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Archive/April 1999

April 1, 1999

The divine Nature,
free and perfect and blissful,
must be manifested in the individual
in order that it may manifest in the world.

~ Sri Aurobindo

April 2, 1999

Contemplation is a perception
of God or of divine things;
simple, free, penetrating, certain,
proceeding from love and tending to Love.

~ Louis Lallemant (1587-1635)

April 3, 1999

Inner silence promotes clarity of mind;
It make us value the inner world;
It trains us to go inside
To the source of peace and inspiration
When we are faced with problems and challenges.

~ Deepak Chopra

April 4, 1999

The spirit you have received from him remains in you,
and you don’t need to have any man teach you;
but that spirit teaches you all things,
and is the truth.

~ John the Evangelist

April 5, 1999

Of course there is no formula for success
except perhaps, an unconditional acceptance
of life and what it brings.

~ Arthur Rubenstein

April 6, 1999

You may accept the inevitable
with bitterness and resentment
or with patience and grace.
Mere acceptance is not sufficient.

~ Paul Brunton

Wednesday, April 7, 1999

Standing on the bare ground…
a mean egotism vanishes.
I become a transparent eyeball;
I am nothing;
I see all;
The currents of the Universal Being
circulate through me;
I am part or particle of God.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thursday, April 8, 1999

Wakefulness is the way of life.
The fool sleeps
As if he were already dead,
But the master is awake
And he lives forever.

He watches.
He is clear.

How happy he is!
For he sees that wakefulness is life.
How happy he is,
Following the path of the awakened.

With great perseverance
He meditates, seeking
Freedom and happiness.

So awake, reflect, watch.
Work with care and attention.
Live in the way
And the light will grow in you.

~ Buddha, Dhammapada

Friday, April 9, 1999

When the wise man learns the Way,
    He tries to live by it.
When the average man learns the Way
    He lives by only part of it.
When the fool learns the Way
    He laughs at it.
Yet if the fool did not laugh,
    It would not be the Way.
Indeed, if you are seeking the Way,
    Listen for the laughter of fools.

~ Lao Tzu

Saturday, April 10, 1999

Help me to laugh
with so much heart
I shake the trees
and tremble the quiet
pools. Surprise
the old carp
and warblers
with my joy.
Multiply my delights
till they surround
me like an echo
revolving
in a gorge.

~  Katherine Mosby

Sunday, April 11, 1999

Monday, April 12, 1999

 

The highest reality

is not a mere abstraction,

it is very much alive

with sense and awareness

and intelligence, and, above all,

with love purged of

human infirmities and defilements.

 

~ D.T. Suzuki

Tuesday, April 13, 1999

There is no need to struggle to be free;
the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.

~ Chögyam Trungpa

Wednesday, April 14, 1999

If you cannot find the truth right where you are,

Where else do you expect to find it?

 

~ Dogen

Thursday, April 15, 1999

Enlightenment is understanding
that there is nowhere to go,
nothing to do,
and nobody you have to be
except exactly who you’re being right now.

~ Neale Donald Walsch

Friday, April 16, 1999

~ T.S. Eliot

Saturday, April 17, 1999

 

There is an inmost

center within us all,

where truth

abides in fullness,

and to Know,

rather consists

in opening out a way

whence the imprisoned

splendor may escape,

than in affecting entry

for a Light

supposed to be without.

 

~ Robert Browning

Sunday, April 18, 1999

We must know that we have two kinds of happiness in this life,
According to two different ways, one good, one best, which lead us thereto:
One is the active life, and the other the contemplative.

~ Dante Alighieri

 

 

Monday, April 19, 1999

Possession of material riches,

without inner peace,
is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake.
If material poverty is to be avoided,

spiritual poverty is to be abhorred.
For it is spiritual poverty, not material lack,

that lies at the core of all human suffering.

~ Paramahansa Yogananda

Tuesday, April 20, 1999

If we do not change our direction,
We are likely to end up where we are headed.

~ Chinese Proverb

Wednesday, April 21, 1999

Thursday, April 22, 1999

Not only is it not possible to love someone too much,
It is totally impossible to love them enough.

~ St. Francis De Sales

Friday, April 23, 1999

Every action,

even the slightest movement of a human being,

is indeed always first spiritually willed.

The physical bodies merely act as spiritually animated instruments,

which themselves only took shape through the power of the spirit.

The same applies to trees, stones and the whole earth.

Everything is animated, permeated

and driven by the Creative Spirit.

~ Abd-Ru-Shin

Saturday, April 24, 1999

~ Langston Hughes

Sunday, April 25, 1999

Do not depart from truth

for it will make you strong.

Do not let go of your quests

for they will likely teach you perseverance.

And as the many moons

pass before you,

Do not depart from the wisdom

that will become yours,

For it will give you peace.

 

~ Native American Poem

Monday, April 26, 1999

 

Expectation is the greatest impediment to living.

In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

 

~ Seneca

Tuesday, April 27, 1999

 

Strange is our situation upon earth.

Each of us comes for a short visit,

Not knowing why, yet sometimes

Seeming to a divine purpose.

 

~ Albert Einstein

 

Wednesday, April 28, 1999

Remember!

Things in life will not always run smoothly.

Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights ~

then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.

The great fact to remember

is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward,

that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks

and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

 

~ Endicott Peabody

Thursday, April 29, 1999

Today, something is happening
to the whole structure of human consciousness.
A fresh kind of life is starting.
Driven by the forces of love,
the fragments of the world are seeking each other,
so that the world may come into being.

~ Teilhard de Chardin

 

 

 

Friday, April 30, 1999

That is perfect. This is perfect.
Perfect comes from perfect.
Take perfect from perfect,
The remainder is perfect.
May peace and peace and peace be everywhere.

~ Upanishads

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