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Old 07-21-2009, 10:08 PM   #26
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Discernment is the quality of detached observation,

free from emotional needs.


~ Sri Ram Kaa


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This quotation brought to my mind the term "Recognition" that Leonard Laskow uses in the book Healing with Love. The fact that we can begin to heal our past hurts by calmly knowing what happened. Simply recognizing the truth.
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Old 07-22-2009, 12:20 PM   #27
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In each moment we have the potential to be present, or to miss it. If we miss the moment, we never get it back, and when it happened we were essentially dead. Along the journey of evolution, we seemed to picked up the habit of not living in the moment, spending time either in the past, as memories, or in the future, as planning.

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Old 07-22-2009, 03:20 PM   #28
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In each moment we have the potential to be present, or to miss it. If we miss the moment, we never get it back, and when it happened we were essentially dead. Along the journey of evolution, we seemed to picked up the habit of not living in the moment, spending time either in the past, as memories, or in the future, as planning.

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And it is often so hard to focus on the present...it is something that must be learned and then practiced.
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Old 07-23-2009, 09:45 PM   #29
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.

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Old 07-24-2009, 02:51 AM   #30
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"He who wears fig leaves should not dance with hungry goats"

Jim Carey - In Living Colour doing a sketch on religious sects in court. For some reason that just cracks me up. I though some light humour would be nice!

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Old 07-24-2009, 04:39 AM   #31
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"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

-Gahndi
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Old 07-24-2009, 05:34 AM   #32
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And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
- Nelson Mandela


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Old 07-24-2009, 01:17 PM   #33
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Your possessions possess you.

~ Sri Swami Sai Premananda

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Old 07-24-2009, 01:19 PM   #34
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Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess?
You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is,
just as you are responsible for the planet.
As within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution,
then they will also cease to create outer pollution.


~ Eckhart Tolle


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Old 07-24-2009, 01:23 PM   #35
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If you want to make someone happy, practice compassion.
If you want to make yourself happy, practice compassion.


~ Dalai Lama

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Old 07-24-2009, 01:25 PM   #36
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It is the enemy who can truely teach us to practice
the virtues of compassion and tolerance.


~ Dalai Lama


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Old 07-24-2009, 01:43 PM   #37
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"Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye"

Bill Hicks
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Old 07-24-2009, 02:26 PM   #38
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One must be very diligent in watching the ego's use of
the mask of spirituality to manoeuvre its self-serving
intentions-narcissism, financial, emotional, and
psychological fulfillment.


~ Sri Swami Sai Premananda

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Old 07-25-2009, 09:39 AM   #39
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"Victory over oneself is the greatest of victories."

Plato

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Old 07-26-2009, 07:10 AM   #40
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Confused by thoughts,
we experience duality in life.
Unencumbered by ideas,
the enlightened see the one Reality.


- Hui - Neng
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Old 07-26-2009, 07:12 AM   #41
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When the mind is always moving, you travel
from one hell to the next hell.



- Bodhidharma
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Old 07-26-2009, 07:13 AM   #42
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If you use your mind to try and understand reality.
you will understand neither your mind nor reality.
If you try and understand reality without using your mind.
you will understand both your mind and reality.


- Bodhidharma


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Old 07-26-2009, 07:20 AM   #43
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People are scared to empty their minds
fearing that they will be engulfed by the void.
What they don’t realize is that
their own mind is the void.


- Huang Po
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Old 07-26-2009, 07:30 AM   #44
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I shall not fear, fear is the mind killer.
Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.
I shall face my fear.
I shall allow it to pass over me and through me.
When it is gone, only I shall remain.

-Frank Herbert
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Old 07-26-2009, 12:55 PM   #45
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
It makes the hand bleed that uses it.


- Rabindranath Tagore
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Old 07-28-2009, 10:53 AM   #46
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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart,
the less capable you are of loving in the present.



- Barbara De Angelis
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Old 07-28-2009, 11:00 AM   #47
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The soul's first adventure is the fight between two ideas:
the wish to return to earth in a human form,
and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.

- Paramahansa Yogananda
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Old 07-28-2009, 12:02 PM   #48
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Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.

- Albert Einstein
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Old 08-06-2009, 09:39 AM   #49
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Attachment comes from a perception of lack - all comes from fear.

- Yvette Soler
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Old 08-06-2009, 09:42 AM   #50
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Being attached is what prevents us from seeing,

it is what clouds this miraculous awareness.

- Geoffrey Shugen Arnold
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