"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures." ~Lao Tzu "If you want to be happy, be." — Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoi "Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven." ~ Rabindranath Tagore "Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver." ~Alan Watts "No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant "God doesn't make special reports to me ~ I just have to assume the universe is operating properly." ~ Ashleigh Brilliant "Instead of past, present, and future, I'd prefer chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry." ~ Ashleigh Brilliant "It's all really very simple. You don't have to choose between being kind to yourself and others. It's one and the same." ~Piero Ferrucci "A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." ~Lao Tzu "True communication is communion―the realization of oneness, which is love." ~Eckhart Tolle “In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer” ~Albert Camus "No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now." ~Alan Watts Message From The Hopi Elders You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour. Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered: Where are you living? What are you doing? What are your relationships? Are you in right relation? Where is your water? Know your garden. It is time to speak your Truth. Create your community. Be good to each other. And do not look outside yourself for the leader. This could be a good time! There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold onto the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart and they will suffer greatly. Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open and our heads above the water. See who is in there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally. Least of all, ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt. The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. The Elders, Oraibi, Arizona ––Hopi Nation Do not search for us, we will find you. Do not wait for us, we are here...all ready. Do not whisper your name, we know it well. We have loved you forever, time will tell... We are your Guardian Angels." ~Author Unknown Thou are one, the root of all numbers, but not as an element of numeration; for unity admits not of multiplication, change, or form. Thou art one, and in the secret of Thy unity the wisest of men are lost, because they know it not. Thou art one, and they unity is never diminished, never extended, and cannot be changed. Though art one, and no thought of mine can fix for thee a limit, or define Thee. Thou art, but not as one existent, for the understanding and vision of mortals cannot attain to Thy existence, nor determine for Thee the where, the how and the why. ---------- Solomon Ben Jehudah Gabirol In the "Kether-Malchut" "Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish; every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it." ~Jelauddin Rumi Know that the world is a mirror from head to foot, In every atom are a hundred blazing suns. If you cleave the heart of one drop of water, A hundred pure oceans emerge from it.... In the pupil of the eye is a heaven. What though the corn grain of the heart be small, It is a station of the Lord of both worlds to dwell therein. ~Shabistari - The Garden of Mystery You use the mind nonstop… but when the mind quiets there is no more seeking for God. God finds you. ––Sri Babaji, The Initiation The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door. ––Alan Cohen Language has created the word “Loneliness” to express the pain of being alone, and the word “Solitude” to express the glory of being alone. ––Paul Tillich Those who don’t feel this life pulling them like a river, those who don’t drink dawn like a cup of spring water or take in sunset like supper, those who don’t want to change, let them sleep. ––Rumi Your hand opens and closes, open and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. ––Rumi What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want... and are fully determined not to quit until you get it. ––Alexander Graham Bell There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives ––the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them. ––Mother Teresa Creativity happens at the boundary between order and chaos, when we’re poised between the two. In our own lives, the edge is where we are constantly reinventing our culture, constantly questioning our assumptions. ––Danah Zohar, The Quantum Society The inferior teacher tells you that something is wrong with you and offers to fix it. The superior teacher tells you that something is right with you and helps you bring it forth. ––Alan Cohen Where one stands determines what one sees. ––Sandra Schneiders Most of our day is gift after gift... If we wake up to it. ––Brother David Steindl-Rast, Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer If you do not see what is around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers? ––Freeman Patterson What would you be doing differently, if your first priority was living today to its fullest? ––Alan Cohen A juggler does so many tricks–– but, as he juggles, his mind is always fixed on the object. Just so, with practice you can learn to fix the mind on God while doing any work. ––Amma IF words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart, but if they come from the tongue, they will not pass beyond the ears. Al-Suhrawardi "There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being." -Albert Einstein "It is necessary to understand that I Am, In order that I may know that I Am Not, So that, at last, I may realize that, I Am Not, therefore I Am." - Ask the Awakened by Wei Wu Wei "When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills" (Chinese proverb) "Truth does not become error just because nobody believes it." -Gandhi The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. -Lao Tzu "To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important." - Alan Watts “Absence of thoughts does not mean a blank. There must be one to know the blank,” Sri Ramana Maharshi "A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds." ~Mark Twain My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? ~Charles Schulz "But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. " ~Alan Watts |
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