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Erich Schiffmann |
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yogini db |
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sit down before facts like a child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. - thomas huxley |
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Sri D |
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"If you knew as I did, the power of giving, you would not let a single day pass without sharing."
-Buddha |
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Frangipani |
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16. No one was ever really taught by another;each of us has to teach himself/herself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion which rouses the internal
teacher to work to understand things.
from Teachings of Swami Vivekananda from Vedanta Press free at last, thank God Almighty I AM free at last!
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Sri D |
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Some keep the Sabbath going to Church,
I keep it staying at Home - With a bobolink for a Chorister, And an Orchard, for a Dome. -Emily Dickinson |
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yogini db |
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love your buddha quote up there, sri!
sit down before facts like a child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. - thomas huxley |
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noswrite |
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"This is the ultimate: one has to become the holy shadow, just a shadow of God. This is the greatest revolution that can happen to a human being: the
transfer of the center. You are no longer your own center; God becomes your center. You live like his shadow. You are not powerful, because you don't have
any center to be powerful. You are not virtuous; you don't have any center to be virtuous. You are not even religious; you don't have any center to be
religious. You are simply not, a tremendous emptiness, with no barriers and blocks, so the divine can flow through you unhindered, uninterpreted, untouched --
so the divine can flow through you as he is, not as you would like him to be. He does not pass through your center -- there is none. The center is lost."
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ma data |
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In rendering service, one should have no thought of
one's self. One should only consider how well one can render the service as an offering to the Divine. One should note the difference between Karma
(action) and Karma Yoga (action as spiritual discipline). Ordinary activity is motivated by self interest or the desire to achieve some objective. In Karma
Yoga, the action is desireless. Ordinary Karma is the cause of birth, death and rebirth, whereas Karma Yoga leads to freedom from birth. You should regard
all service as a form of Karma Yoga - rendering service without any expectation of reward, and without even the feeling that one is 'serving' others.
Any service done to anyone is actually service to the Divine.
PEACE
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noswrite |
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"Rights are freedoms of action (such as the right to free speech), not automatic claims on goods and services that must be produced by another. There is
no such thing as a right to a car - or a tonsillectomy."
Paul Hsieh |
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ma data |
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Dancing With God
Dancing With God When I meditated on the word Guidance, I kept seeing "dance" at the end of the
word. I remember reading that doing God's will is a lot like dancing. When two people try to lead, nothing feels right...
Change your karma and you will change the conditions in which you live.
And you can change your karma by adopting a new pattern of thinking.
PEACE & NAMASTE
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"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."
- John Stuart Mill |
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Lillylulu |
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"Living life beyond the need to run and search and chase and defend your position is a matter of surrendering to a universal agreement. Such an agreement recognizes your Divine Right and the Divine Right of all life to be. Chasing after, hiding under, or arguing over, all stem from doubting the existence of such an agreement. It is ultimately a self doubt . . . an anger that is being used to force others into verifying and approving your right . . . the very rights that are already yours. -Guru Singh |
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Sri D |
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Excellent, lil!
Here's one for today: "All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
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Brian |
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Sri D |
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Very lovely, Brian.
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Sri D |
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A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
- Peter Marshall |
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Frangipani |
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![]() Sri D, Brian, Lil Thank you for helping me lift myself upward!
With my heart open to God's renewing love, I accept my healing now! |
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Frangipani |
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"The current is the same everywhere. It is the cosmic current and there is only one generating station. It sends energy to us without wires. Sri Swami Satchidananda |
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noswrite |
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"The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If
so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?"
- Eknath Easwaran |
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Sri D |
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Which is very similar to a quote from Sai Baba, which I've put on here before...
"Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?" Love that last bit. |
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