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OrgoneConclusion
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Re: Can a person proclaim themselves to be 'on the path' [Re: Icelander]
#8515240 - 06/12/08 12:56 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Don't fret, you and I don't agree about most things.
One day yet, you may open your eyes.
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Icelander
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Re: Can a person proclaim themselves to be 'on the path' [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#8515375 - 06/12/08 01:30 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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A. A 56 year-old man
B. An ageless being
C. Elton John
D. Elvis
-------------------- "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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Re: Can a person proclaim themselves to be 'on the path' [Re: Icelander]
#8515377 - 06/12/08 01:31 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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E. Sally Jesse Raphael
-------------------- Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. ~ R.W. Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
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Icelander
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Re: Can a person proclaim themselves to be 'on the path' [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#8515380 - 06/12/08 01:31 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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OrgoneConclusion said:
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Don't fret, you and I don't agree about most things.
One day yet, you may open your eyes.
I certainly hope not. One of you is quite enough.
-------------------- "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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OrgoneConclusion
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Re: Can a person proclaim themselves to be 'on the path' [Re: Icelander]
#8515401 - 06/12/08 01:35 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Icelander
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Re: Can a person proclaim themselves to be 'on the path' [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#8515404 - 06/12/08 01:36 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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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. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Icelander
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Re: Can a person proclaim themselves to be 'on the path' [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#8515427 - 06/12/08 01:44 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Can a person proclaim themselves to be 'on the path'
"A path is only a path. They all lead into the bush and back out again. And in the end, all paths meet. And the only important thing about any path is, does this path have a heart."
More Castaneda for you Swami.:D
-------------------- "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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Re: Can a person proclaim themselves to be 'on the path' [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#8515537 - 06/12/08 02:01 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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OrgoneConclusion
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Re: Can a person proclaim themselves to be 'on the path' [Re: Icelander]
#8515583 - 06/12/08 02:08 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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They all lead into the bush and back out again.
In Orange and LA counties in CA, it is rare to find any bush at all.
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Re: Can a person proclaim themselves to be 'on the path' [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#8519342 - 06/13/08 11:46 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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I don't believe that there is necessarily a 'path' at all. To believe in a path is to arrogantly assume that your way of spiritual advancement is the correct path to follow, while devaluing the choices made by others. There is one important lesson that I have learned and that is to question the words made by someone who believes that they have all the answers.
There is one thing I have recently learned and that is what it is truly look upon people without judgement, before I considered it important for everyone to hold the values of open-mindedness, kindness and a concern for the world around them. I believed that a man should be able to live his life however he wished as long as he followed these universal laws (or what I considered noble traits). Recently I discovered it was not my place to look down upon anyone who would act in what I would percieve as a negative way, the liar, the cheat, the criminal, it is not my place to judge them for these things are all relative to us. The experiences I have learnt in MY life tell are the basis for what I perceive to be correct, these are not necesarilly what is best for others. And while it is very hard to live in a world of hatred, anger and fear I cannot judge others for this, nor should I seperate myself mentally from the rest of humankind.
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