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Spiritwalk Thought
for Today
- Archive/August 1999
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- Sunday, August 1, 1999
Man’s chief work is to praise God.
~ St. Augustine
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Monday, August 2, 1999
He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom and is glad to extend it to others.
He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them.
He who builds walls to create exclusion for others, builds walls across his own freedom.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
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Tuesday, August 3, 1999
Liberation and enlightenment do not exist outside of your own self. We need only open
our eyes to see that we ourselves are the very essence of liberation and enlightenment. All
dharmas, all beings, contain the nature of full enlightenment within themselves. Don’t
look for it outside yourself. If you shine the light of awareness on your own self, you will
realize enlightenment immediately.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh (Words of the Buddha)
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- Wednesday, August 4, 1999
The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal.
It can’t be organized or regulated.
It isn’t true that everybody should follow one path.
Listen to your own truth.
~ Baba Ram Dass
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Thursday, August 5, 1999
Zen in its essence
is the art of seeing
into the nature of one’s being,
and it points the way
from bondage to freedom.
~ D.T. Suzuki
Friday, August 6, 1999
The present state of
the world and the whole of life is diseased.
If I were a doctor
and were asked my advice I should reply “Create Silence.”
~
Søren Kierkegaard
Saturday, August 7, 1999
The man of
contemplation walks alone.
He lives desireless
amidst the objects of desire.
The Atman is his
eternal satisfaction.
He sees Atman
present in all things.
~
Shankara
Atman=pure spiritual
consciousness
Sunday, August 8,
1999
Nirvana or lasting
enlightenment
or true spiritual
growth can be achieved
only through
persistent exercise of real love.
~
M. Scott Peck, M.D.
Monday, August 9,
1999
Be patient, do
nothing, cease striving.
We find this advice
disheartening
and therefore
unfeasible because
we forget it is our
own inflexible activity
that is structuring
the reality.
We think that if we
do not hustle,
nothing will happen
and we will pine away.
But the reality is
probably in motion
and after a while we
might take part in that motion.
But one can’t
know.
~ Paul Goodman
- Tuesday, August
10, 1999
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- The spiritual path
is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off,
- turning and
looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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- ~Sri Aurobindo
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Wednesday,
August 11, 1999
These are the days
of miracle and wonder,
this is the long
distance call,
the way the camera
follows us in slow mo,
the way we look to
us all,
the way we look to
a distant constellation
that
dying in a corner of the sky
These
are the days of miracle and wonder
And
don't cry baby, don't cry,
Don't
cry....
~
Paul Simon
Thursday,
August 12, 1999
The
finest qualities of our nature,
like
the bloom on fruits,
can
be preserved
only
by the most delicate handling.
Yet
we do not treat ourselves
nor
one another thus tenderly.
~
Henry David Thoreau
Friday, August
13, 1999
The truth I must
love in my brother is God himself, living in him.
I must seek the
life of the Spirit of God breathing in him.
~
Thomas Merton
Saturday, August
14, 1999
Earth’s
crammed with heaven,
And
every common bush afire with God:
But
only he who sees takes off his shoes.
~
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sunday, August
15, 1999
Until
he extends his circle of compassion
to
all living things, man will not himself find peace.
~
Albert Schweitzer
Monday,
August 16, 1999
Ring
the bells that still can ring.
Forget
your perfect offering.
There
is a crack in everything.
That’s
how the light gets in.
~
Leonard Cohen
Tuesday, August 17, 1999
We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the secret sits in the middle and knows.
~ Robert Frost
- Wednesday, August 18, 1999
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- We all
have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.
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Dag Hammerskjöld
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Thursday, August 19, 1999
Listen in the
silence.
Listen and you
shall hear God speak.
The chamber of
silence is man’s divine self.
It is there that
man meets man’s God.
~
Frater Achad
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- Friday,
August 20, 1999
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- If you have knowledge, let others light their
candles at it.
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- ~ Margaret Fuller
- Saturday,
August 21, 1999
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- What is beyond the mind,
- Has no boundary.
- In it our senses end.
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- ~ Mira Bai
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- Sunday, August 22, 1999
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- In primitive man, as in all human beings
- the desire to enter into contact with the sacred
- is counteracted by the fear of being obliged
- to renounce the simple human condition
- and become a more or less pliant instrument
- for some manifestation of the sacred.
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- Monday, August 23, 1999
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- On the path
to love,
- impossibilities
are resolved by turning non-love into love.
- With
spiritual growth comes new creative potential,
- leading to
the realization that you are pure potential,
- able to fill
any creative impulse.
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Chopra
Tuesday,
August 24, 1999
Change yourself and you
have done your part in changing the world.
Every individual must change his own life
if he wants to live in a peaceful world.
The world cannot become peaceful unless and until
you yourself begin to work toward peace.
It is only by removing hate from our hearts
that we can live a Christlike life.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Wednesday, August 25, 1999
Where
there is great love there are always miracles.
~
Willa Cather
Thursday,
August 26, 1999
- To
set up what you like against what you dislike~
- This
is the disease of the mind.
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Seng-T’san
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- Friday,
August 27, 1999
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- Master
your senses,
- What
you taste and smell,
- What
you see, what you hear.
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- In
all things be a master
- Of
what you do and say and think.
- Be
free.
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- Are
you quiet?
- Quieten
your body?
- Quieten
your mind.
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- By
your own efforts
- Waken
yourself, watch yourself,
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live joyfully.
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- Follow
the truth of the way.
- Reflect
upon it.
- Make
it your own.
- Live
it.
- It
will always sustain you.
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Dhammapada (Words of Buddha)
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- Saturday, August 28, 1999
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- Our
body and mind have the capacity
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heal themselves if we allow them to rest...
- Stopping,
calming, and resting are preconditions for healing.
- If
we cannot stop, the course of our destruction will just
continue…
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Thich Nhat Hanh
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- Sunday,
August 29, 1999
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- The
sole purpose of this human life
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nothing but the realization of God.
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The Shivapuri Baba
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- Monday, August 30, 1999
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- We
can do no great things ~
- Only
small things with great love.
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Mother Teresa
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- Tuesday, August 31, 1999
Listen to me!
Listen to me, and remember:
Suffering is nothing,
Suffering is illusion.
Only you yourself create it,
Only you cause yourself pain.
~ Herman Hesse,
(Voice in a dream described in his diary,
which led to the writing of Siddhartha)
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