2018
Existence Equals Consciousness
Filed in: Quotes 151-175 Authors M-R
I regard consciousness as fundamental.
I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.
We cannot get behind consciousness.
Everything we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.
Max Planck, “Father of Quantum Physics”
I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.
We cannot get behind consciousness.
Everything we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.
Max Planck, “Father of Quantum Physics”
What Is Real
Filed in: Quotes 151-175 Authors A-F
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
Neils Bohr
Neils Bohr
The Engine of the World
Filed in: Quotes 151-175 Authors A-F
Every life is a wonderful story worthy of being told.
Every life is a work of art,
And if it does not seem so, perhaps it is only necessary to illuminate the room that contains it.
The secret is never to lose faith,
To have confidence in God’s plan for us,
Revealed in the signs with which He shows us the way.
If you learn to listen, you will find that each life speaks to us of love.
Because love is the key to everything,
The engine of the world.
Love is the secret energy behind every note I sing.
And never forget there is no such thing as happenstance.
That’s an illusion lawless and arrogant men invented
So that they could sacrifice the truth of our world to the laws of reason.
Andrea Bocelli
Every life is a work of art,
And if it does not seem so, perhaps it is only necessary to illuminate the room that contains it.
The secret is never to lose faith,
To have confidence in God’s plan for us,
Revealed in the signs with which He shows us the way.
If you learn to listen, you will find that each life speaks to us of love.
Because love is the key to everything,
The engine of the world.
Love is the secret energy behind every note I sing.
And never forget there is no such thing as happenstance.
That’s an illusion lawless and arrogant men invented
So that they could sacrifice the truth of our world to the laws of reason.
Andrea Bocelli
Living the Impossible
Filed in: Quotes 151-175 Authors A-F
Sometimes that is all it takes: One person doing the seemingly impossible in the presence of others. In witnessing the limits broken, they can then hold the new possibility in their minds, because they’ve personally experienced it.
Gregg Braden
Gregg Braden
Love Is
Filed in: Quotes 151-175 Authors M-R
Life is love and love is life
The me and the mine may be small,
Or may explode and embrace the universe,
But love remains.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The me and the mine may be small,
Or may explode and embrace the universe,
But love remains.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Painter's Perspective
Filed in: Quotes 151-175 Authors A-F
The aura given out by a person or object is as much as part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in space is as bound up with them as might be their color or smell...Therefore the painter must be as concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with the subject itself.
Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud
The Dance of Atoms
Filed in: Quotes 151-175 Authors A-F
Every time we wrap ourselves around each other, our spiritual atoms intermingle in a dance of effervescent joy!
Sri Gawn Tu Fahr
Sri Gawn Tu Fahr
The Look of Tragedy
Filed in: Quotes 151-175 Authors S-Z
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom
Become A Lake
Filed in: Parables 1-25 Authors G-L
An aging master grew tired of his apprentice’s complaints. One morning, he sent him to get some salt. When the apprentice returned, the master told him to mix a handful of salt in a glass of water and then drink it.
“How does it taste?” the master asked.
“Bitter,” said the apprentice.
The master chuckled and then asked the young man to take the same handful of salt and put it in the lake. The two walked in silence to the nearby lake and once the apprentice swirled his handful of salt in the water, the old man said, “Now drink from the lake.”
As the water dripped down the young man’s chin, the master asked, “How does it taste?”
“Fresh,” remarked the apprentice.
“Do you taste the salt?” asked the master.
“No,” said the young man.
At this the master sat beside this serious young man, and explained softly, “the pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains exactly the same. However, the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things. Stop being a glass. Become a lake.”
A Hindu Parable
“How does it taste?” the master asked.
“Bitter,” said the apprentice.
The master chuckled and then asked the young man to take the same handful of salt and put it in the lake. The two walked in silence to the nearby lake and once the apprentice swirled his handful of salt in the water, the old man said, “Now drink from the lake.”
As the water dripped down the young man’s chin, the master asked, “How does it taste?”
“Fresh,” remarked the apprentice.
“Do you taste the salt?” asked the master.
“No,” said the young man.
At this the master sat beside this serious young man, and explained softly, “the pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains exactly the same. However, the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things. Stop being a glass. Become a lake.”
A Hindu Parable
The Snow Falls
Filed in: Teachings 1-25 Authors S-Z
The snow falls, each flake in its appropriate place.
Zen Proverb
Zen Proverb
God Consciousness In Physical Reality
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God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
Arthur Young
Arthur Young
Through Your Awakening
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Through your awakening, you awaken others.
Solara An-Ra
Solara An-Ra
During Our Short Visit
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Strange is our situation here upon Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Your Message, Your Sign, Your Omen
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What is happening in your world is your message, your sign, your omen...Learn to read what is in front of you. All you seek to “know” (the answers) are in the way you live, love, and respond to life.
Unknown
Unknown
Release the Struggle
Filed in: Quotes 151-175 Authors G-L
What if we stopped believing that Life was hard, that we have to struggle to achieve anything worthwhile? What if instead, we embraced that Life flows when we allow, when we drop all resistance, when we cease judgment? What if it were that easy?
Sue Krebs
Sue Krebs
To Make A Path
Filed in: Quotes 151-175 Authors S-Z
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Human Angel
Filed in: Teachings 1-25 Authors S-Z
If you have a vision of heaven on earth and you want to radiate it to everyone you encounter, you are probably a Human Angel and you are just trying to remember.
We Are Human Angels, the book
We Are Human Angels, the book
You Empower
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What you love, you empower.
And what you fear, you empower.
And what you empower, you attract.
Author Unknown
And what you fear, you empower.
And what you empower, you attract.
Author Unknown
We Can No Longer Live For Ourselves Alone
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Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
We Are Members Or Structures Of
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors S-Z
We have lacked the real humility of recognizing that we are members of the biosphere, the ‘harmony of contained conflicts’ in which we cannot exist at all without the cooperation of plants, insects, fish, cattle, and bacteria. In the same measure, we have lacked the proper self-respect of recognizing that I, the individual organism, am a structure of such fabulous ingenuity that it calls the whole universe into being.
Alan Watts
Alan Watts
Highest Form of Intelligence
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors G-L
The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mind-Stuff
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors S-Z
Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real.
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle
Claim Our Birthright
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors M-R
I’ve continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I’ve learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.
Anthony Robbins
Anthony Robbins
Life Itself Is Truth
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors S-Z
All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.
Morihei Ueshiba
Morihei Ueshiba
A Primal Web of Energy
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors A-F
The existence of a primal web of energy that connects our bodies, the world, and everything in the universe opens the door to a powerful and mysterious possibility, and suggest that we may be much more than simply observers passing through a brief moment of time in a creation that already exists.
Gregg Braden
Gregg Braden
Free the Attachment of Smallness
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors M-R
As spiritual searchers we need to become freer and freer of the attachment to our own smallness in which we get occupied with me-me-me. Pondering on large ideas or standing in front of things which remind us of a vast scale can free us from acquisitiveness and competitiveness and from our likes and dislikes. If we sit with an increasing stillness of the body, and attune our mind to the sky or to the ocean or the myriad stars at night, or any other indicators of vastness, the mind gradually stills and the heart is filled with quiet joy. Also recalling our own experiences in which we acted generously or with compassion for the simple delight of it without expectation of any gain can give us more confidence in the existence of a deeper goodness from which we may deviate.
Ravi Ravindra
Ravi Ravindra
The Dream of Heaven
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors M-R
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
The Universe's Deepest Mysteries
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Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
Patience Is Forseeing
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Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.
Rumi
Rumi
The Tao
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When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
Chuang Tzu
Chuang Tzu
To Achieve Fearlessness
Filed in: Teachings 1-25 Authors S-Z
Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear.
Isa Upanishad
Isa Upanishad
The Expansive Human Spirit
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors G-L
The human spirit is as expansive as the cosmos. This is why it is so tragic to belittle yourself or to question your worth. No matter what happens, continue to push back the boundaries of your inner life. The confidence to prevail over any problem, the strength to overcome adversity and unbounded hope, all reside with you.
Aisaku Ikeda
Aisaku Ikeda
How Alive Are You?
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That which does not bring you alive is too small for you.
David Whyte
David Whyte
We Live at the Threshold
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We live at the threshold of a universal recognition that the human being is not mere matter, but a potent, energetic field of consciousness. Modalities of the past millennium are quickly giving way to breakthrough technologies wherein we heal ourselves at the level of all true healing, which is spirit.
Michael Beckwith
Michael Beckwith
Crow Proverb
Filed in: Teachings 1-25 Authors A-F
Man’s law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same.
Crow Proverb
Crow Proverb
The Center of an Infinite Fractal Rotation
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors G-L
In an infinite fractal of rotation, how do you define the center? Every point is the center. You are the center of the universe observing the universe from your very own center. Wherever you pick a point of observation in the fractal, that point becomes the center from which you’re observing the universe. That point becomes stillness. Why stillness? Because in that point now, all the spins of the universe cancel out...You need stillness to have a frame of reference for rotation...And that’s how singularity occurs. Singularity is the point at the center of your experience of the universe, that is the point of stillness from which you’re observing the universe.
Nassim Haramein
Nassim Haramein
The Link That Connects Us
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors G-L
If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religious values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.
Amit Goswami
Amit Goswami
Defining Reality
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors A-F
Most civilized people today are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is with the world as they think about it, talk about it, and describe it. For on the one hand there is the real world and on the other the whole system of symbols about this world that we have in our minds. They are all very, very useful symbols, all our civilization depends on it, but like all good things they have their disadvantages. And the principal disadvantage of symbols is that we confuse them with reality. Like we confuse money with actual wealth and our names about ourselves, our ideas of ourselves, our images of ourselves with ourselves.
Of course, reality from the philosopher’s point of view is a dangerous word. A philosopher will ask me what do i mean by reality. Am I talking about the physical world of nature or am I talking about the spiritual world or what? And to that I have a very simple answer. When we talk about the material world, it is actually a philosophical concept. And if I say that reality is spiritual, it is also a philosophical concept. And reality itself is not a concept, reality IS.
Flooting Grooves - Immersion
Of course, reality from the philosopher’s point of view is a dangerous word. A philosopher will ask me what do i mean by reality. Am I talking about the physical world of nature or am I talking about the spiritual world or what? And to that I have a very simple answer. When we talk about the material world, it is actually a philosophical concept. And if I say that reality is spiritual, it is also a philosophical concept. And reality itself is not a concept, reality IS.
Flooting Grooves - Immersion