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Spiritwalk Thought
for Today
- Archive/November 1999
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- Monday,
November 1, 1999
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- Knowing constancy,
the mind is open.
With an open mind, you will be openhearted.
Being openhearted, you will act royally.
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Lao Tzu
- Tuesday,
November 2, 1999
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- 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.
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Seng Tsan
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- Wednesday, November 3, 1999
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- 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.
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- ~ Patanjali
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- Thursday. November 4, 1999
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- 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.
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Dogen
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- Friday, November 5,
1999
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- 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.
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- ~ Robert Ellwood
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- Saturday, November 6, 1999
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- We are all lying in the gutter,
- but some of us are looking at the stars.
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- ~ Oscar Wilde
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- Sunday, November 7, 1999
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- 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.
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- ~ Swami Vivekananda
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- Monday, November 8, 1999
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- Silence is the great revelation.
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Lao Tzu
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- Tuesday, November 9, 1999
Learn to be silent.
Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
~ Pythagoras
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- Wednesday,
November 10, 1999
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- 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.
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- ~
Morihei Ueshiba
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- Thursday, November 11, 1999
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- 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.
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- ~ Jiddhu
Krishnamurti
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- Friday, November 12, 1999
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- 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.
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- ~ Buddha
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- Saturday,
November 13, 1999
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- 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.
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- ~
Michelangelo
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- Sunday, November 14, 1999
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- 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.
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- ~ Dalai Lama
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- 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
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- 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
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- Wednesday, November 17, 1999
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- 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…
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- ~ Robert
Thurman
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- Thursday,
November 18, 1999
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- This new
day is too dear,
- with its
hopes and invitations,
- to
waste a moment on the yesterdays.
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- ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Friday,
November 19, 1999
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- If you do not express your own original
ideas,
- if
you do not listen to your own being,
- you will have betrayed yourself.
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- ~ Rollo May
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- Saturday,
November 20, 1999
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- It
is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well and justly,
- and
impossible to live wisely, well and justly without living pleasurably.
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Epicurus
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- Sunday,
November 21, 1999
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- 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.
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- ~
Alan Watts
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- Monday,
November 22, 1999
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- God is not found in the soul
- by adding anything, but
- by a process of subtraction.
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Meister Eckhart
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- Tuesday,
November 23, 1999
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- 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.
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- ~
Thomas Merton
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- Wednesday,
November 24, 1999
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- People
cannot live gracefully or peacefully, joyfully or justly,
- without
celebration in their lives, without awe.
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- ~
Matthew Fox
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- Thanksgiving,
November 25, 1999
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- Be joyful
always,
- Pray at all
times,
- Be thankful in
all circumstances.
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- ~
St. Paul
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- Friday,
November 26, 1999
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- 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.
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- ~
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Saturday,
November 27, 1999
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- No
man is free who is not master of himself…
- Is
freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?
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- ~
Epictetus
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- Sunday,
November 28, 1999
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- 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.
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- ~
Swami Sri Yukteswar
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- Monday,
November 29, 1999
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- 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.
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- ~
Henry David Thoreau
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- Spiritwalk
Daily Meditation for Tuesday,
November 30, 1999
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- 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.
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- ~ Boethius
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