Inspirational Words Thread

[SageTree]

That's okay, notice the early Rumi spree....

[reverie]

Yeah, I did Great choices!

Rumi is phenomenal.

[SageTree]

Thus shall ye think of this fleeting world:
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud;
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.


-From The Diamond Sutra

[SageTree]

The infinite joy of touching Brahman is easily attained by those who are free from the burden of evil and established within themselves. They see the Self in every creature and all creation in the Self. With consciousness unified through meditation, they see everything with an equal eye.

-Bhagavad Gita 6:28-29

[rollingthunder]

Faith must trample underfoot
all reason, sense and understanding.

An obstacle to my understanding the spiritual life was my intellectualization; my head was forever getting in... Read More the way of my heart. It was much easier to me to think rather than to feel; my faith was smothered by logic. My manipulating and controlling mind was stopping me experiencing the adventure of faith. The person in me grew as I began to trust others. The Creator became alive in my confusion. The answer was in not having to have the answers. Today spirituality involves all the varied confusions and paradoxes of life that I have discovered in me and in others ---and it's okay. Today the love I give and receive is beyond my wildest dreams, and I smile at the joy of my confusion.

May my head unite with my heart in the daily maze of
life.

-Don Manidoogekek


-Thunder

[SageTree]

"Human beings are created from the dust of the earth; but do they resemble dust? Grapes come from vines; but do grapes look like vines? Does theft have the same shape as gallows? Does piety resemble eternal life? Nothing resembles its consequences. So the root of pain and torment is not evil."

-Rumi

[SageTree]

If you want to be a true doer of divine works, your first aim must be to be totally free from all desire and self-regarding ego. All your life must be an offering and a sacrifice to the Supreme; your only object in action shall be to serve, to receive, to fulfill, to become a manifesting instrument of the Divine Shakti in her works. You must grow in the divine consciousness till there is no difference between your will and hers, no motive except her impulsion in you, no action that is not her conscious action in you and through you.

-Sri Aurobindo

-Sri Aurobindo

[badgoalie85]

whenever i'm looking for inspirtation i throw on some inspirting music.

[Bodhisattva]

“Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.”

-Nietzsche

[rollingthunder]

Certain things catch your eye,
But pursue only those
that capture your heart.

-Thunder

[SageTree]

"Let all thoughts be thoughts of noble progress, For then even failing cannot be called a failure." ~ Tirukkural 596.

It's all learning, in other words. Time will tell what is tryly "good" and "bad". Some of my hardest times in life, have had the best fruition in my current happiness.

[SageTree]

From this point on you really know. This is called the pinnacle of Zen, the sovereignty of Zen. It is also called knowledge of what is knowable; it produces all the various states of meditation, and anoints the heads of all spiritual princes. In all fields of form, sound, fragrance, flavor, feeling, and phenomena, you realize complete perfect enlightenment. Inside and outside are in complete communion, without any obstruction at all.

- Pai-chang

[SageTree]

The Buddha said: "When a person has thoroughly understood the world, from top to bottom, when there is nothing in the world that agitates him anymore, then he has become somebody who is free from confusion and fears and tremblings and the longings of desire. He has gone beyond getting old and beyond birth and death."

- Sutta Nipata

[ProfessorMurder]

The dominant assumption of our nation’s founders was to avoid “foreign
entanglements,” Indeed, the
policy of nonintervention was considered by the founders as a basic
demarcation between the politics of the Old and New Worlds. Explaining in his
farewell address why he, as our first President, followed “our true policy to
steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world,”
George Washington cautioned his countrymen to “moderate the fury of party
spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the
impostures of pretended patriotism.”


He was warning against america getting involved with other nations for or against them;
and other nations interfering with our nation through infiltration and spys.

I think it was a part of the Illuminati Scare that it was infiltrating american Freemasonry.

Thomas Jefferson wrote several letters praising Adam Weishaupt and the "Perfectionist"= illuminati.

Yes Washington had several Freemason French Generals on his side,
but were they illuminati agents?


It's like that scene in goodfellas when the resturaunt owner goes to Paulie
tilling him Joe Pesci is busting up the joint and to go in half for the business.
The Restaurant did good but, later the Mob took complete control of the business and burnt it to the ground.


HAPPY BELATED 4TH OF JULY!!

[cantSEEme]

recently, ive been reading a book (or more fitting, a journal) by japans haiku master Matsuo Basho called "Narrow Road to a Far Province". it is exceptional. its basically poems and haikus he wrote while on a five-month long journey through japan.

the whole journal is truly inspiring. three of my favorite passages are:


"each day is a journey, and the journey itself home"

"a mound of summer grass / are warriors heroic deeds / only dreams that pass?"

"sadly i part from you; like a clam torn from its shell, i go, and autumn too."

[SageTree]

Enlightenment is merely an impersonal happening. We give it the taint of personal achievement. Therefore the question arises, "What is an enlightened being like?" There is no such thing as an enlightened person. Enlightenment is merely another event. There is a flood, a fire, an earthquake; there is enlightenment, just as one happening in the whole process, all part of the phenomenal process.

- Ramesh Balsekar

[SageTree]

Strive for Paradise. A small nook within its bliss is better than the whole world and all the riches within.

- The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.

[hijabihippie]

You can't always get what you want.
But if you try sometimes,
You just might find
You get what you need.

-The Rolling Stones

[jhx420]

"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain." (Jim Morrison)

[SageTree]

This really speaks to my sense of the Middle Way between Eternal and Nihlistic dichotomy.

The servile earth and the lofty sky: without this opposite the sky would not be so high. The low and high of the earth are winter and spring. The low and high of time are night and day. The low and high of the body are sickness and health. By means of these opposites the world is kept alive; by means of these doubles souls feel fear and hope.

- Rumi (PBUH)