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Post by withinsilence on Jan 27, 2013 16:24:39 GMT
well do tell..................? I guess Mozart
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Post by gurthbruins on Jan 27, 2013 16:38:27 GMT
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Post by withinsilence on Jan 28, 2013 2:14:43 GMT
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. ~Albert Szent-Györgyi
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Post by withinsilence on Jan 28, 2013 15:17:17 GMT
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. Rachel Naomi Remen
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion -- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven. Mark Twain
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done. Mark Twain
In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. Mark Twain
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Post by popee on Feb 1, 2013 21:21:42 GMT
my last visit or post here: ;D
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Post by withinsilence on Feb 3, 2013 16:58:56 GMT
"it is not until one drops its beliefs and enters into the unknown, into the search for the truth of this belief in separation, that it may see that it has never been separated."
A Christian asked a sage; "do you believe your soul will go to heaven after you die?"
the master replied; "I was not aware of a separation"
A life long Christian was on his death bed and ordered the wise nurse to dress him in his most expensive suit, his reasoning was so when he meets the lord he will look his best and be recognized for his success in life.
the nurse replied; "have you not seen an open tomb with the stinking body and deteriorated clothes? your belief in the dogma of Christianity has taught you nothing but materialism, selfishness, separation and a false sense of identity!"
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Post by withinsilence on Feb 12, 2013 19:53:41 GMT
"The past is to learn from, the present is to practice what you've learned, so that in the future you won't have to live in regrets of the past"
"How bad do you need to feel before you recognize that thinking about feeling bad cannot begin to make you feel good?"
"Where are those thoughts of unhappiness when you're happy? So then, are you truly unhappy or just thinking unhappy thoughts?"
"You can't get roses by planting weeds, just as you can't let go of stress by thinking about how stressed you are"
"If you had control over how you would like to feel, how would this make you feel? Who is stopping you? If you say this or that person is, who is giving them this power?"
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Post by gurthbruins on Feb 13, 2013 5:56:11 GMT
I like the quotes in replies 153 to 156. What I make of them is this: If you don't enjoy doing what you are doing, then either: (1) Start enjoying it, or (2) Stop doing it. - and the right choice will usually be clear, according to circumstances.
As Sam Reifler put it: Stop wanting, start having.
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Post by withinsilence on Feb 13, 2013 11:50:51 GMT
"Help us to find God" asked the students
"no one can help you there" said the master
"why not?"
"For the same reason that no one can help the fish to find the ocean"
"is salvation obtained through action or through meditation?"
"Through neither, Salvation comes from seeing"
"Seeing what?"
"That the gold necklace you wish to acquire is hanging around your neck, and the snake you are so frightened of is only a rope on the ground."
From: One Minute Wisdom, Anthony de Mello
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Post by popee on Mar 13, 2013 23:24:26 GMT
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "Thank You," that would suffice.
~ Meister Eckhart
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Post by gurthbruins on Mar 14, 2013 10:29:25 GMT
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "Thank You," that would suffice. ~ Meister Eckhart Ooh, this could be one of my real favourites. The prayer is directed at a recipient - a You. This You does not need or want our thanks, unless we give them, in which case She wanted them - but we are the ones who need to express our overwhelming gratitude. To the source of everything we value. Those who do not feel such a gratitude, are truly poor because they have received nothing of value. However, that is their fate, it must be accepted for the moment, though we will make plans... perhaps. It's my main prayer (thought), together with happy obedience and acceptance of everything, renewed surrender and identification of my will with It. (also known as He and She)
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Post by withinsilence on Mar 14, 2013 13:49:34 GMT
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "Thank You," that would suffice. ~ Meister Eckhart Ooh, this could be one of my real favourites. The prayer is directed at a recipient - a You. This You does not need or want our thanks, unless we give them, in which case She wanted them - but we are the ones who need to express our overwhelming gratitude. To the source of everything we value. Those who do not feel such a gratitude, are truly poor because they have received nothing of value. However, that is their fate, it must be accepted for the moment, though we will make plans... perhaps. It's my main prayer (thought), together with happy obedience and acceptance of everything, renewed surrender and identification of my will with It. (also known as He and She) Thank you; popee, Gurth, All and Everything, for sharing this simple wisdom. And so shall I give thanks, from the heart of yet another simple and wise soul; "If those who seek to attract you say to you: 'See, the Kingdom is in heaven!' then the birds of heaven will be there before you. If they say to you: 'It is in the sea!' then the fish will be there before you. But the kingdom is within you and it is outside of you!" "When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will know that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you will be in a state of poverty, and it is you who is this poverty!" Jesus Gospel of Thomas
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Post by withinsilence on Mar 21, 2013 11:23:23 GMT
This is the most precious experience in existence. And once you know the way to the center, you can go to the center anytime, anywhere. It is so simple, it is so close, and it is so alive.
It will transform your whole being.
It will fill you with joy, silence, love, compassion. You will be a transformed, new human being. Zen is only a name for this transformation.
The new man is needed around the earth, because only the new man can save this earth from destruction. The old man has created only destructive methods, war and violence. The new man will be a Buddha, a man of compassion, love and peace.
Before you come back, gather all the experiences that are happening there at the center of your being, and persuade the Buddha, the flame of life, to come following you and be part of your daily life. Ordinary and mundane existence can be transformed into sacred actions if the Buddha is present there.
These are the three steps.
First, the Buddha comes following you as a shadow.
Second, you follow the Buddha as a shadow.
And third, your shadow disappears in the luminosity of the Buddha, the impersonal silence, the unbounded, oceanic joy.
You disappear, but the whole existence becomes available to you. You lose nothing. You lose only shadows, and you gain everything: all or nothing. They are both synonymous at the experience of the center.
They are not opposites, there is no duality in the experience of meditation.
In this silence all contradictions melt and merge into each other.
Come back... but come back as Buddhas, with the same grace, same silence, the same beauty, same blissfulness.
This ecstasy has to become your very heart, and this experience has to be carried into every ordinary action of your life, in your love, in your relations, in your friendships. Wherever you are, you should bring peace and joy and blissfulness, and more light.
Existence becomes more and more available to you the more you share it in your bliss, in your joy, in your laughter's, in your silences.
You simply become a vehicle, a bamboo flute on the lips of existence. The song comes from the whole.
You simply allow it.
This allowance is Zen.
Zen is a way of becoming a blessing to the whole existence.
The Zen Manifesto: Freedom From Oneself by Osho
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Post by withinsilence on Mar 27, 2013 0:20:59 GMT
all is silent now, ever, its buzz of life speaking, echoing against nothingness, father calling son home,
offer always outstanding, denied no one, breath of life, which soul has not fallen off the path? all of them, understanding with paradoxical intuition.
Into the arms of blissful acceptance falling, basking in full fragrance of life's experiences, understanding eye seeing now in truth, humbly, accepting, eternal grace.
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Post by popee on Mar 27, 2013 23:12:56 GMT
"Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose"
~ Janis Joplin
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