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I am the Mirror

Posted 2013-05-09 09:24:19 | Views: 1,821
"Without destroying me, how could He pour me this treasure?
He had to throw me to the waves for Love's Sea to sweep me away.
What can the man of words guess of the sweetness of silence?
What can the arid heart know of always-flowing freshness?
I am the mirror, I am the mirror, I am not a man of words
You'll know my spiritual state when your ears become gaze."

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi
(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)

Getting Strong

Posted 2013-05-06 04:16:44 | Views: 2,001
"Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray, where nature heals and gives strength to body and soul alike."
John Muir
Via Gratefulness.org

Miracles

Posted 2013-05-05 13:21:29 | Views: 1,912
"Miracles are both beginnings and endings. They undo the past in the present, and thus release the future." (T-1:I:13:1,3)
A Course in Miracles

Hello Nature!

Posted 2013-05-04 09:28:58 | Views: 1,839
"First thing in the morning, before you meet or greet anyone, remember to greet all of nature, all visible and invisible creatures. Say to them: "I am grateful for your work, I love you and want to be in harmony with you!" At this very moment, in response to your greeting, all of nature will open to you and send you energy for the entire day."
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Prosveta Publishing Via Gratefulness.org

Selfless Worship

Posted 2013-04-22 14:06:35 | Views: 1,955

"Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water

of life, which comes from selfless worship and service."

Bhagavad Gita 3.14

Shape Your Mind

Posted 2013-04-19 13:14:35 | Views: 1,993
"As irrigators lead water where they want,
as archers make their arrows straight,
as carpenters carve wood,
the wise shape their minds."
 Siddartha Gautama, the Buddha

Echoes

Posted 2013-04-14 23:18:18 | Views: 1,793
This world is a mountain, in which your works are echoed back to you.
Jalaluddin Rumi
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Smile

Posted 2013-04-08 12:07:22 | Views: 1,979
The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding. Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step.

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Sri Yukteswar

Posted 2013-04-07 01:31:56 | Views: 1,997
"God is Harmony; the devotee who attunes himself will never perform any action amiss. His activities will be correctly and naturally timed to accord with astrological law. After deep prayer and meditation he is in touch with his divine consciousness; there is no greater power than that inward protection." Sri Yukteswar 

God Gives

Posted 2013-04-05 07:02:03 | Views: 1,998
"God has given you your identity, and that cannot be taken away.
God has imbued you with infinite potential,
and that cannot be taken away.
God has provided you with the opportunity to change your thinking in an instant, and that cannot be taken away.
God has given you the capacity to love and that cannot be taken away.
God has entrusted you with the power to live in the light of His abundance in any moment, and that cannot be taken away."
 Marianne Williamson, The Law of Divine Compensation.

Behave Yourself

Posted 2013-03-30 13:58:10 | Views: 1,871
If you see to it each day that your conduct is impeccable, the following day will be completely clear, and you will be free to carry out your plans, always vigilant that you leave no loose ends. In this way, each new day will find you free and well disposed.
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

That Moment

Posted 2013-03-15 06:19:17 | Views: 2,171
That moment you are drunk on yourself
You are withered, withered like autumn leaves.
That moment you leap free of yourself
Winter to you appears in the dazzling robes of spring.
All disquiet springs from the search for quiet;
Look for disquiet and you will come suddenly upon a field of quiet.
All illnesses spring from the scavenging for delicacies;
Renounce delicacies, and poison itself will seem delicious to you.
All disappointments spring from your hunting for satisfactions;
If only you could stop, all imaginable joys
Would be rolled like pearls to your feet.

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi
(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)

Just Observe

Posted 2013-03-14 08:14:29 | Views: 1,847
What if you choose to view what you did, simply as what you did, what you had as what you had, what you lived, as what you lived, and leave it at that?
Zen O Clock by Scott Shaw

Suffering

Posted 2013-02-23 11:54:36 | Views: 1,856
Suffering is a treasure, for it conceals mercies;
The almond becomes fresh when you peel off the rind.
O my brother, staying in a cold dark place
And bearing patiently the grief, weakness, and pain
Is the Source of Life and the cup of Abandon!
The heights are found only in the depths of abasement;
Spring is hidden in autumn, and autumn pregnant with spring.
Flee neither; be the friend of Grief, accept desolation,
Hunt for the life that springs from the death of yourself.- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi
(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)

Social Change

Posted 2013-02-20 07:43:01 | Views: 2,057
"Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore."
Cesar Chavez
Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984
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