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All war is deception. Sun Tzu

-Osho This we know: All things are connected like the blood that unites us. We did not weave the web of life, We are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.

Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from

finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.

Bash, Narrow Road to the Interior

To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance, and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment or the guidance of others, by expressing in the world of forms- truth, love, purity and beauty - this is the sole game which has any intrinsic and absolute worth. All other happenings, incidents and attainments can, in themselves, have no lasting importance.

-Bob Marley What is in one is in the whole, and therefore, ultimately, Each soul is responsible for the whole world.

-Gary Zukav When you know that you are eternal you can play your true role in time. When you know you are divine you can become completely human. When you know you are one with God you are free to become absolutely yourself ...

Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There's an ocean inside you, and when you're

ready you'll drink. It is eternity now; I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it, as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is immortal life.

Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.

-Black Elk, Oglala Sioux

The unexamined life is not worth living.We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

-don Juan Matus

as quoted by Carlos Castaneda

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. The ego will not go with laughter or caresses.

It must be chased in sorrow and drowned in tears.

-The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.

-Carl Jung Sound when stretched is music.

Movement when stretched is dance.

Mind when stretched is meditation.

Life when stretched is celebration.

The soul is a breath of living spirit, that with excellent sensitivity, permeates the entire body to give it life. Just so, the breath of the air makes the earth fruitful. Thus the air is the soul of the earth, moistening it, greening it.

Only the dead can die, not the living. That which is alive in you is immortal.

Only those who partake of the harmony within their souls know the harmony that runs through nature.

Peace originates with the flow of

things-- its heart is like the movement of

the wind and waves. The Way is like the

veins that circulate blood through our

bodies, following the natural flow of the

life force. If you are separated in the

slightest from that divine essence, you

are far off the path.

-Morihei Ueshiba

-Helen Keller

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

-Benjamin Disreali Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it. Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly from the Absolute."

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

He who knows others

is clever; He who

knows himself is enlightened.

We must never cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.

I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

There are only two ways to live your life.

One is as though nothing is a miracle.

The other is as if everything is.

-Albert Einstein

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Who was born first, you or the world? As long as you give first place to the world, you are bound by it; once you realize, beyond all trace of doubt, that the world is in you and not you in the world, you are out of it. Of course your body remains in the world and of the world, but you are not deluded by it.

How do I know about the world? By what is within me.

Man cannot discover new oceans

until he has courage

to lose sight

of the shore.

-unknown You are not a soul,

you are not a mind,

you are not a body.

You are the controller of all three.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

Whatever we lose

(like a you or a me)

it's always ourselves

we find in the sea.

It is still up to you to choose

to join with truth or with illusion.

But remember that to choose one

is to let go of the other.

-A Course In Miracles

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

Your mind should be in harmony with the functioning of the universe; your body should be in tune with the movement of the universe; body and mind should be bound as one, unified with the activity of the universe.

-John C Lehman I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

-Kathe Kollwitz

We do not live life.

Life lives us.

u are me, and I am you.

Isn't it obvious that we "inter-are"?

You cultivate the flower in yourself,

so that I will be beautiful.

I transform the garbage in myself,

so that you will not have to suffer.

We cannot teach people anything;

we can only help them discover it

within themselves.

-Galileo Galilei

Not being known doesn't stop the truth

from being true.

-Richard Bach Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.

-Nisargadatta Maharaj

-Vincent Van Gogh

When true self-remembering comes, one does not want to alter oneself, or others; one somehow rises above their weaknesses and one's own. There can be no blame anywhere. One swallows what is, and becomes free.

-Rodney Collin When we think we're separate, we lose power. Whenever I say 'my,' I have lost power. Power is not my power . . . It is only gainable as a part of the larger whole. Then you communicate with the rest of yourself -- which may be a tree. You, reciprocally, are moved by the universe. Whenever you shut down connectedness, you get depressed . . . It's fearful to know we're connected to everything in the universe, because then we're responsible.

-Glenda Taylor

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.

-Blaise Pascal We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

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-Osho

-Navajo Proverb Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the Horizon as the end of the ocean.

-David Searls Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

-Jimi Hendrix The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

To see the world in a grain of sand

and heaven in a wildflower

hold infinity

in the palm of your hand

and eternity in an hour.

-William Blake Joy is not in things.

It is in us.

-Richard Wagner Whenever you want to produce something,

do not depend upon the outside source:

go deep and seek the Infinite Source.

-Paramahansa Yogananda

to be yourself-

in a world which is doing its best

night and day

to make you everybody else-

means to fight the hardest battle

which any human being can fight

and never stop fighting.

-ee cummings

-Eudora Welty

When one tugs at a

single thing in nature,

he finds it attached

to the rest of the world.

-John Muir Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

-Francois De La Rochefoucauld It is only with the heart one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won't greet twice.

-Kabir We are not bodies with souls. But souls with bodies.

-Kevin R. Bean

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.

-Richard Bach I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

-Chuang Tzu

To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not feeling; it is a different state of consciousness. -Ouspensky The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that

supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The

world is in you and can become known in you, as you.

-Jean Klein Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

All the true things must change and only that which changes remains true. -Carl Jung RiverKnowledge Poetry Quotes Archive ArtCorner MedicineCards TeachingStories NatureAsMetaphor WordsofWisdom Contact

Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea,

Past the houses - past the headlands Into deep Eternity.

-Emily Dickinson Pain is illusion;

joy, reality.

Pain is but sleep;

joy is awakening.

Pain is deception;

joy alone is truth.

And so again we make

the only choice that ever can be made;

we choose between illusions and truth,

or pain and joy,

or hell and Heaven.

-A Course In Miracles

Life is a mystery, which means your thinking mind cannot make sense out of it. For that you've got to wake up and then you'll suddenly realize that reality is not problematic, you are the problem.

-Anthony de mello God has no religion.

-Gandhi Everything is simple --reality is simple. It seems complex only because of ignorance; otherwise everything is simple. Once you know it, it becomes simple. The knowing is bound to be difficult not because of reality, remember, but because of your mind.

-Osho The wind cannot shake a mountain.

Neither praise nor blame moves a wise man.

-Buddha In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

-Eckhart Tolle Love says "I am everything". Wisdom says "I am nothing". Between the two, my life flows.

-Nisargadatta Maharaj As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves

and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.

-Huston Smith

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun's out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within.

-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown.

-Elizabeth Kubler Ross Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

-Vernon Howard The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

-Marcel Proust There is in all visible things...a hidden wholeness.

-Thomas Merton One common mistake is to think that one reality is THE reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.

-Mother Meera It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

-e.e. cummings

The real does not die, the unreal never lived. Set your mind right and all will be right. When you know that the world is one, that humanity is one, you will act accordingly. But first of all you must attend to the way you feel, think and live. Unless there is order in yourself, there can be no order in the world.

-Nisargadatta Maharaj Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.

-Meher Baba Do not insist that the universe comply with your understanding of it.

-Gary Zukav When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable...

-Osho The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.

-ee cummings Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.

-Lao Tzu What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

-Oliver Wendall Holmes You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.

-Richard Bach There is nothing either bad or good, but thinking makes it so.

-William Shakespeare

Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present.

-Eckhart Tolle Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

-Marcus Tullius Cicero Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

-Carl Jung

"...Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

-Osho

For the mind to flower it has to go beyond what it knows.

-Mother Meera Divider bar from Brushstrokes by Brownielocks

The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic is more important than love; mind is more important than heart; power over others is more important than power over one's own being. Mundane things are more important than finding some treasures which death cannot destroy.

-Osho

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat

match the beat of the universe,

to match your nature with Nature.

-Joseph Campbell As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves.

-Mohandas K. Gandhi Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

-Sir Cecil Beaton The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.

-Mary Brave Bird It is easy to live for others. Everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is "look under foot."

You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

-John Burroughs Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

-Chuang Tzu Absorbed in this world, you've made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to your Self. Are you searching for your Soul? Then come out of your prision.

Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the Ocean. It will not lead you astray. Let the beauty you seek be what you do.

-Rumi You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

-Hafiz

Wanderer, your footsteps are

the road, and nothing more;

wanderer, there is no road,

the road is made by walking.

By walking one makes the road,

and upon glancing behind

one sees the path. . .

-Antonio Machado

It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self.

The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can

The no-mind not-thinks no-thoughts about no-things.

-Buddha Our Task must be to free ourselves...

by widening our circle of compassion

to embrace all living creatures,

the whole of nature, and its beauty.

-Albert Einstein

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

-Horace Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about the present event, which the previous, or the coming do not have. There is livingness about it, an actuality; it stands out as if illumined. There is the "stamp of reality" on the actual, which the past and future do not have.

-Nisargadatta Maharaj The place to improve the world

is first in one's own heart and head

and hands.

-Robert M. Persig

May the outward and inward man be at one.

-Socrates Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep?

The source is within you

And this whole world is springing up from it.

-Rumi

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. -Doug Floyd

What I really enjoy is not you; it's something that's greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered, a kind of symphony, a kind of orchestra that plays one melody in your presence, but when you depart, the orchestra doesn't stop. When I meet someone else, it plays another melody, which is also very delightful. And when I'm alone, it continues to play.

-Anthony de Mello

What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.

-Kahlil Gibran The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart. I shut my eyes in order to see.

-Paul Gaugin
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. Sun Tzu If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Sun Tzu Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories. Sun Tzu Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster. Sun Tzu Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge. Sun Tzu Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations. Sun Tzu Sun Tzu Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. Sun Tzu Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared. Sun Tzu Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. Sun Tzu Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. Sun Tzu

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. Sun Tzu The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. Sun Tzu

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. Sun Tzu The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. Sun Tzu The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. Sun Tzu The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. Sun Tzu The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. Sun Tzu The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. Sun Tzu The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Sun Tzu There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited. Sun Tzu