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Words Of Wisdom {Page Six}
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
~Erich Fromm~
If we can reach the understanding of what we actually are, there is no better remedy for eliminating all suffering. This is the heart of all spiritual practices. ~Kalu Rinpoche~
"I am in all things, From Brahma to a blade of grass." When you know this, You have no thought For success or failure Or the mind's inconstancy. You are pure. You are still. ~Ashtavakra Gita~
Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it. ~Dalai Lama~
Even as rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, So lust breaks through an ill-trained mind. Even as rain breaks not through a well-thatched house, So lust breaks not through a well-trained mind. ~Dhammapada~
Earth, fire and water, The wind and the sky, You are none of these. If you wish to be free, Know you are the Self, The witness of all these, The heart of awareness. Set your body aside. Sit in your own awareness. You will at once be happy, Forever still, Forever free. ~Ashtavakra Gita~
When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand� books of scripture are not enough. When you have realized� understanding, even one word is too much. ~Fen-Yang~
In dark night live those for whom The world without alone is real; in night Darker still, for whom the world within Alone is real. The first leads to a life Of action, the second to a life of meditation. But those who combine action with meditation Cross the sea of death through action And enter into immortality Through the practice of meditation. So have we heard from the wise. ~Isha~
"But what makes these 'experts' preach their opinion and call it truth?" asked the inquirer. "Is it an inheritance of humankind to do this, or is it merely something they gain satisfaction from?"� "Apart from consciousness," answered the Buddha, "no absolute truths exist. False reasoning declares one view to be true and another view wrong. It is delight in their dearly held opinions that makes them assert that anyone who disagrees is bound to come to a bad end. But no true seeker becomes embroiled in all this. Pass by peacefully and go a stainless way, free from theories, lusts and dogmas."
~Majjhima Nikaya~
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. ~Jerry Garcia~
"I got this today," they say; "Tomorrow I shall get that. This wealth is mine, and that will be mine too. I have destroyed my enemies. I shall destroy others too! Am I not like God? I enjoy what I want. I am successful. I am powerful. I am rich and well-born. Who is equal to me? I will perform sacrifices and give gifts, and rejoice in my own generosity." This is how they go on, deluded by ignorance. Bound by their greed, and entangled in a web of delusion, whirled about by a fragmented mind, they fall into a dark hell. ~Bhagavad Gita~
We confuse attachment with love. Attachment is concerned with my needs, my happiness, while love is an unselfish attitude, concerned with the needs and happiness of others....� A relationship free of unrealistic grasping is free of disappointment, conflict, jealousy, and other problems, and is fertile ground for the growth of love and wisdom. ~Kathleen McDonald~
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.� ~Helen Keller~
This mind is like a fish out of water that thrashes and throws itself about, its thoughts following each of its cravings. Such a wandering mind is weak and unsteady, attracted here, there and everywhere. How good it is to control it and know the happiness of freedom. ~Dhammapada~
If men are disposed to spread the faults of friends, What deadly harm might they do to strangers? ~Tirukkural~
The person who is ambitious, spiritually or otherwise, can never be without a problem, because problems cease only when the self if forgotten.
~J. Krishnamurti~
Take heed that when effort is too strenuous it leads to strain and when too slack to laziness. So make a firm determination that you will adopt the middle way, not allowing yourself to struggle or to slacken, but recognizing that faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom are the fruits of a calm and equable way. ~Theragatha~
Forget anger toward all who have offended you, For from anger springs a multitude of wrongs. The face's smile and the heart's joy are slain by anger. Does there exist a greater enemy than one's own anger? ~Tirukkural~
The person who is ambitious, spiritually or otherwise, can never be without a problem, because problems cease only when the self if forgotten.
~J. Krishnamurti~
It does not require many words to speak the truth. ~Chief Joseph~
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. ~Buddha~
All beings tremble before violence. All fear death. All love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do? ~Dhammapada~
He is the Supreme Brahman, the Self of all, the chief foundation of this world, subtler than the subtle, eternal. That thou art; thou art That. ~Atharva Veda~
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.�~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle~
Even when he is still, The selfish man is busy.� Even when he is busy, The selfless man is still. ~Ashtavakra Gita~
So much fear and desire come from that commitment to 'I am'--to being somebody. Eventually they take us to anxiety and despair; life seems much more difficult and painful than it really is.� But when we just observe life for what it is, then it's all right: the delights, the beauty, the pleasures are just that. ~Ajahn Sumedho~
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for. ~Epicurus~
In Witchcraft and Magic, it is essential to face one's own anger, recognize it in others, even when hidden, and to handle it with a high level of awareness, realistically and ethically. ~Gnostica~
Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. We are part of the world, we are the heart of it. ~Unknown~
Whose minds are well-developed in the factors of self-awakening, who delight in non-clinging, relinquishing grasping-- resplendent, their effluents ended: they, in the world, are Unbound.
~Dhammapada~
The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional as to how they perceive the veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their Nation.
~George Washington~
He has no staff nor tuft nor sacred thread. He faces heat and cold, pleasure and pain, Honor and dishonor with equal calm. He is not affected by calumny, Pride, jealousy, status, joy or sorrow, Greed, anger, or infatuation, Excitement, egoism, or other goads; For [the illuminated man] knows he is neither body nor mind. ~Paramahamsa~
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn. ~unknown~
And even if we were to see through the ego's lies, we are just to scared to abandon it; for without any true knowledge of the nature of our mind, or our true identity, we simply have no alternative. Again and again we cave into it's demands with the same self hatred as... the drug addict, groping for the drug that he/she knows after a brief high will
only leave him/her flat and desperate. ~Sogya Rinpoche~
To trust a stranger without investigation Invites troubles so endless even descendants must endure. ~Tirukkural~
We do not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ~Carl Jung~
If you cling to an idea as the inalterable truth, then when the truth does come in person and knock at your door, you will not be able to open
the door and accept it. ~Udana Sutta~
Joy and sorrow are inseparable... together they come and when one sits alone with you... remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
~Kahlil Gibran~
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
~Dalai Lama~
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. ~Sir Winston Churchill~
When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place. In the still mind, in the depths of meditation, the Self reveals itself. Beholding the Self by means of the Self, an aspirant knows the joy and peace of complete fulfillment. Having attained that abiding joy beyond the senses, revealed in the stilled mind, he never swerves from the eternal truth. He desires nothing else, and cannot be shaken by the heaviest burden of sorrow. ~Bhagavad Gita~
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. ~Mahatma Gandhi~
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. ~Gen Douglas MacArthur~
Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say "more or less" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect. ~Mahatma Gandhi~
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. ~Harry S. Truman~
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. ~Buddha~
To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same.
~Bhagavad Gita~
It is not that anger and desire are inherently evil or that we should feel ashamed when they arise. It is a matter of seeing them as the delusions that they are: distorted conceptions that paint a false picture of reality. They are negative because they lead to unhappiness and confusion. ~Kathleen McDonald~
Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. ~Amy Tan~
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you
realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you. ~Lao Tzu~
The true creativity comes out of sitting silently. When you are so
totally quiet that there is no thought, no wave in the ocean of your
being, out of this silence comes a different kind of creativity. ~Mohan~
The answer is that you will get nothing out of it because enlightenment
is the realization that there is no you to get enlightened; that your
sense of separation and individuality is an illusion. ~Leo Hartong~
Cultivate modesty in the midst of good fortune, But in times of
adversity preserve your dignity. ~Tirukkural~
We cannot hold a torch to light another person's path without
brightening our own. ~Ben Sweetland~
Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on
the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom,
life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an
ecstasy. ~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj~
The�liberties�of�our�country,
the�freedom�of�our�civil�constitution,
are�worth�defending�at�all�hazards;
and�it�is�our�duty to defend them
against all attacks.
We�have�received�them
as a fair inheritance
from our worthy ancestors;
they purchased them for us
with toil and danger and�expense�of�treasure�and�blood.
It�will�bring an�everlasting�mark�of�infamy
on�the�present�generation, enlightened as it is, if we should
suffer them to�be�wrested�from�us�by�violence without a
struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and
designing men.
~Samuel�Adams~
Your own self is your own mainstay, for who else could your mainstay be?
With you yourself well-trained you obtain the mainstay hard to obtain.
~Dhammapada~
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
become great.
~Mark Twain~
The intense desire for God-realization is itself the way to it. ~Sri
Anadamayi MM~
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the
mountain that sustain life, not the top.
~Robert M. Pirsig~
A moment comes when the true self reveals itself. That moment comes when
you are willing to be unconditionally present in the imperfection of
this moment. A simple change of attitude; instead of chasing after
perfection, you allow a total and profound surrendering to the
imperfection of the moment.
~Tyohar~
Behold, Arjuna, a million divine forms, with an infinite variety of
color and shape. Behold the gods of the natural world, and many more
wonders never revealed before. Behold the entire cosmos turning within
my body, and the other things you desire to see.� But these things
cannot be seen with your physical eyes; therefore I give you spiritual
vision to perceive my majestic power. ~Bhagavad Gita~
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one
can go. ~T.S. Eliot~
If you keep thinking "That man has abused me," holding it as a
much-cherished grievance, your anger will never be allayed. If you can
put down that fury-inducing thought, your anger will lessen. Fury will
never end fury, it will just ricochet on and on. Only putting it down
will end such an abysmal state.
~Sunnata Vagga~
Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on
the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom,
life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an
ecstasy. ~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj~
They project this self-created world onto their ideas of past and future and the present moment. They try to crystallize reality into permanent shapes and categories. In this way they veil the path of insight, the spiritual path which reveals the innate clarity, freedom, and radiant transparency of What Is.
~Prajnaparamita~
"If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house,
There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world." ~Chinese Proverb~
In the absence of intention there can be no psychological basis for any involvement with activity and events or their outcome. There is then perfect alignment with whatever might happen, an acceptance of events without any feeling of either achievement or frustration. ~Ramesh S. Balsekar~
Our first priority should be to prepare a long-term strategy for improving the state of the world that focuses on the coming generations. ~His Holiness the Dalai Lama~
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." ~Ann Landers~
The true philosopher honors and pays homage to the gods of all nations, [planetary communities, galactic civilizations, and beyond] becoming "a priest of the entire universe."
~Proclus~
Watch your thoughts, They become words, Watch your words, They become actions, Watch your actions, They become habits, Watch your habits, They become character, Watch your character, It becomes your destiny... ~unknown~
Having applied himself to what was not his own task, and not having applied himself to what was, having disregarded the goal to grasp at what he held dear, he now envies those who kept after themselves, took themselves to task
~Dhammapada~
No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.� When such people die, they go to other realms where the righteous live. They dwell there for countless years and then are reborn into a home which is pure and prosperous. ~Bhagavad Gita~
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. ~Michael Jordan~
Meditation is an effort to penetrate beyond matter physiology, beyond mind psychology, and to find the original source of life and consciousness.
~Osho~
The more I look into the world the more deeply I must look within. ~John MacEnulty~
Self-control will place a man among the Gods, While lack of it will lead him into deepest darkness. ~Tirukkural~
To be attached to one's own happiness is a barrier to the true and perfect path. To cherish others is the source of every admirable quality. ~Tsongkhapa~
The real teacher is life itself. The invitation to see this is extended in this very moment, and the guidance of a formal teacher, while helpful to many, is not needed. There are no fixed rules as to how awakening should occur.
~Leo Hartong~
An old man sits on a granite step. He plucks a treasured guitar. The strings throb with feeling; He needs no audience to open his heart. A boy enthusiastically wants to learn his style. "Style?" asks the man slowly. "My style is made of The long road of life, of heartbreak. And joy, and people loved, and loneliness. Of war and its atrocities. Of a baby born. Of burying parents and friends. My scale is the seven stars of the dipper. The hollow of my guitar is the space between heaven and earth. How can I show you my style? You have your own young life. Everyone has their own style in life. The old have perspective. The young have vigor. We can learn from each other, but we cannot have what the other generations possess. We are each shaped by our generations, and to transcend the limitations of our time is a rare occurrence indeed." ~Deng Ming-Dao~
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