Your Innermost Being
“In your innermost being the Divine IS and you ARE by virtue of Its presence.”
–Hugh l’Anson Fausset (English Writer, Literary Critic, Biographer, Poet and Scholar, 1895-1965)
The Wind of the Spirit
“The divinity lies in your breast, the source of all strength and grandeur; and the more you appeal to it the more you exercise it.”
–Gottfried de Purucker (American Writer, Philosopher, Lecturer, and, from 1929-1942, Leader of the Theosophical Society, 1874-1942)
Expressing Spirituality
“The spiritual life finds its most potent expression in the man who lives the ordinary life of men in the strength of the Yoga…”
–Sri Aurobindo (a.k.a. Aurobindo Ghose, Indian Nationalist Leader, Mystic, Philosopher and Creator of Purna (Integral) Yoga, 1872-1950)
Life Is To Be Enjoyed!
“In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.”
–Gordon Bitner Hinckley (American Theologian, and, from 1995-2008, the 15th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1910-2008)
Concentrated Power
“Concentrated power is silence. Diffused power is noise…..When you reach the place of silence in mind, you have reached the place of power, the place where all is one.”
–Baird Spalding (American Explorer, Spiritual Seeker and Writer, 1857-1953)
Knowledge of the Divine
“Knowledge of created beings is one thing, and knowledge of the divine truth is another. The second surpasses the first just as the sun outshines the moon. Knowledge of created beings increases the more we observe the commandments actively; but knowledge of the truth grows the more we hope in Christ.”
–St. Mark the Ascetic {a.k.a. Marcus Eremita, Athenian-born Monk and Desert Father, Fifth Century}
{No Righteousness by Works: “Philokalia Vol. 1”, p. 137, text 144-145}
“The Philokalia Vol 1: 001” (G.E.H. Palmer, Kallistos Timothy Ware, Philip Sherrard)
Play Your Part in Life
“I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
–Eleanor Roosevelt (American Diplomat, First Lady and Humanitarian, 1884-1962)
The Cycle of the Day
“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”
–Arthur Schopenhauer (German Philosopher, 1788-1860)
The Aim of Life?
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
–Henry Miller (American Writer, 1891-1980 )
Expressing the Divine Mind
“The world is the thought of God, the expression of the Divine Mind.”
–Annie Besant (English Social Reformer, Fabian, Theosophist and Leader in the Movement for Indian Independence, 1847-1933)
