NAMASTE 2011 The spirit in me honours the spirit in you

The Inner Journey of the Soul

“The spirit in me
 honours the spirit in you”

“Namaste” -  a Himalayan
(Nepalese) greeting





"Mind matters most"

~ Buddha





"Mind precedes all phenomena,
 Mind matters most,
 Everything is mind-made."

~ Buddha





"Whatever you react to
 keeps reappearing in your life
 until you no longer react to it."

~ Robert Adams





"You have to know nothing
 before you can know anything ."

~ Robert Adams






"When we want to change the situation,
 we keep recreating the same situation
 so we can change it"

 ~ Hale Dwoskin






"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance.
 Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back,
 and choose the path that leads to wisdom."

 ~ Buddha






"The Ten Thousand Voices,
 Owned or Disowned.
 Big Mind, and Big Heart"

~ Genpo Merzel






"Nothing is either good or bad,
 but the mind makes it so."

 ~ Shakespeare






"He who achieves rest
 within this cosmic circular movement
 of the world, I call religious.

 He is religious who knows
 that universal forces are at work
 and there is no hurry --
 that his hurry is of no use.

 If we can only be one
 with the universal harmony,
 it is enough -- and it is blissful"

 ~ Osho






 "Events happen,
  deeds are done,
  but there is no
  individual doer thereof"

  ~ Buddha





 "All disciplines are fixations:
  discipline excludes everything,
  except the one thing that one
  wishes to concentrate upon.

  ~ Jean klein





 "The biggest challenge for most spiritual seekers
  is to surrender their self importance, and see
  the emptiness of their own personal story.

  It is your personal story that you need
  to awaken from in order to be free. "

  ~ Adyashanti






  "Without your memory,
   without your experiences,
   the `you' is not."

   ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti






 "Why are you unhappy?

  Because 99.9 per cent of everything you think,
  and of everything you do, is for yourself.

  And there isn't one."

  ~ Wei Wu Wei





 "What is the ego?
  The ego is the I-thought.
  This I is only a thought.
  The I does not exist.
  Therefore the ego does not exist."

  ~ Robert Adams





 "Give up the idea of being
  what you think yourself to be"

  ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj






  "There are many persons who have
   a great attachment to their own individuality.

   They want first and foremost
   to remain as an individual
   and then search,
   for they are not prepared
   to lose that individuality.

   While retaining their identity,
   they want to find out
   what is the truth.

   But in this process,
   you must get rid
   of the identity itself.

   If you really find out
   what you are, you will see
   that you are not an individual,
   you are not a person,
   you are not a body.

   And people who cling
   to their body identity
   are not fit for this knowledge."

   ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj





   "The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas...
    (However) names and concepts only block
    your perception of this Great Oneness.

    Therefore it is wise to ignore them.

    Those who live inside their egos
    are continually bewildered."

    ~ Lao-Tzu





   "As long as we are unwilling
    to own our own inner flaws
    we will never be willing
    to accept the flaws of others"

    ~ CMS





  "God and I in space alone
   And nobody else in view.

  "And where are the people, O Lord," I said,
  "The earth below, and the sky o'er head,
   And the dead whom once I knew?"

  "That was a dream," God smiled and said -
  "A dream that seemed to be true.
   There were no people, living or dead,
   There was no earth, and no sky o'erhead;
   There was only Myself--in you."

  "Why do I feel no fear," I asked,
  "Meeting You here this way?
   For I have sinned I know full well?
   And is there heaven, and is there hell,
   And is this the judgment day?"

  "Say, those were but dreams," the Great God said,
  "Dreams, that have ceased to be.
   There are no such things as fear or sin,
   There is no you--you never have been -
   There is nothing at all but ME."

   ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox's,  poem: Illusion






  "When you take yourself for somebody,
   all relationships are from object to object,
   man to woman, mother to son, personality to personality.
   And there is no communication,
   no possibility for love."

   ~ Jean klein






  "For those who believe
   no proof is necessary.
   For those who dont believe
   no proof is possible."






 "The underlying premise of a spiritual partnership
  is a sacred commitment between the partners
  to assist each other’s spiritual growth.
  Spiritual partners recognise their equality.
  Spiritual partners are able to distinguish
  personality from soul ...
  because spiritual partners are able to see clearly
  that there is indeed a deeper reason
  why they are together,
  and that reason has a great deal to do
  with the evolution of their souls.

  ~ Gary Zukav, ‘The Seat of the Soul’








   "Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty,
    and Beauty is loved because it is Being.

    We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being;
    ugliness is in going over to another order;
    knowing ourselves, we are beautiful;
    in self-ignorance, we are ugly."

    ~ Plotinus (205-270 CE.)






	There are 4 yogas:
	Being, feeling, knowing, doing.

	The yoga of being is stillness,
	of feeling is love,
	of knowing is understanding,
	of doing is service

	~ Deepak Chopra






  "Knowing is not enough, you must apply;
   willing is not enough, you must do."

   ~ Bruce Lee






   "The embodied (Soul) who has controlled his nature
	having renounced all actions by the mind
	dwells at ease in the City of Nine Gates,
	neither working nor causing work to be done.

	~ Bhagvad Gita 5:13







	"Be kind, for everyone you meet
	 is fighting a hard battle."

	 ~ Plato






	"Wise men speak because they have something to say;
 	 Fools because they have to say something.

 	 ~ Plato





	"The penalty good men pay for indifference
	 to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

	 ~ Plato





	"Good actions give strength to ourselves
	 and inspire good actions in others.

	 ~ Plato






	Namaste

	The spirit in me
	Honours the spirit in you.







	Plato's One Spirit Soul






	"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress
	 can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

	 ~ Mahatma Gandhi.






	"Awakening starts when you notice that you notice."

	 ~ Deepak Chopra






	"Infinity cannot be grasped in finite language."

	 ~ Deepak Chopra








	"I find hope in the darkest of days,
	 and focus in the brightest.
	 I do not judge the universe."

	 ~ Dalai Lama






	"The two most abundant things in the Universe
	 are hydrogen & stupidity"

	 ~ Albert Einstein






    "Since the (vital) fire called Kundalini flames upwards,
     and the moon, namely intellect, flows downwards,
     the Supreme Self, the Sun Consciousness,
     who is the (one) Source of both,
     dwells between them in the Heart.

     ~ Guru Ramana Vachana Mala, 93







   "What, you ask, was the beginning of it all?

    And it is this ...
    Existence that multiplied itself
    for sheer delight of being
    and plunged into numberless trillions of forms
    so that it might find itself innumerably."

    ~ Sri Aurobindo











 

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