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Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe. ~ Pythagoras
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We are indeed on a shaman's journey, mere children struggling to become technicians of the sacred. We are learning how to deal with the plasticity that is part and parcel of a universe in which mind and reality are a continuum, and in this journey one lesson stands out above all others. As long as the formlessness and breathtaking freedom of the beyond remain frightening to us, we will continue to dream a hologram for ourselves that is comfortably solid and well defined.
~ From the book "Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot
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There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. ~ Buddha
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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection.
We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
~ Albert Pike
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How can I discover new oceans if I do not have the courage to lose sight of the shore?
~ Anonymous
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Before Ayahuasca I only had conceptual ideas about divinity, infinity, and love.
~ Paul Mallon
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The wound is the place where the Light enters. ~ Rumi
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Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl! ~ Rumi
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Sanskrit phrase: Om Paramat Mane Nama ~ To the Supreme Consciousness, a bow.
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ~ William James
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In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same. ~ Rumi
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust
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I vow to walk the Path of inner Light and Awareness, to seek knowledge and wisdom in order to help others. I am a Rainbow Light Warrior, Sundancer, a person who honours all teachings, ways, paths and medicines, accepting none above another, knowing all but dedicating myself to the One through those paths that have Heart for me.
~ The Rainbow Warrior Vow of the Eagle Dancer
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… I can still feel the spirit of Ayahuasca inside my molecules, now adjusting to a new situation. More and more accepting things as they are, not wanting to change them. I can still feel the wisdom I gathered in the last ceremony, [..] and I am learning to apply this wisdom in 'everyday' life... ~ Ronald Jonker, Retreat Participant, July 2010
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Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. ~ Rumi
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At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one of us does not wish to suffer. This is why, whenever I have the opportunity, I try to draw people's attention to what as members of the human family we have in common and the deeply interconnected nature of our existence and welfare.
~ Dalai Lama
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May the Warm Winds of Heaven
Blow softly upon your house.
May the Great Spirit
Bless all who enter there.
May your Mocassins
Make happy tracks
in many snows,
and may the Rainbow
Always touch your shoulder.
~ Cherokee Prayer Blessing
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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of men when they realise their relationship, their Oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realise that at the centre of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this centre is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
~ Black Elk, 1863-1950
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Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego. ~ Eckhart Tolle
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The best in art and life comes from a centre; something urgent and powerful; an ideal or emotion that insists on being. From that insistence a shape emerges and creates a structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that is very hard to do. ~ Roger Rosenblatt
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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you,
as by the attitude you bring to life;
not so much by what happens to you,
as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
~ Kahlil Gibran
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If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying? ~ Shantideva
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“I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha.” He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.
~ Hermann Hesse (from his book "Siddhartha")
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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. ~ Aldous Huxley
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One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. ~ Mother Teresa
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If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on. ~ Terence McKenna
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"Outside is pure energy and colorless substance, all of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings." ~ Albert Hofmann
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I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.'
~ Neale Donald Walsch
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ~ Buddha
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As inumerable cups full of water, many reflections of the sun are seen, but the sun is the same; similarly individuals, like cups, are inumerable, but spirit, like the sun, is one.
~ The Shiva-samhita I.35 II.42-43
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You are a volume in the divine book.
A mirror to the power that created the universe.
Whatever you want, ask it of yourself.
Whatever you’re looking for can only
be found inside of you.
~ Rumi
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ~ Albert Einstein
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
~ Edith Wharton, novelist (1862-1937)
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That which yields is not always weak.
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You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. ~ Buddha
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The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time. ~ Terence McKenna
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ~ William M. Thackeray
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When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. ~ William Arthur Ward
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. ~ Albert Einstein
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You only lose what you cling to. ~ Buddha
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Come, seek, for to search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart. ~ Rumi
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It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind. ~ Albert Einstein
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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, & to do good is my religion. ~ Thomas Paine
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Creating without claiming, doing without taking credit, guiding without interfering, this is primal virtue. ~ Lao Tzu
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Do you know that at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know you can use that eternity, if you so desire? ~ don Juan
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There is a place where voices sing your beauty,
A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.
~ Rumi
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. ~ Lao Tzu
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Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided. ~ Paulo Coelho
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~ Kahlil Gibran
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Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers. ~ Richard Bach from his book, Illusions
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I have come to realize that freedom is finding joy in all the simple things; the gifts laid before us to discover. ~ Tin Can Annie
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The spiritual warrior is the practitioner who makes an altar of the earth upon which the ego is sacrificed. ~ Ben Riggs
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If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present. ~ Lao Tzu
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This I know... That often when I sang, and drummed, and danced, I found my eternity. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
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This world is but a canvas to our imaginations. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death, is in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring. ~ Robert Ingersoll
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Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known. ~ Pooh Bear
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~ Rumi
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Go ahead, make a fool of yourself, then maybe you’ll listen to your conscience. ~ Jiminy Cricket
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Meditation is my soul's soundless conversation with my inner pilot. ~ Sri Chinmoy
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is. ~ Marianne Williamson
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Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
~ Sydney J. Harris, journalist and author (1917-1986)
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There was a dawn I remember when my soul heard something from your soul. I drank water from your spring and felt the current take me ~ Rumi
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Clocks slay time. Time is dead when it's being clicked off by clocks; only when the clock stops does time come to life. ~ William Faulkner
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Would you like to save the world from the degradation and destruction it seems destined for? Then step away from shallow mass movements and quietly go to work on your own self-awareness. If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.
~ Lao Tzu
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'I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha.' He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.
~ Hermann Hesse (from his book "Siddhartha")
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