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Spiritwalk - Thought for Today
- Archive/July 1999
- Thursday, July 1, 1999
- Friday, July 2, 1999
- My religion is to live – and die – without regret.
- ~ Milarepa
- Saturday, July 3, 1999
- Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.
- ~ Teilhard de Chardin
- Sunday, July 4, 1999
- Where there is charity and wisdom,
- there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- Where there is patience and humility,
- there is neither anger nor vexation.
- Where there is poverty and joy,
- there is neither greed or avarice.
- Where there is peace and meditation,
- there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
- ~ St. Francis of Assissi
- Monday, July 5, 1999
One thing is sure.
You can't have darkness and light in the same place at the same time.
The cure for a gloomy outlook is a lighted mind.
~ A. P. Gouthey
- Tuesday, July 6, 1999
- It were better to live one single day
in the pursuit of understanding and meditation,
than to live a hundred years in ignorance and restraint.
~ Gautama Buddha
Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for a hermitage:
If I have freedom in my love
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone, that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.
~ Richard Lovelace
Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for a hermitage:
If I have freedom in my love
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone, that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.
~ Richard Lovelace
- Friday, July 9, 1999
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- He
who lives in harmony with himself
- lives
in harmony with the universe.
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- ~ Marcus Aurelius
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- Saturday, July 10, 1999
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- As
soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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- ~
Goethe
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- Sunday, July 11,
1999
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- There
is an inmost center in us all
- Where
truth abides in fullness; and around,
- Wall
upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in;
- This
perfect, clear perception, which is Truth,
- A
baffling and perverting carnal mesh
- Blinds
it, and makes all error; and to know,
- Rather
consists in opening out a way
- Whence
the imprisoned splendor may escape,
- Than
in effecting entry for a light
- Supposed
to be without.
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- ~
James Allen
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- Monday, July 12,
1999
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- We
cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness,
- and
the deeper our experience of forgiveness is,
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greater is our love.
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- ~
Paul Tillich
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- Tuesday,
July 13, 1999
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- No
Meditation Today
- Wednesday,
July 14, 1999
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- No
Meditation Today
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- Thursday,
July 15, 1999
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- The seed of God is in us.
- Pear seeds grow pear trees,
- nut seeds into nut trees,
- and
God seeds into God.
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- ~ Meister Eckhart
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- Friday,
July 16, 1999
- It
is time to show the strength of water and flow away....
- To
stand is to be crushed, but to flow out is to gather new strength.
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- ~
Marge Piercy
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- Saturday,
July 17, 1999
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- All
human beings are frightened of their own solitude.
- Yet
only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves
- ...learn
to handle our own eternity of aloneness.
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- ~
Han Suyin
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- Sunday,
July 18, 1999
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- No
Meditation Today
- Monday,
July 19, 1999
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- Every
human being is treacherous to every other human being…
- Because he has to be true to his own soul.
- ~ D.H. Lawrence
- Tuesday,
July 20, 1999
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- Those who
seek to satisfy the mind of man
- by hampering
it with ceremonies and music
- and
affecting charity and devotion
- have lost
their original nature.
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- ~
Chuang Tzu (368-286 B.C.)
- Wednesday,
July 21, 1999
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- God is the
river of light in which we all bathe. This
brilliance flows
- through the
core of every living thing. Nothing
within the warring,
- separated
images of the world represents the unity of God, and
- yet the
unseen waters of love surround us in all circumstances…
- no matter
how petty or shameful or tragic they may be.
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- ~Hugh and
Gayle Prather
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- Thursday,
July 22, 1999
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- If error is corrected whenever it is recognized
as such,
- The path of error is the path of truth.
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- ~ Hans Reichenbach
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- Friday,
July 23, 1999
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- Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves
and with others.
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- ~ Goethe
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- Saturday,
July 24, 1999
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- I have been and still am a seeker,
- but I have ceased to question stars and books;
- I have begun to listen to the teachings my
blood whispers to me.
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- ~ Hermann Hesse
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- Sunday,
July 25, 1999
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- The
Christ we seek is within us,
- In our inmost self,
- Is our inmost self,
- And yet infinitely transcends ourselves.
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- Christ himself is in us as unkown and unseen.
- We follow Him,
- We find Him,
- And then He must vanish,
- And we must go along without Him at our side.
- Why?
- Because He is even closer than that.
- He is ourself.
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- ~ Thomas Merton
- Monday,
July26, 1999
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- "We're
fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance."
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- ~ Japanese proverb
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- Tuesday,
July 27, 1999
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- The
Wisdom of Enlightenment
- is
inherent in every one of us.
- It
is because of the delusion
- under
which our mind works
- that
we fail to realize it ourselves,
- and
we have to seek the advice
- and
guidance of enlightened ones.
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- ~ Hui-Neng
- Wednesday,
July 28, 1999
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- Whenever you have truth it must be given
with love,
- or the message and the messenger will be
rejected.
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- ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi
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- Thursday,
July 29, 1999
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- Just as light brightens darkness,
- discovering inner fulfillment can eliminate
any disorder or discomfort.
- This is truly the key to creating balance
and harmony in everything you do.
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- ~ Deepak Chopra
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- Friday,
July 30, 1999
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- Knowing that you are a child of God,
- make up your mind to be calm whatever
happens….
- Each time a swarm of worries invades your
mind,
- refuse to be affected; Wait calmly while
seeking the remedy.
- Spray the worries with the powerful
chemical of your peace.
- You cannot buy peace; you must know how to
manufacture it within,
- in the stillness of your daily practices in
meditation….
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- ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
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- Saturday,
July 31, 1999
- Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy
- because nearly all do not know the true
Self.
- Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge
alone.
- All else is fleeting.
To know one’s Self
- is to be blissful always.
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- ~ Ramana Maharshi
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