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Old 04-05-2005, 05:58 PM   #101 (permalink)
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A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something 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 to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.
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Old 04-09-2005, 05:46 AM   #102 (permalink)
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Old 04-09-2005, 07:35 AM   #103 (permalink)
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Religion.-is the worship of God.
Spirituality-is the living in God,s Will.
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Old 04-10-2005, 07:02 AM   #104 (permalink)
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Old 04-11-2005, 07:01 AM   #105 (permalink)
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Old 04-12-2005, 09:17 AM   #106 (permalink)
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Without drinking we can have a thousand different experiences; with drinking we can have the same experience a thousand times.
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Old 04-12-2005, 05:56 PM   #107 (permalink)
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We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
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Old 04-13-2005, 12:38 PM   #108 (permalink)
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Old 04-13-2005, 04:37 PM   #109 (permalink)
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Old 04-15-2005, 11:34 AM   #110 (permalink)
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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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Old 04-15-2005, 06:29 PM   #111 (permalink)
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It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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Old 04-15-2005, 08:39 PM   #112 (permalink)
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"Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain."

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The reason angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly.
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Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
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Old 04-17-2005, 07:22 AM   #114 (permalink)
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Old 04-17-2005, 04:21 PM   #117 (permalink)
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?” Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

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If God brings you to it
He will bring you through it
Happy moments,praise God
Difficult moments,seek God
Quiet moments,worship God
Painful moments,trust God
Every moment,thank God.
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Old 04-18-2005, 11:46 AM   #119 (permalink)
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Each human being has the eternal duty of transforming what is hard and brutal into a subtle and tender offering, what is crude into refinement, what is ugly into beauty, ignorance into knowledge, confrontation into collaboration, thereby rediscovering the child's dream of a creative reality incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life the servant of love.
~Yehudi Menuhin.
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People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.
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Soul receives from soul that knowledge,
therefore not by book nor from tongue.

If knowledge of mysteries come after
emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.

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Not the God of names
Not the God of don’ts,
Not the God who ever does
Anything weird,
But the God who only knows four words
And keeps repeating them, saying:

Come dance with me....
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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. [He was speaking of Quantum Mechanics and the breaking down of determinism.] My religiosity consists in a humble admiratation of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance -- but for us, not for God
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