Inspirational Words Thread

[SageTree]

Put a piece of scripture, poetry, fiction, ect that has bought a thought of meaning into your being.

I'll start with a simple fortune cookie that i read once.

"Others must not lose for you to win"

I'll look for more of my favourites, but right now my wife needs this to finish a paper she is working on.

Love in Peace
Sage

[The Rev]

"Yes we can!"
- Barack Obama



The Rev

[SageTree]

'Act in the temporary, remain in the permanent' - Paramahansa Yogananda

'On being a renuncicant " I have left but a few petty pleasures and a few rupies and an empire of bliss. How then have I denied myself anything? I know the joy of sharing my treasure, Isn't that a sacrifice? The short sighted wordly folk are the REAL renuncicants! They relinquish an unparalled Divine possession for a handful of earthly toys!" - Bhaduri Mahasaya

"Seek truth in meditation, not in moldy books. Look into the sky for the moon, not into the pond" -Persian Proverb

[SageTree]

"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all ways ackowledge God and your path shall be directed." -Proverbs 3: 5-6

This is my Grama's favourite scripture, so I wanted to honour her here. This passage at first struck me , a long time ago, as not also using my God experiancing intellect and discriminatory mind. I thought the Gyan yoga, the path to understanding the law of the universe, was a grand way to have union. However upon looking further I realized that my Grama is a Karma yogi, even though she is a Protestant and Methodist. This really got me to thinking and learning more about the two other yogas, raja and bhakti. Each one is a path or philosophy for having god-realization. Raja is experiancial and knowledgeable, Bhakti brings a total love for god into all our realationships as we commune with god over and over.

Ultimatly these four yogas all share overlaping threads and is nearly impossible , in my opinion, to have one with out the others. Karma yoga though says that our actions are God's actions. This made me think alot and how, if the others make so much sense, then this too must seem as palatable, why isnt it. The second part is that if we act freely ,in attunement to God, we are acting out God's impulses, like a nerve ending. Thusly if we act this way, God will guide us saftly to her.

In the last few months as I have deepened in mediation I have come to feel that Ultimate presence, the centre of my being, and have found it easy to walk in that mind-set throughout my day. Then one day I realized, this is Karma yoga! It isn't about being pushed around by a mysterious hand, mildlessly. It was listening to my truest self with a more pure intellect and reasoning,and that freely left me to live out the impulses of God, The Spirit of Life, The Lightless Light.

That is what this passage means to me now when I read it. Live as a true conscious being and you will be able to blissfully walk the road of life to its end.

"Even as the smallest hole in a bucket, can empty it of its liquid, so can hate for even one person act on the human soul" Leo Tolstoy

Many Blessings,
SageTree

[SageTree]

"Beauty arises when the parts of a whole are related to one another and to the totality in a manner which we apprehend as orderly and significant. But the first principle of order is God and is the final, deepest meaning of all that exists. God, then, is manifested in that relationship which makes things beautiful. God resides in that interval which harmonizes events on all the planes which we discover beauty."

This is alittle heavy on God definition to me, but what I took from this was that he was describing God as "Divine Interval" has more verb like qualities to it.

Love Sage

[SageTree]

http://www.yahooka.com/forum/writers...l#post51677405

This was a journal entry of mine, and thought it was more appropiate in the Writer's Forum, but it was a quote in a book that brought out alot of reflection in my head. This one gets cynical at times. Upon reflecting on this entry over Dawali I had an other series of more positive changes over these earlier thoughts.

These were:

1. It is my suffering, my dream, my perception. Don't put my hurt on the world, it's not them putting it on me. I choose, nothing makes me. My suffering is me putting my judgement on their choices, in what I think is negativly effecting the planet. Don't Judge. Life is cyclical.

2. Because I feel like a lone drop of water doesn't mean there aren't countless drops unseen altering the coarse of a river. Trying to carve an easier channel to the Inifinate Ocean

3. Maybe I or several other drops will be the ones to quench one person's thirst in the final swallow of a glass of water drank alittle too fast.

4. My elements of the body may someday help a tree grow, or be the newly burst fruit of the vine that nourishes a person like myself when they are walking their groceries home. Being part of that relief or peace of mind to trudge on and be happy with a simple life, as their teeth sink in to my body or rest in the shade.

These are my reflections. Especially the first one started the turning the other cogs in my head. "Why don't I believe people will stop and help?" my wife asked.

[Ego Tripping]

"Beauty is truth, truth is beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know." - John Keats

[Pharm Girl]

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.”

Paramahansa Yogananda

[SageTree]

On the friends note:

" Friends are just the Lord in disguise, looking after 'his' own" - Bhaduri Mahasaya

He was one of Paramahansa's teachers durning his life. If you've never read Yoganandaji's autobiography I'd highly like to recommend it.

LoveSage

[SageTree]

'Book Beauty'

Here's the end of that story about the old woman who wanted to lure a man with strange


cosmetics. She made a paste of pages from the Qur'an to fill the deep creases on her face and


neck with. This is not about an old woman, reader. It's about you or anyone who tries


to use books to make themselves attractive. There she is, sticking scripture, thick with


saliva, on her face. Of course, the bits keep falling off. " The Devil!" she yells, and


he appears! "This trick I've never seen. You don't need me. You are yourself a troop


of demons!" So people steal inspired words to get compliments. Don't bother. Death comes


and all talking, stolen or not, stops. Pity anyone unfamiliar with silence when that happens.


Polish your heart with meditation and quientness. Let the inner life grow generous and handsome


like Joseph. Zuleikha did that and her "old woman's cold snap" turned to mid-July. Dry


lips wet from within. Ink is not rouge. Let language lie bygone. Now is where love breaths.

-Rumi

Possible irony of posting this in the inspirational words thread aside, This story relates also to the story of Rumi and Shams. Whom on their first meeting Shams sees Rumi teaching on the edge of a foutain. Shams comes up and pushes all the books into the water. "What are you doing?" Rumi says. " You must now live what you have been reading about" Shams stated. " We can retrieve them and they will be dry as new" He added. Shams reached into the fountain and took out a dry book just to show him. "Leave them" said Rumi. As the story goes after this Rumi's deep like began, and he said "Today what I thought was God I ment today in human form." For those who don't know this history, Shams of Tabriz was a student of Rumi's father, who was a religious scholar and mentor. Upon hearing that Rumi was taking his Father's place in the community in Konya, he came from the desert to instruct Rumi in his Father's way. The metaphore is that Rumi saw the Light of God shining so bright when it was reflected off the perfect mirror, who was Shams. Rumi's beautiful words are to capture this mystic connection to the Light, and to strive to be a more perfect mirror reflecting the Love and Light of God all of the earth. And also to know the feeling of that experiance in an estacic manner.

The moral of this first meeting, for me since I read alot of scriptures and philosphy, is to get up and act with this 'knowledge or awakened connection' with the world. And also to see that Light in others. More so I feel connected to the Breath of the words in these books more than THE words themselves. Yet " If a man studies all day, he has no time to action or meditation." a teacher of Paramahansa Yoganada said once.

The moral for the story for me is to act in a pure way with the words I do read and find action in, emphisis on Action. And by pure I mean in an altruistic way, humbly trying to share meaning in life.

On the irony, I hope the last paragraph above this clears up that my intent isn't praise, just an offering and a telling of my subjective experiance known as living.

Blessings abound,
Sage

"In a world of infinite possibilities there is no hope, only patience", Smaerd

[danksurvive]

"reality is an illusion caused by the lack of good pot" - uhhh

[Jewlez]

Originally Posted by danksurvive

"reality is an illusion caused by the lack of good pot" - uhhh

awesome!

[my_scatterheart]

this one always comes to mind
"Think of our world as it looks from the rocket that is heading toward Mars. It is like a child's globe, hanging in space, the continents stuck to its side like colored maps. We are all fellow passengers on a dot of earth. And each of us, in the span of time, has really only a moment among our companions. How incredible it is that in this fragile existence, we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way." - Lyndon Johnson's Inaugural address ('65).

[SageTree]

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. -Aldous Huxley

To me this is the question I ask myself, " Is it better to think negativly in this situation?"

My answer is never "Yes". It has taken me years to remember to answer that way. My practicing, remains focused or remeber to ask in the first place. This too is coming along. And surely when I take the time to ask, it always turns out well.

[my_scatterheart]

Huxley is my main man

Believe in those who don't believe in you, so you could prove to them what they couldn't prove to you.

[SageTree]

One time I got a fortune cookie that said:


"Never smell the inside of a hat"

This is always a good ice break on the imagination, when with new friends, BUT what does this mean, lost in translation? Granted smelling the inside of a hat isn't ever that pleasant, especially on the construction site.

[SageTree]

"O, Arjuna! In whatever way people are devoted to Me, in that measure I manifest Myself to them. All, in any manner of seeking Me, pursue a Path to Me." 4:11 The Holy Bhagavad Gita

Basically to what ever degree we set out our minds on a Pure Path, that level of Pure Clarity to see further down the Path will come back to us.

In the Lord's Pray it says, " Forgive us out trespasses and we forgive those who trespass against us"

To me that means that we too will be forgiven by others as much as we forgive them, and perhaps this extends to the Mercy of God, measured by our out put of mercy to others. If we put heavy weight on the actions of others then the Karma of our actions will be just as heavy, this is the aspect of Mercy in a Dharmatic Law form, as I understand it.

I don't think of this as God a physical guy in the sky, type of smoting, but rather just natural course of Natural, as God in All, A Karmaic swinging of the pengelum back, as hard as we have pushed it.

Is it true that when we feel compassion and happiness to others that we gather those back as a reflection of our Divine capacity shinning off the same mirrored soul that reflects our Divine to the world in the first place? One Light bouncing back and forth, shared by all Humanity.

Love
Sage

[Ominous Toker]

"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. "
Martin Luther King Jr.


Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
Thomas Jefferson