Thought of the Day

Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 3:11 am

“When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.”
~Ram Dass ~

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:31 pm

very good one, Jager!!

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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
~Anais Nin

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:39 pm

"Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough."
~Ram Dass~

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:17 pm

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.

~Stanislav Grof

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When my time comes,
forget the wrong that I might have done.
Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed.
Don't resent me, and when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory, leave out all the rest …

~Anonymous

Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 7:05 pm

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.
But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers of all your elements?

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.
For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing;
And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

I would have you consider your judgment and your appetite even as you would two loved guests in your house.
Surely you would not honour one guest above the other; for he who is more mindful of one loses the love and the faith of both.

Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows -- then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason."
And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky -- then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion."
And since you are a breath in God's sphere, and a leaf in God's forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion.

KG

Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 1:41 pm

...what a GREAT thoguht, Jager!!!
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Faith...
When you come to the edge of all the light you have,
and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown,
faith is knowing one of two things will happen:
There will be something solid to stand on,
or you will be taught how to fly.

~ Patrick Overton ~

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 12:02 pm

...had this words in my mind this morning, though I'd like to share with you..

Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 6:24 pm

There is no path to reality. Reality is not to be found through any path; it is to be found through the uncharted sea of self-knowledge; the immeasurable is not to be measured by the path of the known.

All there is... is consciousness.”

~Krishnamurti~

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:50 am

My world-oneness-heart
Is a perfect stranger
To loneliness.

~Sri Chinmoy

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 3:26 am

"Always someone resting there --
a lone rock
in the summer field"
~Masaoka Shiki ~

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:54 pm

Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living.
When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
I say, follow your bliss and dont be afraid... and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

~ Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) ~

Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 2:06 pm

The truth is more important than the facts.

~Frank Lloyd Wright

Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:03 pm

"Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance."
~ Yoko Ono~ Season of Glass

Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:43 pm

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

~Thomas Jefferson