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Post by skyblue on Aug 19, 2010 18:26:28 GMT -5
This is how a human being can change; there's a worm addicted to eating grape leaves. Suddenly, he wakes up, call it grace, whatever, something wakes him, and he's no longer a worm. He's the entire vineyard, and the orchard too, and the fruit, tree trunks, a growing wisdom and joy that doesn't need to devour. ~Rumi
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Post by runstill on Aug 20, 2010 0:10:36 GMT -5
Fear is food. Eat it sh.. it it out, be done with it.
jan frazier
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Post by oneiopen on Aug 23, 2010 2:18:17 GMT -5
To expound and propagate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Post by skyblue on Aug 23, 2010 10:51:02 GMT -5
I have no parents I make the heaven and earth my parents I have no home I make awareness my home. I have no divine powers I make honesty my divine power. I have no means I make understanding my means. I have no secrets I make my character my secrets. I have no body I make endurance my body. I have no eyes I make the flash of lightning my eyes. I have no ears I make sensibility my ears. I have no limbs I make promptness my limbs I have no miracles I make right action my miracle I have no principles I make adaptability to all circumstances my principle I have no tactics I make emptiness and fullness my tactics I have no talent I make ready wit my talent I have no friends I make my mind my friend I have no enemy I make carelessness my enemy I have no armor I make benevolence and righteousness my armor I have no castle I make immovable mind my castle I have no sword I make absence of self my sword
~Samuari song(fifteenth century)
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Post by runstill on Aug 25, 2010 0:34:41 GMT -5
We live our whole life as if it is the content that gives life meaning. but what if it was the container....
janfrazier
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Post by charliegee on Aug 27, 2010 11:14:43 GMT -5
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. Simone Weil
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Post by skyblue on Aug 27, 2010 14:19:06 GMT -5
"To free people from the lie that they or anyone suffers is the greatest compassion." Tony Parsons
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Post by unveilable on Aug 29, 2010 16:22:13 GMT -5
... the first action is simply, quietly to turn within to one's Self, there to listen to the Heart, where Truth is and where the answers are! -WILLIAM SAMUEL
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Post by selfseeker on Aug 31, 2010 10:32:24 GMT -5
To be is to know.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Short and sweet
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Post by michaelsees on Aug 31, 2010 11:19:32 GMT -5
When we learn to move beyond mistaken concepts and see clearly, we no longer solidify reality. We see waves coming and going, arising and passing. We see that life, composed of this mind and body, is in a state of continual, constant transformation and flux. There is always the possibility of radical change. Every moment - not just poetically or figuratively, but literally - every moment we are dying and being reborn, we and all of life.
From: 'Loving-Kindness - The Revolutionary Art of Happiness' Sharon Salzberg p88
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Post by michaelsees on Sept 1, 2010 17:20:38 GMT -5
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. Henry Miller
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Post by runstill on Sept 7, 2010 16:25:44 GMT -5
Present is all that changelessly is.There can not 'be' a before.
You can only 'be' present now. You have never ever 'been' anywhere else but present now.
Peter Dziuban
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jalus
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Post by jalus on Sept 9, 2010 20:29:27 GMT -5
"Forget not the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." -Rumi-
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louij
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Post by louij on Sept 9, 2010 22:54:03 GMT -5
;D Wassup! love love Louij
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dei
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Post by dei on Sept 14, 2010 15:14:23 GMT -5
'I'm sure I'll take you with pleasure!' the Queen said. 'Twopence a week, and jam every other day.'
Alice couldn't help laughing, as she said, 'I don't want you to hire ME--and I don't care for jam.'
'It's very good jam,' said the Queen.
'Well, I don't want any TO-DAY, at any rate.'
'You couldn't have it if you DID want it,' the Queen said. 'The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday--but never jam to-day.'
'It MUST come sometimes to "jam to-day,"' Alice objected.
'No, it can't,' said the Queen. 'It's jam every OTHER day: to-day isn't any OTHER day, you know.'
-Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
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