“Your consciousness can travel at the speed of slow trains, it can travel at the speed of Light, and it can travel even faster. Hence, time and space are functions of consciousness. Consciousness is out of the scope of time and space…”
–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)
It is hard to over-estimate the importance of learning when and where to be silent. And I say that as a once well-known chatterbox!
“There is an eloquent silence: it serves sometimes to approve, sometimes to condemn; there is a mocking silence; there is a respectful silence.”
–François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (French Writer and Moralist, 1613-1680)
“The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.”
–Nikos Kazantzakis (Greek Writer, 1885-1957)
“You do not stand in the world as a finished, self contained spatial being, but you stand within continual happening, continual becoming, within processes continually going on and continually proceeding.”
–Rudolf Steiner (Croatian-born Austrian Mystic, Occultist, Social Philosopher, Architect and Founder of Anthroposophy, 1861-1925)
“Natural knowledge is that which the soul can acquire through the use of its natural faculties and powers when investigating creation and the cause of creation — in so far, of course, as this is possible for a soul bound to matter…
Supranatural knowledge, on the other hand, is that which enters the intellect in a manner transcending its own means and power; that is to say, the intelligible objects that constitute such knowledge surpass the capacity of an intellect joined to a body, so that a knowledge of them pertains naturally only to an intellect which is free from the body.
Such knowledge is infused by God alone when He finds an intellect purified of all material attachment and inspired by divine love.”
–St. Theodoros, the Great Ascetic (a.k.a. Theodore of Edessa, Monk in the Monastery of St. Sabas near Jerusalem and Bishop of Edessa in Syria, Ninth Century)
Theoretikon: “Philokalia Vol. 2”, pp. 39-40
“The Philokalia Vol 2: 002” (G.E.H. Palmer, Kallistos Timothy Ware, Philip Sherrard)
“The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.”
–Musonnius (a.k.a. Gaius Musonnius Rufus, Roman Stoic Philosopher, 1st Century AD)
“We can receive some indication of whether we are rational or sensual from our own life: not as it appears but from the inner quality that shows itself in out actions.”
–Emanuel Swedenborg (Swedish Scientist, Mystic and Philosopher, 1688-1772)
“Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.”
–Morihei Ueshiba (Japanese Martial Artist and Founder of Aikido, 1883-1969)
“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”
–Anaïs Nin (French-born American Writer, 1903-1977)
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
Henry Havelock Ellis English Physician, Psychologist, Social Reformer and Author, 1859-1939
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