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mushmolls
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Soul-Shine]
#21914860 - 07/08/15 12:41 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
Helen Keller - deaf and blind author, activist, and global inspiration (1880-1966)
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Middleman

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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: mushmolls] 1
#21947344 - 07/15/15 01:15 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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"I must learn to love the fool in me -- the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool."
Theodore Rubin
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sun child



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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Middleman] 1
#22011832 - 07/28/15 08:18 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Shantideva:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shantideva
A Bodhisattva's Way of Life
'May I act as the mighty earth Or like the free and open skies To support and provide the space Whereby I and all others may grow. Until every being afflicted by pain Has reached nirvanas shores, May I serve only as a condition That encourages progress and joy.'
-------------------- Innocent, Oldfield & Hegerland Julia Delaney, Bothy Band Rasta Girl, Sister Carol Genesis, Jorma K I Wish You Peace, Lawrence Laughing Do Your Thing, Moondog large . . music garden . . veryall peace them hiStarhouse - main Time Traveler's Guide
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mastif
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7] 1
#22022731 - 07/31/15 12:34 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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"Our ideas of God tells us more about ourselves than about him"
- Thomas Merton
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Middleman

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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: mastif]
#22025162 - 07/31/15 04:52 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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A chickpea leaps almost over the rim of the pot where it’s being boiled.
‘Why are you doing this to me?’
The cook knocks him down with the ladle.
‘Don’t you try to jump out. You think I’m torturing you. I’m giving you flavor, so you can mix with spices and rice and be the lovely vitality of a human being.
Remember when you drank rain in the garden. That was for this.’
Grace first. Sexual pleasure, then a boiling new life begins, so the Friend has something good to eat.
Eventually the chickpea will say to the cook, ‘Boil me some more. Hit me with the skimming spoon. I can’t do this by myself.
I’m like an elephant that dreams of gardens back in Hindustan and doesn’t pay attention to his driver. You’re my cook, my driver, my way into existence. I love your cooking.’
The cook says, ‘I was once like you, fresh from the ground. Then I boiled in time, and boiled in the body, two fierce boilings.
My animal soul grew powerful. I controlled it with practices, and boiled some more, and boiled once beyond that, and became your teacher.’
- Rumi
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Middleman]
#22025188 - 07/31/15 05:01 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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' my burning sun will someday rise ' Sublime
' child forget your lonely fathers
beguiled unable to look farther
than they should, than they could. '
' lost inside a maze of nations
tossed in a haze of degradation
you can laugh at the things that they said, they can never return from the dead, we can better the lives that they led, with brains of computer instead
time takes its toll. our children will lead '
' we don't wanna become somebody's property we dont' want to give up on our liberty
no programmation at all, just because we are small '
space, child
' of human minds they've wasted time '
-------------------- Innocent, Oldfield & Hegerland Julia Delaney, Bothy Band Rasta Girl, Sister Carol Genesis, Jorma K I Wish You Peace, Lawrence Laughing Do Your Thing, Moondog large . . music garden . . veryall peace them hiStarhouse - main Time Traveler's Guide
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“The shock of the fear of death drove my mind inwards and I said to myself mentally, without actually framing the words: ‘Now that death has come; what does it mean? What is it that is dying? This body dies . . . But with the death of the body am I dead? Is the body I? . . . The body dies but the Spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death. That means I am the deathless Spirit.’ All this was not dull thought; it flashed through me vividly as living truth which I perceived directly. . . From that moment onwards the ‘I’ or Self focused attention on itself by a powerful fascination. Fear of death had vanished once and for all. Absorption in the Self continued unbroken from that time on.”
Ramana Maharshi
As his biographer Brunton says, "I study him intently and gradually come to see in him the child of a remote Past, when the discovery of spiritual truth was reckoned of no less value than is the discovery of a gold mine today. It dawns upon me with increasing force that, in this quiet and obscure corner of South India, I have been led to one of the last of India's spiritual supermen."
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'The second seal: “All CONTAMINATED things and events are unsatisfactory.”'
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Fermented Mushrooms!! --- https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/23378638/fpart/1/vc/1 'The second seal: “All CONTAMINATED things and events are unsatisfactory.”' "I envy you. You North Americans are very lucky. You are fighting the most important fight of all - you live in THE HEART OF THE BEAST." --Anonymous Guerilla, or is he..
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dreaded.ds11
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: pablokabute]
#22039607 - 08/03/15 08:26 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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- Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom, The Fool: by Rachel Pollack
"Imagine yourself entering a strange landscape. A world of magicians, of people hanging upside down, and of dancers in the bright air. You can enter through a leap from height, through a dark cave, a labyrinth, or even by climbing down a rabbit hole chasing a victorian rabbit with a pocket watch. Which ever way you choose, you are a fool to do it. Why look into the deep world of the mind when you can stay safely in the ordinary landscape of job, home and family? Herman Melville, in Moby Dick once warned his readers not to take a step outside the ordinary path laid out for you by society. You might not get back in. And yet, for those willing to take the chance, the leap can bring joy, adventure, and finally, for those with the courage to keep going when the wonderland becomes more fearsome than joyous, the leap can bring knowledge, peace, and liberation."
Relating to the Fool, the card it self kind of represents just that, childish and foolish, but the truth is being a fool can bring you the most profound moments and experiences in life. This western world we live in has layered our minds with restraints, rules, controls, you are a fool to stray from your path in life otherwise. Dig a little deeper though, unshackle your mind by any means from meditation to natural drug use, and the fool can walk a fine line between danger and enlightenment, enlightenment being the hopeful out come of the search we all seek from time to time.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: dreaded.ds11] 1
#22047186 - 08/05/15 12:22 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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"Keywords in terminology are satori, the sudden flash of insight which brings on Awakening or Enlightenment; the state of muga, which occurs when the split between the acting self and the self-observing self disappears, and the act becomes effortless, automatic, entranced -- so that the painter or swordsman no longer feels that he is wielding the brush or making the thrust, but that a mysterious 'It' has taken charge. Lastly, a man who has completed his training and reached final Enlightenment, will continue to live zestfully and apparently unchanged, but he will 'live as one already dead' -- that is, detached and indifferent to success or failure." --Arthur Koestler
-------------------- Vi Veri Universum Vivus Vici
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mastif
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7] 1
#22070004 - 08/09/15 11:04 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”
― John Lennon
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7] 1
#22083298 - 08/12/15 08:26 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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"Don't be such a fucking twat." - Plato, 369 BC
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rippleinstillwater
If my words did glow...


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Bridgeburner] 1
#22094530 - 08/15/15 11:31 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Bridgeburner said: 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
Both of these are amazing. Love Bukowski and Thompson, no one can be as honest and direct as they were.
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DividedQuantum
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"...the substance of Light is Life, since without Existence and Energy it were naught. By Life therefore are you made yourselves, eternal and incorruptible, flaming forth as suns, self-created and self-supported, each the sole centre of the Universe." --Aleister Crowley
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Profound and tranquil, free from complexity, Uncompounded luminous clarity, Beyond the mind of conceptual ideas; This is the depth of the mind of the Victorious Ones. In this there is not a thing to be removed, Nor anything that needs to be added. It is merely the immaculate Looking naturally at itself.
--Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche
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deff
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"A void of nothing that is void of nothing" - Matt Kahn on describing spiritual realization
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deff]
#22172564 - 09/01/15 05:36 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you've got to be kind.
-Kurt Vonnegut
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: muckamuck]
#22175576 - 09/01/15 08:13 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Dr. Seuss — 'Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It's not.'
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Fermented Mushrooms!! --- https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/23378638/fpart/1/vc/1 'The second seal: “All CONTAMINATED things and events are unsatisfactory.”' "I envy you. You North Americans are very lucky. You are fighting the most important fight of all - you live in THE HEART OF THE BEAST." --Anonymous Guerilla, or is he..
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Middleman

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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: pablokabute] 1
#22207654 - 09/08/15 02:37 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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This mud-body is clear epiphany. Angels wish they could move as I move. Purity? Cherubum babies long for my innocence. Courage? Armies of demons flee my uplifted hand.
-Rumi
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rippleinstillwater
If my words did glow...


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Middleman]
#22227897 - 09/12/15 04:41 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Rev. Morton said: This mud-body is clear epiphany. Angels wish they could move as I move. Purity? Cherubum babies long for my innocence. Courage? Armies of demons flee my uplifted hand.
-Rumi
Wow, Rev. That's a beautiful one.
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