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NAMASTE
2013The spirit in me
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“The spirit in me
honours the spirit in you”
“Namaste” - a Himalayan
(Nepalese) greeting
"Mind matters most"
~ Buddha
"It is man's duty to follow his daimon,
which reflects the cosmic will.
This requires us to love humanity in general
and to act altruistically"
~ Marcus Aurelius
"A daemon is assigned to every man
At birth, to be the leader of his life".
~ Menander, via Ammianus Marcellinus
"We should think of the most authoritative part of the Soul
as a Guardian given by God which lifts us to our heavenly home."
~ Plato
“Although it appears as if each person
has their own Daïmon or Higher Self,
the enlightened initiate discovers that
actually on the axial Pole of Being
there is one Daïmon shared by all,
a universal Self, which inhabits every being.
Each Soul is a part of the one Soul of God.
To know oneself therefore is to know God."
~ Valentinus
"Nevertheless he has placed by every man a guardian,
every man's Daimon, to whom he has committed the care of the man,
a guardian who never sleeps, is never deceived.
For to what better and more careful guardian could He have entrusted each of us?
When, then, you have shut the doors and made darkness within,
remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not;
but God is within, and your Daimon is within, and what need
have they of light to see what you are doing?
To this God you ought to swear an oath just as the soldiers do to Caesar. .....
~ Epictetus
"To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy…
is to set our own conditions to the events of each day.
To do this is to condition circumstances
instead of being conditioned by them.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"And yet, remember, Arjuna, that the Spirit (Purusha energy)
dwelling in the individual body as Atma is truly Brahman, the Godhead.
This Supreme Being is spoken of as the following:
the Observer who watches and referees the game of life,
the Approver who permits it all to happen,
the Supporter who helps it all to happen,
the Enjoyer who experiences it all with gusto but knows it is a game,
and most important,
the Master who holds complete dominion over all the events
though being unafected by all of them"
~ GITA, 13.22 (Jack Hawley) p.122
"God is near you, he is with you, he is within you.
This is what I mean, Lucilius:
a holy spirit indwells within us,
one who marks our good and bad deeds,
and is our guardian.
As we treat this spirit, so are we treated by it.
Indeed, no man can be good without the help of God.
Can one rise superior to fortune unless God helps him to rise? "
~ Seneca, Epistle 41.