Spiritwalk Thought
for Today
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- Archive/ September
1999
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- Wednesday, September 1, 1999
Jung says religion is a defense against the experience of God.
The eyes should be open to something of more cosmic import
than simply the vicissitudes and excitements of your own petty life.
~ Joseph Campbell
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- Thursday, September 2, 1999
Religion always needs defending; truth never does
for it is self-revealing, self-vindicating, self-evident…
Your answers to the riddle of life lie not "outside,"
but rather reside where you least expected to find them. . .
within yourself, for you are an endless repository
of truth yet to be discovered.
~ Ransom L. Webster
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- Friday, September 3, 1999
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- The
nature of God is a circle
- of which
the center is everywhere
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circumference is nowhere.
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Empedocles
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- Saturday, September 4, 1999
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- We
Native Americans did not get into the ideology that God was male.
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personally think it is very sad when that happens….
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woman has to dare to see God as male and female energy.
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a woman doesn’t believe that,
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should just look around her environment and she will see
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and female trees, male and female deer, male and female birds.
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can see that the male and female everything exists.
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can define God by whatever name you wish, but
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this God has the wisdom to put male and female everything on earth,
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understand that the universal mind is also male and female.
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Kachinas Kutenai
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- Sunday, September 5, 1999
The good life is one inspired by love
- and guided by knowledge.
~ Bertrand Russell
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- Wednesday,
September
8, 1999
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- It takes
so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the
enlightenment or courage to pay full price.
One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach out
to the risk of living with both arms.
One has to embrace the world like a lover.
One has to accept pain as a condition of existence.
One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.
One needs a will stubborn in conflict but apt always to the total
acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
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Morris L. West
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- Thursday, September 9, 1999
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- Give
me chastity and continence,
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not just now.
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St. Augustine
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- Friday, September 10, 1999
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- One word
frees us
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weight and pain of life:
- That word
is love
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Sophocles
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- Saturday, September 11, 1999
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- The Great
Way is easy,
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yet people prefer the side paths.
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- Be aware
when things are out of balance.
- Stay
centered within the Tao.
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- When rich
speculators prosper
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while farmers lose their land;
- When
government officials spend money
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on weapons instead of cures;
- When the
upper class is extravagant and irresponsible
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while the poor have nowhere to turn ~
- All this
is robbery and chaos.
- It is not
in keeping with the Tao.
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- ~ Lao Tzu,
Tao Te Ching
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as interpreted by Stephen Mitchell
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- Sunday, September 12, 1999
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- For many
of us, our practice is running away from our pain and sorrow, or covering
it up with consumption. Dear friends, let us embrace our pain and sorrow with
tenderness to find our what is the deep source.
Then comes the insight that will liberate you from suffering.
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Thich Nhat Hanh
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- Monday, September 13, 1999
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- The soul
that with strong and constant calm
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takes sorrow and takes joy indifferently,
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lives in the life undying!
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- That which
is
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can never cease to be;
- That which
is not
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will not exist.
- To see
this truth of both
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is theirs who part essence from accident,
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substance from shadow.
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- Indistructible,
learn thou! the life is,
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spreading life through all;
- It cannot
anywhere, by any means,
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be anywise dimninished, stayed, or changed.
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- Never the
spirit was born;
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the spirit shall cease to be never;
- Never was
time it was not;
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End and Beginning are dreams!
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- Birthless
and deathless and changeless
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remaineth the spirit forever;
- Death hath
not touched it at all,
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dead though the house of it seems!
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Bhagavad Gita (Sir Edwin Arnold, in Wisdom of the Orient, p.127)
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- Tuesday,
September 14, 1999
- Pain and
separation occur
- when we
regret the past
- or worry
about the future.
- Here and
now is ecstasy.
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- ~ Ram Dass
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- Wednesday, September 15, 1999
I will radiate joy to everyone I meet.
I will be mental sunshine to all who cross my path.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
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- Thursday, September 16, 1999
Let a man strive to purify his thoughts.
What a man thinketh, that is he;
This is the eternal mystery.
Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene,
he will obtain imperishable happiness.
~ Upanishads (c. B.C. 800)
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- Friday, September 17, 1999
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue,
The basis of moral authority;
It is the highest summit of art and life.
~ H.F. Amiel
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- Saturday, September 18, 1999
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams,
Live the life you have imagined.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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- Sunday, September 19, 1999
On life's journey
faith is nourishment,
virtuous deeds are a shelter,
wisdom is the light by day
and right mindfulness is the protection by night.
If a man lives a pure life nothing can destroy him;
if he has conquered greed nothing can limit his freedom.
~ Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
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- Monday, September 20, 1999
Do not wait for others to forgive,
For by forgiving, you become the master of fate,
the fashioner of life, the doer of miracles.
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love.
In return you will receive untold peace and happiness.
~ Robert Muller
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- Tuesday, September 21, 1999
You are God.
The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.
Don’t ever forget it.
~ Swami A. Parthasarathy
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- Wednesday, September 22, 1999
Awakening is dynamic,
Constantly evolving in accordance with life’s realities ~
Unfolding from ego-self to compassionate self,
From enclosed self to open self,
From foolish self to enlightened self.
~ Taitetsu Unno
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- Thursday, September 23, 1999
No matter how you think it is, it's different than that!
~ Rumi
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- Friday, September 24, 1999
One day the people of world will want peace so much
that the governments are going to have to get out of their way
and let them have it…
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
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- Saturday, September 25, 1999
Relaxation is the prerequisite
for that inner expansion that allows a person
to express the source of inspiration and joy within.
~ Deepak Chopra
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- Sunday, September 26, 1999
I believe in God ~
this is a fine, praiseworthy thing to say,
But to acknowledge God
wherever and however he manifest Himself
That in truth is heavenly bliss on earth.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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- Monday, September 27, 1999
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic,
and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress,
driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions.
Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,
they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.
This we can all bear witness to, living as we do plagued by unremitting anxiety …
It becomes more and more imperative that the life of the spirit be avowed
as the only firm basis upon which to establish happiness and peace.
~ Dalai Lama
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- Tuesday, September 28, 1999
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- Do not pursue what is illusory - property and
position:
- all that is gained at the expense of your nerves
- decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell
night.
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- Live with a steady superiority over life –
- don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after
happiness;
- it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last
forever,
- and the sweet never fills the cup to
overflowing."
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- ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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- Wednesday, September 29, 1999
- What is the source of soul power, and how can
we tap into it?
- I believe it comes from unexpected places.
- It comes first of all from living close to the
heart, and not at odds with it.
- Therefore, paradoxically, soul power may
emerge from failure, depression, and loss
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- ~ Thomas Moore
- Thursday, September 30, 1999
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- The lust for comfort murders the passions of the soul.
~ Kahlil Gibran
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