Words to Live by

We do not merely want to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words--to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.

C.S. Lewis

A Subtle Truth

If you want money more than anything, /
you will be bought and sold. /
If you have a greed for food, /
you will become a loaf of bread. /
This is a subtle truth. /
Whatever you love, you are.
--Rumi

Heart of the Heavens

"May the heart of earth
flow to the heart of heaven
through my heart
and through all hearts together

And may our hearts be
the hearts of every being
in all the starry sky

And may the heart of the heavens
flow to the heart of earth
through my heart
and through all our hearts together

And may our hearts be
the heart of every earthly creature."

Chichicastenango, Guatemala


from Father Charlie Moore and William Henry in: Stargate 2012 disc 1

Rememberance

"There comes a point in the Work when it is clear that 'I' do

not remember myself. 'I Am' remembers."
—Lord John Pentland
June 6, 1907 – February 14, 1984

http://www.gurdjieff-legacy.org/

Socrates - Anamnesis - Remembrance

greg's quotes

We are the ones who decide each minute what will be the lives of those around us and those to come.

Holding onto the past one does not feel the present.

An unconscious tongue leads the conscious mind astray.

As Noah built only one Ark, so too, God built one Earth. The Ark didn’t have life rafts, neither does Earth; were in this together, lets love each other.

Matter (nature) is the canvas upon which spirit paints life (creation).

Close your eyes and learn to see.

Search within and find what has been forgot, forget the search and you will find that you already have whats being sought.

Sometimes its hard to follow the path of God. Its always hard not to.

The closer you come to God, the closer you come to yourself.

All that is Good is in Nature.

The quiet mind hears God.

Even the blind see God and the deaf hear God; for what else is there.

Man is the heart of all religion. God is the heart of all man.

Be Free, Free from the way you think things should Be, Be Free.

Learning to Fly

Our life is our dream.
Each of us has a dream, of which not all of us are conscious.
Our dream, guides our life, and the degree to which we are Aware and Act upon our soulful purpose, is the degree to which we are happy in life ~~ in FLUX with creation.
Let us ponder a metaphor:
A baby bird has instinct to fly; and as long as it maintains the instinct to flight, it will fly - whether by its own desire, or the desire of mother bird encouraging it out of the nest.
If a bird is to ignore or forget the instinct to flight, it will grow old and languish in the nest or meet its demise through incapability to fly.
Our life is like the bird learning to fly...if we ignore or forget our dreams, then we find ourselves in a life situation which we would not otherwise choose, or at an untimely exit from this life.
On the other hand, if we maintain the deep Intention towards our dream, then we will Create...
Whether by the universe, karma, God, placing us in unpreferable situations for our personal development like mother bird encouraging its chicks to fly, or by our own desire - we will FLY







http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/images/122005/cardinal_insnow.jpg ~~ picture source

L O V E

The Invitation

The Invitation

I am here. Find me. You will be Awakened.

Believe only what you experience directly from Me inside.

I am the Ocean of All Consciousness.
I contain all dimensions, all universes, all creatures.

At my level all is Ecstasy. Join Me.

The universe you inhabit is temporary.
The solar system you inhabit is temporary.
The planet you inhabit is temporary.
The species you inhabit is temporary.
Join Me in Permanence.

The outside drama is predetermined.
Everything happens in the only way it can.
Be free of identification with the drama.

You are sleeping in Personality.
Sleeper, Awaken!
Remember Who you are and What you are.

I am here. Find Me. You will be Awakened.

(http://www.awakenfoundation.org/the_invitation_tfw.htm)

BE FREE

BE FREE

FREE from the way you think things should BE

BE FREE

I AWOKE TODAY

I awoke today…
I stepped down the stairs and walked to the couch for a seat, where I raised my head and in the vision, lost myself…

As I stare out the window at the dance of snow which swirls to blizzard proportions with such magnitude as to envelope the entire neighborhood, my mind becomes entangled by the undulations of the numbing whiteness that consumes the objects of my perception.

Millions of tiny crystalline matrices of frozen precipitate, neither coming nor going, yet incessantly increasing in number, fill my vision and incapacitates my mind to the extent that I no longer distinguish past and present - time is as illusive as the space between the flakes.

I continue watching the infinite maze of snowflakes accumulate into a fog reducing creation into a fine white particulate, and all efforts to supplement depth, distance, dimension - something! - to this cold and mesmerizing oblivion are lost as the mind searches for the comforting sense of the old familiar reality which is so predictably taken for granted.

And for a moment I am that storm. An irreplaceable, irreproducible, unique and original moment that takes precedence over all thought and precludes preconception, but invites all into the tranquil serenity of Being.

Listening intently, I hear the snow spray against the glass as though beside the house there was a waterfall over which torrents of dense powder flowed to the ground with an explosive impact and ricochet nearly every angle of the house.

In the wind, the crooked branches of the trees wave restlessly like the raised hands of a skeletal audience applauding the winter catastrophe in its unbridled splendor.

As the storm subsides its residual effects are evident everywhere the blanket of soft whiteness is penetrated by the dark contrasting edges of objects minimally exposed, and like a lake with turtles whose noses breach the surface for air

created jan 16 2006 12:34 pm ~ pic feb 07

vegetarian in world religion

GOLDEN RULE

Christianity - "So, whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them."

Judaism - "Do not do unto others what you would not wish to be done unto yourself - that is the entire Torah, the rest is commentary."

Islam - "No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself."

Baha'i Faith - "Blessed is he that preferreth his brother unto himself."

Taoism - "Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss."

Hinduism - "This is the sum of duty: do naught to others that which if done to thee would cause pain."

Jainism - "A man should wander about treating all creatures as he himself would be treated."

Buddhism - "Hurt not others with that which pains yourself."

The Bhagavad Gita

... the beginningless Brahman, ...

can be called neither being nor nonbeing.

It is both near and far, both within and without every creature;

it moves and is unmoving. In its subtlety it is beyond comprehension.

It is indivisible, yet appears divided in separate creatures.

Know it to be the creator, the preserver, and the destroyer.

Dwelling in every heart, it is beyond darkness.

It is called the light of lights,

the object and goal of knowledge,

and knowledge itself.

Cosmic Consciousness.

I have wrapped the wide world in my wider self

And Time and Space my spirit's seeing are.

I am the god and demon, ghost and elf,

I am the wind's speed and the blazing star.

All Nature is the nursling of my care,

I am its struggle and the eternal rest;

The world's joy thrilling runs through me, I bear

The sorrow of millions in my lonely breast.

I have learned a close identity with all,

Yet am by nothing bound that I become;

Carrying in me the universe's call

I mount to my imperishable home.

I pass beyond Time and life on measureless wings,

Yet still am one with born and unborn things.

~Sri Aurobindo~

excerpt from Awakening to the Dream: ATTD News Letter Number 98 Sunday, January 21, 2007

the truth makes men free

to the open mind

http://www.rosicrucian-order.com/principal.html


http://www.summum.us/about/purpose.shtml

What I Believe

The university professor challenged his students with this question. "Did God create everything that exists?"

A student bravely replied, "Yes, he did!"

"God created everything?" The professor asked.

"Yes sir", the student replied.

The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil, since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are, then God is evil".

The student became quiet before such an answer.

The professor, quite pleased with himself, boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth. Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question, professor?"

"Of course", replied the professor.

The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"

"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?"

The students snickered at the young man's question.

The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460° F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat."

The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?"

The professor responded, "Of course it does."

The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present." Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?"

Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil."

To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."

The professor sat down.

The young man's name ............Albert Einstein


It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing." -- Albert Einstein


quote from: http://groups.msn.com/TheJamesFiles/yourwebpage1.msnw

ONE

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us_universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

- Albert Einstein

quote from:http://groups.msn.com/TheJamesFiles/yourwebpage1.msnw

pic from:http://solarviews.com/cap/earth/bluemarblewest.htm

Vegetarian quotes

http://pw2.netcom.com/~axleplus/stuff/veggie/vquotes.html


"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."
-- Leonardo da Vinci

"Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child, as it is to the caterpillar." -- Bradley Miller

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." -- Albert Einstein

"But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy." -- Plutarch

"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we ever expect ideal conditions on earth." -- George Bernard Shaw

"Men dig their graves with their own teeth and die by those fated instruments more than the weapons of their enemies. " -- Thomas Moffett

"You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car." -- Harvey Diamond

"Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay." -- George Bernard Shaw

"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery." -- Charles Darwin

"Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore." -- Franz Kafka

"When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy." -- Ingrid Newkirk

"If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance." -- Richard Wagner

"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love." -- Pythagoras

"It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery." -- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit for their cruelty." -- Leo Tolstoy

"I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity." -- Ecclesiastes

"Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough." -- St. Francis of Assisi

"I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls. God knows that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one ate me." -- Alex Poulos



also some good ones here: http://www.ivu.org/people/quotes/

The End Of Seeking?

Christianity: For behold, the kingdom of God is within you. (Luke 17:21)
Buddhism: You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes. (Siddhartha Gautama)
Zen: If you cannot find the truth right where you are where else do you expect to find it? (Dogen Zenji)
Taoism: Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many. (Chuang Tzu)
Science: Bell's theorem demonstrates that the universe is fundamentally interconnected, interdependent, and inseparable.' (Fritjof Capra)
Tibetan Buddhism: There is not a single state that is not this vast state of presence.
Islam: 'In that glory is no 'I' or 'We' or 'Thou.' 'I,' 'We,' 'Thou,' and 'He' are all one thing.'(Hallaj)Hinduism: Tat Tvam Asi - Thou Art That.
Judaism: I am That I am.


www.AwakeningToTheDream.com

A Message from the Hopi Elders

"We have been telling the people that it is the
Eleventh Hour.
Now you must go back and tell the people that it 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 the 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, and push off
and into the river,
Keep our eyes open, and our head 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 you do now must be done in a sacred manner
And in celebration.

We are the ones we've been waiting for."

-The Elders,
Hopi Nation, People of Peace
Oraibi, Arizona (2003)

[from Point of Light, winter 2006-07, vol. 13, issue 49]
Western PA's journal of Meaningful Living www.pointoflight.com

Thoughts become things... choose the good ones!

There comes a time in the evolution of every spiritual being, along that sometimes dark road that leads to enlightenment, when their inner yearnings, struggles and frustrations bring them to a truth that could not have otherwise been realized.

Reaching this milestone was inevitable, for the light that will dawn hereafter is not only what you have summoned, but what all now seek. And with your blessing and recognition, it will bathe those who follow in your footsteps and the burden they bear shall be lessened.

If it's not yet obvious, the real reason for this season is you. A more perfect child of the Universe has never been born. Until now, only a celebration cloaked in myth and mystery could hint at your sublime heritage and divine destiny.

You are life's prayer of becoming, and its answer; the first light at the dawn of eternity, drawn from the ether, so that the Universe might know its depths, discover its heights, and frolic in boundless seas of blessed emotion; a pioneer into illusion, an adventurer into the unknown, and a lifter of veils; courageous, heroic and exalted by billions in the unseen.

To give beyond reason. To care beyond hope. To love without limit. To reach, stretch, and dream in spite of your fears. These are the hallmarks of divinity - traits of the immortal - your badges of honor, and your ticket onward.

This is the time of year we celebrate YOU.

Ye-haaaa!
The Universe
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