Timelessness
“There is an everlasting in which past, present and future are one, and when we brood on the past, it may be our intensity brings us to live in that brooded upon. It is not only in vision that we revisit the past: our hearts may sink into it and know what others have known.”
–George William Russell (a.k.a. “A.E.” Irish Poet, Artist and Mystic, 1867-1935)
Willpower Is A Force
“The willpower is a force, an energy that does everything. It is the result of thoughts and desires.”
–Peter Konstantinov Deunov (a.k.a. Master Beinsa Douno, Bulgarian Spiritual Master and Founder of a School of Esoteric Christianity, 1864-1944)
“Prophet for Our Times: The Life and Teachings of Peter Deunov” (Peter Duenov)
Transcendence Restores Humor
“Transcendence restores humor. Spirit restores humor. Suddenly, smiling returns.
Too many representatives from too many movements even many good movements, such as feminism, environmentalism, meditation, spiritual studies seem to lack humor altogether. In other words, they lack lightness, they lack a distance from themselves, a distance from the ego and its grim game of forcing others to conform to its contours.
There is self-transcending humor, or there is the game of egoic power. No wonder Mencken wrote that “Every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow citizens, usually by force; this messianic delusion is our national disease.” We have chosen egoic power and politically correct thought police; grim Victorian reformers pretending to be defending civil rights; messianic new paradigm thinkers who are going to save the planet and heal the world. They should all trade two pounds of ego for one ounce of laughter.”
–Ken Wilber (American Philosopher, 1949-)
“One Taste: Daily Reflections on Integral Spirituality” (Ken Wilber)
Finding True Health
“Health is gained by the sick who follow the path of healing: health does not come through the acts of others.”
–Shankara (a.k.a. Adi Shankaracharya, Indian Sage, Spiritual Teacher and Author of the Crest-Jewel of Discrimination, Dates Uncertain, but c.A.D. 686-718 or 788-821)
Trust
“Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge that gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit.”
–François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (French Writer and Moralist, 1613-1680)
Living Your Legacy
“Men cannot for long live hopefully unless they are embarked upon some great unifying enterprise — one for which they may pledge their lives, their fortunes and their honor.”
–Clarence Addison Dykstra (American Educator, Civic Administrator and, from 1945-1950, Chancellor of UCLA, 1883-1950)
Your Plan and Your Purpose
“A Course In Miracles” (Foundation For Inner Peace)
“What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present, and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good?”
–A Course in Miracles (Book of Spiritual Principles Scribed by Dr. Helen Schucman between 1965 and 1975, and First Published in 1976)
Attached to the Earth
“We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.”
–Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Russian Writer and, in 1970, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1918-2008)
“Cancer Ward” (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Carpe Diem!
“Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?”
–David Brin (American Writer and Former Physics Professor and NASA Consultant, 1950- )
Why Not Stretch Yourself?
“Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do?”
–Jim Rohn (American Businessman, Author, Speaker and Philosopher 1930-2009)
