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Archive/December 1999

 

Wednesday, December 1, 1999
 
Do not look for bad company
Or live with men who do not care.
Find friends who love the truth.
 
Drink deeply.
Live in serenity and joy.
The wise man delights in the truth
And follows the law of the awakened.
 
~  Buddha, The Dhammapada
 
 
Thursday, December 2, 1999
 
God continually showers the fullness of his grace
on every being in the universe, but we consent
to receive it to a greater or lesser extent.
In purely spiritual matters, God grants all desires.
 
~  Simone Weil
 
 
Friday, December 3, 1999
 
God is like a mirror.
The mirror never changes
But everyone who looks at it
Sees a different face
 
~ Jewish saying
 
 
Saturday, December 4, 1999
 
We do not listen and do not follow
this voice within our own souls,
and so we become a house divided against itself. 
We are pulled this way and that,
and we are never certain of anything.
 
~  Ralph W. Trine
 
 
Sunday, December 5, 1999
 
To the mind that is still,
The whole universe surrenders.
 
~  Chuang Tzu
 
 
Monday, December 6, 1999
 
Each time a person stands up for an ideal,
Or acts to improve the lot of others…
He sends a tiny ripple of hope,
And crossing each other from
A million different centers of energy and daring,
Those ripples build a current that can
Sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
 
~  Robert Kennedy
 
 
Tuesday, December 7, 1999
 
We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Speak or act with an impure mind
And trouble will follow you
As the wheel follow the ox that draws the cart.
 
We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Speak or act with a pure mind
And happiness will follow you
As your shadow, unshakable.
 
~  Buddha, The Dhammapada
 
 
Wednesday, December 8, 1999
 
What is in one is in the whole, and therefore,
Ultimately, each soul is responsible for the whole world. 
 
~  Gary Zukav
 
 
Thursday, December 9, 1999
 
The millions are awake enough for physical labor;
But only one in a million is awake enough
for effective intellectual exertion,
only one in a hundred million
to a poetic or divine life.
To be awake is to be alive…
We must learn to reawaken
and keep ourselves awake,
Not by mechanical means,
But by an infinite expectation of the dawn. 
 
~  Henry David Thoreau
 
 
Friday, December 10, 1999
 
Be true to Nature and Thyself;
Fame or disfame court not nor fear;
Enough to face the still small voice
That thunders in thine ear.
 
Spurn every idol others raise,
Burn incense to thine own ideal.
To seek the True, to glad the heart,
Such is of life the Higher Law…
 
~  Haji Abdu-el-Yezdi
 
Saturday, December 11,  1999
 
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed.
Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
~  Mohandas K. Gandhi
 
 
Sunday, December 12, 1999
 
Do not try to conform your way of living to the standards of this world. 
Instead, let God transform you inwardly; this involves a radical change of mind,
in which you will know the will of God, and what is good and pleasing in his sight.
 
~  Bible, Romans 12: 1-2
 
 
Monday, December 13, 1999
 
Your spiritual nature is a psychological fact.
It is the real and transformative force that empowers your life.
To deny this core nature of yours is to deny your very Self.
 
~  Jaquelyn Small
 
 
Tuesday, December 14, 1999
 
All spiritual growth takes place as a gradual harmonious unfolding.
It happens automatically.  As you live up to your highest light,
acting on your inspirations, more and more light comes to you. 
There is no hurry or impatience to get anything;
it comes as you are ready. 
 
~  Cheryl Canfield
 
 
 Wednesday, December 15, 1999
 
Your beliefs become your thoughts
Your thoughts become your words
Your words become your actions
Your actions become your habits
Your habits become your values
Your values become your destiny
 
~  Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
Thursday, December 16, 1999
 
Liberty is not without, but within.
It is in the heart, or it does not exist.
No one is free from external constraint.
But man may remain free
in the midst of the severest privations.
 
~  Paul Tournier
 
 
Friday, December 17, 19999
 
The ego is like an iceberg.
Ninety percent of it is under water.
As we observe it, the submerged
begins to move into the light of observation,
and melts into the light of awareness.
 
~  Meher Baba
 
 
Saturday, December 18, 1999
 
The disciplined person
masters thoughts by stillness
and emotions by calmness.
 
~ Lao Tzu
 
 
Sunday, December 19, 1999
 
The man or woman who realizes God has everything and lacks nothing.
Having this, one desires nothing further;
He cannot be shaken by the heaviest burden of sorrow. 
Life cannot threaten such a person;
All it holds is the opportunity to love, to serve , and to give.
 
~  Eknath Easwaran
 
Monday, December 20, 1999
 
“Heart” is merely another name for the Supreme Spirit,
because He is in all hearts…
 
The entire Universe is condensed in the body,
and the entire body in the Heart.
 
Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
 
~  Ramana Maharshi
 
 
Tuesday, December 21, 1999
 
Enlightenment cannot be attained, nor forced.
It can only happen…
It can appear only when it is given
a vacant space to appear in.
 
~  Nisargadatta
 
 
Wednesday, December 22, 1999
 
Existence will remain meaningless for you if you do not penetrate into it with active love and if you do not in this way discover its meaning for yourself.  Everything is waiting to be hallowed by  you; it is waiting to be disclosed in its meaning and to be realized in it by you.  For the sake of this your beginning, God created the world.  He has drawn it out of Himself so that you may bring it closer to Him.  Meet the world with the fullness of your being and you shall meet Him.
 
~  Martin Buber
 
 
Thursday, December 23, 1999
 
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
 
~  Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
Friday, December 24, 1999
 
We know the Son of God has come;
He has given us the understanding to know God’s truth.
He is the true God, the eternal life.
 
~  Bible, I John 5:20
 
 
Saturday, December 25, 1999
 
Jesus told them, “I am the light of the world. 
The man who follows me will not walk in the dark;
He will have the light of life.
 
~  Bible, John 8:12
 
Spiritwalk wishes all a Peaceful, Joyful, Merry Christmas. 
May you all experience the “light of life” of the Spirit within.
 
 
Sunday, December 26, 1999
 
God is Spirit.
Those who worship Him
Must worship in Spirit and Truth.
 
~  Bible, John 4:24
 
 
Monday, December 27, 1999
 
I maintain that Faith is a pathless land,
and you can approach it by any path whatsoever,
by any religion, by any sect.
 
~ Jiddhu Krishnamurti
 
 
Tuesday, December 28, 1999
 
Twenty-Four
 
He who stands on tiptoe is not steady.
He who strides cannot maintain the pace.
He who makes a show is not enlightened.
He who is self-righteous is not respected.
He who boasts achieves nothing.
He who brags will not endure.
According to followers of the Tao,
    “These are extra food and unnecessary luggage.”
They do not bring happiness.
Therefore the followers of the Tao avoid them.
 
~  Lao Tzu
 
 
Wednesday, December 29, 1999
 
The seat of faith...is not consciousness 
but spontaneous religious experience,
which brings the individual's faith 
into immediate relation with God.
 
~  C.G. Jung
 
 
Thursday, December 30, 1999
 
I do not believe that an individual may gain spiritually and those who surround him suffer.  I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and, for that matter, of all that lives.  Therefore, I believe that if one man gains spiritually, the whole world gains with him and, if one man falls, the whole world falls to that extent.
 
~  Mohandas K. Gandhi
 
 
Friday, December 31, 1999
 
Man suffers because of his cravings
to possess and keep forever
things which are essentially impermanent.
 
~  Alan Watts
 
 
 
 

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