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Monday, November 1, 1999
 
Knowing constancy, the mind is open.
With an open mind, you will be openhearted.
Being openhearted, you will act royally.
~  Lao Tzu
 
Tuesday, November 2, 1999
 
To live in the Great Way
is neither easy nor difficult,
but those with limited views
are fearful and irresolute:
the faster they hurry,
the slower they go,
and clinging [attachment] cannot be limited: 
even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment
is to  go astray.
Just let things be in their own way
and there will be neither coming nor going.
 
~  Seng Tsan
 
 
Wednesday, November 3, 1999
 
Our essential nature is usually overshadowed
By the activity of the mind…
When the mind has settled,
We are established in our essential nature
Which is unbounded consciousness.
 
~ Patanjali
 
 
Thursday. November 4, 1999
 
Meditation is not a way to enlightenment,
nor is it a method of achieving anything at all.
It is peace and blessedness itself.
It is the actualization of wisdom,
the ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.
 
~  Dogen
 
 
Friday, November 5, 1999
 
Deep deathless joy
is the innermost reality of the universe,
and of ourselves as sons
and daughters of that universe,
its gods in the making.
Joy is our heritage,
and we can claim it today.
 
~  Robert Ellwood
 
 
Saturday, November 6, 1999
 
We are all lying in the gutter,
but some of us are looking at the stars.
 
~  Oscar Wilde
 
 
Sunday, November 7, 1999
 
Realization is real religion, all the rest is only preparation –
hearing lectures, reading books, or reasoning.
is merely preparing the ground; it is not religion.
Intellectual assent and intellectual dissent are not religion.
 
~  Swami Vivekananda
 
 
Monday, November 8, 1999
 
Silence is the great revelation.
 
~  Lao Tzu
 
 
Tuesday, November 9, 1999 

Learn to be silent. 
Let your quiet mind listen and absorb. 

~ Pythagoras
 
 
Wednesday, November 10, 1999
 
Calm the spirit and return to the source.
Cleanse the body and spirit by removing all malice, selfishness, and desire.
Be ever grateful for the gifts received from the universe, your family,
Mother Nature, and your fellow human beings.
 
~  Morihei Ueshiba
 
 
Thursday, November 11, 1999
 
We have to alter the structure of our society, its injustice, its appalling morality, the divisions it has created between man and man, the wars, the utter lack of affection and love that is destroying the world.  If your meditation is only a personal matter, a thing which you personally enjoy, then it is not meditation.  Meditation implies a complete radical change of the mind and the heart.  This is only possible when there is this extraordinary sense of inward silence, and that alone brings about the religious mind.  That mind knows what is sacred.
 
~  Jiddhu Krishnamurti
 
 
Friday, November 12, 1999
 
Speak and act with a pure mind
And happiness will follow you
As your shadow, unshakable…
Set your heart on doing good.
Do it over and over again,
And you will be filled with joy.
 
~  Buddha
 
 
Saturday, November 13, 1999
 
The greater danger for most of us
Is not that our aim is too high and we miss it,
But that it is too low and we reach it.
 
~  Michelangelo
 
 
Sunday, November 14, 1999
 
When we pray together, I feel something,
I do not know whether you would call it blessings, or grace ~
but in any case there is a certain feeling that we can experience.
If we utilize it properly, this feeling is very helpful
for developing our inner strength.
 
~  Dalai Lama
 
 
Monday, November 15, 1999

When the spirit controls the body, the body obeys; 
When the body overrules the spirit, the spirit is exhausted. 
Although intelligence is useful, it needs to be returned to the spirit. 
This is called The Great Harmony. 

~ Huai-Nan-Tzu
 
 
Tuesday, November 16, 1999

Whether we see it nor not, 
the light of the invisible Source shines within us. 
If we would just sit quietly by the open window of our heart 
for a few minutes each day, soon that light would be evident to us, 
and soon that awakened light would heal, inspire, and enlighten us. 
We would enter reality, knowingly, and become lovers and servants of this reality. 

~ Robert Rabbin
 
 
Wednesday, November 17, 1999
 
Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives.  If it is possible for us to attain such perfect enlightenment ourselves, our whole sense of  meaning and our place in the universe immediately changes.  To be open to the possibility is to be a spiritual seeker, no matter what our religion.  Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith.  It is an evolutionary goal…
 
~  Robert Thurman
 
 
Thursday, November 18, 1999
 
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
 
Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
 
This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
 
~  Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
Friday, November 19, 1999
 
If you do not express your own original ideas,
if you do not listen to your own being,
you will have betrayed yourself.
 
~  Rollo May
 
 
Saturday, November 20, 1999
 
It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well and justly,
and impossible to live wisely, well and justly without living pleasurably.
 
~  Epicurus
 
 
Sunday, November 21, 1999
 
You can only know God through an open mind
Just as you can only see the sky through a clear window.
You will not see the sky if you have covered the glass with blue paint.
 
~  Alan Watts
 
 
Monday, November 22, 1999
 
God is not found in the soul
by adding anything, but
by a process of subtraction.
 
~  Meister Eckhart
 
 
Tuesday, November 23, 1999
 
Looking for God is like seeking a path in a field of snow;
if there is no path and you are looking for one,
walk across it and there is your path.
 
~  Thomas Merton
 
 
Wednesday, November 24, 1999
 
People cannot live gracefully or peacefully, joyfully or justly,
without celebration in their lives, without awe.
 
~  Matthew Fox
 
 
Thanksgiving, November 25, 1999
 
Be joyful always,
Pray at all times,
Be thankful in all circumstances.
 
~  St. Paul
 
 
Friday, November 26, 1999
 
I will rejoice that from all tormenting we can retreat always
upon the Invisible Heart, upon the Celestial Love,
and that not to be soothed merely, but to be replenished,
not to be compensated, but to receive power to make all things new.
 
~  Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
Saturday, November 27, 1999
 
No man is free who is not master of himself…
Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?
 
~  Epictetus
 
 
Sunday, November 28, 1999
 
Human conduct is ever unreliable
until man is anchored in the Divine.
Everything in the future will improve
if you are making a spiritual effort now.
 
~  Swami Sri Yukteswar
 
 
Monday, November 29, 1999
 
Most are engaged in business 
in the greater part of their lives, 
because the soul abhors a vacuum 
and they have not discovered 
continuous employment for man’s nobler faculties.
 
~  Henry David Thoreau
 
 
Spiritwalk Daily Meditation for Tuesday, November 30, 1999
 
Whoever deeply searches out the truth
and will not be deceived by paths untrue,
shall turn unto himself his inward gaze,
shall bring his wandering thoughts in circle home
and teach his heart that what it seeks abroad,
it holds in its own treasure chests within.
 
~  Boethius
 
 
 
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