Aranea

2011-05-18T21:30:00.003+10:00

"true knowledge is based on true tolerance.
From this true tolerance comes absolute
comprehension, and true comprehension gives
birth to peace, which enlightens and purifies."
Nicholas Roerich

2011-05-16T01:05:00.001+10:00

The term " Universal Brotherhood" is no idle phrase. It is the only secure foundation for universal morality. MKH. The Mahatma letters to A.P Sinnett

2011-05-14T12:23:00.002+10:00

Theosophy is the vehicle of the spirit that giveth life;
consequently, nothing dogmatic can be Theosophical.
Gems from the East, by H.P Blavatsky

2011-03-13T22:25:00.000+11:00

The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

Atisha (11th century Tibetan Buddhist master)

2011-03-03T09:51:00.002+11:00

I searched for God among the Christians and on the Cross and therein
i found him not.

I went into the ancient temples of idolatry; No trace of him was there.

I entered the mountain cave of Hira and then went as far as Qandahar but
God i found not.

With set purpose i fared to the summit of Mount Caucasus and found
there only 'anqa's habitation.

Then i directed my search to the Kaaba (mecca), the resort of old and young; God
was not there even.

Finally, I looked into my own heart and there i saw him; He was nowhere
else.
By Rumi

2010-05-15T12:14:00.001+10:00

When the light of the love of GOD shall descend on thy heart and soul,
then thou wilt become more glorious than is the sun in the sky.
Hafiz-Theosophist Magazine april 1910- june 1910.

2010-04-10T08:11:00.000+10:00

We of the present day are content to accept a monkey as our ancestor, but the proud Greeks traced their lineage to the Gods.
Theosophy.Vol 27, #3 1939. Ancient Landmarks

2010-03-28T02:57:00.002+11:00

Not knowing how near the truth is, people seek it far away-what a pity!
They are like one who, in the midst of water, cries pitifully from thirst...
Hakuin (1685-1768)

2010-03-26T04:21:00.001+11:00

Hatred does not cease by hatred; hatred only ceases by love. This is the eternal law. The Dhammapada.

2010-02-26T01:41:00.004+11:00

"What room for doubt and what room for sorrow is there in him who knows that all spiritual beings are the same in kind and only differ from each other in degree?"
William Q Judge-Ancient Hindu Texts.

2010-02-24T02:06:00.003+11:00

There are only two mistakes one
can make along the road to truth:
not going all the way and not starting.
-Buddha.

2010-01-18T14:55:00.003+11:00

From The Heart of The World: The Elder Brothers Warning. By: Alan Ereira

2009-12-25T01:23:00.000+11:00

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Yet once more I shall die as Man, to soar With angels blest; but even from angelhood I must pass on: all except God doth perish. When I have sacrificed my angel-soul, I shall become what no mind e'er conceived. Oh, let me not exist! for Non-existence Proclaims in organ tones, 'To Him we shall return.'
--Jalal ed-Din Rumi (1207-1273)

2009-12-22T11:06:00.002+11:00

On Self Sacrafice:

ENQUIRER. And what may be the duty of a Theosophist to himself?

THEOSOPHIST. To control and conquer, through the Higher, the lower self. To purify himself inwardly and morally; to fear no one, and nought, save the tribunal of his own conscience. Never to do a thing by halves; i. e., if he thinks it the right thing to do, let him do it openly and boldly, and if wrong, never touch it at all. It is the duty of a Theosophist to lighten his burden by thinking of the wise aphorism of Epictetus, who says: "Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflection the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power, and consequently should not be any part of your concern."

The Key to Theosophy.
H.P.Blavatsky

2009-12-07T13:57:00.001+11:00

True compassion is more than flicking a coin to a beggar.
Marthin Luther King.

2009-11-29T13:53:00.000+11:00

What we do for ourselves dies with us what we do for others and the world remains immortal.
Albert Pike

2009-11-17T10:39:00.003+11:00

Know ye not that ye are the Temple of GOD, and that the Spirit of GOD dwelleth in you?
Corinthians 3:16

2009-07-29T21:59:00.003+10:00

THE JOURNEY
SLOW AND STEADY WINS THE RACE
Our march toward the infinite is a
long journey, not to be finished within
a few hours, a few days, or a few years.
Though we see many around us falling
or retreating, we must go forward.
-Swami B. Br, Sridhar

2009-04-06T14:03:00.001+10:00

Who toiled a slave may come anew a Prince
For gentler worthiness and merit won
Who ruled a King may wander earth in rags
For things done and undone.
Sir Edwin Arnold: from Lives of Alcyone, by C.W Leadbeater & Annie Besant

2008-08-22T10:09:00.004+10:00

Evolution

In the great wind sweeping Southward
Where the Southern Cross hangs high,
Lies the whisper of lost nations,
Lost forever where they lie.

Lost these strange old worlds forever,
Gone their glory and their gold,
Some by forest deeply hidden,
Some by oceans water cold.

Dust to dust, so runs the story,
Nations rise nations fall.
Constant struggle through the ages.
What the purpose of it all?

Man evolves through endless effort,
Nations are but training schools.
Each day a recitation,
In the work of schooling fools.

Slowly as the ages circle,
More awaken to the light,
More arise and take their places,
Sons of God , who see aright.

They shall guard the earth and lead her
From destruction and dismay,
From all was and immolation,
To the ancient Holy Way.
The Temple of Amon RA, Mary Gray

2008-06-20T09:19:00.002+10:00

Each religion has its own mission in the world, is suited to the nations
to whom it is given, and to the type of civilisation it is to permeate.

I has been well said that while things essential there should be unity,
in things non-essential there should be liberty, and in all things
there should be charity. Were that wise rule followed by each, we should hear
less of the religious antagonisms and sectarian disputes
that bring sham on the very word 'religion'.
Annie Besant. Theosophy in Australia, june 2008 vol 72, # 2

2008-05-23T12:29:00.000+10:00

There is no need for us to say anything about others. There is no need for you or for me to regard other's actions in our thoughts one way or another. The worst thing we can do is to force people to agree with us. I mean that we shouldn't try to impose our will when people don't behave the way we want them to. The worst thing one can do is to confront human beings bluntly. A warrior proceeds strategically. If one wants to stop our fellow men one must always be outside the circle that presses them. That way one can always direct the pressure.
Journey to Ixtlan, By Carlos Castaneda.

2008-03-20T14:46:00.001+11:00

We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety. Alain de Botton

2008-02-22T15:24:00.002+11:00

Avoid the wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue both day and night. Always meditate on that which is eternal, forgetting the temporary. In this way you will achieve success.
Chanakya Pandit

2008-01-30T22:04:00.001+11:00

Christianity isn't moving people's lives today. What's moving people's lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It's a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn't even an ideal that anybody's fighting for.
Joseph Campbell

Krisnamurti-The Real Revolution part 1 of 2

2007-11-27T14:14:00.000+11:00

2007-10-03T17:32:00.000+10:00

"A glory shines across the coming years,
The glory of a race grown great and free.
'Twas seen by poets, sages, saints and seers,
Whose vision glimpsed the dawn that is to be.
A shining shore is by the futures sea,
Whereon each man shall stand among his peers.
As equal; and to none shall bend the knee.
Awake, my soul, shake off your doubts and fears;
Behold the magic of the morning face;
And hear the sweet and wondorous melody
That floats to us from far-off golden days-
It is the choral song of liberty
It is the anthem of the coming race."
A dweller on two planets. By Phylos.

2007-09-01T16:04:00.000+10:00

The world view most people associate with science
has been left behind. The concept of space and
time, life and matter, and the universe itself, has changed.
The cosmos is not a life less, soulless aggregate of innert chunks
of matter: it is closer to a living organism. It is not a matter
that is a fundamental component in it: physical reality is made up
of a variety of familiaras well as strange fields, forces, and
energies. Space and time are not a passive backdrop
to the blind concourse of particlesand atoms: they are the
unified background of the evolution of galaxies. This view
is not the final, immutable truth of course, but it is
likely to be closer to the way things really are
than any previous conception.
-Ervin Laslo
Holistic Science & Human Values 2003

2007-06-12T11:11:00.001+10:00

Prayer Before Birth
I am not yet born; O hear me.Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the club-footed ghoul come near me.I am not yet born, console me.I fear that the human race may with tall walls wall me, with strong drugs dope me, with wise lies lure me, on black racks rack me, in blood-baths roll me.I am not yet born; provide meWith water to dandle me, grass to grow for me, trees to talk to me, sky to sing to me, birds and a white light in the back of my mind to guide me.I am not yet born; forgive meFor the sins that in me the world shall commit, my words when they speak me, my thoughts when they think me, my treason engendered by traitors beyond me, my life when they murder by means of my hands, my death when they live me.I am not yet born; rehearse meIn the parts I must play and the cues I must take when old men lecture me, bureaucrats hector me, mountains frown at me, lovers laugh at me, the white waves call me to folly and the desert calls me to doom and the beggar refuses my gift and my children curse me.I am not yet born; O hear me,Let not the man who is beast or who thinks he is God come near me.I am not yet born; O fill meWith strength against those who would freeze my humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton, would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with one face, a thing, and against all those who would dissipate my entirety, would blow me like thistledown hither and thither or hither and thither like water held in the hands would spill me.Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me.Otherwise kill me.
By louise McNeice

2007-04-18T15:27:00.000+10:00

To the philosopher, the body is "a disturbing element, hindering the soul from the acquisition of knowledge....What is purification but...the release of the soul from the chains of the body?"
The Socrates of Plato's Phaedo

2007-04-09T20:28:00.000+10:00

"A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look foward to posterity, who not look backward to their ancestors."
Burke

2007-04-07T19:23:00.000+10:00

Does anyone want to take the world and do what he wants with it?
I do not see how he can succeed.

The world is a sacred vessel, which must not be tampered with or grabbed after.
To tamper with it is to spoil it, and to grasp it is to lose it.

In fact, for all things there is a time for going ahead, and a time for following behind;
A time for slow breating and a time for fast breathing;
A time to grow in strenght and a time to decay;
A time to be up and a time to be down.

Therefore the Sage avoids all extremes, excesses and extravagances.
Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching.

2007-03-29T14:08:00.000+10:00

"We can live in the world, and walk not in the darkness of its ways but in the light of our own understanding of the wisdom that belongs to the one self that trancends yet exists in the heart of every being."
N. Sri Ram, Thoughts for Aspirants.

2007-01-27T01:26:00.000+11:00

"All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is; and God the Soul."

"Worlds without number
Lie in this bosom like children."
The Kabala.

2006-11-15T10:46:00.000+11:00

"There is above the celestial lights an incorruptible Flame always sparkling; the spring of life, the formation of all beings, the original of all things. This Flame produceth all things, and nothing perisheth by what it consumeth. It maketh itself known by itself... it encompaseth the heavens.

The heart should not fear to approach this adorable fire, or to be touched by it; it will never be consumed by this sweet fire, whose mild and tranquil heat maketh the binding, the harmony, and the duration of the world. Nothing subsisteth but by this fire, which is GOD himself. All is full of GOD, and GOD is in us all." G.R.S Mead

2006-11-11T00:36:00.000+11:00

"Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligeble picture of the world. He then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it....He makes this comos and its construction the center of his emotional life in order to find in this way the peace and serenity which he cannot find in the narrow whirpool of personal experience....The supreme task of (The investigator) is to arrive at those universal elementry laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction.... (O)nly intuition, resting on the sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them."
-Albert Einstein, 1918.

2006-07-12T23:10:00.000+10:00

” . . . It is a sottish presumption to disdaine and condemne that for false, which unto us seemeth to beare no show of likelihood or truth: which is an ordinarie fault in those who persuade themselves to be of more sufficiencie than the vulgar sort.

” . . . But reason hath taught me, that so resolutely to condemne a thing for false and impossible, is to assume unto himself the advantage to have the bounds and limits of God's will, and the power of our common Mother Nature tied to his sleeve, and that there is no greater folly in the world than to reduce them to the measure of our capacitie and bounds of our sufficiencie.

”If we term those things monsters or miracles to which our reason cannot attain, how many doe such daily present themselves unto our sight? Let us consider through what cloudes, and how blinde-folde we are led to the knowledge of most things that passe our hands; verily we shall finde it is rather custome than Science that receiveth, the strangenesse of them from us: and that those things, were they newly presented unto us, wee should doubtless deeme them as much or more unlikely and incredible than any other.” (Essays, chap. xxvi.) Montaigne

2006-05-27T01:26:00.000+10:00

The ideal of a single civilisation for everyone implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life. Octavio Paz

2006-05-14T19:36:00.000+10:00

Avoid outshinning the master. All superiority is odious, but the
superiority of a subject over his prince is not only stupid, it is fatal.
This is a lesson that the stars in the sky teach us- they may be related to the sun, and just as brilliant but they never appear in her company.
Baltasar Gracian. 1601-1668.

2006-05-12T21:19:00.000+10:00

Initiation is equivalent to basic change in existential
condition; the novice emerges from his ordeal endowed
with a totally different being from that which
he possessed before his initiation; he has become
another.
Mircea Eliade

2006-02-25T23:56:00.000+11:00

The Mysteries of the faith are not to be
divulged at all....It is requisite to hide
in a mystery the wisdom spoken.
(Clen. Alex., "Strom. 12.)
The Secret Doctrine, Book II, Part II.
H.P.B.

2006-02-20T11:55:00.000+11:00

What is inside me,
What is outside mine..
When these thoughts end.
Compulsion stops,
Reception ceases,
Freedom Dawns.
Nagarjuna.

2005-09-27T23:51:00.000+10:00

It is only by facing our commonplaceness and living happily
with it that we can realise its opposite and achieve a measure
of real individuality. The liberated man does not have to
claim that he is different. He can afford to be ordinary.
Hugh Shearman.

2005-09-22T14:25:00.000+10:00

Unless we ask with our whole being, heart and soul and mind, unless we can hardly eat or drink or sleep unless we know, unless life is no longer worth living without the experience of living truth, we shall not gain it. We must deisre truth more than life itself if we are to be worthy of experiencing it. J.J van der Leeuw.

2005-09-15T10:32:00.000+10:00

Superstition is another mighty evil, and has caused much terrible cruelty. The man who is a slave to it despises others who are wiser, tries to force them to do as he does. Think of the awful slaughter produced by the superstition that animals should be sacrificed, and by the still more cruel superstition that man needs flesh for food.Many crimes have men committed in the name of the God of Love, moved by this nightmare of superstition; be very careful therefore that no slightest trace of it remains in you.
J.Krishnamurti. At the feet of the master.

2005-08-15T14:58:00.000+10:00

Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honour, and give no attention or thought to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul."
Plato, Apology. p56, line29e.

2005-07-27T00:20:00.000+10:00

The modern world provides a continual testimony
to the fact that growth of knowledge does
not create a better world.What is essential is
not more information either in the physical or
psychic fields, but a growth in love and wisdom,
tranquility and unselfishness by whose power
and virtue humanity can truly redeem itself.
Mrs Radha Burnier.

2005-07-26T01:15:00.000+10:00

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master. HPB.

2005-07-18T13:20:00.000+10:00

Changing Bodies
As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones,
the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the
old and used ones.
Bhagavad Gita
Chapter 3, verse 18.

2005-06-28T15:18:00.000+10:00

The superior nature can be taught, the inferior nature can be controlled.
Han Yu, Yuan Hsing.

2005-06-20T16:13:00.000+10:00

The Journey.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Our march toward the infinite is a
long journey, not to be finished within
a few hours, a few days, or a few years.
Though we see many around us falling
or retreating, we must go foward.
-Swami B. R. Sridhar.

2005-06-16T23:24:00.000+10:00

Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live.
Uesugi Kenshin.

2005-06-15T13:31:00.000+10:00

Covered Soul
As fire is covered by smoke,
as a mirror is covered by dust, or as
an embryo is covered by the womb,
similarly, the living being is covered
by different layers of lust.
Bhagavad Gita
Chapter 3, verse 38.

2005-05-23T21:31:00.000+10:00

My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.
Emily Dickinson.

2005-05-11T00:21:00.000+10:00

"Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through 'divide and rule' becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history."
Unknown.

2005-05-05T00:11:00.000+10:00

Little Fly,Thy summer's playMy thoughtless handHas brushed away.Am not IA fly like thee?Or art not thouA man like me?For I danceAnd drink and sing,Till some blind handShall brush my wing.If thought is lifeAnd strength and breath,And the wantOf thought is death,Then am IA happy fly,If I liveOr if I die.
William Blake.

2005-05-02T00:11:00.000+10:00

In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? it would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.
Marcus Aurelius.

2005-04-19T13:47:00.000+10:00

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:The first is deep love,The second is frugality,And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.Because of deep love, one is courageous.Because of frugality, one is generous.Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu.

2005-04-16T00:25:00.000+10:00

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.
Sun-tzu, The Art of War.

2005-02-28T14:48:00.000+11:00

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Benjamin Franklin

2005-02-24T11:32:00.000+11:00

RETURNING TO NATURALNESS
It is better merely to live one's life,realizing one's potential,rather than wishingfor sanctification.
He who lives in filial piety and lovehas no need of ethical teaching.
When cunning and profit are renounced,stealing and fraud will disappear.But ethics and kindness, and even wisdom,are insufficient in themselves.
Better by far to see the simplicityof raw silk's beautyand the uncarved block;to be one with onself,and with one's brother.It is better by farto be one with the Tao,developing selflessness,tempering desire,removing the wish,but being compassionate.
The Tao Te Ching, translated by Stan Rosenthal.

2005-01-18T08:22:00.000+11:00

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire

2005-01-04T21:53:00.000+11:00

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell.

2004-12-02T17:24:00.000+11:00

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton

2004-11-21T02:11:00.000+11:00

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII

2004-11-20T15:52:00.000+11:00

If our father sent us to earth, it signifies that only here we can conclude the unfinished work we had left undone from the time when we rose to be at his side.
Regina Betancourt, Luz de Crano.

2004-11-13T03:34:00.000+11:00

A human being is part of a whole
Called by us, 'Universe', a part limited
in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts
and feelings
As sometimes separated from the rest-
A kind of optical delusion of
his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us
Restricting us to our personal desires
And to affection for a few persons nearest us.
Our task must be to free ourselves
from this prison.
Albert Einstein.

2004-11-12T22:41:00.000+11:00

Once i had been a slave: Lust was my master,
Lust the became my servant, i was free:
Leaving the haunts of men, i sought Thy Presence
Lonely, in Thee i found my company.

Mot in the market-place is found the treasure,
Nor by the ignorant, who know not Thee,
Who taunt me, thingking that my search is folly,
But at the end, Thou wilt be found in me.
Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali. From the mystics of Islam, Sufism.

2004-11-11T02:06:00.000+11:00

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
Epitecus, Discourses.

2004-10-31T01:09:00.000+10:00

Through my power, the man of judgement may eat
And whoever breaths or hears the spoken word;
Unknowingly they all abide in me.
In truth, I speak: hear, O holy tradition!
The Rig-Veda

2004-10-17T23:05:00.000+10:00

When a man considers himself to be superior to a woman, he is only showing his lack of intellectual strength and chivalry.
Regina Betancourt

2004-10-16T21:17:00.000+10:00

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau

2004-10-12T02:23:00.000+10:00

Being freed form attachment, fear and anger, being fully absorbed in Me and taking refuge in Me, many, many persons in the past became purified, and thus they all attained transcendental love for Me.
Lord Krsna, The Bhagavad-gita.

2004-10-10T21:04:00.000+10:00

It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.
Asoka

2004-10-08T21:54:00.000+10:00

Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
Aldous Huxley

2004-09-30T21:51:00.000+10:00

The conditions for God-"God himself cannot existwith out wise people," said Luther with good reason. But "God can exist even less without unwise people"- that our good Luther did not say.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 129.

2004-09-26T01:23:00.000+10:00

It is the reliance on limited information or limited interpretation, or both, that leads to fundamentalism.
Mervyn Haines.

2004-09-21T22:28:00.000+10:00

What the ancients called
a clever fighter
is one who not only wins,
but excels in winning with ease.
Sun Tzu, The Art of War.

2004-09-17T13:17:00.000+10:00

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it.
Carlos Castaneda

2004-09-15T21:12:00.000+10:00

Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
Marcus Aurelius.

2004-09-12T21:52:00.000+10:00

There do exist enquiring minds, which long for the truth of the heart, seek it, strive to solve the problems set by life, try to penetrate to the essence of things and phenomena and to penetrate into themselves. If a man reasons and thinks soundly, no matter which path he follows in solving these problems, he must inevitably arrive back at himself, and begin with the solution of the problem of what he is himself and what his place is in the world around him.
George Ivanovitch Gurdijieff.

2004-09-10T03:29:00.000+10:00

In the beginning was One only. Out of himself he projectetd the universe. He maintains it and withdraws it into himself.
Yogi philosophy.

2004-09-07T08:37:00.000+10:00

From the unreal lead me to the Real.
From darkness lead me to the Light.
Form death lead me to Inmortality.
Denis Frost.

2004-09-05T09:03:00.000+10:00

For me there is only the traveling on the paths that have a heart, on any path that may have a heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge for me is to traverse its full length. And there I travel--looking, looking breathlessly.
Don Juan Matus

2004-08-30T12:39:00.000+10:00

We have come out of the light,
from the place where light is existing-
past, present and future,
where the light by its own hand
rises to standing and shows itself
in the image of the One-and-Many.
Gospel of Thomas.

2004-08-29T14:20:00.000+10:00

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
J.Krishnamurti

2004-08-27T14:41:00.000+10:00

That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche

2004-08-13T01:51:00.000+10:00

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Leonardo da Vinci

2004-08-02T23:46:00.000+10:00

It is grater worship to God to see Him in all things, than in any special thing.
Mother Julian of Norwich

2004-07-30T14:10:00.000+10:00

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson

2004-07-27T01:44:00.000+10:00

To die... To fall like a drop
of sea water into the vast sea?
Or to be what i have never been:
a man alone, with out a shadow, slumberless,
a solitary man, advancing with out a way,
without a mirror?
Antonio Machado

2004-07-01T19:48:00.000+10:00

The Lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean. To make them clean a cleaner is required. The flame feels not the process of the cleaning. "The braches of the tree are shaken by the wind; the trunk remains unmoved."
The two paths. H.P Blavatzky

2004-06-22T15:02:00.000+10:00

Never the spirit was born; the Spirit shall cease to be never;
Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams!
Bhagavadgita

2004-06-21T19:50:00.000+10:00

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
Epitecus.

2004-06-17T18:14:00.000+10:00

Man indeed is the Universe,
What has been and what is to come,
Master of immortality,
When he rises through nourishment.
Hymns from the Rig-Veda

2004-06-16T00:28:00.000+10:00

"In the heart of our being, our one true self, is the porwer of Divine Mind striving towards perfect self-knowledge, the power of love seeking its fulfilment."
Sri Krishna Prem and Sri Madhava Ashish.

2004-06-03T12:18:00.000+10:00

I have shaken off the dust of the World,
I have taken the leave of rank and fame.
Now i can give my self whole hartedly to joy in nature,
The great creator (of all things).
Prince Iwakura, Japan, Meiji period.

2004-05-19T22:12:00.000+10:00

In any event, all existences are...without substance. Everything exists without existing, everything exists only in change and through change, and what subtends change is potential. We must understand that..change is eternity.
On Zen Buddhism,The Ring of the Way ,Taisen Deshimaru

2004-05-13T00:21:00.000+10:00

Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know.
But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works, whether we accept it or not.
The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists.
Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.
Mohandas K. Gandhi.

2004-05-10T22:49:00.000+10:00

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
Aristotle.