| Have you ever noticed that negativity strikes primarily in the area of your weakness? It rarely tests you in the field of your strength because in that type of showdown, it will lose. The negative forces know that, and they have a kind of intelligence that will instictively go for your weak areas. Just about the time you thinkin you've really got an area mastered, the negative power comes in to make sure you've mastered it. If you have, you're free. If you haven't, you find yourself still bound by the laws of the lower worlds. And even when you pass the tests and prove your spiritual strength, you have to continually execrcise those strengths, because if you slip from spiritual attentiveness, you will be found out. John Roger The stronger the soul and the flesh, the more fruitful the struggle and the richer the final harmony..... This is the Supreme Duty of the man who struggles - to set out for the lofty peak which Christ, the first-born son of salvation, attained. How can we begin? Nikos Kazantzakis When you eat dis San Pedro or Peyote, you have to have a purpose. If you eat dis San Pedro or Peyote without a purpose you could get hurt. When you eat San Pedro or Peyote, the spirit of the San Pedro or Peyote enters you and shows you a picture of yourself. You become the physical self, and San Pedro or Peyote shows you your spirit self. When you go with a purpose, like you have somethin' wrong with you that you want to fix, the San Pedro or Peyote shows you what is wrong and you can see it. You have to be committed to fixing it or it may get worse. So when you eat San Pedro or Peyote you have to be committed, even if you don't like what you see. But when you eat San Pedro or Peyote without a purpose, like if you just want visions, if there is anythin' wrong with your spirit it will show you the vision and it might look like a bad thing. Then you say 'I have to get rid of dis awful thing! It looks scary!' And then you work on getting rid of this scary thing you saw. But you are really destroying your spirit and you can really hurt yourself by doing that. But when you know what in particular you are looking for, with a purpose, you can see what is wrong with you and fix it." Hucholi The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious ; it is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Albert Einstein The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self. Albert Einstein The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts. A.H.Almaas People are of different spiritual temperaments and therefore will approach God in different ways. Huston Smith "Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity ." Einstein "Lord make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred let me sow love where there is injury, pardon where there is doubt, faith where there is despair, hope where there is darkness, light and where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console; to be understood, as to understand, to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive- it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in dying that we are born to eternal life." Francis of Assisi dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world." Gérard de Nerval, Aurélia, 1855 "What dreaming does is give us the fluidity to enter into other worlds by destroying our sense of knowing this world." Carlos Castaneda "A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish." Unknown Scrawl "There is a Spirit who is awake in our sleep and creates the wonder of dreams. He is Brahman, the Spirit of Light, who in truth is called the Immortal. All the worlds rest on that Spirit and beyond him no one can go." Ancient Celtic Scrawl "All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible." T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) I am a holder of the paleolithic work ethic... hunt and gather what you need to feed and shelter your people: 2-3 hours a day...Then hang out and tell stories, make art, dream, roll in the hay with your partners, and live in the blazingly bright natural world. Steve Self Nothing will benefit human health or increase the chances for survival of life on earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet . Albert Einstein The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self. Albert Einstein Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not easy. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in thie marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while; in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it. Don Juan in Carlos Castaneda's Journey to Ixtlan Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. Henry David Thoreau The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious ; it is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Albert Einstein Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of following my fancies as a butterfly, and was unconscious of my individuality as a man. Suddenly I awoke, and there I lay, myself again.. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming that I am a man. Chuang-Tzu, 3rd century BC I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. George Bernard Shaw If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. Albert Einstein I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations. Albert Einstein The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. Richard Moss, M.D. You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. C.A. Beard I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Francois Voltaire Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be, the man who thinks, becomes a light and a power. Henry George 1839-1897 They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the state of Massachusetts, this is the same number as that used for Social Security, unless you object to such use. In THAT case, you are ASSIGNED a number and you reside forever more on the list of "weird people who don't give out their Social Security Number in Massachusetts." Arthur Miller Everyone should know of all information that others have deemed unfit for public knowledge. Author Unknown Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let people have guns ...why should we let them have ideas? Joseph Stalin And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. -John 8:13 - Inscribed on the wall of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia Imagination is more important than intelligence. Albert Einstein One can expect with considerable assurance, that a given well-defined psychological situation will be accompanied by an analogous astrological configuration. C. G. Jung I want you to be the good news to those around you. I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor? Mother Teresa of Calcutta The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. Richard Bach, llusions |
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