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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Tmethyl] 1
#23790865 - 11/01/16 10:08 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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“I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.” -Leonard Cohen
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DividedQuantum
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Know thou that Nature and the Spirit both Have no beginning! Know that qualities And changes of them are by Nature wrought; That Nature puts to work the acting frame, But Spirit doth inform it, and so cause Feeling of pain and pleasure. Spirit, linked To moulded matter, entereth into bond With qualities by Nature framed, and, thus Married to matter, breeds the birth again In good or evil yonis.
--from the Bhagavadgita, trans. by Sir Edwin Arnold
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Tmethyl
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"God is not playing with you, God is playing as you." -Mooji
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Tmethyl] 1
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"The fool says, 'These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money.' In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land or money." --Gotama Buddha
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Teach the children. We don't matter so much, but the children do. Show them the daisies and the pale hepatica. Teach them the taste of sassafras and wintergreen. The lives of the blue sailors, mallow, sunbursts, the moccasin flowers. And the frisky ones--inkberry, lamb's-quarters, blueberries. And the aromatic ones--rosemary, oregano. Give them peppermint to put in their pockets as they go to school. Give them the fields and the woods and the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit. Stand them in the stream, head them upstream, rejoice as they learn to love this green space they live in, its sticks and leaves and then the silent, beautiful blossoms.
Attention is the beginning of devotion.
from Upstream by Mary Oliver
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cez

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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: DisoRDeR] 1
#23838687 - 11/16/16 12:20 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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"All people are manifestations, disguises of the total reality of this cosmos. If that is so, there are no mistakes in the world."
-Alan Watts
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DividedQuantum
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: cez] 1
#23846498 - 11/18/16 08:08 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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"Only human beings have come to a point where they no longer know why they exist. They don't use their brains and they have forgotten the secret knowledge of their bodies, their senses, or their dreams. They don't use the knowledge the spirit has put into every one of them; they are not even aware of this, and so they stumble along blindly on the road to nowhere -- a paved highway which they themselves bulldoze and make smooth so that they can get faster to the big empty hole which they'll find at the end, waiting to swallow them up. It's a quick comfortable superhighway, but I know where it leads to. I've seen it. I've been there in my vision and it makes me shudder to think about it." --the Lakota shaman Lame Deer
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Teemo 6T3
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Those were wise words from Lame Deer, may his soul rest in peace.
“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” –Chief Seattle
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Teemo 6T3]
#23851851 - 11/20/16 03:33 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
Winston Churchill
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A sudden revelation then came to Moses. God's voice: You have separated me from one of my own. Did you come as a Prophet to unite, or to sever? I have given each being a separate and unique way of seeing and knowing that knowledge. What seems wrong to you is right for him. What is poison to one is honey to someone else. Purity and impurity, sloth and diligence in worship, these mean nothing to me. I am apart from all that. Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another. Hindus do Hindu things. The Dravidian Muslims in India do what they do. It's all praise, and it's all right. It's not me that's glorified in acts of worship. It's the worshipers! I don't hear the words they say. I look inside at the humility. That broken-open lowliness is the reality, not the language! Forget phraseology. I want burning, burning! Be friends with your burning. Burn up your thinking and your forms of expression! Moses, those who pay attention to ways of behaving and speaking are one sort. Lovers who burn are another.
- Rumi
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Middleman]
#23853696 - 11/21/16 09:32 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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i reflect a persons vibration at them like a mirror, sometimes they don't like what they see
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Sse] 1
#23871169 - 11/27/16 06:10 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Returning to take up a higher purpose Withdrawing to secure the certain: This is not failure
Imagine that our life is a maze with walls only one meter high, and everyone thinks that the rule is to crawl through this on your belly. And the one who stands tall and looks over the walls is a cheat and a quitter. Most life has its multiple levels like this. The fighting goes on in the trenches and the peace is made up above.
The problem itself can be changed by changing its frame of reference, by letting in more options from the other parts of the world. Problems are not best solved on the level where they begin; solutions are often just one level up. To liberate mind from the known is not to go floating away from the real, to change the mind is easier than to change the rest of the world, and to change the game itself will break only one set of rules. Conflict dignifies things that need not even be. Higher purpose plays from above.
I Ching, Hatcher Translation.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Kurt]
#23892008 - 12/03/16 08:46 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Middleman

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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Middleman] 1
#23895872 - 12/05/16 04:43 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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So what I’m saying is: fail. Then fail again, and then maybe you start to work with some of the things I’m saying. And when it happens again, when things don’t work out, you fail better. In other words, you are able to work with the feeling of failure instead of shoving it under the rug, blaming it on somebody else, coming up with a negative self-image—all of those futile strategies.
“Fail better” means you begin to have the ability to hold what I call “the rawness of vulnerability” in your heart, and see it as your connection with other human beings and as a part of your humanness. Failing better means when these things happen in your life, they become a source of growth, a source of forward, a source of, “out of that place of rawness you can really communicate genuinely with other people.”
Your best qualities come out of that place because it’s unguarded and you’re not shielding yourself. Failing better means that failure becomes a rich and fertile ground instead of just another slap in the face.
- Pema Chodron
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Tmethyl
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Middleman]
#23896484 - 12/05/16 11:03 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Middleman said: Failing better means that failure becomes a rich and fertile ground instead of just another slap in the face. - Pema Chodron
That is incredible, thank MM.
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cez

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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Tmethyl] 1
#23897856 - 12/05/16 06:49 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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"Why me? " Hagbard repeated with a smile. "The question asked by the soldier as the enemy bullets whistle around him, by the harmless homeowner as the homicidal maniac steps through the kitchen door hunting knife in hand, by the woman who has given birth to a dead baby, by the prophet who has just had a revelation of the word of God, by the artist who knows his latest painting is a work of genius. Why you? Because you're there, schmuck. Because something has to happen to you. OK?"
-RAW
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Tmethyl
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: cez]
#23898448 - 12/05/16 10:03 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Tmethyl] 1
#23899778 - 12/06/16 12:21 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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"Lucifer represents life, thought, progress, civilization, liberty, independence, Lucifer is the logos, the serpent, the savior."
-Blavatsky
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DividedQuantum
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Lucis]
#23903014 - 12/07/16 11:29 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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In all creation, be assured, There is no death—no death, but only change And innovation; what we men call birth Is but a different new beginning; death Is but to cease to be the same. --Ovid
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"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Mark Twain
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