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"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness."
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Contribution #6769
"As long as this exists," I thought, "and I may live to see it, this sunshine, the cloudless skies, while this lasts, I cannot be unhappy." The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature, and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.
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In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.
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The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
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Contribution #6748
Think like a person of Action. Act like a person of Thought.
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Great teachers have small audiences while they are still alive.
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Contribution #6695
Dogma is often the corruption of someone else's spiritual experience. Belief systems are often the enemy of the very spiritual truths they supposedly uphold. Most religious beliefs are not merely the foe of reason, of science. They are the enemy of God; not the man-made tyrant in the sky, but the very source of life, love, and truth. They are the enemy of spiritual understanding that would otherwise flow through us like the blood that circulates through our veins. Dogmatic presuppositions, drummed into our heads from infancy are like security blankets that shroud us in relative ignorance, and chain us to our beast-like tendencies. We are capable of much more. So much more.
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide
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André Gide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"
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Viewed on March 5, 2012
Contribution #6660
There are having flowers in Spring, breezes in Summer, moon in Autumn, snows in Winter. If there is nothing worrying over you, it will be the best seasons at all times.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
The most reliable way to anticipate the future is by understanding the present.
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The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
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"Peace can not be fought for. The minute we fight for our own peace, or the peace of others, we enter into battle and peace will ever elude us. The key to peace is to allow ourselves to know, and be known, by our creator, our spouse, our friends;and there in realize we are accepted for who we are, not what we are."
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Contribution #6493
If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.
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The Wise Man's Fear
Page 847 (Kvothe speaking)
Published by DAW Books
, 2011
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Contribution #6481
...trust what you know to be true, not what you fear to be true...
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original material (c) 2012
Contribution #6463
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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What you pay attention to grows. If your attention is attracted to negative situations and emotions, then they will grow in your awareness.
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creating health
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Contribution #6425
"It's easy .... it's a mind that is open to everything, yet attaches to nothing ... it's called freedom that's what it is, plain and simple!" -- Gary Busey comments on an interview about Hunter S. Thompson.
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"An integral being knows without knowing, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing".
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The problem is we're looking for something that doesn't exist. We're looking for authenticity. There is no such thing as authenticity. There is either good art or bad art. Art is never about its content. It's about its scaffolding.
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The Writer's Almanac
Garrison Keillor
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TUESDAY Dec. 27, 2011 "
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Contribution #6387
Asking good questions is half of learning.
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Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. Henry Miller
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"Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.
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Even time seems to change its pace at some stages of your life. When you want it should move slow it runs too fast and when you want it should move fast it does not seem to budge.
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I recognize people not by their face but by their gait: their gait never changes.
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You are a part of everything, and everything is a part of you
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It just came from my thoughts
Contribution #6304
Eyes feed on light. They search for light even in the darkest corner.
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Love is like a typical type of grape. Those who do not get it say it sour. Even those who get it say it sour if they spit it.
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If You come from a place of Love Then You are Free and fear dispells itself into nothing If You live in the Moment – In the Present Then You don’t fear because You can let all the Good , The miracles in.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
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People often say that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
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“The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.”
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All Looks Like Lovel if You have the heart to see it.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. Henry Miller
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Contribution #6268
Nobody teaches us How to Dream - We just do .
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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From document:(Quotes I live my life by);Journal entry:(6:27 PM 1/18/2011)
Contribution #6260
I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are just details.
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If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
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From document:(Quotes I live my life by);Journal entry:(6:27 PM 1/18/2011)
Contribution #6258
Life is – ‘believing that there is a lot to learn’.
Living is – ‘learning it every day.’
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From document:(Quotes I live my life by);Journal entry:(7:38 PM 1/11/2011)
Contribution #6257
A definitive moment whether good or bad is not finite, it stays with you.
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From document:(Quotes I live my life by);Journal entry:(7:38 PM 1/11/2011)
Contribution #6256
“Success is not what you leave to but what you leave behind”
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From document:(Quotes I live my life by);Journal entry:(9:08 PM 1/8/2011)
Contribution #6251
“I have learned that one thing I know for sure is that I have a lot to learn”
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From document:(Quotes I live my life by);Journal entry:(9:08 PM 1/8/2011)
Contribution #6248
You don't stop doing things because you get old. You get old because you stop doing things.
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Commonplace book
Contribution #6244
"If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life."
You can't afford to buy cheap.
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Clerk in a shoe store
Contribution #6235
How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak. ( François Fénelon )
God is all and I am nothing.
Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.
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A Painter/ Artist is nothing more than a medium, a filter, through which 'the truth' strives to be delivered (materialized), to the collective consciousness. Art is certainly not about oneself, ones Ego and personal gratification; a true born artist is caught between understanding the responsibility of its task (its spiritual meaning), and the misconception of those who see it as just one another meaning to produce materialism. Alexandra Jicol ©2011
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
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When words fail....Music speaks.
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Contribution #6134
" A true born artist doesn't really need any drug (intoxicating substances, liquids...), to get high, to 'see'. If it happens that one does it, is to seem 'normal' as (for), the rest of the crowd. It is more acceptable (matrix rules), to get high on ‘something’, than to naturally doing it on what is perceived by most as 'nothing'..." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~"Un véritable artist n'a vraiment pas besoin de la drogue (substances enivrantes, liquides ...), pour etre ivre/stone, pour 'voir'. S'il arrive de le faire, c'est seulement dans le but de paraître «normal » comme/pour le reste de la foule. Il est plus acceptable (dans les règles de la matrice), d'obtenir l'ivresse imbibe de «quelque chose», que de le faire naturellement sur ce qui est perçu par la plupart comme 'rien' ..." Alexandra Jicol © 2011
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"You will be always be loved, less by those that you really Love."
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“The secret to your freedom is found in what you tell yourself!”
They taught me that I am not above or beneath anybody- and that I stand to gain as much, or more, from folks who live in society’s shadows as from those on top of the world.
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The beauty of life is also perhaps that implacable thought: one day we'll cross the people that hurt us and the ones that we hurt too, and it will be no more need of words ; a glimpse of the eye to eye will explain it all ; and then we will be free of any resentment and bad will. All that it will be left will be LOVE, as it always has been.
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With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
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The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell.
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Contribution #6063
Superior in the simplicity of their knowledge, they watched with alarm as the most free amongst them—the humans—caged themselves. “Their cars, their homes, their offices and cubicles box them in! Eye pads, eye pods, eye phones…and still they can’t see. It is a matter of curiosity indeed. The humans say the inferior creatures are we.”
Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me a truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.
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Contribution #6030
You don`t have a soul you are a soul, you have a body.
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Somewhere
Contribution #5982
Before you tell someone to stop trying to make you someone you`re not, you have to find out who you are.
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My own words
Contribution #5973
Fair speach may hide a foul heart.
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Words
Contribution #5933
Not to know what happened before we were born is to remain perpetually a child. For what is the worth of a human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors.
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Contribution #5915
Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets.
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Legacy of Wisdom Conference, April 17, 2011
Contribution #5914
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.
"The scientific discourse misses the fact that the ability to deny is an
amazing human phenomenon, a product of sheer complexity of our
emotional, linguistic, moral and intellectual lives. Denial is a complex unconscious defense mechanism for coping with guilt, anxiety and other disturbing emotions aroused by reality."
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"Man...sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."
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"The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the very search for enlightenment prevents it. The 'perfect practice' is therefore not to search for enlightenment but to inquire into the motive for seeking itself. You obviously seek in order to avoid the present, and yet the present alone holds the answer: to seek forever is to miss the point forever. You always already are enlightened Spirit, and therefore to seek Spirit is simply to deny Spirit."
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"Among the great things which are to be found among us, the Being of Nothingness is the greatest."
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“When I heard the sound of the bell ringing, there was no bell, and there was no I- there was only the ringing.”
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“More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones.”
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“The deeper the self-realization of a person, the more they influence the whole universe by their subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less they themselves are affected by the phenomenal flux.”
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“First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.”
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“When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves, we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order.”
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“The secret something that is shared by all effective healing methods is the process of leading the patient to an honest and truthful self-discovery. This self-discovery is required for the initiation and continuation of self-healing; for it is only through self-healing- in contrast to curing- that patients can experience both permanent recovery and spiritual growth…the closer our perception of self approaches, the deeper our capacity for self-healing becomes. When there is a very close correspondence between self-image and truth, our self-healing powers may be virtually unlimited.”
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“Commitment to the truth…means a relentless willingness to root out the ways we limit or deceive ourselves from seeing what is, and to continually challenge our theories of why things are the way they are. It means continually broadening our awareness. It also means continually deepening our understanding of the structures underlying current events.”
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“Every man’s condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable…To a sound judgment, the most abstract truth is the most practical. Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence…Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never becomes a toy to a wise spirit…Standing on the bare ground- my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.”
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“Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.”
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“Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.”
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“How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?...someday there will be a great awakening when we know that this is all a great dream. Yet the stupid believe that they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, and that man a herdsman- how dense!”
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“One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.”
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“What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.”
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“Loosen the bonds of discursive thought. Extend the circle of caring. Cease armoring against suffering. Wish for others the same happiness you wish for yourself. Be a tender-minded steward of creation.”
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“And those whose hearts are fixed on Reality Itself deserve the title ‘Philosopher’.”
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“We see things not as they are, but as we are.”
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“Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments of right or wrong, neither staying nor going. This, then, is the Great Way.”
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“Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.”
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“The world worlds, and is more fully in being than the tangible and perceptible realm in which we believe ourselves to be at home…By the opening up of a world, all things gain their lingering and hastening, their remoteness and nearness, their scope and limits. In a world’s worlding is gathered that spaciousness out of which the protective grace of the gods is granted and withheld. Even this doom of the god remaining absent is a way in which the world worlds…All coming to presence…keeps itself concealed to the last.”
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“Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them.”
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“Synchronicities, epiphanies, peak, and mystical experiences are all cases in which creativity breaks through the barriers of the self and allows awareness to flood through the whole domain of consciousness. It is the human mind operating, for a moment, in its true order and moving through orders of increasing subtlety, reaching past the source of mind and matter into creativity itself.”
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“The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already afflicted man in his essence.”
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“Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and needs re-adjustment.”
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“The ‘coming of the Self’ is immanent; and the process of collective ‘individuation’ is living itself out in human history. One way or another, the world is going to be made a single whole entity. But it will be unified either in mutual mass destruction or by means of mutual human consciousness. If a sufficient number of individuals can have the experience of the coming of the Self as an individual, inner experience, we may just possibly be spared the worst features of its external manifestation.”
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“If you being forth what is within you, what you being forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”
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“To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return.”
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“Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound they may seem, are like nets which trap us in dualism. When we discover our limits we have to try to overcome them, untying ourselves from whatever type of religious, political, or social conviction may contain us. We have to abandon such concepts as ‘enlightenment’, ‘the nature of the mind’, and so on, until we no longer neglect to integrate our knowledge with our actual existence.”
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“Spiritual science attempts to speak about non-sensory things in the same way that the natural sciences speak about sense-perceptible things…No one can ever deny others the right to ignore the supersensible, but there is never any legitimate reason for people to declare themselves authorities, not only on what they themselves are capable of knowing, but also on what they suppose cannot be known by any other human being.”
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“If we can simply distinguish between the different successive stages of evolution, it is possible to see primeval events within the earthly events of the present.”
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“All experience and phenomena are understood to be a dream, this should not be just an intellectual understanding, but a vivid and lucid experience…Genuine integration of this point produces a profound change in the individual’s response to the world. Grasping and aversion is greatly diminished, and the emotional tangles that once seemed so compelling are experienced as the tug of dream stories, and no more.”
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“Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?”
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“The essence of information…is not its content but its resonance. This is why feeling or sensing things is so important. To sense the resonance of incoming information co-creates a resonant field.”
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“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
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“Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We drift away from what is difficult and we know to be true, to what is comfortable and socially condoned.”
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“…if consciousness is the ground of being rather than an epiphenomenon of physical processes, we may find that a basic question asked by modern astronomy and space science- ‘Is there life out there?’- should be rephrased. Organic life, as well as intelligence, may already be a property enmeshed in the fabric of the cosmos, brought to fruition through the spiraling dynamics of the solar system and the galaxy, built into the structure of the universe itself.”
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“The unconscious process moves spiral-wise around a center, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the center grow more and more distinct.”
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“All work, the genuine work which we must achieve, is that which is most difficult and painful: the work on ourselves. If we do not freely take upon ourselves this pre-acceptance of the pain and torment, they will be visited upon us in an otherwise necessary individual and universal collapse. Anyone disassociated from his origin and his spiritually sensed task acts against origin. Anyone who acts against it has neither a today nor a tomorrow.”
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“Electronic culture created soulless replacements for connective rituals- television supplanted tribal legends told by the fire; ‘fast food’ consumed in distraction took the place of a shared meal. We substituted matter for Mater (feminine principle), money for mother’s milk, objects for emotional bonds.”
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“…The Western ‘God-image’ is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation…The God image evolves through its relationship to humanity. Whoever knows God has an effect on ‘him’. For the individual, knowing God, is the process of recognizing and assimilating the pressured and paradoxical contents of the self, which come to consciousness- seek incarnation- within the ego.”
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“The world is inseparable from the observing subject and is accordingly not objectifiable.”
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“We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves…”
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“Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, ‘This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.’”
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“To think that practice and realization are not one is a heretical view. In the Buddha Dharma, practice and realization are identical. Because one’s present practice is practice in realization, one’s initial negotiating of the Way in itself is the whole of original realization. Thus, even while directed to practice, one is told not to anticipate a realization apart from practice, because practice points directly to original realization.”
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“The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction must be credible.”
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“The mind is like tofu. By itself, it has no taste. Everything depends on the flavor of the marinade it steeps in.”
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“If you use your mind to study reality, you will understand neither reality nor the mind. If you study reality without using your mind, you will understand both.”
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“Things are not what they seem. Nor are they otherwise…Deeds exist, but no doer can be found.”
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“Do not believe in what you have heard; do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations; do not believe anything because it is rumored and spoken of by many; do not believe merely because the written statement of some old sage is produced; do not believe in conjectures; do not believe merely in the authority of your teachers or elders. After observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
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“We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe…Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.”
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“Matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration; we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively; there’s no such thing as death, life is just a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.”
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“The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.”
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“Photons come out of nowhere, they cannot be stored, they can barely be pinned down in time, and they have no home in space whatsoever. That is, light occupies no volume and has no mass. The similarity between a thought and a photon is very deep. Both are born in a region beyond space and time where nature controls all processes in that void which is full of creative intelligence.”
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“Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.”
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“Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”
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“Signs and symbols control the world, not phases and laws.”
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What you fear, approach. What you deny, say. What you control, release. With fear, denial, and control aside, you can see things in your own unique and authentic way.
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A Quiet Place: Essays on Life and Family
Page 81
Published by Mothering Publications
, Santa Fe, NM USA
, 2005
http://www.mothering.com/
Contribution #5479
“He who lives in harmony with himself, lives in harmony with the Universe.”
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“Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.”
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“Nobody likes to let go of the ego- it is so precious to everyone. However, once you have attained a state of egolessness, the world won’t disappear, as you may think it will. The world will continue, but a change takes place within you. Something is uncovered. You start seeing everything with the wonder and innocence of a child.”
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“It should be for satsang that we go to spiritual centers. By going there, people who are involved in the world can attain peace and concentration. The concentration gained when one goes there cannot be achieved if one sits at home. Even though the breeze blows everywhere, coolness will be felt more if we sit in the shade of a tree. In the same way, although God is all-pervading, this presence will clearly shine in certain places more than others. That is the greatness of satsang. Satsang is the best thing for spiritual advancement.”
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“Real life is developed from within. Real living means that the soul expresses itself through all one’s thoughts, words and actions. A person becomes fearless once he understands the nature of the imperishable soul.”
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“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself…”
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“Insanity in individuals is something rare- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.”
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“Nature is wont to hide herself.”
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“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
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“The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.”
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“Wherever you are is the entry point.”
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“The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give place to new, but to the continuous evolution of zoologic types which develop ceaselessly and end by becoming unrecognizable to the common sight, but where an expert eye finds always traces of the prior work of the centuries past.”
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“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airbourne particle in its tissue, It is the very atmosphere of the mind; and when the mind is imaginative- much more when it happens to be that of a man of genius- it takes to itself the faintest hints of life, it converts the very pulses of the air into revelations.”
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“When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he’s insane, which is not to see him at all. To see him you must see what he saw and when you are trying to see the vision of an insane man, an oblique route is the only way to come at it.”
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“The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.”
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“Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we don’t know. Philosophy must include within its confines the whole content of science, religion and art.”
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“There is only one inborn erroneous notion…that we exist in order to be happy…So long as we persist in this inborn error…the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence…hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of…disappointment.”
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“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge…”
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“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophesy, and religion,- all in one.”
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“You cannot solve problems with the same level of consciousness that created them.”
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“Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.”
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“Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thoroughly, to judge events sanely, is, therefore, a great step towards happiness.”
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“At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the journey itself, which is nothing but the process through which we lose our ownership of it.”
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“As every man knows, meditation and water are weded forever.”
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“In each of us are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do we ever find them.”
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“Slight not what is near through aiming at what is far.”
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“He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.”
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“There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one’s intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.”
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“Never be frightened! Be fearless! There is no room for fear. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is adharma and fear is disloyalty. All delusions emanate from this evil called fear.”
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“To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.”
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“The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.”
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“Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.”
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“The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive. Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.”
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“The fear of anything is the fear of death, and the fear of death is the same as the fear of life...You cannot live fully until you are willing to die fully and you cannot die fully until you are willing to meet the fear of death fully. If you really meet the fear of death, you are at peace. You recognize what cannot die. To meet death is not suicide, nor is it the least bit dangerous. It only seems dangerous. What is dangerous, what is a living suicide, is to live your life in bondage to the belief that you are limited to a body (or a mind, or any-thing). As long as you resist the fact of death and hide from death through the tricks of the mind, you will suffer.”
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“’I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.”
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“If thou knowest thine own self, Thou knowest God.”
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“There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.”
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“People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them.”
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“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
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“The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.”
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“If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.”
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We humans have been gifted with powers seldom contemplated. One such should become apparent when we consider that all things that exist must first have existed in the mind of God. Then, spend some time each day observing the beauties of nature and you will be......... reading God's mind! Powerful, indeed.
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My mind thinks of many such thoughts to ponder...
Contribution #4821
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
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Do not search for God. He is not lost, you will not find him. But rather, search for yourself. For where you find yourself, there you will find God.
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Personal revelation
Contribution #4791
Human wandering through the zoo
what do your cousins think of you.
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If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
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Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth--that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?
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Raw talent requires the taming influence of Emotional Intelligence to produce results.
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No source entered for Contribution #4763
In the facades we put on for others we demonstrate our potential; through our children we reveal our reality.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religions.
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No source entered for Contribution #4734
Leadership is seeing the oak tree in the acorn.
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No source entered for Contribution #4719
Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
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No source entered for Contribution #4696
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
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No source entered for Contribution #4694
The first step to becoming a more peaceful person is to have the humility to admit that, in most cases, you're creating your own emergencies. Life will usually go on if things don't go according to plan. It's helpful to keep reminding yourself and repeating the sentence, "Life isn't an emergency".
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Don't Sweat the Samll Stuff
http://
Contribution #4676
All the wonders you seek are within yourself.
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No source entered for Contribution #4669
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
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No source entered for Contribution #4658
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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The essence of oneself and the essence of the world: these two are one. [ The aim is not to see, but to realize that one is, that essence; then one is free to wander as that essence in the world.] Hence separateness, withdrawal, is no longer necessary. Wherever the hero may wander, whatever he may do, he is ever in the presence of his own essence--for he has the perfected eye to see.
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The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Page 386
http://
Contribution #4647
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
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"Whatever separates man from man is not of God, but of ego."
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Contribution #4609
Don't wait for the Last Judgement. It takes place every day.
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
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No source entered for Contribution #4599
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Public opinion rarely considers the needs of the next generation or the history of the last. It is frequently hampered by myths and misinformation, by stereotypes and shibboleths, and by an inate resistance to innovation.
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Yes…There does exist in the workplace: the corporate ladder to climb, the glass ceiling to break, the small pond from which we must leap, and the box to think outside of in an effort to be successful. But once we realize these are conditions placed upon the mind--a mindset that we personally don’t have to adopt--we are free to pursue our success without encumbrance or hesitation!
In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.
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Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.
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Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise.
It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perception.
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The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.
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"We must use that gift wisely, our power to change what we touch. The problem therein; destruction is far too easy whereas in direct contrast, creation takes far too long."
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The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.
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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
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No source entered for Contribution #4423
It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth and reality however hard.
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Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
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Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him.
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No source entered for Contribution #4405
Oh would some power the gift give us,
to see ourselves as others see us!
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Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That's what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans in the years ahead.
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Tomorrow's God
http://
Contribution #4354
There is so much more hue and variety in real life than any model can encompass. The labels “straight”, “gay”, “bi”, are only a lens we use for convenience so we can have a feeling that we are able to manage and contain an infinitely complex reality. People don’t realize that, and implicitly believe that humans should conform to the language labels they happen to have inherited from the way their society arbitrarily parses reality.
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The Asexual Visibility and Education Network
"Trix"
"
Question What You Think You Know"
http://www.asexuality.org/home/node/40
Viewed on September 2, 2010
Contribution #4336
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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No source entered for Contribution #4329
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
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Sometimes you win the battle by simply choosing not to fight it.
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.
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No source entered for Contribution #4208
Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.
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No source entered for Contribution #4198
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already
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No source entered for Contribution #4192
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
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I contend that we are both Athiests. I just believe in one fewer god than you do.When you understand why you dismiss all other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
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No source entered for Contribution #4183
It is amazing how complete is the dillusion that beauty is goodness
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No source entered for Contribution #4169
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.
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Insight without action is useless.
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heard it said on a television show
http://unsure
Contribution #4139
History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme alot.
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Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes.
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No source entered for Contribution #4121
To profess to be doing God's will is a form of megalomania.
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Joseph Prescott, aphorist (1913-2001)
Contribution #4101
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
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Dogs never bite me, just humans
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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No source entered for Contribution #4061
That's a fine line that's a big deal.
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Personal Communication
Contribution #4045
The dream is illusion. The work is life.
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Personal Communication
Contribution #4044
Good judgment comes from experience,
And a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Only the individual who has comes to terms with his self have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.
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The True Believer
Page 79
http://
Contribution #3968
i am my parents child
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
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The True Believer
Page 22
http://
Contribution #3949
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
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Wordsmith
Fran Leibowitz, author (b. 1950)
"
A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on April 27, 2010
Contribution #3944
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
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Wordsmith
Anais Nin, writer (1903-1977)
"
A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on April 26, 2010
Contribution #3941
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
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Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
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No source entered for Contribution #3891
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
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No source entered for Contribution #3883
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
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Water has the capability to splatter: it needs a splash.
The worst insult I can inflict on life is that I do not reflect on its meaning.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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The Strength Of Love
http://
Contribution #3740
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
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"Beautiful Boy"
Contribution #3721
Fundamentally, what everyone needs is mental strength and confidence, to manage the mind, just as we manage the outside world.
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No source entered for Contribution #3697
Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.
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An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
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Contribution #3666
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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The Little Prince
Page chapter 21, page 87
Published by Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.
, 1943
http://
Contribution #3662
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
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Liberation Ecology
by Frances Moore Lappe
Page 115
http://
Contribution #3656
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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Contribution #3648
Parenting: Affection without sentiment, authority without cruelty, discipline without aggression, humor without ridicule, sacrifice without obligation, companionship without possessiveness.
The same lesson keeps presenting itself to me. As soon as I rebound, I will be presented with the same lesson.
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from me
Contribution #3622
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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Days Of Healing Days OF Joy
by Earnie Larsen & Carol Larsen Hegarty
Page May 4
Published by Hazelden Meditations
, Center City MN
, 1987
http://
Contribution #3621
In their voices they found themselves.
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Margaret is my friend and she shared this with our women's circle.
http://margaretcasarez.com/
Contribution #3611
Nothing is lost, nothing is gained. There is nothing.
Don't go about here and there. Go inside and remain there.
All is play. God is just playing everywhere. All are bubbles-small bubbles going down and coming up to the surface.
Things that you cannot face in yourself you will hate when you see them in someone else.
Be equal to whatever you meet! That is a better way to react to life. It is accomplished simply by meeting everything in understanding, by demanding understanding from within yourself.
This physical world, though necessary to our evolution, is the embodiment of impermanence, of constant change. Thus, we take care not to become overly attached to it.
Self Realization is finding That which is beyond even superconsciousness itself, beyond the mind--timeless, causeless, spaceless.
A hearing heart loves to whom it listens. -Melvin
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Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each separate fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
He who angers you conquers you.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
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Contribution #3437
I gravitate toward gravitas.
“In order to be filled with light I have to take the risk of plugging myself in. The more often I dip into the well of inspiration the more likely I am to be inspired. The seed grows in darkness before the tree bursts forth into the light.”
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Personal correspondence
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Contribution #3363
“Women are the mothers of nations; by empowering them, we empower the next generation.”
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personal correspondence
Contribution #3354
Transition does not require that you reject or deny the importance of your old life, just that you let go of it. The process begins with surrender (of avoidances), awareness (of who and where we really are) and release (of the old ways of being).
It seems to me that if “We the People” could raise our level of consciousness we would see what is responsible for unhappiness. We would not frantically “pursue happiness” much the way an addict “pursues” their drug. We would begin the difficult but magnificently gratifying steps of creating a healthier world so that happiness is a natural result, not an external target we must individually pursue.
The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one’s self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.
It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship. For it is a healthy love that will risk wounding or offending in order to profer a benefit.
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Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
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You cannot understand what a person is saying unless you understand who they are arguing with.
“Everything that happens to you makes you stronger” isn’t really true. It is what you choose to learn from everything that makes you the person you are today. Every situation presents us with a choice: what will you do with this? Will you learn from this experience, as difficult as it may be, to grow and become a better & stronger person? Or will you assume the victim role, become bitter, and forever blame everyone & everything around you for your life? Everyone is tested; not everyone learns.
The eye of the understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or holes, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish, you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. where can I find a man who has forgotten the words so that I can talk with him?
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Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.
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Some men of a secluded and studious life have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon which, though far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that restless world of waters.
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Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest of the class. It would be in the best interests of all if he were removed from school immediately.
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Contribution #3133
"Nothing difficult is ever easy"
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Contribution #3103
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
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It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.
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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
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The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire? There is nothing spontaneous, nothing natural about human desires. Our desires are artificial. We have to be taught to desire. Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire. It tells you how to desire.
...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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Contribution #2902
I have lost the consolation of faith / though not the ambition to worship.
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The Writers' Almanac, Garrison Keillor, 1/21/09
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Contribution #2897
Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
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Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus.
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Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.
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Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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Indeed, to some extent it has always been necessary and proper for man, in his thinking, to divide things up, if we tried to deal with the whole of reality at once, we would be swamped. However when this mode of thought is applied more broadly to man's notion of himself and the whole world in which he lives, (i.e. in his world-view) then man ceases to regard the resultant divisions as merely useful or convenient and begins to see and experience himself and this world as actually constituted of separately existing fragments. What is needed is a relativistic theory, to give up altogether the notion that the world is constituted of basic objects or building blocks. Rather one has to view the world in terms of universal flux of events and processes.
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Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Enlightenment for a wave, is the moment the wave realizes that it is water.
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Living Buddha, Living Christ
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Contribution #2714
Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done you some grievous harm, proclaiming that only your pain matters in this world. More than against that person’s body, you will then, at that moment, be committing a crime against your own imagination.
New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works ... images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. That is why the discipline of managing mental models -- surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works -- promises to be a major breakthrough for learning organizations.
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It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
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The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choicest words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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The old man has been long at the fair. He is acquainted with the jugglers at the booths. His curiosity has been satisfied. He no longer cares for the exceptional, the monstrous, the marvelous and deformed. He looks through and beyond the gilding, the glitter and gloss, not only of things, but of conduct, of manners, theories, religions and philosophies. He sees clearer. The light no longer shines in his eyes.
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.
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He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother.
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The Voice of the Master
by trans. Anthony R. Ferris
Page 62
Published by Citadel Press
, New York
, 1958
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Contribution #2144
Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.
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The Voice of the Master
by trans. Anthony R. Ferris
Page 62
Published by Citadel Press
, New York
, 1958
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Contribution #2143
Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.
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The Voice of the Master
by trans. Anthony R. Ferris
Page 56
Published by Citadel Press
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, 1958
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Contribution #2137
Know thyself.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations.
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On Being Certain
Page 159
Published by St. Martin's Press
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, 2008
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Contribution #1887
No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes, we should engage in ruthless self-reflection and harsh scrutiny, but we should simultaneously acknowledge that such introspection will, at best, only result in a partial view of our minds at work. Complete objectivity is not an option.
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On Being Certain: Believing You are Right Even When You are Not
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, 2008
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Contribution #1886
Like the ocean is your god-self;
It remains for ever undefiled.
And like the ether it lifts but the winged.
Even like the sun is your god-self;
It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent.
But your god-self does not dwell alone in your being.
Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man,
But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening.
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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The essence of education is not to stuff you full of facts, but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then show you how to give it away.
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By exhaustively examining one's own mind,
one may understand his nature.
One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
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We are slaves of what we don't know;
of what we know we are masters.
Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discover
and understand its cause and workings,
we overcome it by the very knowing.
The primary purpose of meditation is to become more conscious
and familiar with our inner life.
The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life.
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The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism.
These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
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He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
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If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather
wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn of the
vast and endless sea.
Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
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Arnold Bennett
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Contribution #459
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
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Leo Rosten
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Contribution #458
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Agnes Repplier
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Contribution #457
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
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What does insight look like in a person?
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