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“Sometimes I want to ask God why He allows poverty, famine, and injustice when He could do something about it, but I’m afraid he might just ask me the same question.” -- Abdu’l-Baha
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Jupiter omnipotens, audacibus annue cœptis
Meister (Magister) Eckhart:: "I declare truly that as long as anything is reflected in your mind which is not the Eternal Word [Logos] or which looks away from the Eternal Word [Logos] then good as it may be, it is not the right thing."
"For centuries we have held to a wrong idea of life. We have thought that life is material; but life is spiritual, it is the invisible within me which is eternal, which is God. Many still believe that life is material and matter, instead of mind and spirit. I no longer hold that conception. I believe that all is mind and Spirit.
When I am sick I know that it is the material of me that is sick, not the God Spirit; it is my physical being which is out of harmony, it is this Tabernacle of which Paul speaks, housing my spirit, which gives me pain and suffering. The real "me" is not sick, it is my body." - David V. Bush, The Silence: What It Is and How to Use It
"Without the compulsions of ordinary mind, there is an unfeigned state, a natural settling, uncontrived and unadulterated, though it cannot be characterized with words. [...]
All consuming thought patterns cannot be abandoned by being renounced for they are the dynamic energy of awareness. Their true nature is such that there are no distinctions, nothing to differentiate or exclude, so that nature is not ensured by achievement but arises as basic space." - Longchenpa
There is no need to strive for God
When stillness holds the secret of our search.
Lo here, lo there, we seek throughout the world
In mazes of uncertainties, while now
Within the quiet Center of our Heart
God waits in shining beauty our first flash
Of understanding, when the mortal beggar
Turns back to his Immortal Throne.
- Mildred hayward, Miracle at Sea
(via Lillian DeWaters, Light of the Eternal)
Meister (Magister) Eckhart:: "I declare truly that as long as anything is reflected in your mind which is not the Eternal Word [Logos] or which looks away from the Eternal Word [Logos] then good as it may be, it is not the right thing."
"For centuries we have held to a wrong idea of life. We have thought that life is material; but life is spiritual, it is the invisible within me which is eternal, which is God. Many still believe that life is material and matter, instead of mind and spirit. I no longer hold that conception. I believe that all is mind and Spirit.
When I am sick I know that it is the material of me that is sick, not the God Spirit; it is my physical being which is out of harmony, it is this Tabernacle of which Paul speaks, housing my spirit, which gives me pain and suffering. The real "me" is not sick, it is my body." - David V. Bush, The Silence: What It Is and How to Use It
"Without the compulsions of ordinary mind, there is an unfeigned state, a natural settling, uncontrived and unadulterated, though it cannot be characterized with words. [...]
All consuming thought patterns cannot be abandoned by being renounced for they are the dynamic energy of awareness. Their true nature is such that there are no distinctions, nothing to differentiate or exclude, so that nature is not ensured by achievement but arises as basic space." - Longchenpa
There is no need to strive for God
When stillness holds the secret of our search.
Lo here, lo there, we seek throughout the world
In mazes of uncertainties, while now
Within the quiet Center of our Heart
God waits in shining beauty our first flash
Of understanding, when the mortal beggar
Turns back to his Immortal Throne.
- Mildred hayward, Miracle at Sea
(via Lillian DeWaters, Light of the Eternal)