike Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster. The chance of actually seeing/experiencing this elusive shadow was as likely as finding one's soulmate. Rare. Precious. Even once discovered they seemed unapproachable. The only way to get close to this magnificent creature was to become empathetic. Abandon all pretense and preconceptions. To bare an open throat. To collapse into the arms of vulnerability. All but extinct, these beings/moments are threatened by the black hearted. The cold and oblivious. The empty eyed profit seekers that overlook these Rare. Precious. Moments."
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deff]
#15942242 - 03/13/12 01:58 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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One may wonder, "From where did all this come in the first place, and to where does it depart now?" Once examined in this way, [one sees that] it neither comes from anywhere or departs to anywhere. All inner and outer phenomena are just like that. Therefore, everything is the illusory magical display of one's own mind. It is appearing yet delusive, and delusive while appearing. Thus, all of it is contained in the body, and the body is again contained in the mind. As for the mind, it has no colour and no shape. It is natural luminosity that is primordially unborn. The very knowledge that discriminates this is also luminosity. In this interval, consciousness is nothing whatsoever, does not abide as anything, is not established as anything, and has not arisen as any aspect, and all discursiveness without exception is completely at peace. This meditative concentration of space-vajra that is without appearance and in which the entire dust of characteristics has vanished is like the very center of the sky that is lit up by the autumn sun. In it, dwell as long as possible.
-Atisha, Centrist Pith Instructions, Called the Open Jewel Casket
I like that
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7]
#15952428 - 03/15/12 06:55 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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There is the star, here I am. Here is the star, there I am.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: andsome]
#15964083 - 03/18/12 05:07 PM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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There’s nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don’t live up until their death. They don’t honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can’t hear it. Most people’s deaths are a sham. There’s nothing left to die. — Charles Bukowski
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.” — Hunter S. Thompson
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LSDenthusiast said: From U.G. Krishnamurti
The natural state is not a 'thoughtless state' -- that is one of the greatest hoaxes perpetrated for thousands of years on poor, helpless Hindus. You will never be without thought until the body is a corpse, a very dead corpse. Being able to think is necessary to survive. But in this state thought stops choking you; it falls into its natural rhythm. There is no longer a 'you' who reads the thoughts and thinks that they are 'his'.
What is keeping you from being in your natural state? You are constantly moving away from yourself. You want to be happy, either permanently or at least for this moment. You are dissatisfied with your everyday experiences, and so you want some new ones. You want to perfect yourself, to change yourself. You are reaching out, trying to be something other than what you are. It is this that is taking you away from yourself.
Every time a thought is born, you are born. When the thought is gone, you are gone. But the 'you' does not let the thought go, and what gives continuity to this 'you' is the thinking. Actually there is no permanent entity in you, no totality of all your thoughts and experiences. You think that there is 'somebody' who is thinking your thoughts, 'somebody' who is feeling your feelings --- that's the illusion. I can say it is an illusion; but it is not an illusion to you.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: weshroom]
#15984531 - 03/23/12 03:52 AM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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very nice
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“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.” Mahatma Gandhi quotes
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Buddha in Glory
Center of all centers, core of cores, almond self-enclosed, and growing sweet-- all this universe, to the furthest stars all beyond them, is your flesh, your fruit.
Now you feel how nothing clings to you; your vast shell reaches into endless space, and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow. Illuminated in your infinite peace,
a billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be, when all the stars are dead.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: andsome]
#16056188 - 04/07/12 09:26 AM (11 years, 9 months ago) |
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'Be quiet don't think don't make effort. To be bound takes effort, to be free takes no effort. Peace is beyond thought and effort. Do not think and do not make effort because this only obscures That, and will never reveal That. This is why keeping quiet is the key to the storehouse of Love and Peace' Papaji
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#16057412 - 04/07/12 03:05 PM (11 years, 9 months ago) |
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"the feelings is the prayer"
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and then a thought..time started thinking.. moving backwards, "maybe I can sneak up on someone like this"
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7] 1
#16088093 - 04/14/12 05:39 AM (11 years, 9 months ago) |
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one of my favourite quotes from the movie matrix describing the concept of Sunyata (Emptiness) in buddhism...
Do not try to bend the spoon — that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no spoon..Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: plantstein] 1
#16088234 - 04/14/12 07:20 AM (11 years, 9 months ago) |
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" We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: MushyMatt]
#16089054 - 04/14/12 12:16 PM (11 years, 9 months ago) |
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plantstein said: one of my favourite quotes from the movie matrix describing the concept of Sunyata (Emptiness) in buddhism...
Do not try to bend the spoon — that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no spoon..Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
Wow thats from the matrix, I completely dont remember it.
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MushyMatt said: " We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: MushyMatt]
#16092611 - 04/15/12 08:21 AM (11 years, 9 months ago) |
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MushyMatt said: " We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
-------------------- ..try to realize the truth: there is no spoon..Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: plantstein]
#16191197 - 05/06/12 05:07 PM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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Astronomers speak of time in terms of billions, trillions and aeons of years. Even these figures are not adequate for their mathematical calculations, and they may be required to coin new terms. If I were to try and explain in astronomical terms the beginning and end of time, it would never depict the beginning and end of time in eternity. There is always an 'ago' and there is always an 'after' to every point in time. The yesterdays of the past and the tomorrows of the future hinge on a point in time which is the now of the present moment in eternity.
In a flight of imagination, imagining the beginning and the end of the now of the present moment in eternity, one can at the most either add or subtract a measure of time. But this would be nothing more than an adding or erasing of zeros. No amount of swing, even of aeons of cycles in the sweep of time, can give an iota of concept of any beginning or end of the now in eternity.
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In what is called space, numberless universes are continuously created, sustained and destroyed. This procession of creation continues so long as God goes on imagining. And when God's imagination is suspended, as it is at moments in eternity when God withdraws himself into his sound sleep state (just as a man's imagination ceases when he is in deep sleep), the creation is withdrawn and dissolved - Mahapralaya.
Creation, preservation and dissolution are based on ignorance. In fact there is no such thing as creation, so preservation and dissolution never actually occur. The very cosmos has no foundation save that of ignorance. Ignorance believes: the cosmos is a reality; birth, death, old age, wealth, honor are real. Knowledge knows: the cosmos is a dream; God alone is real. ____________________________________________________________
God is infinite, and his shadow is also infinite. The shadow of God is the infinite space that accommodates the infinite Gross sphere, which, with its occurrences of millions of universes, within and without the range of man's knowledge, is the creation that issued from the point of finiteness in the infinite existence that is God.
In these millions of universes are many systems with planets, some in gaseous states, some in states of solidification, some which are stone and metal, some which also have vegetation, some which also have developed life forms such as worms, some also fish, some also birds, some also animals, and a few also have human beings.
Thus it is that throughout the myriads of universes, there are planets on which the seven kingdoms of evolution are manifested, and the evolution of consciousness and forms is completed. But only on the planet Earth do human beings reincarnate and begin the involutionary Path to Self-realisation. Earth is the centre of this infinite Gross sphere of millions of universes, inasmuch as it is the point to which all human-conscious souls must migrate in order to begin the involutionary Path.
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God is infinite reality, whereas cosmos is infinite illusion. But both are not infinite in the same sense. God is one infinite, and illusion is infinite in numbers. God is infinite unity, and illusion infinite duality. Always God is. All along illusion is not. Illusion or no illusion, God remains beginningless and endless, while illusion has a beginning in illusion and it also ends in illusion. The infinite illusion includes an infinite number of suns, stars, moons, planets and worlds. The whole of the creation goes on evolving ad infinitum in illusion.
Meher Baba the most recent incarnation of the Avatar.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
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Buddha
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Roanoke]
#16212853 - 05/10/12 11:11 PM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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"J'écoutais, attendant, et je l'entendis encore, ce bruit qui semblait sorti de moi-même, arraché à mes nerfs, ou plutôt qui résonnait en moi comme un appel intime, profond et désolé. Oui, c'était une voix cruelle, une voix connue, attendue, et qui me désespérait. Il passait sur moi ce son faible et bizarre, comme un semeur d'épouvante et de délire, car il eut aussitôt la puissance d'éveiller l'affreuse détresse sommeillant toujours au fond du coeur de tous les vivants. Qu'était-ce? C'était la voix qui crie sans fin dans notre âme et qui nous reproche d'une façon continue, obscurément et douloureusement, torturante, harcelante, inconnue, inapaisable, inoubliable, féroce, qui nous reproche tout ce que nous avons fait et en même temps tout ce que nous n'avons pas fait, la voix des vagues remords, des regrets sans retours, des jours finis, des femmes rencontrées qui nous auraient aimé peut-être, des choses disparues, des joies vaines, des espérances mortes; la voix de ce qui passe, de ce qui fuit, de ce qui trompe, de ce qui disparaît, de ce que nous n'avons pas atteint, de ce que nous n'atteindrons jamais, la maigre petite voix qui crie l'avortement de la vie, l'inutilité de l'effort, l'impuissance de l'esprit et la faiblesse de la chair." - Guy de Maupassant
In English: "I listened, waiting, and I heard it again, that sound that seemed to come from within myself, drawn up from my nerves, or rather that resonated in me like an intimate call, deep and desolate. Yes, it was a cruel voice, a well-known voice, long awaited, and it made me despair. It passed over me, this small, bizarre voice, like a sower of horror and delirium, for it had the power to immediately awaken the terrible, slumbering distress that is always at the back of the hearts of all the living. What was it? It was the voice that cries endlessly in our souls, and that reproaches us continuously, darkly and painfully, torturous, harassing, unknown, unappeasable, unforgettable, ferocious; that reproaches us for all we have done and at the same time for all we have not done: the voice of vague remorse, of regrets without return, days wasted, women who might have loved us, things we have lost, vain joys, dead hopes; the voice of that which passes, of that which flees, of what goes wrong, of what disappears, of what we have not attained, of what we will never attain; the tiny, frail voice that screams the abortion of life, the futility of effort, the impotence of the mind and the weakness of the flesh."
-------------------- “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]
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I was watching planet earth just a moment ago and got really tripped out by the first few lines from this section: "Vast open plains. immense spaces. eerie silence. But any feeling of emptiness is an illusion. The plains of our planet support the greatest gatherings of wildlife on earth. At the heart of all that happens here is a single living thing."
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