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"It is not what you think it is. And neither is it otherwise"
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Original post: Samhain
[QUOTE=BrokenIris]"It is not what you think it is. And neither is it otherwise"
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Cool zen, BrokenIris. But if I think about that saying too long, my mind starts feeling like a dog chasing its tail.
[QUOTE=BrokenIris]"It is not what you think it is. And neither is it otherwise"
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Cool zen, BrokenIris. But if I think about that saying too long, my mind starts feeling like a dog chasing its tail.
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Original post: BrokenIris
[QUOTE=Samhain]Cool zen, BrokenIris. But if I think about that saying too long, my mind starts feeling like a dog chasing its tail.[/QUOTE]
Samhain
The trick is... finding joy in simply chasing the tail.
Broken Iris
[QUOTE=Samhain]Cool zen, BrokenIris. But if I think about that saying too long, my mind starts feeling like a dog chasing its tail.[/QUOTE]
SamhainThe trick is... finding joy in simply chasing the tail.
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Original post: hayabusa
[QUOTE=BrokenIris] Samhain
The trick is... finding joy in simply chasing the tail.
Broken Iris[/QUOTE]Indeed! Circular logic can be fun!
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SamhainThe trick is... finding joy in simply chasing the tail.
Broken Iris[/QUOTE]Indeed! Circular logic can be fun!
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Original post: -solitude
Circling around on a circle for a lifetime, is so incredible that liberation has never come to mind.
--Jesus Camarillo
Circling around on a circle for a lifetime, is so incredible that liberation has never come to mind.
--Jesus Camarillo
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Original post: BrokenIris
I think of this saying when people laugh at me for my love of and making love to....trees.
"To be enlightened is to be intimate with all things" - Dogen
I think of this saying when people laugh at me for my love of and making love to....trees.
"To be enlightened is to be intimate with all things" - Dogen
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Original post: ~ Serenity ~
Flaubert on what he calls the August of a woman's life:
"a period which combines reflection and tenderness, when the maturity which is beginning kindles a warmer flame in the eyes, when strength of heart mingles with experience of life, and when, in the fullness of its development, the whole being overflows with a wealth of harmony and beauty."
Someone sent me this today and totally blew me away. Its a lovely thing to be appreciated; happiness is spiritual, isn't it? That made me happy.
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Flaubert on what he calls the August of a woman's life:
"a period which combines reflection and tenderness, when the maturity which is beginning kindles a warmer flame in the eyes, when strength of heart mingles with experience of life, and when, in the fullness of its development, the whole being overflows with a wealth of harmony and beauty."
Someone sent me this today and totally blew me away. Its a lovely thing to be appreciated; happiness is spiritual, isn't it? That made me happy.
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Original post: spiritalk
We are not a human being having a spiritual experience. We are a spiritual being having a human experience.
God bless, J
We are not a human being having a spiritual experience. We are a spiritual being having a human experience.
God bless, J
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Original post: Draginvry
"I give you methods, not because through methods you will become
enlightened, but through methods you will come to know how stupid you
are--and that is great enlightenment!" - Osho
"I give you methods, not because through methods you will become
enlightened, but through methods you will come to know how stupid you
are--and that is great enlightenment!" - Osho
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Original post: spiritalk
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: We are not a human being having a spiritual experience. We are a spiritual being having a human experience.
Einstein: Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
God bless, J
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: We are not a human being having a spiritual experience. We are a spiritual being having a human experience.
Einstein: Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
God bless, J
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Original post: Whitewolf
That has to be one of my absolutely favorite quotes.spiritalk;244002 wrote:We are not a human being having a spiritual experience. We are a spiritual being having a human experience.
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Original post: Draginvry
â??There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world. This is especially true when truth is contrary to appearances. Every appearance in the visible world tends to produce a corresponding form in the mind which observes it; and this can only be prevented by holding the thought of the TRUTH.â?Â
â??There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world. This is especially true when truth is contrary to appearances. Every appearance in the visible world tends to produce a corresponding form in the mind which observes it; and this can only be prevented by holding the thought of the TRUTH.â?Â
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Original post: Dominus Nasz
"Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil"
God, 3:22
"Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil"
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Original post: lostwings
Nomatter how great of a teacher, One cannot learn if one is not willing.
Nomatter how great of a teacher, One cannot learn if one is not willing.
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Original post: Khered
A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.
- The Master Therion
A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.
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Original post: Alugarde
"Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a way of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore." -Neil Gaiman
"For a time, Ridya sought to corrupt souls through personal contact. He eventually judged the failure rate of this technique unnaceptable. Too many souls, on seeing him, saw not the devil he had become, but the angel he had been; and, made exultant by that beauty, were lost to him forever." -Legends of the Nobilis
"I reject your reality and substitute my own." -Adam Savage
"When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions." -Anonymous 5th grader
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." -Robin Williams
"There are some people who live in a dream world, and some who face reality. And then there are some people who turn one into another." -Douglas H. Everett
"The only thing abhorred in this incredible existence is failure to come to grips with some part of it. To be able to operate in all spheres, the magician must master the art of either acting without belief or of being able to invest belief temporarily in anything with which he is experimenting. The magician should be equally at home with a crozier, a paintbrush, a test tube, or a wand. In all things he is seeking to bring his Kia into manifestation; for him life is its own answer, and the way he lives it in his spirituality." -Peter Carroll
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." -Henry Miller
"The ordinary man is involved in action. The hero acts. An immense difference." -Henry Miller
"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowning." -Neil Gaiman
"This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existance. Or lack thereof." -Neil Gaiman
"When we run out of bullets, we use our bayonets; When the bayonets are broken, we use our butts; When the butts are broken, we use our swords; When the swords are broken, we use our fists; And when they destroy our fists, we bite." -Unknown Chinese General
"If you understand everything, you must be misinformed." -Japanese Proverb
"Fall seven times and stand up eight."
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"Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a way of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore." -Neil Gaiman
"For a time, Ridya sought to corrupt souls through personal contact. He eventually judged the failure rate of this technique unnaceptable. Too many souls, on seeing him, saw not the devil he had become, but the angel he had been; and, made exultant by that beauty, were lost to him forever." -Legends of the Nobilis
"I reject your reality and substitute my own." -Adam Savage
"When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions." -Anonymous 5th grader
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." -Robin Williams
"There are some people who live in a dream world, and some who face reality. And then there are some people who turn one into another." -Douglas H. Everett
"The only thing abhorred in this incredible existence is failure to come to grips with some part of it. To be able to operate in all spheres, the magician must master the art of either acting without belief or of being able to invest belief temporarily in anything with which he is experimenting. The magician should be equally at home with a crozier, a paintbrush, a test tube, or a wand. In all things he is seeking to bring his Kia into manifestation; for him life is its own answer, and the way he lives it in his spirituality." -Peter Carroll
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." -Henry Miller
"The ordinary man is involved in action. The hero acts. An immense difference." -Henry Miller
"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowning." -Neil Gaiman
"This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existance. Or lack thereof." -Neil Gaiman
"When we run out of bullets, we use our bayonets; When the bayonets are broken, we use our butts; When the butts are broken, we use our swords; When the swords are broken, we use our fists; And when they destroy our fists, we bite." -Unknown Chinese General
"If you understand everything, you must be misinformed." -Japanese Proverb
"Fall seven times and stand up eight."
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Original post: Astral Tempest
"You will come to find we are all one mind, capable of all that's imaginable and conceivable." - Maynard J. Keenan
"You will come to find we are all one mind, capable of all that's imaginable and conceivable." - Maynard J. Keenan
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Original post: The Cove
Greetings -
"It is cool that birds let there feathers fall on the ground so that we can pick them up" A three year old child.
After backing into a wall in is home - "Who the hell put this wall here?"
Greetings -
"It is cool that birds let there feathers fall on the ground so that we can pick them up" A three year old child.
After backing into a wall in is home - "Who the hell put this wall here?"
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Original post: Draginvry
Growing older, I love only quietness:
Who need be concerned with the things of this world?
Looking back, what better plan than this:
Returning to the grove.
- Li Po
Growing older, I love only quietness:
Who need be concerned with the things of this world?
Looking back, what better plan than this:
Returning to the grove.
- Li Po
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Original post: Scarlett_156
"Envy means to look with favor upon the possessions of others, and to be desirous of obtaining similar things for oneself. Envy and greed are the motivating forces of ambition - and without ambition, very little of any importance would be accomplished." -- Anton Szandor LaVey discussing the "seven deadly sins"
"Envy means to look with favor upon the possessions of others, and to be desirous of obtaining similar things for oneself. Envy and greed are the motivating forces of ambition - and without ambition, very little of any importance would be accomplished." -- Anton Szandor LaVey discussing the "seven deadly sins"
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Original post: Draginvry
â??Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die."
- Dan Millman, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
â??When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.â?Â
â??Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die."
- Dan Millman, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
â??When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.â?Â
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Original post: Kazahel
Baby sharks.. tend to dwell.. in shallow waters.. for a reason..
~Me!
Baby sharks.. tend to dwell.. in shallow waters.. for a reason..
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Original post: amunptah777
"Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity." - Austin Osman Spare
hmmmm...speaking as a something else...I gotta say....mwahhahahahahahahaha
"Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity." - Austin Osman Spare
hmmmm...speaking as a something else...I gotta say....mwahhahahahahahahaha
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Original post: Ravi
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde
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Original post: lioncastle
On an Oscar Wilde note..."We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"
wellknown, but relevant to the OF...
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On an Oscar Wilde note..."We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"
wellknown, but relevant to the OF...
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