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Spiritwalk Thought
for Today
Archive/December 1999
- Wednesday,
December 1, 1999
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- 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
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- Thursday,
December 2, 1999
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- 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
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- Friday,
December 3, 1999
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- God
is like a mirror.
- The
mirror never changes
- But
everyone who looks at it
- Sees
a different face
-
- ~
Jewish saying
-
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- 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
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- Sunday,
December 5, 1999
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- To
the mind that is still,
- The
whole universe surrenders.
-
- ~
Chuang Tzu
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-
- 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
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- Tuesday,
December 7, 1999
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Friday,
December 10, 1999
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- 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
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- 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
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-
- 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
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-
- 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
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- 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
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-
- 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
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-
- 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
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-
- 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
-
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- 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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