December 2011
Per Aspera Ad Astra: A Moment Of Happiness →
uniomystica:
A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water of life here, you and I, with the garden’s beauty and the birds singing. The stars will be watching us, and we will show them what it is to be a thin crescent moon. You…
The world with all its wonders Is nothing. When you know this, Desire melts...
– Ashtavakra Gita 11:8 (via misterqlloyd
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You are every thing, every being, every emotion, every situation. You are unity....
– Ra, Law of One (via elige
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Tradition is not a dead load which we drag along with us, and which in our...
– -Gustaf Hellström of the Swedish Academy, in his remarks prior to T. S. Eliot’s banquet speech for The Nobel Prize in Literature 1948
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Things do not exist unless they exist in relationship with something else. In...
– Jeff Carreira, Evolutionary Philosophy Blog on December 15, 2011:
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2011/12/15/nothing-exists-except-in-relationship
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When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the...
– Bodhidharma (via lazyyogi
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So who’s the real you?
As the French essayist Michel de Montaigne put it,...
– David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.
– Rumi (via nirvikalpa
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I...
– Tagore
The stars are like letters which inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky....
– Plotinus (via veareflejos
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Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.
– Paul Wellstone (via nirvikalpa
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Having no destination, I am never lost.
– Ikkyuu, Zen Buddhist priest (1394-1481)
Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the...
– Chuang Tzu (via peeceofmymind
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A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and...
– Carl Sagan (via oniverse
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the...
– Erica Jong
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Our separation of each other is an optical illusion of consciousness.
– Albert Einstein
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We make our world significant
by the courage of our questions,
and the...
– Carl Sagan
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Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
– Rabindranath Tagore (via heartmindspirit
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To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you...
– Timothy Leary (via prometheanreach
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The real beloved is that one who is unique,
Who is your beginning and your end....
– Rumi (via yogaprivatelessons
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