Exercise Your Brain!
“You know you’ve got to exercise your brain just like you muscles.”
–Will Rogers (American Entertainer, 1879-1935)
Actualizing the Experience of God
“The purpose is to have a ‘real’ experience of Divinity embedded within us, so that we can take up residence in the heart, become a Citizen of Source, merge into an experience of something Eternal, and access Christ / Buddha / Melchizedek / Divine Mother / God Consciousness within us in a deeply revealing real way. It is time to actualize the God Experience that we talk about, teach about, and believe we know about. It is time to study just how far that knowledge goes inside of us.”
–Wistancia Stone (American Psychic and Author)
The Eternal Witness
“Whatever that be which thinks, which understands, which wills, which acts, it is something celestial and divine and on that account must necessarily be eternal.”
–Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Political Figure and Orator, c.106-43 B.C.)
Truth Is Within Ourselves
Here are a few lines from a favorite poem about the Eternal Quest:
“Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
From outward things, whate’er you may believe.
There is an inmost center in us all,
Where truth abides in fullness; and around,
Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in,
This perfect, clear perception—which is truth.
A baffling and perverting carnal mesh
Binds it, and makes all error: and, to KNOW,
Rather consists in opening out a way
Whence the imprisoned splendor may escape,
Than in effecting entry for a light
Supposed to be without.”
–Robert Browning (English Poet, 1812-1889)
“The Paracelsus of Robert Browning” (Robert Browning, Christina Pollock Denison)
The Treasure in Your Skull
“There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.”
–Isaac Bashevis Singer (Polish-born American Writer and, in 1978, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1904-1991)
Changing Our Opinions
“The future and the past have different appearances… the disproportion will always be great between expectation and enjoyment, between new possession and satiety… the truth of many maxims of age gives too little pleasure to be allowed till it is felt… the miseries of life would be increased beyond all human power of endurance, if we were to enter the world with the same opinions as we carry from it.”
–Samuel Johnson (English Biographer and Essayist, 1709-1784)
{The Rambler, Number 196}
“The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 – The Rambler, Volume II” (Samuel Johnson)
A Spiritual Canticle
“The soul is able to see a marvelous fitness and disposition of the wisdom of God in the diversities of all His creatures and works…. each after its manner testifies to that which God is in it.”
–Saint John of The Cross (Spanish Christian Mystic and Poet, 1542-1591)
“A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ” (St. John of the Cross)
The Creative and Controlling Force of the Universe
“Acting from the highest levels in his being, man is the creative and controlling force in the Universe;…. Hence Maeterlinck’s famous saying, ‘Let us always remember that nothing befalls us that is not of the nature of ourselves.’”
–Christmas Humphreys (English Judge, Author and Buddhist Philosopher, 1901-1983)
What Takes Your Breath Away
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
–Maya Angelou (African-American Poet, Writer and Performer, 1928-)
Harnessing the Power of Love
“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of Love, and then, for the second time in the history of the world, humans will discover fire.”
–Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (French Jesuit Priest, Mystic, Paleontologist and Author, 1881-1955)
