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| The journey is sometimes illustrated as the ascent of a column of light, extending from the depths of hell to the lucid paradise in the cosmic North. |
| "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.. . Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Gustav Jung. |
| Sleep, my child and peace attend thee, All Through the Night. Guardian angels God will send Thee All Through the night. Soft the drowsy hours are creeping Hill and vale in slumber sleeping; God His loving vigil keeping All Through the Night. |
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| And into the world came the unicorn: flying on wings of milky glass, landing like a satin ghost near the mystical sea |
| It has been heavily emphasized to never touch a Unicorn unless you are pure of heart |
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| The creature of light, the pure creature |
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| Hermits hide from mankind Most go to the mountains to sleep Where green vines wind through woods And jade gorges echo unbroken Higher and higher enraptured On and on simply free Free of what stains the world Minds pure like the white lotus - Cold Mountain |
God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction. Meister Eckhart |
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O candle, you seem to have the qualities of the Sufis. For you have six attributes which belong to people of Purity: sleepless nights, a radiant face, pallor, a burning heart, tears in your eyes and alertness ~ Rumi |
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| We are, "star stuff pondering star stuff." Dr. Carl Sagan Our bodies are made out of atoms that once came from stars and other objects in the cosmos. When we enter into contemplation and mysticalstates, our awareness is elsewhere; we become "dead to the world,"have risen above body-consciousness. then the heart reveals itself as what it really is, that is as the tabernacle of the Divine Mystery in man. |
| "'Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!' 'Well, now that we have seen each other,' said the unicorn, 'if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.'" --Lewis Carroll; Through the Looking Glass |
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| That pure substance is different from this dusty world. We once came down; soon we'll return. Rumi |
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| I t is said that the swan sings once, just before it dies |
| " We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, We are spiritual beings having a human experience." |
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| "The Grail is the heart, illumined and awakened so that it may serve as a receptacle for divine energies." --Richard Smoley |
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| Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. ~~ Wordsworth |
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| Tell me, O Swan, your ancient tale. From what land do you come, O Swan [soul]? to what shore will you fly? Where would you take your rest, O Swan, and what do you seek? Even this morning, O Swan, awake, arise, follow me! There is a land where no doubt nor sorrow have rule: where the terror of Death is no more. There the woods of spring are a-bloom, There the heart is deeply immersed, and desires no other joy. -- from: "Songs of Kabir" |
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Very old are we men;Our dreams are tales told in dim Eden ; By Eve's nightingales; We wake and whisper awhile,But, the day gone by,Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie. -- "All That's Past" -- Walter de la Mare |
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