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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
edited September 2021
“Love is a mystery, a visitor from the Beyond. Your whole life you have been against love. We train the mind from the very beginning, through school and university. But the mind wants nothing of which it cannot ask ‘why’.”
"The Tao is constant and one who seeks the Tao unlearns something new everyday. And by unlearning something everyday, the Taoist arrives at non-action"
~Lao Tzu~
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“It is only love that opens the door to prayer.”
— Osho
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“The easy way is the right way.”
— Bruce Lee
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”
― Bruce Lee
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
edited September 2021
“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.”
― Bruce Lee
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“If you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering.”
― Bruce Lee
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward you goal.”
― Bruce Lee
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“But if you are looking for the eternal, then be like the prudent merchant: sell all that you have got. Sell it and purchase the one, the one pearl of your inner being which cannot be drowned, which cannot be snatched away – because that pearl is you. You can possess only yourself, nothing else can be really possessed.”
Sometimes it takes a long time to learn how to feel like yourself.
Miles Davis
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him. For those who do not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the bodily world is dark and silent for a being without eyes and ears.”
― Rudolf Steiner
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“Belief is a lie, it is insincere. Belief means to hold something as true something without actually knowing that it is true.”
— Osho
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.”
― Joseph Campbell
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization. As he crosses threshold after threshold, conquering dragon after dragon, the stature of the divinity that he summons to his highest wish increases, until it subsumes the cosmos. Finally, the mind breaks the bounding sphere of the cosmos to a realization transcending all experiences of form - all symbolizations, all divinities: a realization of the ineluctable void.”
― Joseph Campbell
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“What the mushroom says is that for one human being to seek enlightenment from another is like one grain of sand on a beach seeking enlightenment from another.”
— Terence McKenna (a man much taken with talking to mushrooms)
Modern society is infatuated with wealth, power and youth; it advocates cleverness without wisdom and glorifies the superficial, the superfluous, and the coarse.
It exploits human vice and turns it into virtue, and assaults us with ceaseless advertising which promotes a culture of indulgence.
When lived with a mind steeped in the toxins of sensuality and pride, life becomes a hollow shell, empty of meaning and significance. Is it any wonder people are angry?
Householder Fo’en
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“You don’t need any goal, you are already perfect. You cannot be like Buddha or Christ, because god only creates unique individuals. God never repeats.”
— Osho
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“If you reject something, then you are trying to be wiser than God himself.”
"If you think you are, are you?"
Random drunk in a bar
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“Your misery is your creation, your bliss is your nature.”
— Osho
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
"Two years ago today, my son was murdered... ... I'm not the same person I was before.
...please value the lives of others. I believe that if we fully embrace empathy and express that through all of our actions in our daily lives, none of us could ever possibly engage in things that could endanger others because we just have too much love for our fellow humans.
Be kinder to each other, please. I beg you.
Brian, our Founder and Forum Giant.
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“The ego cannot exist without the dimension of perfection.”
"In our experience, we don't find a world in constant flux and change...Rather, we find only 'flux and change', which themselves are what we call the world"
~Science~ (Can't remember where I came across this)
Not a quote as such, but there's always room for Rumi...🙏🙏🙏
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones."
~Charlotte Bronte~
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
edited October 2021
“The mind operates in two dimensions; one is horizontal, and is all about 'more', always having or getting more. More money, more status. The other dimension is vertical, the spiritual. Sannyas is about retiring, giving up the horizontal movement. Just retire, retire every day anew to find freedom from the mind's demands for more."
"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes."
~Unknown~
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“It is the absolute in you that takes you to the absolute beyond you.”
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“When you realise that the distinction between inner and outer is in the mind only, you are no longer afraid.”
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“Peace, after all, is also a condition of the mind.”
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
@Jeroen said:
“Peace, after all, is also a condition of the mind.”
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
Isn't everything?
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“There are three hundred religions in the world. They are all different, but there is one thing that they have in common. That is the role of the priest as indispensable intermediary.”
— Osho
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
@Jeroen said:
“There are three hundred religions in the world. They are all different, but there is one thing that they have in common. That is the role of the priest as indispensable intermediary.”
— Osho
Not entirely accurate, as we can tell from your other thread...
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“Suicide is the greatest complaint against God. You are saying, you don’t like your life, God can have it back. How ungrateful you are.”
JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
— Apple
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
@Jeroen said:
“Suicide is the greatest complaint against God. You are saying, you don’t like your life, God can have it back. How ungrateful you are.”
— Osho
And for those who don't believe in God, it's a slap in the face to their mother...
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DavidA human residing in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Ancestral territory of the Erie, Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Mississauga and Neutral First NationsVeteran
When a fool hears of the Way, they laugh at it;
Yet, if the fool did not laugh at it, it would not be the way.
Indeed, if you are seeking the Way,
Listen for the laughter of fools.
DavidA human residing in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Ancestral territory of the Erie, Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Mississauga and Neutral First NationsVeteran
See others as yourself.
See families as your family.
See towns as your town.
See countries as your country.
See worlds as your world.
~Lao Tzu
"The happiness of your life, depends on the quality of your thoughts"
~Marcus Aurelius~
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DavidA human residing in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Ancestral territory of the Erie, Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Mississauga and Neutral First NationsVeteran
edited October 2021
"When we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey."
Comments
“Love is a mystery, a visitor from the Beyond. Your whole life you have been against love. We train the mind from the very beginning, through school and university. But the mind wants nothing of which it cannot ask ‘why’.”
— Osho
"The Tao is constant and one who seeks the Tao unlearns something new everyday.
And by unlearning something everyday, the Taoist arrives at non-action"
~Lao Tzu~
“It is only love that opens the door to prayer.”
— Osho
“The easy way is the right way.”
— Bruce Lee
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”
― Bruce Lee
“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.”
― Bruce Lee
“If you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering.”
― Bruce Lee
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward you goal.”
― Bruce Lee
“But if you are looking for the eternal, then be like the prudent merchant: sell all that you have got. Sell it and purchase the one, the one pearl of your inner being which cannot be drowned, which cannot be snatched away – because that pearl is you. You can possess only yourself, nothing else can be really possessed.”
— Osho
Sometimes it takes a long time to learn how to feel like yourself.
Miles Davis
“Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him. For those who do not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the bodily world is dark and silent for a being without eyes and ears.”
― Rudolf Steiner
“Belief is a lie, it is insincere. Belief means to hold something as true something without actually knowing that it is true.”
— Osho
“Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.”
― Joseph Campbell
“The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization. As he crosses threshold after threshold, conquering dragon after dragon, the stature of the divinity that he summons to his highest wish increases, until it subsumes the cosmos. Finally, the mind breaks the bounding sphere of the cosmos to a realization transcending all experiences of form - all symbolizations, all divinities: a realization of the ineluctable void.”
― Joseph Campbell
“What the mushroom says is that for one human being to seek enlightenment from another is like one grain of sand on a beach seeking enlightenment from another.”
— Terence McKenna (a man much taken with talking to mushrooms)
Modern society is infatuated with wealth, power and youth; it advocates cleverness without wisdom and glorifies the superficial, the superfluous, and the coarse.
It exploits human vice and turns it into virtue, and assaults us with ceaseless advertising which promotes a culture of indulgence.
When lived with a mind steeped in the toxins of sensuality and pride, life becomes a hollow shell, empty of meaning and significance. Is it any wonder people are angry?
Householder Fo’en
“You don’t need any goal, you are already perfect. You cannot be like Buddha or Christ, because god only creates unique individuals. God never repeats.”
— Osho
“If you reject something, then you are trying to be wiser than God himself.”
— Osho
Patience is a virtue
~William Langland~
"When you see reality, no illusions can confuse you;
when you develop stability, things cannot shake it or take it away."
~Unknown Taoist Master ...Ming Dynasty~
"If you think you are, are you?"
Random drunk in a bar
“Your misery is your creation, your bliss is your nature.”
— Osho
Brian, our Founder and Forum Giant.
“The ego cannot exist without the dimension of perfection.”
— Osho
"In our experience, we don't find a world in constant flux and change...Rather, we find only 'flux and change', which themselves are what we call the world"
~Science~ (Can't remember where I came across this)
Not a quote as such, but there's always room for Rumi...🙏🙏🙏
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
~Jalaluddin Rumi~
"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones."
~Charlotte Bronte~
“The mind operates in two dimensions; one is horizontal, and is all about 'more', always having or getting more. More money, more status. The other dimension is vertical, the spiritual. Sannyas is about retiring, giving up the horizontal movement. Just retire, retire every day anew to find freedom from the mind's demands for more."
"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes."
~Unknown~
“It is the absolute in you that takes you to the absolute beyond you.”
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
“When you realise that the distinction between inner and outer is in the mind only, you are no longer afraid.”
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Peace, after all, is also a condition of the mind.”
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
Isn't everything?
“There are three hundred religions in the world. They are all different, but there is one thing that they have in common. That is the role of the priest as indispensable intermediary.”
— Osho
Not entirely accurate, as we can tell from your other thread...
“Suicide is the greatest complaint against God. You are saying, you don’t like your life, God can have it back. How ungrateful you are.”
— Osho
" It ain't over till its over."
Yogi Bera
“Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
— Apple
And for those who don't believe in God, it's a slap in the face to their mother...
When a fool hears of the Way, they laugh at it;
Yet, if the fool did not laugh at it, it would not be the way.
Indeed, if you are seeking the Way,
Listen for the laughter of fools.
Lao Tzu
See others as yourself.
See families as your family.
See towns as your town.
See countries as your country.
See worlds as your world.
~Lao Tzu
"The happiness of your life, depends on the quality of your thoughts"
~Marcus Aurelius~
"When we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey."
-Wendell Berry
“Without freedom of speech, we wouldn’t know who the idiots are”
~Unknown~
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves"
~Carl Jung~
"Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow."
"Listen or your tongue will make you deaf"
~First Nation Proverb~
"Why me?" The last draftees in the US.