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bodhicitta


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: bodhicitta] 1
#12555933 - 05/13/10 03:11 PM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, Suffer the pain.
Your desire must be disciplined, and what you want to happen in time, sacrificed.
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Why am I part of this disaster, this mud hole for donkeys? Is this the place
where Jesus spoke? Surely not. A table has been set, but we have not been served
sweet spring water yet. Evidently we came here to be bound hand and foot. I ask
a flower, "How is it you are so wise so young?" "With the first morning wind and
the first dew, I lost my innocence." I follow the one who showed me the way. I
extend one hand up, and with the other I touch the ground. A great branch leans
down from the sky. How long will I keep talking of up and down? This is not my
home: silence, annihilation, absence! I go back where everything is nothing.
Rumi
Edited by bodhicitta (05/13/10 03:49 PM)
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Mycomyth
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7] 1
#12608577 - 05/22/10 08:30 AM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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I ran across this artist after October 11 2008, the Saturday night that I reached this point myself.
This is the point from which I can never return, And if I back down now then forever I burn. This is the point from which I could never retreat, Cause If I turn back now there can never be peace. This is the point from which I will die or succeed, Livin's a struggle, I know I'm alive when I bleed. From now on it can never be the same as before, Cause the man that I was doesn't exist anymore. - Immortal Technique
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Mycomyth]
#12608585 - 05/22/10 08:31 AM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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I haven't heard any immortal technique for years!
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7] 1
#12616386 - 05/23/10 09:00 PM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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God is love
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BlueCoyote
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7] 1
#12618543 - 05/24/10 06:48 AM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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Krackatus: We as a species will never be intelligent enough to understand the universe, just as chickens will never be intelligent enough to understand rocket science.
Edited by BlueCoyote (05/24/10 06:51 AM)
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: BlueCoyote] 1
#12618829 - 05/24/10 08:49 AM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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"When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick; every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once."
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Chronic7
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? *DELETED* [Re: BlueCoyote]
#12619602 - 05/24/10 11:36 AM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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Icelander
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7]
#12620045 - 05/24/10 01:07 PM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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True, nobody knows what we can know.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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bodhicitta


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: NastyDHL]
#12620281 - 05/24/10 01:56 PM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
NastyDHL said: "When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick; every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once."
great quote
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BlueCoyote
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7]
#12633313 - 05/26/10 05:22 PM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
Chronic777 said:
Quote:
BlueCoyote said: Krackatus: We as a species will never be intelligent enough to understand the universe, just as chickens will never be intelligent enough to understand rocket science.
Bullshit
Everybody knows what he wants to know... Like chicken who feel themselves so full of knowledge about the outer space. And if they can't get it, even some just make 'nothing' out of it
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Middleman

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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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BlueCoyote
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Middleman]
#12654940 - 05/30/10 10:18 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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I wont discuss about citations here. They are not mine and they stand as they are 
It only says: We in trying to understand the universie are like chicken trying to understand rocket science.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: BlueCoyote] 1
#12715145 - 06/09/10 01:47 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thomas Pain sayed "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good"
I love this quote because it shows a non nationalistic person who is atheist, whos morals are based on what is good, and not what is in the bible. I try and live my life by this quote.
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Realize that there comes a time in the life of every individual when he or she knows for a fact that it is not possible to continue with his or her existing life as it is. In that moment the individual knows that if peace and happiness is to be found, then a most drastic change is called for. This event is known as the Knock of the Spirit. When it comes, the Spirit of man metaphorically knocks upon the individual's door, and the message given is brief, but overwhelming in its implications: "Follow me now without question, or remain where you are. I offer you freedom, but know that if I leave without you, I will not be returning." Such is the Spirit's message, and the decision of the man or woman to go with the Spirit must be instantaneous if he or she is not to miss this fleeting moment of chance." -Theun Mares, Toltec
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I honor the place in you in which the entire universe dwells. I honor the place in you which is of love. of truth. of light, and of peace. When you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me. We are one.
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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: Middleman] 1
#12787901 - 06/22/10 10:48 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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I contemplate in my heart the nonfearful divinity of shining darkness. -Shivatoshini 1.1.14
-------------------- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
 
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circastes
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Middleman]
#12787964 - 06/22/10 11:06 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Mr. Middle said: “ . . . 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
Superb
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Freedom
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Middleman]
#12787973 - 06/22/10 11:08 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Mr. Middle said: “ . . . 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
nice quote. Sounds like Kafka knew how to read. I bet I could read the same books he read and hardly be moved
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circastes
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#12788155 - 06/22/10 11:46 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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I think he described the feeling well. I get it real bad reading Carl Jung. I think the intellectual exhaustion 'upgrades' you.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes]
#12788274 - 06/23/10 12:14 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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well the closest I've come to that is reading Joseph Campbell, who was continuing Jung's line of thought.
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