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Elff
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Elff]
#22306689 - 09/29/15 05:37 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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"No drug causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs— we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power." - PJ O’Rourke
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Elff]
#22306703 - 09/29/15 05:45 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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“Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then you will be read to fight the enemy you can see.” - Al-Ghazali
“What has he found who has lost God? And what has he lost who has found God?” - Ibn 'Ata' Allah Al-Iskandari
It has always struck me how the spiritual side of Islam can have such a "zen-like" quality.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Turtletotem] 1
#22310114 - 09/29/15 06:33 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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"Consciousness can play a nonredundant causal role in the determination of our actions: it can play the very role that we intuitively feel that it plays. Quantum theory allows your mind and your brain to co-author your physical actions." --Dr. Henry P. Stapp, Ph.D.
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
-J.R.R. Tolkien
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"No drug causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs— we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power." - PJ O’Rourke
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Elff]
#22317537 - 10/01/15 06:08 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I went a bit red in the face seeing that you had quoted one of my slightly poetic, slightly psychotic posts, onceinalifetime!
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#22317971 - 10/01/15 08:57 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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hehe, suuuuuuure. . . playin' 
I came across a couple lovely lovely ones recently so would be postin' them. . . here's a couple from Shantideva (well, one I guess)
(okay, left as stanza form)
And for him who has perfectly seized this mind With the thought never to turn away From totally liberating The infinite forms of life. . .
From that time hence, Even while asleep or unconcerned. A force of merit equal to the sky Will perpetually ensue.
(dot dot dot's added by me)
'The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.' - Blake
'Sorrow was never of any use to anyone,' the same poet
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i remembered one from ramana i was going to post;
'as for me, i consider myself a speck of dust at the devotee's feet.'
and. . . 'infinite energy, infinite daring, infinite patience' - a snippet from vivekananda
my mistake - sri ramakrishna was the first quote.
oh since i'm at it -
'i can conceive of gravies that would blow your tiny mind!' - a supercharged Bender, hehe.
and - love this one, very nice;
'oh Margaret - what dopey dopplegangers!' - Bugs Bunny, hehe.
love & peace.
ah - and ' do i consider one person more beautiful than another? all are beautiful flowers in jah garden '
- peter tosh (slightly paraphrased). . . reminded in a novelle titled Lenz, translated by M. Fleming. . .
will share that one soon! 
peace!
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Elff
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Cujllickduo]
#22326988 - 10/03/15 06:21 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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"When people say, ‘I’m the kind of person who,’ my heart always sinks.
These are formulas, we’ve all got about ten formulas about who we are, what we like, the kind of people we like, all that stuff. The disparity between these phrases and how one experiences oneself minute by minute is ludicrous.
It’s like the caption under a painting. You think, Well, yeah, I can see it’s called that. But you need to look at the picture."
— Adam Phillips, interviewed by Paul Holdengräber, featured in the Paris Review
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Elff]
#22328967 - 10/03/15 03:34 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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"Forgive them Father, they know not what they do."
Whether you accept Jesus as the Messiah or not, you have to admit it's pretty awesome that as he was being killed, he was more worried about what might happen to his killers than what was happening to himself.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Srirachi] 2
#22333493 - 10/04/15 04:33 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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The Divine Image
BY WILLIAM BLAKE
To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
All pray in their distress;
And to these virtues of delight
Return their thankfulness.
For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
Is God, our father dear,
And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
Is Man, his child and care.
For Mercy has a human heart,
Pity a human face,
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress.
Then every man, of every clime,
That prays in his distress,
Prays to the human form divine,
Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.
And all must love the human form,
In heathen, Turk, or Jew;
Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell
There God is dwelling too.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: muckamuck]
#22333707 - 10/04/15 05:31 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Blake is wonderfully lovely, and divinely insightful.
just to add to it;
'Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion. The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God. Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps. The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man. The fox condemns the trap, not himself. Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth. Let man wear the fell of the lion, woman the fleece of the sheep. The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. The selfish smiling fool, & the sullen frowning fool, shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod. What is now proved was once only imagin'd. The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbit: watch the roots; the lion, the tyger, the horse, the elephant, watch the fruits. The cistern contains; the fountain overflows. One thought, fills immensity. Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth. The eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the crow.'
-William Blake
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Srirachi]
#22335594 - 10/05/15 03:47 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Srirachi said: "Forgive them Father, they know not what they do."
Whether you accept Jesus as the Messiah or not, you have to admit it's pretty awesome that as he was being killed, he was more worried about what might happen to his killers than what was happening to himself.
They killed Love, literally.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Asante]
#22335603 - 10/05/15 03:55 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Oh God, I love William Blake's poetry and paintings so much.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Turtletotem]
#22335660 - 10/05/15 04:48 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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“Don’t look for peace. Don’t look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender. When you accept what is, every moment is the best moment. That is enlightenment.”
— Eckhart Tolle
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Elff]
#22336102 - 10/05/15 08:53 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yes and his letters, are quite beautful too - some are pure golden. He clears up 'no mud, no lotus' misconceptions vastly in a simple sentence, too:
'a blight never does good to a tree & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit let none say that the fruit was in concsequence of the blight.'
I love the rest of the letter, too.
Peace!
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The Nuptials of the Seasons by, Novalis
Deep buried in thought stood the new monarch. He was recalling Dreams of the midnight, and every wonderful tale, Which gathered he first from the heavenly flower, when stricken Gently by prophecy, love all-subduing he felt. He thought still he heard the accents deeply impressive, Just as the guest was deserting the circle of joy; Fleeting gleams of the moon illumined the clattering window, And in the breast of the youth there raged a passionate glow. Edda, whispered the monarch, what is the innermost longing In the bosom that loves? What his ineffable grief? Say it, for him would we comfort, the power is ours, and noble Be the time when thou art the joy of heaven again.– “Were the times not so cold and morose, if were united Future with Present, and both with the holy Past time; Were the Spring linked to Autumn, and the Summer to Winter, Were into serious grace childhood with silver age fused; Then, O spouse of my heart, would dry up the fountain of sorrow, Every deep cherished wish would be secured to the soul.” Thus spake the queen, and gladsomely clasped her the radiant beloved: Thou hast uttered in sooth to me a heavenly word, Which long ago over the lips of the deep-feeling hovered, But on thine alone first pure and in season did light. Quickly drive here the chariot, ourselves we will summon First the times of the year, then all the seasons of man.–
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"The predicament is, do you define another human being as their package, or as their essence?" --Ram Dass
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“Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then you will be read to fight the enemy you can see.” - Al-Ghazali
Though I do not fully understand the verse, the message I got from it was always that of what you've quoted, even if that is not the intended message:
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If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it. ~Genesis 4:7
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: WScott]
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We are one.
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