"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
A spiritual thought for the week to help guide you on your path. The selection is from a both 'Universalist' and 'Mystical' point of view. That is the Faith that there are many paths but only one source and the essence of that source is beyond all language. You will therefore find quotes from: Zen, Sufism, Vedanta, Kabbalah, Hassidic Judaism, Deep Ecologists, Quakers and Gnostics to name but a few.
Monday, 18 March 2013
Monday, 11 March 2013
Albert Einstein
"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Monday, 4 March 2013
Albert Einstein
"I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science."
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Monday, 25 February 2013
Salvador Dali
"The three preoccupations of the human mind are: sex, death and the anguish of time-space."
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali
Monday, 18 February 2013
Armstrong
"Music exalts each joy, allays each grief,
Expels diseases, softens every pain;
And hence the wise of ancient days adored
One power of physic, melody, and song."
Armstrong - Celtic Poet & physician.
Expels diseases, softens every pain;
And hence the wise of ancient days adored
One power of physic, melody, and song."
Armstrong - Celtic Poet & physician.
Monday, 11 February 2013
Rabindranath Tagore - 'Unending Love
"I seem to have
loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, In life after life, in
age after
age forever. My spell-bound heart has made and re-made the necklace of
songs that you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms.
In life after
life, in age after age forever."
From 'Unending Love' by Rabindranath
Tagore.
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature, music and poetry which was considered spiritual and mercurial.
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature, music and poetry which was considered spiritual and mercurial.
Monday, 4 February 2013
Ramtha - "The Magic of Finding Our Perfect Mirror"
"When we find a person whose mind mirrors our own -- mirrors: their thoughts are our thoughts, our thoughts are theirs, not because they want to be, because they naturally are -- when you find a person who thinks as highly of you as you do yourself and vice versa, the magnetic power of mind to mind is billions of years transcendent of sexual attraction. When we find out our greatest mystery, our greatest hope -- which is ourself -- finally reflected in another one, we are confused; is it the other or is it myself? It is the same. That is when we love."
Ramtha (from "The Magic of Finding Our Perfect Mirror")
Apparently Ramtha is allegedly a 35,000-year old ascended entity from an ancient civilization who is channelled by J. Z. Knight.
Ramtha (from "The Magic of Finding Our Perfect Mirror")
Apparently Ramtha is allegedly a 35,000-year old ascended entity from an ancient civilization who is channelled by J. Z. Knight.
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Ravi Vilkhu - Become Hopeless.
"Become hopeless.
People go on moving from one master to another; that is movement from one hope to another. They go to one master with hopes that he will give through his grace, that through his energy the thing will happen. Then they try, then they wait, with a very strained mind, because a mind which hopes can never be at ease; with a very impatient mind, because a mind which is filled with hope cannot be patient.
And then they start feeling uneasy because the thing is not happening. So this master is wrong, they must move to someone else. This is not movement from one master to another, this is movement from one hope to another. People move from one religion to another; there are conversions just because of hope. One can go on doing it for many, many lives.
It is neither a question of a master nor a question of a right method. It is a question of a direct insight, an immediate penetration into the phenomenon of what is happening, of why we hope, of why we can’t be without hope.
The phenomenon of enlightenment, of egolessness, is not caused by anything. It can happen any moment. No cause is needed. It is not an outcome of many causes, it is not a by-product. It is simple insight.
It can happen to a sinner; it may not happen to a saint."
Ravi Vilkhu
People go on moving from one master to another; that is movement from one hope to another. They go to one master with hopes that he will give through his grace, that through his energy the thing will happen. Then they try, then they wait, with a very strained mind, because a mind which hopes can never be at ease; with a very impatient mind, because a mind which is filled with hope cannot be patient.
And then they start feeling uneasy because the thing is not happening. So this master is wrong, they must move to someone else. This is not movement from one master to another, this is movement from one hope to another. People move from one religion to another; there are conversions just because of hope. One can go on doing it for many, many lives.
It is neither a question of a master nor a question of a right method. It is a question of a direct insight, an immediate penetration into the phenomenon of what is happening, of why we hope, of why we can’t be without hope.
The phenomenon of enlightenment, of egolessness, is not caused by anything. It can happen any moment. No cause is needed. It is not an outcome of many causes, it is not a by-product. It is simple insight.
It can happen to a sinner; it may not happen to a saint."
Ravi Vilkhu
Monday, 21 January 2013
Buddha
"Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. "
Buddha
Buddha
Monday, 14 January 2013
Deepak Chopra
"Impulses of intelligence constantly create the body in new forms every second."
Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra
Monday, 7 January 2013
Wei Wu Wei - "The Tenth Man"
"As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born. "
The Tenth Man" by Wei Wu Wei.
AKA Terence James Stannus Gray (14 September 1895 – 5 January 1986). 20th century Taoist philosopher and writer. He is better known by the pen name Wei Wu Wei. (Wu wei, a Taoist term which translates as action that is non-action)
The Tenth Man" by Wei Wu Wei.
AKA Terence James Stannus Gray (14 September 1895 – 5 January 1986). 20th century Taoist philosopher and writer. He is better known by the pen name Wei Wu Wei. (Wu wei, a Taoist term which translates as action that is non-action)
Monday, 31 December 2012
Jalaluddin Rumi
"There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes"
Jalaluddin Rumi
Jalaluddin Rumi
Monday, 24 December 2012
J. Krishnamurti
"Clarity can exist only when there is freedom to observe, when one is capable of looking, observing, watching. That is only possible when there is complete, total freedom, otherwise there is always distortion in our observation."
J. Krishnamurti
J. Krishnamurti
Monday, 17 December 2012
Sutta Nipata
"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride. "
- Sutta Nipata
The Sutta Nipata ("The Sutta Collection"), the fifth book of the Khuddaka Nikaya, consists of 71 short suttas divided into five vaggas (chapters). Some scholars believe that this sutra collection describes the oldest of all Buddhist practices.
- Sutta Nipata
The Sutta Nipata ("The Sutta Collection"), the fifth book of the Khuddaka Nikaya, consists of 71 short suttas divided into five vaggas (chapters). Some scholars believe that this sutra collection describes the oldest of all Buddhist practices.
Monday, 10 December 2012
Buddha
"Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law."
Buddha
Buddha
Monday, 3 December 2012
Wei Wu Wei - Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon.
"It is not for us to search but to remain still, to achieve Immobility not Action."
Wei Wu Wei - Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon.
AKA Terence James Stannus Gray (14 September 1895 – 5 January 1986). 20th century Taoist philosopher and writer. He is better known by the pen name Wei Wu Wei. (Wu wei, a Taoist term which translates as action that is non-action)
Wei Wu Wei - Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon.
AKA Terence James Stannus Gray (14 September 1895 – 5 January 1986). 20th century Taoist philosopher and writer. He is better known by the pen name Wei Wu Wei. (Wu wei, a Taoist term which translates as action that is non-action)
Monday, 26 November 2012
Buddha
"Whosoever has heard the law of virtue and vice is as one who has eyes and carries a lamp, seeing everything and will become completely wise."
Buddha
Buddha
Monday, 19 November 2012
Helena Pretrorova Blavastsky - "The voice of silence".
"Let they soul lend its ear to every cry of pain…let each human tear drop on thy heart and there remain,…until the pain that caused it is removed"
Helena Pretrorova Blavastsky - "The voice of silence".
Helena Pretrorova Blavastsky - "The voice of silence".
Monday, 12 November 2012
Will Parfitt - The Qabalah
"Any aspect of our being and our energy that we exclude from awareness becomes part of our shadow...The more shadow we have, the more we are excluding...the more it restricts our free movement. Conversely, the more material from this 'shadow bag' we can dredge out, face, deal with, and integrate into our conscious being, the lighter the bag becomes and the more energy we have available to fulfil our life functions..."
Will Parfitt - The Qabalah
Will Parfitt - The Qabalah
Monday, 5 November 2012
Will Parfitt - The Qabalah
Grounding: "All work starts in Malkuth and ends there." Failing to realize this means "building a castle on the sands of the Abyss.
Will Parfitt - The Qabalah.
Malkuth is the Hebrew name for the Kingdom i.e. The Earth.
Will Parfitt - The Qabalah.
Malkuth is the Hebrew name for the Kingdom i.e. The Earth.
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