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It is the nature of belief to be static and defined; it is the nature of consciousness to be fluid and unlimited. What we call experience is a dance between the two. jae Malone |
Quotes |
When I read, I highlight, then copy the scored text into a quote book, along with other quotes I pick up along the way. The quotes that attract me are provacative in some way. Often as part of my spiritual practice, I will select one to chew on during the day, because quoting wisdom isn't worth a damn -- to make a difference, wisdom has to become part of your sinew and bone. So these are the things I need to remember. You too, perhaps... The first few are mine. Just because I said it, doesn't mean I know it. |
Spirituality is about realization, not rationalization, about perception, not belief, about the way we live, not the way we talk. Jae Malone |
"Oftentimes, what causes us to stop growing is simply growing up. When we are young, we are constantly exploring new ideas, new ways of being in the world. As we get older, we tend to figure out what it is we know and who it is we are. That knowing forms a filter that colors our experience. Stagnation is a peril of expertise." Jae Malone |
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The assumptions we hold about one another put us in little boxes that limit who we can be in each others eyes. Jae Malone |
A GIFT IS GIVEN, NOT EXCHANGED. My mother |
My life is my message. Mahatma Gandhi |
A lover has to be chosen from soul craving. Clarissa Pinkola Estes |
A psychotic drowns in the very same stuff a mystic swims in. Pema Chodron |
Control of mind is when the mind comes to a clear understanding of its total impotence. Swami Venkatesananda |
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Be a disciple - then you will see the whole universe as your guru. Swami Venkatesananda |
We sit at the feet of the master, not to hear his pearls of wisdom, but to watch him tie his shoes. Unknown |
You can teach a parrot to say, "Ram, Ram, Ram," but when a cat comes near, the bird starts screaming in his own language. Swami Jyotirmayananda |
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Pema Chodron quotes: Begin to develop curiosity, not caring whether the object of inquisitiveness is bitter or sweet. The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new. When things are properly understood, one's whole life is like a ritual or ceremony. If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient. Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves -- particularly with our poisons. Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully. Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us. We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves. We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time. Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found. |
To love means to stay with. Clarissa Pinkola Estes |
The sentence "I can see that I am false," contains all you need for liberation. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj |
To live leisurely means to take things one by one, to single them out for grateful celebration. David Steindl-Rast |
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Who can distinguish the giver from the receiver in the final kiss of gratitude? David Steindl-Rast |
And finally, remember: Even white light can't protect you from stupidity. |
Art by Fish |
From Ray Blanton (Radical Honesty) Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it. We will never be authentically angry or authentically fair while we are trying to be both at once. Freedom is about not being dominated by our own bullshit. When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth. |
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It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder. Rita Mae Brown |
One's words and ones thoughts must stand in the same place as one's body; otherwise, the mind is crooked and truth destroyed. Robert Awlor, Voices of the First Day |
We are strong when we stand with another soul. When we stand with one another, we cannot be broken. Clarissa Pinkola Estes |
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