The Law of Love
“All disease, all unhappiness, come from the violation of the law of love. Man’s boomerangs of hate, resentment and criticism, come back laden with sickness and sorrow. Love seems almost a lost art, but the man with the knowledge of spiritual law knows it must be regained, for without it, he has “become as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals.”
–Florence Scovel Shinn (American Artist, Metaphysics Teacher and Author, 1871-1940)
The Far Side of Creativity
Most of us value creativity, but I wonder how many of us often think about the true implications of it? Sadly real creativity is rarely something that we can call upon at will, and sometimes it can consume us.
This must be one of the finest descriptions of a creative genius: Lord Byron:
“[The mind of Lord Byron] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.”
–Lady Marguerite Blessington (Irish-born Writer, 1789-1849)
Inter-Relationships
“Modern scientists have concluded that all phenomena are interrelated in complex networks of energy transformation. Teilhard de Chardin’s concept of the noosphere, a network of thought encompassing the planet, is one such idea. The notion of networks of individuals who share a common interest and provide information and support to one another has enormous potential for furthering individual and social transformation.”
–Ralph Metzner (German-born American Psychologist, Researcher, Writer and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, 1936-)
Sustenance From the Universal Soul
“All living souls in the world cumulatively make up part of a universal soul…. the soul giving us vitality is connected to, and draws sustenance from, a universal soul.”
–Rabbi David A. Cooper (American Rabbi and Writer, 1939-)
“God Is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism” (David A. Cooper)
True Bravery
“True bravery is shown by performing, without witnesses, what one might be capable of doing before all the world.”
–François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (French Writer and Moralist, 1613-1680)
Dancing On The Edge of Time
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
–Rabindranath Tagore (Indian Poet, Playwright, Essayist, Painter and, in 1913, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1861-1941)
Miracles Sometimes Happen
“The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they sometimes happen.”
–G.K. Chesterton (a.k.a. Gilbert Keith Chesterton, English Writer and Poet, 1874-1936)
What Does It Mean To Be A Hologram?
“Just as a hologram is made up of numerous pixels – each one containing all of the information that can be found in the total image – so each person may be a tiny particle of life, containing all the data that is present in the sum of total existence.”
–Sir John Marks Templeton (American-born British Investor, Philanthropist and Active Proponent of Reintroducing Spirituality into Day-to-day life, 1912-2008)
“Worldwide Laws Of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles” (John Marks Templeton)
Everything Is Intimately Connected
“We are not actually separate from anyone or anything; we are intimately connected with all. This is a profoundly liberating realization – an overpowering, overarching principle in every tradition.”
–Wayne Teasdale (American Catholic Monk and Proponent of Interfaith Dialogue, 1945-2004)
“The Mystic Hours: A Daybook of Inspirational Wisdom and Devotion” (Wayne Teasdale)
Wisdom and Awareness
“We must learn about Wisdom from all things.
As scripture says, ‘Wisdom has made and continues always to adapt everything. It is the cause of the unbreakable accommodation and order of all things and it is forever linking the goals of one set of things with the sources of another and in this fashion it makes a thing of beauty of the unity and the harmony of the whole.”
–Pseudo-Dionysius the Aeropagite (a.k.a. Pseudo-Denys, Anonymous Theologian and Philosopher, Late 5th and Early 6th Century)
