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The Chalice of Wisdom - Part 1
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"We tend to be happy when things are going our way,
and unhappy when things aren't. It's natural.
But what we are pointing to here is a freedom that exists despite,
not because of, circumstances. Freedom in the midst of pain, sadness,
even devastation. Not freedom from, but freedom in.
Unconditionally so..."
Jeff Foster
http://www.lifewithoutacentre.com/
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and unhappy when things aren't. It's natural.
But what we are pointing to here is a freedom that exists despite,
not because of, circumstances. Freedom in the midst of pain, sadness,
even devastation. Not freedom from, but freedom in.
Unconditionally so..."
Jeff Foster
http://www.lifewithoutacentre.com/
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"A very great vision is needed, and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky."
- Crazy Horse
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- Crazy Horse
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If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it
without.
- Henry Miller
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without.
- Henry Miller
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"Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time."
- Mohandas Gandhi
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- Mohandas Gandhi
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Prickles & Goo: Alan Watts Trey Parker Matt Stone South Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXi_ldNRNtM&feature=youtube_gdata
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXi_ldNRNtM&feature=youtube_gdata
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Sanicle- Posts : 2228
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Rumi, the 13th century mystic poet, gives this warning about accepting spiritual advice (or any advice, for that matter).
A certain man caught a bird in a trap.
The bird says, "Sir, you have eaten many cows and sheep
in your life and you're still hungry. The little bit
of meat on my bones won't satisfy you either.
If you let me go, I'll give you three pieces of wisdom.
One I'll say standing on your hand. One on your roof.
And one I'll speak from the limb of that tree.
The man was interested.
He freed the bird and let it stand on his hand.
"Number one: Do not believe in absurdity,
no matter who says it."
The bird flew and lit on the man's roof. "Number two:
Do not grieve over what is past; it's over.
Never regret what has happened."
"By the way," the bird continued, "in my body there is a huge
pearl weighing a much as ten copper coins.
It was meant to be an inheritance for you
and your children, but now you've lost it.
You could have owned the largest pearl in existence,
but evidently, it was not meant to be."
The man started wailing like a woman in childbirth.
The bird said, "Didn't I just say 'Don't grieve
for what's in the past' and also
'Don't believe in absurdity?' My entire body
doesn't weigh as much as ten copper coins.
How could I have a pearl that heavy inside me?
The man came to his senses. "All right.
Tell me number three."
"Yes, you've made such good use of the first two!"
"Don't give advice to someone who is groggy and
falling asleep. Don't throw seeds on the sand."
A certain man caught a bird in a trap.
The bird says, "Sir, you have eaten many cows and sheep
in your life and you're still hungry. The little bit
of meat on my bones won't satisfy you either.
If you let me go, I'll give you three pieces of wisdom.
One I'll say standing on your hand. One on your roof.
And one I'll speak from the limb of that tree.
The man was interested.
He freed the bird and let it stand on his hand.
"Number one: Do not believe in absurdity,
no matter who says it."
The bird flew and lit on the man's roof. "Number two:
Do not grieve over what is past; it's over.
Never regret what has happened."
"By the way," the bird continued, "in my body there is a huge
pearl weighing a much as ten copper coins.
It was meant to be an inheritance for you
and your children, but now you've lost it.
You could have owned the largest pearl in existence,
but evidently, it was not meant to be."
The man started wailing like a woman in childbirth.
The bird said, "Didn't I just say 'Don't grieve
for what's in the past' and also
'Don't believe in absurdity?' My entire body
doesn't weigh as much as ten copper coins.
How could I have a pearl that heavy inside me?
The man came to his senses. "All right.
Tell me number three."
"Yes, you've made such good use of the first two!"
"Don't give advice to someone who is groggy and
falling asleep. Don't throw seeds on the sand."
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I have read so many of his books, but this one has been on the shelf for a couple of years. Time to dust it off. It's one lesson a day.
Besides, I bet I am not alone when it comes to losing track of how many books one can read at the same time.
Thanks again for your counsel.
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"The foolish man looks for happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
- James Oppenheim
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- James Oppenheim
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mudra wrote:"The foolish man looks for happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
- James Oppenheim
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Thank you for your visit here HigherLove 
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(Part 1/3) Importance of being in our Heart NOW - Drunvalo Melchizedek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6aGCmoWtgY
(Part 2/3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HqwVdI9G48&feature=relmfu
Part 3/3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDyisZ9xrZg&feature=related
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Looking at our current planet's situation, I can say:
Now is the time to develop a habit of positive attitudes, and ways of habitually landing on the feet of happiness.
Whether or not we face calamities on a global scale or a personal scale, it is important that we develop some basic abilities, and values, that we can default to, and return to at an instance notice.
We need to practice habits on a daily basis that help us establish and reestablish a radiant auric field within ourselves no matter what we face.
If we manage to have developed the habit of REFOCUSING our energy to create higher coherency of light within our system as soon as we choose to do so, we are much more likely to re-create a positive environment and experience HEAVEN on EARTH around ourselves no matter what we face.
Ilona Selke
Listen to Ilona radio interview on the Psychic View : The magic of Dolphins
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Therapy without a therapy - Non duality and the search for wholeness pdf
Therapy without a therapy - Non duality and the search for wholeness pdf
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Thomas said: "We have heard that there are some on the earth who take the male seed and the female monthly blood, and make it into a lentil porridge and eat it, saying: 'We have faith in Esau and Jacob.' Is this then seemly or not?"
Jesus was wroth with the world in that hour and said unto Thomas: "Amen, I say: This sin is more heinous than all sins and iniquities. Such men will straightway be taken into the outer darkness and not be cast back anew into the sphere, but they shall perish, be destroyed in the outer darkness in a region where there is neither pity nor light, but howling and grinding of teeth. And all the souls which shall be brought into the outer darkness, will not be cast back anew, but will be destroyed and dissolved."
John answered and said: "A man who hath committed no sin, but done good persistently, but hath not found the mysteries to pass through the rulers, when he cometh out of the body, what will happen unto him?"
Jesus said: "If the time of such an one is completed through the sphere, the receivers of Bainchoooch, who is one of the triple-powered gods, come after his soul and lead his soul with joy and exultation and spend three days circling round with it and instructing it concerning the creations of the world with joy and exultation.
"Thereafter they lead it down into the Amente and instruct it concerning the instruments of chastisement in the Amente; but they will not take vengeance on it therewith. But they will only instruct it concerning them, and the smoke of the flame of the chastisements catcheth it only a little.
"Thereafter they carry it up unto the way of the midst and instruct it concerning the chastisements of the ways of the midst, the smoke from the flame catching it a little.
"Thereafter they lead it unto the Virgin of Light, and she judgeth it and depositeth it with the little Sabaoth, the Good, him of the Midst, until the sphere turneth itself, and Zeus and Aphrodite come in face of the Virgin of Light, while Kronos and Ares come behind her.
"At that hour she taketh that righteous soul and handeth it over to her receivers, that they may cast it into the peons of the sphere. And the servitors of the sphere lead it forth into a water which is below the sphere; and a seething fire ariseth and eateth into it until it purifieth it utterly.
"Thereafter cometh Yaluham, the receiver of Sabaoth, the Adamas, who giveth the cup of forgetfulness unto the souls, and he bringeth the water of forgetfulness and handeth it to the soul; [and it drinketh it] and forgetteth all things and all the regions to which it had gone.
"Thereafter there cometh a receiver of the little Sabaoth, the Good, him of the Midst. He himself bringeth a cup filled with thoughts and wisdom, and soberness is in it; [and] he handeth it to the soul. And they cast it into a body which can neither sleep nor forget because of the cup of soberness which hath been handed unto it; but it will whip its heart persistently to question about the mysteries of the Light until it find them, through the decision of the Virgin of Light, and inherit the Light for ever."
Mary said: "A man who hath committed all sins and all iniquities and hath not found the mysteries of the Light, will he receive the chastisements for them all at once?"
Jesus answered: "Yea, he will receive it; if he hath committed three sins, he will receive chastisement for three."
John said: "A man who hath committed all sins and all iniquities, but at last hath found the mysteries of the Light, is it possible for him to be saved?"
Jesus said: "Such a man who hath committed all sins and all iniquities, and he findeth the mysteries of the Light, and performeth and fulfilleth them and ceaseth not nor doeth sins, will inherit the Treasury of the Light."
Jesus said unto his disciples: "When the sphere turneth itself, and Kronos and Ares come behind the Virgin of Light and Zeus and Aphrodite come in face of the Virgin, they being in their own aeons, then the veils of the Virgin draw themselves aside and she falleth into joy in that hour when she seeth these two light-stars before her. And all the souls which she shall cast at that hour into the circuit of the aeons of the sphere, that they may come into the world, will be righteous and good and find at this time the mysteries of the Light; she sendeth them anew that they may find the mysteries of the Light.
"If on the other hand Ares and Kronos come in face of the Virgin and Zeus and Aphrodite behind her, so that she seeth them not, then all the souls which she shall cast in that hour into the creatures of the sphere, will be wicked and wrathful and do not find the mysteries of the Light."
When then Jesus said this unto his disciples in the midst of the Amente, the disciples cried and wept, saying: "Woe, woe unto sinners, on whom the negligence and the forgetfulness of the rulers lie until they come out of the body and are led to these chastisements! Have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us, son of the Holy
and have compassion with us, that we may be saved from these chastisements and these judgments which are prepared for the sinners; for we also have sinned, our Lord and our Light."
Chapter 147-148, The Pistis Sophia (1st - 3rd century AD) Banned from the Bible
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How many malicious people, as unending as space, can I kill?
When the mind-state of anger is slain, then all enemies are slain.
-Shantideva
When the mind-state of anger is slain, then all enemies are slain.
-Shantideva
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Good to see you lysun
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"A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space.
We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical
delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and
to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value
of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from
the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive."
---Albert Einstein, 1954
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We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical
delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and
to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value
of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from
the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive."
---Albert Einstein, 1954
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This is the last scene from the movie "Smoke Signal". Must see if have not. The speech given by Thomas in this clip is almost universal, with a meaning for everyone. Forgive Our Fathers
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Spiritual development, as I understand it, is about compelling ourselves, through the power of our own inspired will and intention, to actually evolve. And in order to evolve—to consciously evolve—you first need to get to know the multidimensional nature of who you are and how you are. You need to be able to recognize and understand what constitutes your interior world—the infinite nature of the spiritual ground of your own being, the higher human capacities that make conscious evolution possible, and also the unconscious conditioned structures that can obstruct and obscure that potential. You need to examine the fundamental dimensions of the self, both relative and absolute; understand the unique challenges and potentials of the cultural context in which we find ourselves; and cultivate those higher human capacities that can enable you to participate in such a bold and significant task as the evolution of the interior of the cosmos.
~ Andrew Cohen
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~ Andrew Cohen
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immortalisdolor wrote:This is the last scene from the movie "Smoke Signal". Must see if have not. The speech given by Thomas in this clip is almost universal, with a meaning for everyone. Forgive Our Fathers
I have'nt seen that movie .
I will immortalisdolor.
Thanks for your visit to this thread and for adding to its wisdom.
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Burgs Dhamma Discourse 1a. "let it be perfect"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_JZDRpMkr4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_JZDRpMkr4
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"I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to these teachers."
- Khalil Gibran
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- Khalil Gibran
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