Everyone post some favorite quotes!

[Marblehead]

"We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves." - Confucius

[blue eyed snake]

"Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of pain that was entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, each one of us is part of her heart, and therefore endowed with a certain measure of cosmic pain. You are sharing in the totality of that pain. You are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self-pity."

 

( found somewhere on the www)

[OldDog]

"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."

- Heisenberg

 

[Taomeow]

"The most spectacular peacock tail covers up an ordinary chicken asshole.  Don't be too pompous, gentlemen."

   -- Faina Ranevskaya 

[Marblehead]

"If I have seen further [than certain other men] it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton

[七星門]

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." 

 

Churchill

[neti neti]

~Michael Jackson (1958-2009)

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“Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists.  I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become the victor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing then it is the eternal dance or creation. The creator and creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing...and dancing...and dancing. Until there is only...the dance.”

 

 

Edited February 28, 2018 by neti neti

[Marblehead]

What can I say here without being disrespectful?  I love the quote.  It indicates that the man knew what was important in his life.  Sad that he kept returning to his messed up material life.

 

[redcairo]

As I get old I realize that there are a lot of people who are stupendously amazing people, but have some weakness -- which is just as powerful as the other qualities.

 

That saying, that "when the divine light shines through you, it highlights ALL your patterns, not just the good ones" seem apropo.

 

RC

[Starjumper]

These are the last desperate days for liberal-socialist-NWO dominance. Naturally those without enough sense to jump ship, harken to the death squeals of these bitter idiots.

[七星門]

Sounds like he experienced insight but didn't hold onto it. 

 

“Wear the world as a loose garment, which touches us in a few places and there lightly.” St. Francis of Assisi

[phil]

On happiness 

 

Spoiler

“Now, happiness comes from feeling within yourself the wonder and the joy that is within yourself, and there is no other way in any world of experiencing happiness.

You cannot expect a lover to give it to you, you cannot expect a child to give it to you, you cannot expect events to give it to you.

It is yours by right if you claim it, and if you do not claim it, or if you turn your back upon it, then it seems to you that you must look for it in others or that others are always happier than you are.

Now, and all of you know what I am going to say, the tiniest cell within your tiniest toe is happy. Feel its happiness. Feel the vitality that is your self as it always pervades your being. It is within you now, keeping you alive and sitting there so pert and pretty, so acknowledge it and listen and feel within yourself for that life energy that is always within you.

Look at a leaf or at a teaspoon or at one of your children or simply at a shadow and feel the miraculous uniqueness of what you see, and the miracle of the eyes that allow you to see it and the power of the brain that is able to make these connections, and then the happiness rides up through your being and you wonder how it was that you did not see it before.

But money will not make you happy, and alone, love from another will not make you happy.

But love of yourself will, and it will lead to happiness for yourself and for others.”

Seth – ESP Class June 13, 1972

 

[Marblehead]

"Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales." - Byron J. Langenfeld

[neti neti]

"Worry not, short-lived one... your fears are as useful as those of an ant astride a leaf perched atop a tidal wave." ~Zaleskar

[七星門]

"I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me." 

 

Hermann Hesse

[moment]

1 hour ago, 七星門 said:

"I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me." 

 

Hermann Hesse

 

Thank you.  That really hits home for me.  I have never told anyone this before but, sometimes when I was doing vigorous moving meditations in the woods, I would stop for a minute and hear my blood whisper to me.  It was like generations before me and more were there.  Again, I thank you for reminding me.

[redcairo]

4 hours ago, moment said:

Thank you.  That really hits home for me.  I have never told anyone this before but, sometimes when I was doing vigorous moving meditations in the woods, I would stop for a minute and hear my blood whisper to me.  It was like generations before me and more were there.  Again, I thank you for reminding me.

 

That's awesome.

 

Couple of decades ago, I was a week from giving birth to my daughter. My mom had died when I was 9 -- as did her mother, my grandmother -- and I was living literally in the opposing corner of the USA from my father and stepmother, and didn't know anyone else in the families, so I felt like I had nobody.

 

But every night for nearly a week, I dreamed so intensely. It actually started with some woman I didn't know. She told me she was my ancestor (in my mother's line). And I met woman after woman, who would share with me ('perspective/understanding') about what part of her was reflected in me, and what part of her would be reflected in my daughter, soon to be born.

 

Eventually this got close enough in line to be my great grandmother, whom I had briefly met when very young, and then my grandmother.  I had lived with my grandmother a couple of times, once with my parents and once without. I loved her, but always felt that she was kind of disapproving of me, of my behavior or whatever. She was a typical grandma, always at home, knitted and crochet'd very well, lots of things for me. Due to location/travel I only remembered being around her for awhile at age 5, and then again briefly at age 8.

 

I was shocked that grandma said that the esoteric experiences I'd had through my life, and the drive intellectually toward science, and the dichotomy of these two worlds of self and trying to find blend and balance in them, I'd gotten from her -- and that these are issues she dealt with throughout her life as well. Even in the dream I was nearly agog over that. I'd never seen the slightest indication of even local church spirituality, never mind deep metaphysics, from anybody in the family including her! Maybe especially her, since she always seemed like the practical, slightly disapproving one, in my recall. Nor had I seen any interest in science... she was the making pot roast, knitting ponchos kind of grandma, that was all I knew of her.

 

I got some time with my mother, which was beautiful, but I remember none of. Anyway, it was clear at the time of the dreams, that this was "in my blood" -- that this was a genetic thing, but that the genetics are not just dead information, they are living geometry and the 'awareness' innate to that. Which lives in us. And in some cases of active gene expression, also through us.

 

Much later, after all this had passed and I had a daughter, I was talking to my father on the telephone. I said, right before I gave birth, I had these great dreams about a whole line of female ancestry. In the dream, grandma was very different than I recall her. More interesting, you might say!

 

He says something like, "Actually, your grandmother really was an interesting woman. Very intelligent. She was a psychiatric technician at the state mental hospital for 25 years. She retired when you were three or four years old."

 

I had no idea that grandma was a psych tech for 25 years! Or that she'd ever had any job! She retired before I was old enough to remember apparently. That actually put a whole new spin on how I thought of her.

 

Until that experience the week before having my daughter, I'd never thought much about the eastern 'ancestry' focus. And I've known so little of my family -- and I am so many nationality-sources it's ridiculous -- family and genetics just never seemed any focus to me. That changed my mind about it though. And it was good timing, because it shifted my mental state from the terror I had about giving birth -- I mostly expected to die in the experience, I was having some issues, and I thought that I had mostly come to terms with that and accepted it -- but my fear of the expected pain etc. was still a problem.

 

But after that week of nightly visits, I felt calm. I felt like I was just one in a line of women who had been doing this since the dawn of time, and it was going to be fine. By the time I went into labor, I was at peace. :-)

 

RC

[blue eyed snake]

If one person calls you a horse, ignore them.
If two people call you a horse, look in a mirror
If five people call you a horse, you may want to buy yourself a saddle.

―Hungarian Proverb

[Marblehead]

"Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him." – Aldous Huxley

[CloudHands]

On 12/03/2018 at 1:19 PM, blue eyed snake said:

If one person calls you a horse, ignore them.
If two people call you a horse, look in a mirror
If five people call you a horse, you may want to buy yourself a saddle.

―Hungarian Proverb

 

I love it. Thanks

[七星門]

"It seems that nothing exists for the modern men beyond what can be seen and touched; or at least, even if they admit theoretically that something more may exist, they immediately declare it not merely unknown but unknowable, which absolves them from having to think about it." Rene Guenon, Crisis of the Modern World. 

[Marblehead]

But then, I would doubt the person who suggests the Great Pumpkin is real.

 

[七星門]

3 hours ago, Marblehead said:

But then, I would doubt the person who suggests the Great Pumpkin is real.

 

 

Gasp! Blaspheming the Great Gourd Gods! 

[redcairo]

" Listen, you daft trout. ..."

 

That is totally my new favorite-insult-ever.

 

(Katie Hopkins, on Twitter)

 

Maybe it's common in Britain but I never heard it before and I cracked up!

[redcairo]

From bondage to spiritual faith;

From spiritual faith to great courage;

From courage to liberty;

From liberty to abundance;

From abundance to complacency;

From complacency to apathy;

From apathy to dependence;

From dependence back into bondage