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Oct 1, 2017 16:01:40 GMT -5 @bakk said:

Oct 1, 2017 15:42:29 GMT -5 @farmer said:

no idea who wrote this..

but I think its a interesting example of 'in one context its fine.. but in another, not so much'

I wrote it for me. 

(Be careful with the context again now won'tcha? )

sure, there's a context where I wrote it for me.. but I'm pretty sure there's another context in which you're lying about being the author

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Oct 2, 2017 7:30:53 GMT -5 @farmer said:

Oct 1, 2017 16:01:40 GMT -5 @bakk said:

I wrote it for me. 

(Be careful with the context again now won'tcha? )

sure, there's a context where I wrote it for me.. but I'm pretty sure there's another context in which you're lying about being the author

Oh Yeah .. there is a loveliness in the perspective/context that you wrote it for yourself though

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We Need Saints

We need saints without veil or cassock.
We need saints who wear jeans and sneakers.
We need saints who go to the movies,
Listen to music and hang out with friends.

We need saints who put God in first place,
But who let go of their power.

We need saints who have time everyday to pray
And who know how to date in purity and chastity,
Or who consecrate their chastity.

We need modern saints, Saints of the 21st century
With a spirituality that is part of our time.

We need saints committed to the poor
And the necessary social changes.

We need saints who live in the world and who are sanctified in the world,
Who are not afraid to live in the world.

We need saints who drink Coke and eat hot dogs, who wear jeans,
Who are Internet-savvy, who listen to CDs.

We need saints who passionately love the Eucharist
And who are not ashamed to drink a soda or eat pizza on weekends with friends.

We need saints who like movies, the theater, music, dance, sports.

We need saints who are social, open, normal,
Friendly, happy and who are good companions.

We need saints who are in the world
And know how to taste the pure and nice things of the world
But who aren’t of the world.

~ Author, Unknown.

[enigma]

Oct 8, 2017 17:41:25 GMT -5 @bakk said:

We Need Saints

We need saints without veil or cassock.
We need saints who wear jeans and sneakers.
We need saints who go to the movies,
Listen to music and hang out with friends.

We need saints who put God in first place,
But who let go of their power.

We need saints who have time everyday to pray
And who know how to date in purity and chastity,
Or who consecrate their chastity.

We need modern saints, Saints of the 21st century
With a spirituality that is part of our time.

We need saints committed to the poor
And the necessary social changes.

We need saints who live in the world and who are sanctified in the world,
Who are not afraid to live in the world.

We need saints who drink Coke and eat hot dogs, who wear jeans,
Who are Internet-savvy, who listen to CDs.

We need saints who passionately love the Eucharist
And who are not ashamed to drink a soda or eat pizza on weekends with friends.

We need saints who like movies, the theater, music, dance, sports.

We need saints who are social, open, normal,
Friendly, happy and who are good companions.

We need saints who are in the world
And know how to taste the pure and nice things of the world
But who aren’t of the world.

~ Author, Unknown.

It seems that wearing jeans and going to movies are definitely saintly requirements.

[maxdprophet]

Jon Bernie:
“What’s the difference between: Enlightenment, cosmic consciousness, divine awareness, emptimness, Buddha Nature, the tao, God, Jesus, Oneness…?
"And the answer is: nothing.
"….a rose by any other name smells just as sweet.
"…so just smell the sweetness...
~Appreciate_Yourself-Embodied_Awareness_Podcast

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Oct 10, 2017 8:58:45 GMT -5 maxdprophet said:

Jon Bernie:
“What’s the difference between: Enlightenment, cosmic consciousness, divine awareness, emptimness, Buddha Nature, the tao, God, Jesus, Oneness…?
"And the answer is: nothing.
"….a rose by any other name smells just as sweet.
"…so just smell the sweetness...
~Appreciate_Yourself-Embodied_Awareness_Podcast

Baloney. Each word conjures up its own unique mental image based on ones beliefs and conditioning.

[maxdprophet]

Oct 10, 2017 10:20:40 GMT -5 @farmer said:

Oct 10, 2017 8:58:45 GMT -5 maxdprophet said:

Jon Bernie:
“What’s the difference between: Enlightenment, cosmic consciousness, divine awareness, emptimness, Buddha Nature, the tao, God, Jesus, Oneness…?
"And the answer is: nothing.
"….a rose by any other name smells just as sweet.
"…so just smell the sweetness...
~Appreciate_Yourself-Embodied_Awareness_Podcast

Baloney. Each word conjures up its own unique mental image based on ones beliefs and conditioning.

What did the Master say to the Baloney sandwich salesman?

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Oct 10, 2017 11:39:05 GMT -5 maxdprophet said:

Oct 10, 2017 10:20:40 GMT -5 @farmer said:

Baloney. Each word conjures up its own unique mental image based on ones beliefs and conditioning.

What did the Master say to the Baloney sandwich salesman?

I got nothing

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"You know who Trump sounds like when he says he's smart? Fredo from the Godfather."

[zin]

(This is a quote about memory development, mostly in a 'recurrence' context (that is, the writer says that a person lives the same life again and again). But I found it useful independently from the recurrence idea.)

How can memory be developed in suffificent measure for a man to remember himself and carry this remembrance from one world to another, from one life to the next? First he must begin with this present life. For whatever may have happened to the others, this is already photographed within him in every detail, like a film which has been exposed but not developed. Rather there are within him many different films, since each of his functions makes and stores its own record -- one reel of all his visual impressions, a second of sounds and conversations he has heard, a third of his own movements, a fourth of physical sensations, and so on. In the cortex of his brain, in his eye, in his throat, the millions of perceptions which make up his life, reduced to molecular or electronic scale, lie dormant but intact.

As we have said, in ordinary man these films are undeveloped, that is, their record is 'forgotten', except when attention is accidentally drawn to this or that short scene by some resemblance or contrast in the present. For it is attention or consciousness which is the developing agent. Thus the man who wants to 'develop memory' must bring consciousness intentionally to bear upon his records. He must develop his inner film of the past now, instead of waiting for its sudden and overwhelming revelation at death.

First those memories --of people, places, critical and trivial incidents-- which are ordinarily evoked in him only by association, must be brought back sequentially and by will. They must be arranged by months and by years. They must be assembled, extended, and assessed -- particularly those which he is most reluctant to recall. For it is exactly the capacity not to remember past weaknesses, embarrassments and failures, which keeps the man as he is, which permits him to repeat the same fatal mistakes constantly and painlessly -- or rather to postpone all the resultant suffering of conscience to one last unbearable experience. In this way the first task of a man who wishes to develop memory, is to remember himself in time.

But when he seriously tries to do this, he will come across many things in the past, whose repetition he cannot possibly admit. He may find the first trivial manifestation of some habit which later became disastrous; he may recall the first accidental encounter in some fatal relationship; or some foolish negligence which led to a great tragedy. By seeing and facing such memories, he will begin to know himself. He will see what he was--and is.

(...) From this, there may gradually begin to develop in him a kind of dual memory. He will see at once what actually happened, and what might have happened, if he had been more conscious. And the more clearly he remembers the past, the more importance he will attach to these new possibilities, which he will place in a future recurrence. - Rodney Collin

[silver]

~~~~o~~~~~


When the heart is empty of the things of the mind,
and the mind is empty of thought, then is there Love.
That which is empty is inexhaustible.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

[xander17]

"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly." - Epictetus
I bought a Hoodie.

[stardustpilgrim]

Oct 27, 2017 1:05:04 GMT -5 xander17 said:

"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly." - Epictetus
I bought a Hoodie.

Epictetus is great, his life a great story, and what he wrote, a.wise man.

[xander17]

Oct 30, 2017 4:20:45 GMT -5 stardustpilgrim said:

Oct 27, 2017 1:05:04 GMT -5 xander17 said:

"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly." - Epictetus
I bought a Hoodie.

Epictetus is great, his life a great story, and what he wrote, a.wise man.

Had to do a factory reset of my fone and tablet, so can't search my quotes at the mo...
...but there's a new quote along the lines of 'A quote or saying is a lifetime of learning condensed into a few sentences.'

When I read quotes like Epictetus', I experience a vast landscape filled with insightful understanding.
I have yet to read of the lives of the numerous authors of my collection of quotes that touch me deeply.
The quotes do enough already, though of course I imagine how wonderful it would be to journey through the authors lives.

I agree. Just from the number of quotes I have of him, I wise fella indeed.

[stardustpilgrim]

Oct 30, 2017 23:55:37 GMT -5 xander17 said:

Oct 30, 2017 4:20:45 GMT -5 stardustpilgrim said:

Epictetus is great, his life a great story, and what he wrote, a.wise man.

Had to do a factory reset of my fone and tablet, so can't search my quotes at the mo...
...but there's a new quote along the lines of 'A quote or saying is a lifetime of learning condensed into a few sentences.'

When I read quotes like Epictetus', I experience a vast landscape filled with insightful understanding.
I have yet to read of the lives of the numerous authors of my collection of quotes that touch me deeply.
The quotes do enough already, though of course I imagine how wonderful it would be to journey through the authors lives.

I agree. Just from the number of quotes I have of him, I wise fella indeed.

Well, don't know a lot about him, but he was a slave. But even being a slave he was more-free than most.