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Middleman

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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7] 1
#24221802 - 04/03/17 08:57 PM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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'A World Without Objects is a Sensible Emptiness'
The tall camels of the spirit Steer for their deserts, passing the last groves loud With the sawmill shrill of the locust, to the whole honey of the arid Sun. They are slow, proud,
And move with a stilted stride To the land of sheer horizon, hunting Traherne's Sensible emptiness, there where the brain's lantern-slide Revels in vast returns.
O connoisseurs of thirst, Beasts of my soul who long to learn to drink Of pure mirage, those prosperous islands are accurst That shimmer on the brink
Of absence; auras, lustres, And all shinings need to be shaped and borne. Think of those painted saints, capped by the early masters With bright, jauntily-worn
Aureate plates, or even Merry-go-round rings. Turn, O turn From the fine sleights of the sand, from the long empty oven Where flames in flamings burn
Back to the trees arrayed In bursts of glare, to the halo-dialing run Of the country creeks, and the hills' bracken tiaras made Gold in the sunken sun,
Wisely watch for the sight Of the supernova burgeoning over the barn, Lampshine blurred in the steam of beasts, the spirit's right Oasis, light incarnate.
Richard Wilbur
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Asante
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Middleman] 2
#24222596 - 04/06/17 10:56 AM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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This is very worth reading.
Open your mind.
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If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Asante]
#24223005 - 04/06/17 02:09 PM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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-------------------- Shrooming Is Of The Essence   Rest In Peace Dankington
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Teemo 6T3] 2
#24224690 - 04/07/17 05:52 AM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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We can transform any problem, even death, into happiness. The point is not to stop the experience of problems but to stop the conditions that we call ‘problems’ from disturbing our mind, and instead use them to support the spiritual path that we practice.
Think that everyone you meet is fulfilling all your wishes. Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: aura8]
#24230906 - 04/09/17 06:05 PM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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Think that everyone you meet is fulfilling all your wishes. Lama Zopa Rinpoche
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Powerful and to be acknowledged by all.
All is perfect. Negative conditions or experiences only wear down what you are not.
<3
-------------------- Hostile humankind Can't you see you're fucking blind?
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Asante
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"We have friends and foes on both sides of any conflict, because ther is Right and Wrong in all of us."
-------------------- Omnicyclion.org higher knowledge starts here
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Asante]
#24240842 - 04/13/17 04:05 PM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.
-- Isaiah 43:2
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Halayudha]
#24241133 - 04/13/17 05:54 PM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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the fool dances on the table, to show the flashing spoils of of his fashion
while the wise man dances in the gutter, making the best of what little he had then
- captain conn
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Connoisseur] 1
#24241581 - 04/13/17 08:34 PM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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Ours is the Sevenfold Path of Initiation: thou shalt transmute the base lead into the subtle Aurum Solis by rising on the Stairway of the Heavens in thy Secret Laboratorium on earth. Here is the Excellent Way! The steps of the Stairway are seven; the Laboratorium is Our Holy House of Song and Our Holy Rose Garden, which thou knowest so well. Yet to those who are vulgar, it is a secret even though they themselves possess it.
The Book of the Elder Kings
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: ChRnZN] 1
#24245756 - 04/15/17 06:35 AM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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As a river rushes to the sea, As the sun and moon glide across the mountains of the west, As days and nights, hours and moments flee, Life flows away, inexorably. ~ Guru Rinpoche
By understanding emptiness, you lose interest in all of the trappings and beliefs that society builds up and tears down - political systems, science and technology, global economy, free society, the United Nations. You become like an adult who is not so interested in children's games. ~ Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: aura8] 1
#24246445 - 04/15/17 01:08 PM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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The five colors can blind, The five tones deafen, The five tastes cloy. The race, the hunt, can drive men mad And their booty leave them no peace. Therefore a sensible man Prefers the inner to the outer eye.
Tao Te Ching (ch. 12)
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"The only thing you have to offer to another human being, ever, is your own state of being...You are only doing your own being, you're only manifesting how evolved a consciousness you are. That's what you're doing with another human being. That's the only dance there is!" --Ram Dass
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I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.
I swear there is no greatness or power that does not emulate those of the earth, There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate the theory of the earth, No politics, song, religion, behavior, or what not, is of account, unless it compare with the amplitude of the earth, Unless it face the exactness, vitality, impartiality, rectitude of the earth.
I swear I begin to see love with sweeter spasms than that which responds love, It is that which contains itself, which never invites and never refuses.
I swear I begin to see little or nothing in audible words, All merges toward the presentation of the unspoken meanings of the earth, Toward him who sings the songs of the body and of the truths of the earth, Toward him who makes the dictionaries of words that print can- not touch.
I swear I see what is better than to tell the best, It is always to leave the best untold.
When I undertake to tell the best I find I cannot, My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath will not be obedient to its organs, I become a dumb man.
The best of the earth cannot be told anyhow, all or any is best, It is not what you anticipated, it is cheaper, easier, nearer, Things are not dismiss'd from the places they held before, The earth is just as positive and direct as it was before, Facts, religions, improvements, politics, trades, are as real as before, But the soul is also real, it too is positive and direct, No reasoning, no proof has establish'd it, Undeniable growth has establish'd it.
--Walt Whitman from A Song of the Rolling Earth
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7]
#24254967 - 04/18/17 05:15 PM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Joseph Campbell
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Tantrika] 2
#24257514 - 04/19/17 02:41 PM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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"Act in such a way that you will not be ashamed of yourself."
-Milarepa
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: cez] 1
#24257993 - 04/19/17 06:38 PM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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cez said: "Act in such a way that you will not be ashamed of yourself."
-Milarepa
Love it
Our parents bear the burden of our worries, but orphans must endure them themselves.
-Milarepa
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Middleman

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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: aura8] 1
#24264769 - 04/22/17 06:40 PM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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"A healthy ego is not the enemy of the sacred. It's the foundation that it stands upon."
- Jeff Brown
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Middleman]
#24271754 - 04/25/17 09:32 PM (6 years, 8 months ago) |
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"We had better continue to examine why it is customary among your contemporary favorites to have theaters everywhere, and what their contemporary actors do in these theaters, and how they manifest themselves there. "Their custom of assembling in theaters, often in large groups, arose in my opinion because these theaters and all that goes on in them happen to correspond very well to the abnormally formed common presence of most of your favorites, who have entirely lost the need proper to three-brained beings to actualize their own initiative in everything, and who exist solely in accordance with accidental shocks from outside or the promptings of the consequences crystallized in them of one or another of the properties of the organ kundabuffer.
- GI Gurdjieff
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"God is eternally free. To realize God is to attain liberation from the bondage of illusion. The greater the strife and the more intensified the struggle to attain liberation, the more the shackles of illusion are felt, because this very action brings greater awareness of the illusion, which then becomes all the more impressive and realistic. All actions, whether good or bad, just or unjust, charitable or uncharitable, are responsible in making the bond of illusion firmer and tighter. The goal is to achieve perfect inaction, which does not mean merely inactivity. When the self is absent, one achieves inaction in one's every action."
Meher Baba
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“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”
Joseph Campbell
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