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Post by Marius Morningstar on Aug 3, 2005 23:26:08 GMT -5
The early bird catches the worm; and the twelve- year-old prostitute attracts the ambassador. Neglect not the dawn-meditation!
The first plovers' eggs fetch the highest prices; the flower of virginity is esteemed by the pandar. Neglect not the dawn-meditation!
Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise: But late to watch and early to pray Brings him across The Abyss, they say. Neglect not the dawn-meditation!
--Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies
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Post by aiyanna on Sept 3, 2005 22:41:10 GMT -5
They say it is to know union with love That the soul takes union with the body.
Love makes a man affectionate toward all, And affection affords the priceless treasure of friendship.
They say love's greatness is this: it yields to good families Worldly happiness here and heavenly bliss there.
-Tirukkural 8:72-74
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Post by aiyanna on Sept 7, 2005 19:08:29 GMT -5
Earth, sky, worlds above, quarters and their halves; Fire, air, sun, moon, and stars; water, herbs, trees, Space, and entity are the elements. Eye, ear, mind, tongue, and touch; skin, flesh, muscle. Marrow, and skeleton; and the five Vital forces constitute the body. The sage, contemplating these sets of five, Discovered that everything is holy. Man can complete the inner with the outer. -Taittiriya Upanishad From The Upanishads, translated by Eknath Easwaran, copyright 1987. Reprinted with permission from Nilgiri Press, www.nilgiri.org. To order the book, please call 1-800-475-2369.
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Post by aiyanna on Sept 7, 2005 19:09:20 GMT -5
"Where, for instance, is the identity of myself? There's a special quality that makes me different from everything else and also from all other selves. And I want that identity, my own self, to continue. So where does that identity dwell?" "Where indeed?" asked the Buddha. "That self to which you cling is in constant change. Years ago you were a baby, then a youth, and now a man. Which is your true self—that of yesterday, that of today, or that of tomorrow which you so long to preserve?" "I see I have misunderstood things," replied Kutadanta slowly, "and although I find it hard to endure the light, the truth now dawns on me that there is no separate and enduring self. I will take my refuge in your teaching and find that which is continuing and everlasting in the truth." -Majjhima Nikaya From "The Pocket Buddha Reader," edited by Anne Bancroft, 2001. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Boston, www.shambhala.com.
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Post by aiyanna on Sept 12, 2005 22:20:31 GMT -5
Be happy! For you are joy, unbounded joy. You are awareness itself. Just as a coil of rope Is mistaken for a snake, So you are mistaken for the world. -Ashtavakra Gita 1:10 From "The Heart of Awareness: A Translation of the Ashtavakra Gita," by Thomas Byrom, 1990. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston. www.shambhala.com.
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Post by aiyanna on Sept 12, 2005 22:21:16 GMT -5
Arouse your will, supreme and great, Practice love, give joy and protection; Let your giving be like space, Without discrimination or limitation. Do good things, not for your own sake But for all the beings in the universe; Save and make free everyone you encounter, Help them attain the wisdom of the way. -Prajnaparamita From "The Pocket Buddha Reader," edited by Anne Bancroft, 2001. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Boston, www.shambhala.com.
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Post by aiyanna on Jan 15, 2006 0:00:59 GMT -5
God is Consciousness that pervades the entire universe of the living and the non-living.
-Ramakrishna Reprinted with permission from "The Wisdom of the Hindu Gurus," edited by Timothy Freke, published by Godsfield Press. The book can be purchased online through Amazon.
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