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Words Of Wisdom {Page Three}
When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effor fills you with activity. As long as you remain in one extreme or the other you will never know oneness. ~Sosan~
The source of the life force is eternal-The center within-We do not need to collect it like material things for it is already and always here. ~Unknown~
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow. ~Harriet Martineau~
The mind of a true man is like a mirro which reflects whatever is before it and when the thing is gone, it returns to nothingness. It's purity is preserved moment to moment. ~Zhuang Zi~
Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of you actions. ~J. Borysenko~
Success is not defined by obtaining everything you want, but by appreciating everything you have. ~Unknown~
Be thankful for each and every morning. Enjoy life and worry not about things that wouldn't matter in 10 years anyway. ~Unknown~
The spiritual journey is one of continous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble. ~S. Rinpoche~
Nothing is a wast of time if you use the experience wisely. ~Rodin~
Truth is hidden in the subtle nature of the heart of everything, All though it is invisible. One cannot see it from inside and neither from the surface. One can only live and experience it. ~Heart Sutra~
Whatever you do, don't shut off your pain; accept your pain and remain vulnerable. However desperate you become, accept your pain as it is. Because it is in fact trying to hand you a priceless gift: The chance of discovering, through spiritual practice, what lies behind sorrow. ~Sogyal Rinpoche~
To experience directly one must be awar of oneself in the proces of repitition, of habits, or words, of sensations. That awareness gives one an extraordinary freedom, so that there can be a renewal, a constant experiencing, a newness. ~J. Krishnamurti~
Meditation is nothing but a device to make aware of your real self which is not created by you, which you already are. You are born with it. You are it. It needs to be discovered. ~Osho~
Understanding is now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is for the lazy mind. The Sluggish mind, the mind that is not interested. Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow. ~J. Krishnamurti~
Everyone knows the logic of a truth, but how many people actually practise it? ~Daolin~
Your own treasure hous already contains everything you need. Why don't you use it freely, Instead of chasing after something outside yourself.
~Ma Tzu~
Good friends and excellent teachers-Stick close to them! Wealth and power are fleeting dreams but wise words perfume the world for ages. ~Ryokan~
I am nobody and nobody is perfect: Therefor I am perfect. ~Unknown~
There is hope in me, not in society, not in systems, not in organized religious systems, but in you and in me. ~J. Krishnamurti~
When you are at ease with yourself, you are at ease everywhere; in the crowd, in the mountain, in the marketplace. ~Nahsti~
Master, will you please write for me some maxims of the highest wisdom? Ikkyu immediately took his brush and wrote the word "Attention". ~Ikkyu~
The best day or your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours. It is an amazing journey. And you along are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begings. ~Unknown~
Impermanant are all created things. Strive on with awareness. ~Siddhartha Guatama~
A Lightworkers Prayer
O first source and final home of all radiance and vibration!
Create within us a space where your voice is clar and your spirit can abide.
Manifest within us that we man bring forth the fulfillment of creation.
Let our actions bear fruit according to our desires and harm none.
Endow us with empathy for what each spirit needs to achieve fulfillment and enlightenment.Fulfill our karmic destiny that we may learn and grant us aid with our forgiveness of others mistakes.
Let us not be diverted from our spiritual tasks. Show us the path in which to walk.
For you are the seed of creation, the unmanifest power and the fulfillment of all that exists as we are gathered and made whole once again.
So Mote It Be!
You are a child of the universe. No less than the trees and the stars, you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore at peace with your god, whatever you concieve him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisey confusion of life, keep peace with your soul. With all it's sham and drudgery and broken dreams, it's still a beautiful world. Be carful. ~Desiderta, By Max Ehrmann, 1906~
As above, So below.
We are the Macrocosm. The Macrocosm calls we hear. We are the macrocosm, the glory of godhead. We are but the Microcosm. Falling short being human. We awaken. We see people from yesterday. We see people from today. We go through our day and live and learn. This is the microcosm. We are born. We see people from yesterday. We see people from today. We go through our life living and learning. We die. We are born. This is the macrocosm. Sleep is the death of the microcosm. Death is the sleep of the macrocosm. As above, So below. ~A.`.M.`.D.`.G.`.~
I tried to find him on the christian cross, but he was not there. I went to the temple of the Hindu's and to the old Pagodas but I could not find a trace of him anywhere. I searched on the mountains and in the valleys but neither in the heights nor in the depths was I able to find him. I went to the Caaba in Mecca, but he was not there either. I questioned the scholars and the philosophers but he was beyond their understanding. I then looked into my heart and it was there where he dwelled that I saw him. He was nowhere else to be found. ~Rumi~
Everybody is a star with the potentiality to shine in the infinite sky of eternity. ~Shanti~
Withdraw now from
the invisible pounding and weaving
of your ingrained ideas.
If you want to be rid of this
invisible turmoil, you must just sit
through it and let go of everything.
Attain fulfillment and illuminate thoroughly. Light and shadow altogether forgotten.
Drop off your own skin,
and the sense-dusts will be fully purified. The eye then readily discerns the brightness. ~Hongzhi Zhengjue (1091�1157)~
Borrowed knowledge is ignorance.
Experienced truth makes you not knowledgeable, but humble. The more you know it, the less you claim to know it. ~Osho~
The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and 'will' cannot evolve involuntarily. The evolution of man is the evolution of his power of doing, and 'doing' cannot be the result of things which happen. ~G. Gurdjieff~
Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. ~Chesterfield~
Let things happen naturally and do not try to force a certain outcome. That which is not natural will not be right. ~Lao Tzu~
The conscious thought "I must get enlightened" can be as much an impediment as any other which hangs in the mind. ~Dogen~
I claim that the truth is a pathless territory. And one cannot approach it by any path, by any religion or sect. This is my point of view, and I hold it absolutely and unconditionally. ~J. Krishnamurti~
From the great mystery that filled the void of Old Night, I became aware of myself as a being, In the time of Formation. I knew of myself as a being�.I Am�truly my name is "I Am" ~Unknown~
Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame. ~The Dhammapada~
In any environment, you are the environment itself. At any time, you are the time itself.
Every time and every place is uniquely different. There is no need to compare it with any other time and place. Just carefully taste the present - that is enough! ~Tsai Chich~
The universe is deathless because having no finite self it stays infinite. A man by never being an end in himself he endlessly becomes himself. ~Lao Tzu~
Tapping into inner silence reconnects us with our inborn divinity, that paradise of unconditional bliss everybody faintly remembers. ~Khoji~
Wisdom and knowledge are not the same thing. The intellect can never lead one to a complete insight. One has to use one's entire being to come into contact with the truth. ~Huineng~
If you want to know how rich you are, just count up all the things you have that money can't buy. ~Daniel Webster~
Just as a monkey roaming through the forest grabs hold of one branch, lets that go and grabs another, then lets go and grabs still another, so too that which is called "mind" and "mentality" and "consciousness" arises as one thing and ceases as another by day and by night. ~Buddha~
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.�~Ruth E. Renkel~
Abandon anger, Be done with conceit, Get beyond every fetter. When for name & form You have no attachment --have nothing at all-- no sufferings, no stresses, invade. ~Dhammapada~
I am boundless space. The world is a clay pot. This is the truth. There is nothing to accept, Nothing to reject, Nothing to dissolve.
~Ashtavakra Gita~
When all the desires that surge in the heart Are renounced, the mortal becomes Immortal. When all the knots that strangle the heart Are loosened, the mortal becomes immortal, Here in this very life.
~Brihadaranyaka~
Where there is dependence, there is instability, where there is no dependence, there is no instability, where there is no instability,
there is quietude, where there is quietude, there is no desire, where there is no desire, there is no coming and going, where there is no coming or going, there is no birth and death, where there is no birth or death, there is neither this world nor that world, nor both: that is the end of sorrow. ~Udana~
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.�~Kahlil Gibran~
To expound and propagate concepts is simple. But to drop all concepts is difficult and rare.
~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj~
In the same way that someone in the midst of a rough crowd guards a wound with great care, so in the midst of bad company should one always guard the wound that is the mind. ~Santideva, "Bodhicaryavatara"~
Never accept any criterion that makes you miserable. Never accept any morality that makes you feel guilty. Never accept anything that is trying to enforce something upon you against your simple nature. Just be yourself and you are perfect.
~Osho~
Don't associate with lowly qualities. Don't consort with heedlessness. Don't associate with wrong views. Don't busy yourself with the world. Get up! Don't be heedless. Live the Dhamma well. One who lives the Dhamma sleeps with ease in this world & the next. ~Dhammapada~
Be loving, be kind And follow the ways of goodness. Committed, and longing for the goal, Always keep going with courage. To dally and delay will not help you. But to be ardent is sure and safe. When you see it, cultivate the path, So you will touch and make your own The Deathless Way. ~Psalms of the Early Buddhists~
The sorrows of duty, Like the heat of the sun, Have scorched your heart. But let stillness fall on you With its sweet and cooling showers, And you will find happiness. ~Ashtavakra Gita~
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. ~Kahlil Gibran~ mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)
The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future. Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions. ~Bhante Henepola Gunaratana~
Blessed are they who, through an illumined Teacher, attain to Self-realization. The truth of the Self cannot come through one Who has not realized that he is the Self. The intellect cannot reveal the Self, Beyond its duality of the subject And object. They who see themselves in all And all in them help others through spiritual� Osmosis to realize the Self themselves. ~Katha Upanishad~
A learned man's learning shines the brightest among luminaries capable of critiquing his language.� Speaking to an audience of thinking men is like watering a bed of growing plants.�~Tirukkura~
Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. ~Rumi~
For those who are ready, the door To the deathless state is open. You that have ears, give up The conditions that bind you, and enter in. ~Majjhima Nikaya~
If all the land were turned to paper and all the seas turned to ink, and all the forests into pens to write with, they would still not suffice to describe the greatness of the guru. ~Kabir~
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.�~Neil Armstrong~
Break the old pattern of present-moment denial and present-moment resistance. Make it your practice to withdraw attention from past and future whenever they are not needed. Step out of the time dimension as much as possible in everyday life.�~Eckhart Tolle~
Life continues to create itself and fall away, and suffering returns, and delight arrives, if even for a moment--agony, peace, rapture. ~Sandy Boucher~
Fire is his head, the sun and moon his eyes, The heavens his ears, the scriptures his voice, The air his breath, the universe his heart, And the earth his footrest. The Lord of Love Is the innermost Self of all.�~Mundaka~
For a person of unsteady mind, Not knowing true Dhamma, Serenity Set adrift: Discernment doesn't grow full.� For a person of unsoddened mind, Unassaulted awareness, Abandoning merit & evil, Wakeful, There is no danger No fear. ~Dhammapada~
The beginning of meditation is self-knowledge, which means being aware of every movement of thought and feeling. ~J. Krishnamurti~
Once you accept life in all its imperfection, once you accept this "not good enough" situation, this "not good enough" life as it is, this moment as it is... you close the door to problems. Then all energy move upwards... ~Rabia~
In deep meditation aspirants may See forms like snow or smoke. They may feel A strong wind blowing or a wave of heat. They may see within them more and more light: Fireflies, lightning, sun, or moon. These are signs That one is far on the path to Brahman. ~Shvetashvatara~
The mind is like the wick of a lamp illumined only through its own radiance. ~Milarepa~
He who wants to expand the field of happiness, let him lay the foundation of it on the bottom of his heart. ~Tao saying~
The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work. ~Albert Schweitzer, MD~
Once you are finished with your past the whole of existence suddenly becomes your own kingdom. I call this the kingdom of god. There is no God - YOU are the god of this kingdom. And no effort is big enough. If you are an honest seeker you will be able to pass all the hindrances and relax into the silent pool of your being. ~Osho~
Due to having many parts there is no unity, There is not anything without parts. Further, without one, there is not many. Also, without existence there is no non-existence. ~Nagarjuna~
No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living. ~Marie Beynon Ray~
On this ever-revolving wheel of being The individual self goes round and round Through life after life, believing itself To be a separate creature, until It sees its identity with the Lord of Love And attains immortality in the indivisible whole. ~Shvetashvatara Upanishad~
Guarded in speech, Well-restrained in body & mind, Do nothing unskillful. Purify These three courses of action. Bring to fruition The path that seers have proclaimed. ~Dhammapada~
A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye and it fills the whole world and puts everything out of focus. Hold it at a proper distance and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw it at your feet and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway to life. ~Celia Luce~
Reshape yourself through the power of your will; never let yourself be degraded by self-will. The will is the only friend of the Self, and the will is the only enemy of the Self. ~Bhagavad Gita~
Three passions, simple but
overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ~Bertrand Russell~
Seeing to this, Neglecting that, Setting one thing against another... Who is free of such cares? When will they ever end?� Consider.� Without
passion, With dispassion, Let go. ~Ashtavakra Gita~
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light. ~Albert Schweitzer~
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine. ~Morris West~
That the self advances And confirms ten thousand things Is called delusion; That the ten thousand things Advance and confirm the self
Is called enlightenment. ~Dogen~
A complete human being is a buddha, a complete buddha is a human being. ~Unknown~
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