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"Never be bullied into silence,
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accept no one's definition of your life,
define yourself"-Harvey fierstein
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Original post: Son of mr. gordo
Just realise you are dreaming a dream you call the world and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another. Love all or none of it, and stop complaining. When you have seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs to be done
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
Just realise you are dreaming a dream you call the world and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another. Love all or none of it, and stop complaining. When you have seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs to be done
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Original post: Parsifal
'you don't see with your eyes, you see through them.'
- Bill Blake
'the greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return.'
-not sure, from a song, maybe David Bowie
'We arent human beings having a spiritual experience, but Spiritual beings having a human experience'
-we've all heard this one Im sure, but its a classic
'I bring you not peace, but a sword.'
-J.C.
'Im so confused anymore!'
-Mr. Show
'Shut your mouth and open your mouth.'
-from a roomate. Captures the importance of humility, selflessness in service, not to mention receptivity and silence.
'Good - bad, Im the guy with the gun.'
-Army of darkness
'you don't see with your eyes, you see through them.'
- Bill Blake
'the greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return.'
-not sure, from a song, maybe David Bowie
'We arent human beings having a spiritual experience, but Spiritual beings having a human experience'
-we've all heard this one Im sure, but its a classic
'I bring you not peace, but a sword.'
-J.C.
'Im so confused anymore!'
-Mr. Show
'Shut your mouth and open your mouth.'
-from a roomate. Captures the importance of humility, selflessness in service, not to mention receptivity and silence.
'Good - bad, Im the guy with the gun.'
-Army of darkness
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Original post: kuahji
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more thruth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond. -Hypatia
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -Hypatia
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. -Hypatia
Apathy leads to entropy resulting in demise. -DC (this is inspirational just for the mere fact it's a perfect reason not to allow apathy to control you).
I also find anything from Eistein very inspirational but there is just too many to list.
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more thruth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond. -Hypatia
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -Hypatia
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. -Hypatia
Apathy leads to entropy resulting in demise. -DC (this is inspirational just for the mere fact it's a perfect reason not to allow apathy to control you).
I also find anything from Eistein very inspirational but there is just too many to list.
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Original post: ~ Serenity ~
"I used to look at my dog and think, 'If you were a little smarter you could tell me what you were thinking,' and he'd look at me like he was saying, 'If you were a little smarter, I wouldn't have to.'" - Fred Jungclaus
"I used to look at my dog and think, 'If you were a little smarter you could tell me what you were thinking,' and he'd look at me like he was saying, 'If you were a little smarter, I wouldn't have to.'" - Fred Jungclaus
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Original post: vulnera
â??A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it."
-castaneda/don juan
"Ela kuku dea be vu la gbagbe" (A dead animal screams louder than a live one)
-ewe saying...
â??A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it."
-castaneda/don juan
"Ela kuku dea be vu la gbagbe" (A dead animal screams louder than a live one)
-ewe saying...
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Original post: SpiritedHellion
Do or Do not, there is no "Try" - Yoda
Gnothi Seuton - KNOW thyself
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. - Goethe
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. - Goethe
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. - Nietzsche
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. - Nietzsche
Do or Do not, there is no "Try" - Yoda
Gnothi Seuton - KNOW thyself
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. - Goethe
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. - Goethe
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. - Nietzsche
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. - Nietzsche
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Original post: Asherah
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
-Mother Teresa
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
-Mother Teresa
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Original post: Gavriel
My hut is roofed, comfortable,
free of drafts;
my mind, well-centered,
set free.
I remain ardent.
So, rain-deva.
Go ahead & rain.
- Subhuti
My hut is roofed, comfortable,
free of drafts;
my mind, well-centered,
set free.
I remain ardent.
So, rain-deva.
Go ahead & rain.
- Subhuti
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Original post: Kazahel
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
From A Course In Miracles.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
From A Course In Miracles.
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Original post: Aether
"You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience, you are a spiritual being,immersed in a human experience." - (Teilhard de Chardin)
"This is it,now is the time to choose.Die and be free of pain, or live and fight your sorrow.This is your story now,your fate is in your hands." - (Squaresoft)
"Dreams are todays answers to tomorrows questions."
(Unknown)
"They say dreams are only real as long as they last.Couldn't you say the same about life."
(Unknown)
Be warned, this is a long one..
"When I say "love," the sound comes out of my mouth and hits the other person's ear, travels through this Byzantine conduit in their brain, through their memories of love, or lack of love, and they register what I'm saying, and they say "Yes, I understand," but how do I know they understand? Words are inert; They're just symbols; They're dead. You know? And, so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed; It's unspeakable. Yet, when we communicate with one another, and we feel that we have connected, and we think that we are understood, I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion, and that feeling might be transient, but I think it's what we live for."
(Blonde Girl - Waking Life Documentary)
"You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience, you are a spiritual being,immersed in a human experience." - (Teilhard de Chardin)
"This is it,now is the time to choose.Die and be free of pain, or live and fight your sorrow.This is your story now,your fate is in your hands." - (Squaresoft)
"Dreams are todays answers to tomorrows questions."
(Unknown)
"They say dreams are only real as long as they last.Couldn't you say the same about life."
(Unknown)
Be warned, this is a long one..
"When I say "love," the sound comes out of my mouth and hits the other person's ear, travels through this Byzantine conduit in their brain, through their memories of love, or lack of love, and they register what I'm saying, and they say "Yes, I understand," but how do I know they understand? Words are inert; They're just symbols; They're dead. You know? And, so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed; It's unspeakable. Yet, when we communicate with one another, and we feel that we have connected, and we think that we are understood, I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion, and that feeling might be transient, but I think it's what we live for."
(Blonde Girl - Waking Life Documentary)
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Original post: Asteologos
"To affirm and will what ought to be is to create; to affirm and will what ought not to be is to destroy" -Eliphas Levi
"To affirm and will what ought to be is to create; to affirm and will what ought not to be is to destroy" -Eliphas Levi
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Original post: Kingu
That is the way that it is in that it is that way - Robert Fripp.
That is the way that it is in that it is that way - Robert Fripp.
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Original post: ~ Serenity ~
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
Maybe not overtly spiritual by some definitions but this attitude has carried me through the most challenging times of my life and sustains me today, so its "spiritual" enough for me.
fera
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
Maybe not overtly spiritual by some definitions but this attitude has carried me through the most challenging times of my life and sustains me today, so its "spiritual" enough for me.
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Original post: Mystikiwi
He also said...feranaja wrote:Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
That could apply to me, but if someone is "barking up the wrong tree" then persistence doesn't seem like such a great thing. :pIf I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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well youre stating the obvious here Mystikiwi. Of course Know Thyself is the foundation for anything. It took me a long time to "know myself" but I can tell you this: when a goal has real power, real authenticity to it, you know it. See my quote from Goethe earlier in this thread. The evolved mind can see the difference bewteen a flight of passion, an earthly desire, and a True Calling.
One of course needs the discretionary capabilities required to make this distinction.Its easy to mistake soemthing you WANT for something you ARE. Theyre not the same thing. Some people possess this aptitude quite early in life while others takeyears to develop it. the very act of trying and failing to a ccomplish a thing hones the intellect so these distinctions become clearer.
When you find the thing your soul wants the most, you will know. And dont let it go. there is nothing sadder than someone who gave up early in life and lives out their days as a shell of what they might have been. Nothing sadder then an unlived life. And it is never, EVER "too late".
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well youre stating the obvious here Mystikiwi. Of course Know Thyself is the foundation for anything. It took me a long time to "know myself" but I can tell you this: when a goal has real power, real authenticity to it, you know it. See my quote from Goethe earlier in this thread. The evolved mind can see the difference bewteen a flight of passion, an earthly desire, and a True Calling.
One of course needs the discretionary capabilities required to make this distinction.Its easy to mistake soemthing you WANT for something you ARE. Theyre not the same thing. Some people possess this aptitude quite early in life while others takeyears to develop it. the very act of trying and failing to a ccomplish a thing hones the intellect so these distinctions become clearer.
When you find the thing your soul wants the most, you will know. And dont let it go. there is nothing sadder than someone who gave up early in life and lives out their days as a shell of what they might have been. Nothing sadder then an unlived life. And it is never, EVER "too late".
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Original post: Dunhill
Willy Wonka: Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.
I don't know why but the Cooledge quote reminded me of this.
Or perhaps more on topic -
Willy Wonka: [singing] There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.
From the original I should add...
Willy Wonka: Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.
I don't know why but the Cooledge quote reminded me of this.
Or perhaps more on topic -
Willy Wonka: [singing] There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.
From the original I should add...
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Original post: alex silver wolf
That the devil exists there can be no doubt, but is he trying to get in, or trying to get out. source unknown
That the devil exists there can be no doubt, but is he trying to get in, or trying to get out. source unknown
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Original post: Aether
"We are a wondrous gathering of atoms formed into an incredible being, capable of experiencing our own existence. While we live this experience we must be thankful for it, and live it fully. When it ends, we return to what we were before it began. What we create and leave behind is our gift to those who will follow us. We return to the universe as we came from it, to be recreated, and recycled into the infinite all."
- Allan Revich
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
~ Erica Jong in How to Save Your Own Life (1977).
"We are a wondrous gathering of atoms formed into an incredible being, capable of experiencing our own existence. While we live this experience we must be thankful for it, and live it fully. When it ends, we return to what we were before it began. What we create and leave behind is our gift to those who will follow us. We return to the universe as we came from it, to be recreated, and recycled into the infinite all."
- Allan Revich
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
~ Erica Jong in How to Save Your Own Life (1977).
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Original post: GanGanSharanam
To become mature is to live more intensely in the present, at the same time escaping from the limitations of the present. The plans of maturity, founded on past experience, are coming into being in the present in such manner as to enhance the values of the future.
The future is past memories that are still potent enough to influence the now.
'Make Home"
To become mature is to live more intensely in the present, at the same time escaping from the limitations of the present. The plans of maturity, founded on past experience, are coming into being in the present in such manner as to enhance the values of the future.
The future is past memories that are still potent enough to influence the now.
'Make Home"
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Original post: GanGanSharanam
what is felt of hashed cover phrases like "of course" and "wrong tree"?
laziness.
what is felt of hashed cover phrases like "of course" and "wrong tree"?
laziness.
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"Man's last and highest parting is when, for God's sake, he takes leave of God." - Meister Eckhart
"We attain to participation in the divine nature, and yet at the same time it remains totally inaccesible. We need to affirm both at the same time and to preserve the antimony as a criterion for right doctrine." - Gregory Palamas
"The true vision and the knowledge of what we seek consists precisely in not seeing, in an awareness that our goal transcends all knowledge and is everywhere cut off from us by the darkness of incomprehensibility." - Gregory of Nyssa
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." - Cheshire Cat
"Man's last and highest parting is when, for God's sake, he takes leave of God." - Meister Eckhart
"We attain to participation in the divine nature, and yet at the same time it remains totally inaccesible. We need to affirm both at the same time and to preserve the antimony as a criterion for right doctrine." - Gregory Palamas
"The true vision and the knowledge of what we seek consists precisely in not seeing, in an awareness that our goal transcends all knowledge and is everywhere cut off from us by the darkness of incomprehensibility." - Gregory of Nyssa
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." - Cheshire Cat
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Original post: Aether
"If love is poetry, and everyone loves, than are we not all poets? - uknown
"If love is poetry, and everyone loves, than are we not all poets? - uknown
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Original post: ~ Serenity ~
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
Barry Lopez
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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Original post: Radiant Star
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
Neale Donald Walsch
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
Neale Donald Walsch