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Spiritwalk
Meditations
- Archive/October 1999
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- Friday,
October 1, 1999
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- Argue for
your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.
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Richard Bach
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- Saturday,
October 2, 1999
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- It is easy in the world to live after the world's
opinion,
- it is easy in solitude to live after your own;
- but the great man is he who,
- in the midst of the world,
- keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of
solitude.
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- ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Sunday,
October 3, 1999
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- So let us
not grow weary in doing what is right,
- for we will
reap at harvest time, if we do
not give up.
- So then,
whenever we have an opportunity,
- Let us work
for the good of all…
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- ~ Galatians
6
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- Monday, October 4,
1999
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- It
is for the sake of Love
- that
the Universe sprang into existence,
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for the sake of Love that it is kept going.
- [God
decided to play a game with Himself for]
- his
conscious enjoyment of his own divinity.
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Meher Baba
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- Tuesday,
October 5, 1999
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- The
spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody
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never come to a place of fulfillment
- unless
people begin to think of each other
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potential brothers and sisters.
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- ~ Malidoma Some`
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- Wednesday,
October 6, 1999
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- When
you have totally surrendered,
- everything
you do will be meditation.
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- ~ Yogaswami
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- Thursday,
October 7, 1999
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- Calmness
of mind does not mean you should stop your activity.
- Real
calmness should be found in activity itself.
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Shunryu Suzuki
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- Friday, October 8, 1999
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- Sitting
quietly, doing nothing,
- Spring
comes and the grass grows by itself.
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Zenrin
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Saturday, October 9,
1999
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- All
you want is to be happy.
- All
your desires, whatever they may be,
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of longing for happiness.
- Basically,
you wish yourself well….
- Desire
by itself is not wrong.
- It
is life itself , the urge to grow in knowledge and experience.
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is the choices you make that is wrong.
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imagine that some little thing – food, sex. power, fame –
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make you happy is to deceive oneself.
- Only
something as vast and deep as your real self
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make you truly and lastingly happy.
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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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- Sunday, October 10, 1999
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- When you seek God,
- Seek Him in your heart.
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- ~ Yûnus Emre
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- Monday,
October 11, 1999
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- The
fragrance of blossoms soon passes;
- The
ripeness of fruit is gone in a twinkling
- Our
time in this world is so short,
- Better
to avoid regret:
- Miss
no opportunity to savor the ineffable,
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Loy Ching Yuen
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- Tuesday, October 12, 1999
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- The supreme purpose and goal
for human life…is to cultivate love.
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Ramakrishna
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- Wednesday.
October 13, 1999
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- No one purifies another.
- Never
neglect your work for another’s,
- However
great his need.
- Your
work is to discover your work
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then with all your heart
- To
give yourself to it.
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Words of the Buddha, The Dhammapada 12
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- Thursday,
October 14, 1999
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- Develop
interest in life as you see it;
- In
people, things, literature, music ~
- The
world is so rich,
- Simply
throbbing with rich treasures,
- beautiful
souls and interesting people…
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Henry Miller
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- Friday,
October 15, 1999
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- When
you leave this world
- material
riches will be left behind;
- But
every good that you have done will go with you.
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- Life
should be chiefly service.
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that ideal, the intelligence that God has given you
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not reaching out toward its goal.
- When
in service you forget the little self,
- you
will feel the big Self of Spirit.
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Paramahansa Yogananda
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- Saturday, October 16, 1999
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- I
find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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be in company, even with the best is soon wearisome and dissipating.
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love to be alone…
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Henry David Thoreau
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- Sunday, October 17, 1999
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- You
and I must come forward and share the joy of loving.
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we cannot give what we don’t have.
- That’s
why we need to pray.
- And
prayer will give us a clean heart,
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with a clean heart can see God in each other.
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if we see God in each other
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will be able to live in peace.
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Mother Teresa
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- Monday, October 18, 1999
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- To
confine our selves to terrestrial matters
- would
be to limit the human spirit.
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Stephen Hawking
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- Tuesday, October 19, 1999
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- All
roads lead to paradise if you know how to walk ~
- If
you know you are walking to paradise
- While
walking through paradise
- With
paradise inside you.
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- ~
Luisah Teish
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- Wednesday,
October 20, 1999
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- The
flute of the Infinite is played without ceasing,
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and its sound is love:
- When
love renounces all limits, it reaches truth.
- How
widely the fragrance spreads!
- It
has no end, nothing stands in its way.
- The
form of this melody is bright like a million suns:
- Incomparably
sounds the vina, the vina of the notes of truth.
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Kabir
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- Thursday,
October 21, 1999
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- There
is neither in Heaven nor on earth
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anything sweeter than love,
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nothing stronger,
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nothing loftier,
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nothing happier,
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nothing more precious;
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for love is born of God.
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Thomas à Kempis
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- Friday,
October 22, 1999
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- You are destined for enlightenment.
- Cooperate with your destiny,
- Don’t go against it,
- Don’t thwart it.
- Allow it to fulfill itself.
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- ~ Nisargadatta
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- Saturday,
October 23, 1999
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- Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind,
and spirit
- that was yours at birth and that can be yours again.
- That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness
- with the world around you, is still within you.
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- ~ Deepak Chopra
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- Sunday,
October 24, 1999
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- Our
knowledge of God is perfected by gratitude:
- We
are thankful and rejoice in the experience
- Of the truth
that He is Love.
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- ~ Thomas Merton
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- Monday,
October 25, 1999
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- To
attain Knowledge,
- add
things every day.
- To
attain Wisdom,
- remove
things every day.
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Lao
Tzu
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- Tuesday, October 26, 1999
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- The decisive question for us is:
- Are we related to something infinite or not?
- This is the telling question of our lives.
- Only if we know that the thing which really matters
- is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities,
- and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance.
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- ~ C.G. Jung
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- Wednesday,
October 27, 1999
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- And
how, you ask, are we to walk the spiritual path?
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answer:
- Say
little and love much;
- Give
all; judge no man;
- Aspire
to all that is pure and good.
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- ~ White Eagle
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- Thursday, October 28, 1999
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- Love
the moment…
- And
the energy of that moment
- Will
spread out beyond all boundaries.
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- ~ Corita Kent
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- Friday, October 29, 1999
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- The heart and mind can find peace and harmony
- by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self
- as supreme effulgent life.
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- ~ Patanjali
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- Saturday, October 30,
1999
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- This is what you shall do:
- Love the earth and the sun
and the animals;
- despise riches, give alms to
everyone who asks;
- stand up for the stupid and
crazy,
- devote your income and
labor to others;
- hate tyrants;
- argue not concerning God;
- have patience and indulgence
toward the people…
- re-examine all you have been
told at school or church or in any book;
- dismiss what insults your
very soul,
- and your very flesh shall
become a great poem.
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- ~ Walt Whitman
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- Sunday, October 31,
1999
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- To be truly happy in this
world is a revolutionary act
- because true happiness
depends upon a revolution in ourselves.
- It is a radical change of
view that liberates us
- so that we know who we are
most deeply
- and can acknowledge our
enormous ability to love.
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Sharon Salzberg
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