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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: spunion]
#22343585 - 10/06/15 11:58 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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"When man has developed the spirit of Calmness until it becomes so absolutely part of him that his very presence radiates it, he has made great progress in life. Calmness cannot be acquired of itself and by itself; it must come as the culmination of a series of virtues. What the world needs and what individuals need is a higher standard of living, a great realizing sense of the privilege and dignity of life, a higher and nobler conception of individuality.
With this great sense of calmness permeating an individual, man becomes able to retire more into himself, away from the noise, the confusion and strife of the world, which come to his ears only as faint, far-off rumblings, or as the tumult of the life of a city heard only as a buzzing hum by the man in a balloon.
The man who is calm does not selfishly isolate himself from the world, for he is intensely interested in all that concerns the welfare of humanity. His calmness is but a Holy of Holies into which he can retire from the world to get strength to live in the world. He realizes that the full glory of individuality, the crowning of his self-control is,--the majesty of calmness." Samuel Smiles
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Hobozen]
#22343685 - 10/07/15 12:31 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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"Once in a while you can get shown The Light in the strangest of places if you look at it right" ~Robert Hunter
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sun child



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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Srirachi]
#22344847 - 10/07/15 11:07 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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'we count from 0 to 1, then back to 0. it is a circle.' - peter tosh
'i make the good better, and the better, best.' - peter tosh
'if you want to know my father then you have got to know his son, and if you try to compare us you will see that we are one.' - peter tosh ' light your spliff, light your chalice mek we burn it in the Buk-inn-hamm palace, lend me some paper lend me some fire mek we chase 'way vampire' ''(cont. song above)
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Love is light, we are but the spark.
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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the mind, there are no limits.- John C. Lilly
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: caman]
#22353241 - 10/09/15 05:11 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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“I am hidden and I am not.”
— Arthur Rimbaud, from Selected Poems & Letters
"I need solitude. I need space. I need air. I need the empty fields round me; and my legs pounding along roads; and sleep; and animal existence."
— Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf
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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]
#22357921 - 10/10/15 07:50 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Please Call Me By My True Names By Thich Nhat Hanh
Don't say that I will depart tomorrow--even today I am still arriving.
Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.
I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive.
I am a mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river. And I am the bird that swoops down to swallow the mayfly.
I am a frog swimming happily in the clear water of a pond. And I am the grass-snake that silently feeds itself on the frog.
I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones, my legs as thin as bamboo sticks. And I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to Uganda.
I am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat, who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea pirate. And I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and loving.
I am a member of the politburo, with plenty of power in my hinds. And I am the man who has to pay his "debt of blood" to my people dying slowly in a forced-labor camp.
My joy is like Spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom all over the Earth. My pain is like a river of tears, so vast it fills the four oceans.
Please call me by my true names, so I can hear all my cries and laughter at once, so I can see that my joy and pain are one.
Please call me by my true names, so I can wake up and the door of my heart could be left open, the door of compassion.
This poem is from "Call Me By My True Names" The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hahn

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sun child



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i love this one, part of vairagya shatakam a poem, i was going to post the 'renunciation is fearless' part, which also is lovely, yet i found this and liked it. . . even better. hehe
'Going searching in the lower regions, Going into the skies, Travelling through all the worlds, This is but the fickleness of the mind. Ah, friend, you never remember the Lord Who resides within you! How can you get happiness?'
-Bhartrihari
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sun child



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and shortly after,
'What is there in the reading of Vedas, The Shrutis, the Purânas and doing sacrifices? Freedom alone takes off the weight of this dreadful world, And manifests Self-blessedness. Here is the truth: the rest is all shop-keeping.'
Here is the whole thing; very beautiful poetry. . . I only read the whole thing recently.
http://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/volume_9/writings_prose_and_poems/bhartriharis_verses.htm
it's kind of funny - i think - we only love poetry about forests - be it Rilke or Bhartrihari - after we've experienced it ourselves; after we've been there. . .
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Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings. —The Dhammapada
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sun child



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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Rocket]
#22370477 - 10/12/15 08:28 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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oh! oh! oh!
I remembered!
hehe.
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‘Basked in the sun, listened to birds, licked off raindrops, and only in flight the leaf saw the tree and grasped what it had been.’
-V. Pavlova
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The ultimate state of supreme liberation is ones own real nature It is always attained Knowing this, Be Still
- Ramana Maharshi
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sun child



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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Swarupa]
#22372268 - 10/13/15 09:07 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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ya ha very nice Svarupa!!

welcome btw!
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Swarupa]
#22376805 - 10/14/15 01:58 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Go ahead, light your candles and burn your incense and ring your bells and call out to the Gods, but watch out, because the Gods will come, and they will put you on The Anvil and fire up The Forge and beat you and beat you until they turn brass into Pure Gold.
- Saint Keshavadas
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Middleman]
#22379535 - 10/14/15 04:23 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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-------------------- ..and may the zelda theme song be with you at all times, amen.
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sun child



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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
#22379854 - 10/14/15 05:29 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.
-Whitamn
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"Similarly, the practitioner truly understands the Dharma only to the extent that he "suspends the operation of the discriminating intellect, the faculty of the internal dialogue through which people from moment to moment define and perpetuate their customary world of perception.""
Pure-land zen Zen pure-land
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Hobozen]
#22382535 - 10/15/15 09:21 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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fantastic 
'we must practice in such a way that we liberate our ancestors within us.' - thich nhat hanh
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People to people, party to place Having the time of your life is all on your face Hands in the sky, while snatch and catch in the vibe We go uptown, downtown, that's how we ride!
Get your strip mode, it's where we be at It's the top dog, the top for drivin' the track Let, let the bass move, let it go! Bass, bass, move, let it go Bass, bass, move, let it go Bass, bass, move, let it go Bass, bass, move, let it go
Now I've see players, too many to name Some gain recognition and even fame Some go slow and some may go fast But me and my partners we dip and we dash Every flipping the cash, rip zipping the bag Should be slip when we crash, all good never bad All you never had, dreams do come true For me and you, so let it do what it do!
Boy, let me say, it's the ride of your life And if you're rolling with me, I tell you, I'll do you right So put your seat belt on, and let your hair hang low And if you wet then I suggest you let it go!
People to people, party to place Having the time of your life is all on your face Hands in the sky, while snatch and catch in the vibe We go uptown, downtown, that's how we ride!
Get your strip mode, it's where we be at It's the top dog, the top for drivin' the track Let, let the bass move, let it go! Bass, bass, move, let it go Bass, bass, move, let it go Bass, bass, move, let it go Bass, bass, move, let it go
Ride, ride, roll it, tip it, advance it Turn it, burn it, take it, adjust it! We can bounce and ball, just tell me how you play I never give up, I do this thing like everyday And I break it down in her way Oh man, I got carried away But anyway I'mma say I feel good everyday! Every way, la, ta, ta I'll make the beat go pa pa pa The heat, stop the beat Listen, attention, permission 'Cause this is grand thing bang, bang Same range, change lane Playing games, get you with you, flick it up, rich it up I slip can't get with us No matter what! Next batter up It's better not That's what they ask Come out the grass, so do it fast!
People to people, party to place Having the time of your life is all on your face Hands in the sky, while snatch and catch in the vibe We go uptown, downtown, that's how we ride!
Get your strip mode, it's where we be at It's the top dog, the top for drivin' the track Let, let the bass move, let it go! Bass, bass, move, let it go Bass, bass, move, let it go Bass, bass, move, let it go Bass, bass, move, let it go
-Snoop Dogg
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'to leave when your work is done is to know the way of heaven' - liezi
'genius always occludes itself by over influence' - emerson
'i hate quotation' - emerson
'only you can bring yourself peace' - emerson
'so i contradict myself? i contradict myself. i am vast, i contain multitudes.' - whitman
'peace is always beautiful' - whitman
'are the stars too far away? then a pebble, at your feet, from it, know the all' - margaret fuller.
'love is a practice,' - the monk thay
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"Are you coming out or in.. When one cycle dies off, another one begins. Which way do you run to? The balance is equal and no end in sight. Which way do you run" -Trevor hall
He says it different but you get the picture
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Edited by eehoo (10/17/15 08:03 PM)
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