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Spiritwalk Thought
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Archive/October 1998
October 1, 1998
- When one cherishes no fear of anything,
- When one is not feared by anything,
- When one cherishes no desire,
- When one bears no hate,
- Then one is said to have attained the state of Brahma.
~ The Mahabharata
October 2, 1998
- If we think about it,
- we find that our life consists of achieving a pure relationship
- between ourselves and the living universe about us.
- This is how "I save my soul"
- ~ by accomplishing a pure relationship between me and another person,
- me and a nation, me and a nation, me and a race of people,
- me and animals, me and the trees or flowers, me and the earth,
- me and the skies and sun and stars, me and the moon;
- an infinity of pure relationships, big and little
- this, if we know it, is our life and our eternity;
- the subtle, perfected relation between me and the circumambient
universe.
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- ~ D.H. Lawrence
October 3, 1998
- Wisdom tells me I am nothing.
- Love tells me I am everything.
- And between the two my life flows.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
October 4, 1998
- We must have a pure, honest, and warm-hearted motivation,
- and on top of that determination, optimism, hope
- and the ability not to be discouraged.
- The whole of humanity depends on this motivation.
~ The Dalai Lama
October 5, 1998
- "To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint,
- all things are friendly and sacred,
- all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
October 6, 1998
It is good to have an end to journey toward;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
~ Ursula LeGuinn
October 7, 1998
The spiritual path is breaking that shell and unfolding that heart.
To love truly is not to love others more,
or to love yourself more,
or even to love God more,
but to love Life more ~ to love the life of the heart,
more than the life of the shell.
The greatest act of love is to do what you dare not do,
to say what you dare not say,
to think what you dare not think,
to feel what you dare not feel.
The greatest act of wisdom is to live without easy answers,
or even without answers at all,
in order to live with more heart.
Anitra L. Freeman
Dances With Dragons
http://members.xoom.com/Anitra/
October 8, 1998
All suffering prepares the soul for vision.
~ Martin Buber
October 9, 1998
Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment,
whether we mean to or not.
Our actions and states of mind matter,
because were so deeply interconnected with one another.
Working on our own consciousness
is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment,
and being love is the supreme creative act.
~ Ram Dass
October 10, 1998
There are many paths to enlightenment.
Be sure to take the one with a heart.
~ Lao Tzu
October 11, 1998
Happiness is the realization of God in the heart.
Happiness is the result of praise and thanksgiving,
Of faith and acceptance;
A quiet, tranquil, realization of the love of God.
~ White Eagle
October 12, 1998
- It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants.
- The question is: what are we busy about?
~ Henry David Thoreau
October 13, 1998
- The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new
destination
- where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not.
- It consists in the dissipation of ones own ignorance concerning
oneself and life,
- and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the
spiritual awakening.
- The finding of God is a coming to ones self.
~ Aldous Huxley
October 14, 1998
The Great Spirit
sketches out the path of life roughly
for all the creatures on earth,
shows them where to go,
where to arrive at,
but leaves them to find their own way to get there.
He wants them to act independently
according to their nature.
~ Lame Deer
October 15-19
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- I will fill in these quotes which will be collected from the
- Turning to Wisdom conference attended during this period
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Tuesday, October 20, 1998
The secret of life may not be in the search for answers,
but in pursuing of unanswerable questions in good company.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
October 21, 1998
If you bring forth what is within you,
what you bring forth with save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you,
what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
~ Jesus
October 22, 1998
- Happiness is your nature.
- It is not wrong to desire it.
- What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
~ Ramana Maharshi
October 23, 1998
- The spiritual quest is a journey without distance.
- You travel from where you are right now
- To where you have always been.
- From ignorance to recognition
~ Anthony DeMello
October 24, 1998
- I shall be telling this with a sigh
- Somewhere ages and ages hence:
- Two roads diverged in a wood, and I---
- I took the one less traveled by,
- And that has made all the difference.
~ Robert Frost
October 25, 1998
- Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
- And try to love the questions themselves.
~ Rainer M. Rilke
October 26, 1998
- I thank God for most this
- amazing
- day; for the leaping greenly
- spirits of trees
- and a blue true dream of sky;
- and for everything
- which is natural, which is
- infinite, which is yes.
e. e. cummings
October 27, 1998
- As you allow the beloved to grow within you,
- you will discover a steadfastness to the spiritual journey.
~ Jean Houston
October 28, 1998
- Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles, and the
water is clear?
- Can you remain unmoving until the right action arises by itself.
~ Lao-tzu
October 29, 1998
- People look in vain places for peace.
- They seek it in the world outside,
- in places, people, ways, activities
- but no peace is found in this way.
- They are looking in the wrong direction,
- and the longer they look
- the less they find what they are looking for
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- Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world,
- by running away from things,
- or by turning solitary and going apart from the world.
- Rather, we learn an inner solitude
- wherever or with whomsoever we may be.
- We must learn to penetrate things and find God there
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~ Meister Eckhart
October 30, 1998
- Our original nature is, in highest truth,
- devoid of any atom of objectivity.
- It is void, omnipresent, silent, pure;
- it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy ~
- and that is all.
- Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself.
~ Huang Po
October 31, 1998
- If you do follow your bliss,
- you put yourself on a kind of track
- that has been there all the while,
- waiting for you,
- and the life you ought to be living
- is the one you are living.
- When you can see that,
- you begin to meet people
- who are in the field of your bliss,
- and they open the doors to you.
- I say, follow your bliss and dont be afraid,
- and doors will open
- where you didnt know the were going to be.
~ Joseph Campbell

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