Reflection

[Guest guest]

Dear Members,

 

Some wise sayings (offered on another list) I thought worthy of passing

on.......

 

"When we see God in each other we will be able to live in peace."

~Mother Teresa

 

"The kingdom of heaven is inside you and it is outside you. God's

kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people do not see it."

~The Gospel of Thomas

 

"God is not some person outside ourselves or away from the Universe. He

pervades everything... He abides in our hearts and is nearer to us than

the nails on our fingers."

~Mahatma Gandhi

 

"Wherever you turn, there is the face of God."

~The Koran

 

"The only true joy on earth is to escape from the prison of our own

false self, and enter by love into union with the Life who dwells and

sings within the essence of every creature and in the core of our own

souls."

~Thomas Merton

 

"Growth comes with an increasing awareness of and respect for Great

Mystery in all people and things, with an awareness that this force of

mystery is at work in all events. Growth comes through tolerance for the

infinite variety of ways in which Great Spirit, the Infinite, may

express itself in this Universe."

~Ed McGaa (American Indian)

 

"Pride comes before ruin, Arrogance before failure."

~Jewish Proverb

 

"Forgive those who wrong you, join those who cut you off, do good to

those who do evil to you."

~Mohammed

 

"Know the Atman [spirit], Unborn, undying, Never ceasing, Never

beginning, Deathless, birthless, Unchanging forever, How can it die the

death of the body?"

~The Bhagavad Gita

 

"You have heard that it was said, "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a

tooth." But I say to you, if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn

the other also... Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you

so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes the

sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous

and unrighteous."

~Jesus

 

"Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between

the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to

promote love."

~Mahatma Gandhi

 

Love courses through everything.

No, love is everything.

How can you say, there is no love,

when nothing but love exists?

 

All that you see has appeared because of love.

All shines from love,

All pulses from love,

All flows from love--

No, once again, All is love!

 

~Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

 

"What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of a human being,

to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the

sorrowful, and to remove the wrongs of the injured."

~Mohammed

 

"In this world, hate never dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This

is the law, ancient and inexhaustible."

~The Buddha

 

Jesus said, "...If one is [whole], one will be filled with light, but if

one is divided, one will be filled with darkness."

~The Gospel of Thomas

 

"Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed."

~Confucius

 

"There is no fire like greed, no crime like hatred, no sorrow like

separation, no sickness like hunger of the heart, and no joy like the

joy of freedom. Health, contentment and trust are your greatest

possessions, and freedom your greatest joy. Look within, be still. Free

from fear and attachment, know the sweet joy of living in the way."

~The Buddha

 

 

"Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for

pleasure, you were created for JOY. And if you do not know the

difference between pleasure and spiritual joy, you have not yet begun

to live."

~Thomas Merton

 

"To master ourselves is to arrive home-- at the Center of Being-- the

Universal Mandala. What we seek we already are."

~Lama Surya Das (Tibetan Buddhist).

 

"An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed,

but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you

from a place where there is nothing new to a place where there is

nothing old, where everything renews itself, where heaven and earth

rejoice as at the moment of creation."

~Abraham Isaac Kook (Jewish Mystic)

 

"As a child, I understood how to give. I have forgotten that grace since

I became civilized. I lived the natural life, whereas I now live the

artificial. Any pretty pebble was valuable to me then, every growing

tree an object of reverence."

~Ohiyesa (American Indian)

 

"The beauty which the knower knows and the lover appreciates, the mystic

worships. His God is Reality. To every question that arises in the heart

of the mystic, he finds the answer in the life before him."

~Hazarat Inayat Khan (Sufi mystic)

 

"True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads

itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the

whole world."

Mahatma Gandhi

 

Rgds, Wendy

 

Wendy Vasicek: Vedic Astrologer

http://welcome.to/Vedic Astrology/

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Dear Wendy,

 

Thank you so much for these inspiring quotes and reflections!

 

Namaste'