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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: TrippyHippie74] * 1
    #13039216 - 08/11/10 10:32 PM (13 years, 5 months ago)

"To me, death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's treacherous." - Jim Jones


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: circastes] * 1
    #13049444 - 08/14/10 04:43 AM (13 years, 5 months ago)

There are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is the same as that of the religious fanatics, and it springs from the same source.
They are creatures who can't hear the music of the spheres - Einstein

We rarely hear the inward music,
but we’re all dancing to it nevertheless - Rumi

I saw you and became empty.
This emptiness, more beautiful than existence,
it obliterates existence, and yet when it comes,
existence thrives and creates more existence!
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To praise is to praise
how one surrenders
to the emptiness. Rumi


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7] * 1
    #13053362 - 08/15/10 12:51 AM (13 years, 5 months ago)

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Chronic777 said:
There are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is the same as that of the religious fanatics, and it springs from the same source.
They are creatures who can't hear the music of the spheres - Einstein

We rarely hear the inward music,
but we’re all dancing to it nevertheless - Rumi

I saw you and became empty.
This emptiness, more beautiful than existence,
it obliterates existence, and yet when it comes,
existence thrives and creates more existence!
...
To praise is to praise
how one surrenders
to the emptiness. Rumi




:thumbup: some good shit right there.

It's funny how simple It really is.  And I will agree, if you miss the forest for the trees, that one may get distracted by silly details.  I just wish people who are the way they "actually" are would just be as they are.  And I mean that in the best way possible.

The first step is realizing the "mess" you've been living.  If you don't panic out of regrets of the past and scorn whatever catalystic event made this reality apparent, you might learn something and "better" yourself to reverberate with what's actually going on.  And when you do get to a certain point of realization and maintain a pragmatic understanding of the relationships everything has with each other then you know there no other place to go but of right this moment.  All else is just a clashing of poles (+,-) in all its beauty and grace.  Once you stop looking at the big picture under a microscope, you realize you might as well stop observing everything happenings and just be a part of it.  In the entropic dance of life, where the configuration of a protein is based on what its present environment is, I couldn't be more pleased with ease to live the same way everything else is "living". 
~Xeng Xhi Wu

For those who are missing the forest for the trees.
In one previous book, I read this, "Words are mere pins by which we may hang ideas and concepts from."
From that, I hope you will see the similarities and differences in everything and not get bogged down by the "definitions" of words but of the ideas and concepts they are trying to put an extremely loose shape around.


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is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao        ~Daodejing


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero]
    #13053559 - 08/15/10 02:23 AM (13 years, 5 months ago)

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soldatheero said:
The Universe

What if someone said to an embryo in the womb,
“Outside of your world of black nothing
is a miraculously ordered universe;
a vast Earth covered with tasty food;
mountains, oceans and plains,
fragrant orchards and fields full of crops;
a luminous sky beyond your reach,
with a sun, moonbeams, and uncountable stars;
and there are winds from south, north and west,
and gardens replete with sweet flowers
like a banquet at a wedding feast.

The wonders of this world are beyond description.
What are you doing living in a dark prison,
Drinking blood through that narrow tube?”
But the womb- world is all an embryo knows
And it would not be particularly impressed
By such amazing tales, saying dismissively:
“You’re crazy. That is all a deluded fantasy.”

One day you will look back and laugh at yourself.
You’ll say, “ I can’t believe I was so asleep!
How did I ever forget the truth?
How ridiculous to believe that sadness and sickness
Are anything other than bad dreams.”

-Rumi





I can remember the first time I read that, thanks for it again :thumbup:


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Freedom]
    #13053573 - 08/15/10 02:28 AM (13 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

Freedom said:
Quote:

soldatheero said:
The Universe

What if someone said to an embryo in the womb,
“Outside of your world of black nothing
is a miraculously ordered universe;
a vast Earth covered with tasty food;
mountains, oceans and plains,
fragrant orchards and fields full of crops;
a luminous sky beyond your reach,
with a sun, moonbeams, and uncountable stars;
and there are winds from south, north and west,
and gardens replete with sweet flowers
like a banquet at a wedding feast.

The wonders of this world are beyond description.
What are you doing living in a dark prison,
Drinking blood through that narrow tube?”
But the womb- world is all an embryo knows
And it would not be particularly impressed
By such amazing tales, saying dismissively:
“You’re crazy. That is all a deluded fantasy.”

One day you will look back and laugh at yourself.
You’ll say, “ I can’t believe I was so asleep!
How did I ever forget the truth?
How ridiculous to believe that sadness and sickness
Are anything other than bad dreams.”

-Rumi





I can remember the first time I read that, thanks for it again :thumbup:




I like that too


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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao        ~Daodejing


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Cracka_X] * 1
    #13053592 - 08/15/10 02:39 AM (13 years, 5 months ago)

All right then here is another from Rumi:

I've said before that every craftsman
searches for what's not there
to practice his craft.

A builder looks for the rotten hole
where the roof caved in. A water-carrier
picks the empty pot. A carpenter
stops at the house with no door.

Workers rush toward some hint
of emptiness, which they then
start to fill. Their hope, though,
is for emptiness, so don't think
you must avoid it. It contains
what you need!
Dear soul, if you were not friends
with the vast nothing inside,
why would you always be casting you net
into it, and waiting so patiently?

This invisible ocean has given you such abundance,
but still you call it "death",
that which provides you sustenance and work.

God has allowed some magical reversal to occur,
so that you see the scorpion pit
as an object of desire,
and all the beautiful expanse around it,
as dangerous and swarming with snakes.

This is how strange your fear of death
and emptiness is, and how perverse
the attachment to what you want.


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Freedom] * 1
    #13070670 - 08/18/10 07:47 PM (13 years, 5 months ago)

I have never seen that one thanks.

Here is another from Meher Baba

"Infinite consciousness can never lessen at any point in time or space. Infinite consciousness includes every aspect of consciousness. Unconsciousness is one of the aspects of infinite consciousness. Thus infinite consciousness includes unconsciousness. It sustains, covers, pierces through, and provides an end to, unconsciousness — which flows from and is consumed by infinite consciousness.

In order to assert infinite consciousness unequivocally I declare that I have infinite consciousness; and I can do this most emphatically because I am infinite consciousness. I am everything and I am beyond, beyond everything. I am ever conscious that I am in you, while you are never conscious that I am in you. Daily I support you and share your consciousness. Now I want you to uphold me and share my consciousness one day.

Man being unconscious of actually possessing the never-ending continually conscious experience that God is everything and all else is nothing, for him everything is everything: Air is. Water is. Fire is. Earth is. Light is. Darkness is. Stone is. Iron is. Vegetation is. Insect is. Fish is. Bird is. Beast is. Man is. Good is. Bad is. Pain is. Pleasure is — and thus there is no end to what all else is, until he arrives at "nothing is" and instantaneously he realizes "God Is..."

Read the continuation here http://www.avatarmeherbaba.org/erics/godalone.html


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero] * 1
    #13071459 - 08/18/10 10:34 PM (13 years, 5 months ago)

God is a concept, by which we measure our pain

- Lennon


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: edithpiaf] * 1
    #13079157 - 08/20/10 03:24 PM (13 years, 5 months ago)

"Signs and symbols control the world, not phases and laws" - Confucius


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    #13088648 - 08/22/10 10:58 PM (13 years, 5 months ago)

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    #13089790 - 08/23/10 10:10 AM (13 years, 5 months ago)

Just Be


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Chronic7] * 1
    #13097936 - 08/24/10 10:17 PM (13 years, 5 months ago)

P. D. Ouspensky a Russian mystic philosopher:

"It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning."

"Two things can get people to make efforts: if people want to get something, or if they want to get rid of something. Only, in ordinary conditions, without knowledge, people do not know what they can get rid of or what they can gain."

"here exist moments in life, separated by long intervals of time, but linked together by their inner content and by a certain singular sensation peculiar to them."

"The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time is simple in comparison with the problem of Eternity."

"The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious."

"People who think they can control their negative emotions and manifest them when they want to, simply deceive themselves. Negative emotions depend on identification; if identification is destroyed in some particular case, they disappear. The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them. "


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: soldatheero] * 1
    #13106773 - 08/26/10 07:23 PM (13 years, 5 months ago)

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual  experience, you are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.


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    #13107149 - 08/26/10 08:37 PM (13 years, 5 months ago)

no one here gets out alive

j morrison :wink:


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: jack.hurricane87] * 1
    #13107697 - 08/26/10 10:24 PM (13 years, 5 months ago)

"Nirvana is a very exclusive club - no one is in it." - Zen Master Rama

"People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no point, and all of the achievements of the human race are meaningless." - Rama


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deff]
    #13113731 - 08/28/10 11:01 AM (13 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

"People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no point, and all of the achievements of the human race are meaningless."



haha sick.. intense.


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    #13115309 - 08/28/10 05:06 PM (13 years, 5 months ago)

"The good news is that we don't last. Thank heavens! Because to continue the drama of who you are, is boring, ultimately. The universe is our friend because it kills us - and that's what friends are for." - Rama

this site is full of great quotes by him - www.ramaquotes.com


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: deff]
    #13115434 - 08/28/10 05:40 PM (13 years, 5 months ago)

I really like that one.


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"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.
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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: Icelander]
    #13155405 - 09/06/10 02:26 PM (13 years, 4 months ago)

Keep the faith-Bonjovi


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    #13155671 - 09/06/10 03:32 PM (13 years, 4 months ago)

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream–and not make dreams your master,
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings–nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And–which is more–you’ll be a Man, my son!


–Rudyard Kipling


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