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Disinterest

In today’s Gospel reading the apostles ask Jesus to, “Increase our faith!” And Jesus replies by stating what they’d be able to do if they had any faith at all. Just as much as the size of a mustard sea would enable them to do great things. But then Jesus starts talking about slaves and masters and how they relate to each other. These verses seem rather odd, at first. I mean, Jesus was asked to increase the faith of the apostles and he goes off talking about slaves serving their masters. How is that a response to their request? Is it a response?

“Who among you, Jesus asks, would say to your slave who has just come in from plowing or tending sheep in the field, ‘Come here at once and take your place at the table’? Would you not rather say to him, ‘Prepare supper for me, put on your apron and serve me while I eat and drink; later you may eat and drink’? Do you thank the slave for doing what was commanded?

No, you do not. The slave/master relationship brings with it a relational understanding. One serves the other. The slave works for his master without any expectation that his own needs will be met. He doesn’t revel in the work he has completed for his master in hopes that he can draw attention to himself, nor does he expect any privileges for the quantity or quality of work he has done. He is, in a word, disinterested.

Jesus concludes his instruction with the following: “So you also, when you have done all that you were ordered to do, say, ‘We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought to have done!”

And there you have it, Jesus’s response to the apostles’ request: “Increase our Faith!”

Now I believe it would be wrong to think Jesus is telling his apostles and us to be doormats for the masters of the world. No, I don’t think he is addressing our external lives at all. He was asked about faith and how to increase it and he speaks, therefore, to our interior selves. We must control our interior selves as we do God’s work in the world. Otherwise, faith is not increased but can actually be lost.

Imagine you’re an apostle. Jesus sends you out to do God’s work. You enter a home where you encounter a man on his death bed. You pray in the name of the Lord Jesus on his behalf and, lo and behold, he is healed. Therein lies your interior challenge. Will you expect recognition? Will you react like a hungry slave who feels he should gain some new privilege on account of his action? Or, will you simply say, “I have done only what I ought to have done!”

Doing God’s work, taking no credit for it, is how we increase our faith.

That’s Jesus’s instruction to us. Each time we take credit for God’s work done though our hands we diminish faith, but when we work for the Lord and fully recognize God’s work being done through our selves acting as empty vessels through which God’s love can flow, we increase our faith as we marvel at the actions of God.

Meister Eckhart, writing in the 14th century said the following: “The teachers praise love, and highly too, as St. Paul did, when he said: ‘No matter what I do, if I have not love, I am nothing.’ Nevertheless, I put disinterest (also known as detachment) higher than love.”

And regarding humility he writes, “The authorities also praise humility above all other virtues, but I put disinterest above humility…… Perfectly disinterested, a man has no regard for anything, no inclination to be above this or below that, no desire to be over or under; he remains what he is, neither loving nor hating, and desiring neither likeness to this nor unlikeness to that. He desires only to be one and the same; for to want this or that is to want something; and the disinterested person wants nothing.”

Doing God’s work, taking no credit for it, is how we increase our faith. No wonder so few in the world have faith, even faith the size of a mustard seed. Amen.

—Offered 10-2-2022 at St. George’s Episcopal Church

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followerofchrist9 · 2 years

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"A pear seed grows up into a pear tree, a nut seed grows up into a nut tree-but a seed of God grows into God, to God."~Meister Eckhart

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ultra-rita-me-blog · 3 years

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James Baldwin- Jimmy’s Blues: Selected Poems

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The Imagination as a Mystical Vehicle

"My imagination, what are you? - I am the stream that feeds the fountain of your mind." — Hazrat Inayat Khan

According to Henry Corbin, God is Imagination, the World is a theophany, and the Imagination in Man is theophanic [revealing of God’s nature and Intention]. In stating this he takes as his source the Sufi Master Ibn’ Arabi. Corbin explains that this Imagination, explored not only by Sufis but by Platonists; poets such as the Fedeli d’Amore and, later, Jacob Boehme - among many others - must not be mistaken by fantasy. In fact, Corbin deplores the outlawing of Imagination by exoteric religions as the beginning of the leap of laicization that, declaring the Imagination the faculty that manifests only the “unreal”, easily goes into agnostic territory, supposing God to be an unreal figment of mankind’s “imagination”, and places this leap at the root of the modern crisis of meaning.

God is absolute, unconditioned Imagination and Creation a product thereof; and as such, there is nothing more real than the Imagination, of which we are “figments”, imagined not out of “nothing” but of the very substance of God’s creative mind. One is reminded of the Hermetic notion that “GOD is an Infinite Living Mind which is everything; everything is Mind and there is nothing that is Not Mind.” Where could a “nothing” be found, out of which to create?

Everything that exists [ex-istere: “to leap forth”] or will exist has its first seed in a “Cloud” of God’s latent thoughts; a compact nebula of potentialities - and even this is already “being” rather than “nothingness”. The act of Creation is an “Epiphany” that hypostatizes beings out of potentiality into actuality by Imagining them. Likewise, the Creative Imagination in a man is Theophanic, and Epiphanic - not only creating but revealing and giving contour to what is already there; pouring forth into manifestation the hidden [hence, esoteric] aspect of one’s self and the universe. But, since it reveals by giving form, it may very well also veil; and a test is found therein of whether a fall into idolatry elapses, or the images are made truly transparent, giving the mystic “the knowledge that delivers, the gnosis of salvation.”

Here too we find an eternal recurrence. God, longing to be known, Imagines a creature that longs to know. This creatures plunges into the depths of its imagination to reveal a world that already exists, and as such is recurring, and has been revealed myriads of myriads of times by myriads of longing creatures who witnessed variations of the same themes, symbols and dramas, undergoing the same pitfalls or ascensions in accordance with pre-existing inner reasons. One experiences awe before these wheels upon wheels. “The same theophanic Imagination of the Creator who has revealed the worlds, renews the Creation from moment to moment in the human being whom He has revealed as His perfect image and who, in the mirror that this Image is, shows himself Him whose image he is. That is why man's Active Imagination cannot be a vain fiction, since it is this same theophanic Imagination which, in and by the human being, continues to reveal what it showed itself by first imagining it.

This imagination can be termed "illusory" only when it becomes opaque and loses its transparency. But when it is true to the divine reality it reveals, it liberates, provided that we recognize the function with which Ibn’ Arabi endowed it and which it alone can perform; namely, the function of effecting a coincidentia oppositorum. This term is an allusion to the words of Abo Sarid al-Kharrllz, a celebrated Sufi master. "Whereby do you know God?" he was asked. And he replied : "By the fact that He is the coincidentia oppositorum." For the entire universe of worlds is at once He and not-He. The God manifested in forms is at once Himself and other than Himself, for since He is manifested, He is the limited which has no limit, the visible which cannot be seen. This manifestation is neither perceptible nor verifiable by the sensory faculties; discursive reason rejects it.”

In Henry Corbin’s exploration of Ibn’ Arabi’s Sufism, we discover Imagination as the faculty [and world] in which all dualisms are overcome, although without each hypostasis losing it’s essence and individuality. Each act of the Imagination is a creation and a discovery of the world, an act of cognition, and a recurrence in which an individual rediscovers himself and the world. It is supremely magical, sacred. It is made profane only by us, through our materialistic notions. It is also communion and rebirth in God; a baptism, if you will, in the hidden waters of His omnipresent Spirit.

But in order to understand this further, we must ourselves be baptized in the depths of our nature, realizing we derive our “suchness” from a plane above becoming. In Islam particularly, it is said that “it is God who ears, speaks, acts through us”. "It is not you who cast the dart when you cast it, but Allah who casts it". The same notion is found in the Bhagavad Gita, Meister Eckhart and countless others, being in fact Primordial and not exclusive to any particular religious form – Ibn’ Arabi himself proclaims that the knowledge of the Spirituals is non-dogmatic, the first step to it being to “untie the dogmatic knot”, and that the true nature of things would shock those believers who are uptight fanatics. The consequence being that engaging the Imagination as prayer is a reunion of God with Himself undertook by Him, the place of meeting being the heart of the gnostic ["Neither my Heaven nor my Earth contains me, but the heart of my faithful believer contains me."], which shares God’s nature in the faculty of Imagination; and is not flesh because it can itself Imagine, while flesh is Imagined [hypostatized by God]. As Corbin puts it; “our Active Imagination is a moment, an instant, of the Divine Imagination that is the universe, which is itself total theophany.”

Thus Imagination is found a mediatrix. It mediates between the “World of Mystery” – the Cloud of God’s coiled thoughts – and our World of Form, by coalescing within a realm of subtle matter what was formerly hidden, giving vestures to what is invisible, and through this medium developing conversation and acquaintance with what is secret. The forms encountered are, thus, Ideas and Spirits from the World of Mystery who have decided to visit on their own will. One finds a similar notion in the Gnostic Gospel of Mary Magdalene. She has seen the Lord in a vision. Afterwards, she recounts this to Jesus in the flesh who tells her “Blessed are those who waver not at the sight of Me.” Asked in what aspect of man do visions occur the following dialogue elapses: “I said to Him, Lord, how does he who sees the vision see it, through the soul or through the spirit? The Savior answered and said, He does not see through the soul nor through the spirit, but the mind that is between the two that is what sees the vision.” For the majority of Gnostics, the Spirit of an individual was a kind of Angel or Divine Counterpart that remained unfallen in the Pleroma (a dimension equivalent to the Cloud of Ibn’ Arabi where the Divine Names work in secret), while the soul was a natural psyche that was bound and chained by both mundane and religious conventions – and to the passions of the body - and wavered fearfully between good and evil, begetting suffering and experiencing no stability. Here, Mind [likely to be the Greek Nous, often translated as mind, which is not speculative reason but rather an intellective faculty] is shown to be an intermediary space where imaginative visions may occur. The Sufis, instead, call it Heart – which can also plausibly translate Nous, as is sometimes found in the Orthodox tradition.

Thus this Heart-Nous-Mind is the relevant organ of perception; often described as “the eye of Heart”. It is not, we are told, the physical heart, but the psycho-spiritual heart of our psycho-spiritual body. Earlier in the book, Corbin describes the Imaginative state as a waking state where “the gnostic is divested from sensuousness”. Later, he explains that the Sufi’s Fana [annihilation] does not refer to a complete eclipse of being but rather a “withdrawing from one’s human attributes to awaken the divine attributes” (central to which is the Absolute, Unconditioned Imagination). Here, it would seem, one may find the meaning of Death and Ressurection in the Mysteries and Christianity. In this state, the Heart and the Divine are undistinguishable from one another and as so are Imagination and Cognition(Gnosis). This is achieved through a faculty of the Heart called himma, which Corbin describes in detail, but can be somewhat translated as stirring or longing. It is both desire/concentration and image-making. [Alone with the Alone; Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn’ Arabi: Part Two] This faculty is a vehicle of mystical ascent, a mystical ascent through revelation and because of this some reservations must be kept in mind.

Firstly, because our “real” physical world is actually imagination, it is also a symbol and requires interpretation. Secondly, the symbols and cyphers found in the Imagination of the Heart must not be interpreted in the light of physical reality, for that is to bring them to a lower plane; rather, they should be interpreted as signs of what is higher than them. [This is the opposite of saying “I dreamt I placed a key in a chest held by my friend Anna because deep down I want to have sexual intercourse with her”, a Freudian kind of interpretation. Rather, Anna is clothing some quality; for example if you consider Anna to be very gentle, perhaps she is disguising a sweetness or mercy of God, which is handing you a treasure for which you already possess the key.] Images, both in the world and the Heart are to be seen through. One can refer this to the Hermetic doctrine of the correspondence between all planes – and the alchemical transubstantiation of “matter”.

Afterwards, for a while, the interest that the book holds for the purpose of exploring the Divine Imagination, seems to us, particularly, dissolved in as much as the book delves into specifically Islamic technical territory (namely, the use of the Quran as the center of a sort of imaginative prayer), and yet it is still noteworthy the idea that in prayer both the faithful and God are present and communicate and that dhikr (remembrance) is fundamental to the process of Creative Prayer (prayer that leads to Imaginative Presence). The fundamental notion of Dhikr is “Remember your God”. The basic practice of sitting prayerfully whilst remembering that behind all earthly and inner appearances and motions there is an Infinite and Unconditioned Imagination which is also the true Doer of your very act of remembering and concentration might still prove to be a useful portal. Beyond that, the use of Islamic Liturgy will, it seems, only be useful for those of Islamic matrix. It is also notable that Ibn’ Arabi’s use of such liturgy is completely esoteric and so removed from religious norm as to border shockingly on heresy. He states that the Quran is simply an allegorical, eternally recurrent song between Lover and Beloved, but can only be understood as such by seers. It is not unlikely, as in some cases is experienced even nowadays, that similar effects may be experienced in all cultural matrixes; however, and following what has formerly been said about the present dynamic in our article about Ride The Tiger, the interest of this exploration remains hinged on what uses may be found for such avenues for a man who has discarded external religious forms and as such is not anchored in any particular scripture.

Dhikr in this particular case is not mantramic repetition of God’s name but the nonverbal invocation of a God that is intrinsically connected to the depths of one’s being – the Transcendent Dimension, if you will. [“One who meditates on his God "in the present" maintains Himself in His company. And a tradition from a reliable source tells us: "I myself keep company with him who meditates on me."] Then, Ibn’ Arabi seems to recommend that you converse with your God [called “your” God since these Spirituals maintain that any experience, image or conversation you maintain is derived from the state of your being and is meant as theophany for yourself alone]; that you open up your heart to the vibration of his voice, and finally to his image. This is creative prayer. A man cannot see the “Pleroma” of God, but only those aspects of Him that choose to clad themselves in imaginal garb so as to appear to you. “What a human being attains in mystic experience is the "celestial pole" of his being, that is, his person as the person in whom and by whom the Divine Being manifested Himself to Himself in the origin of origins, in the World of Mystery, and through whom He made Himself known in the Form which is also the Form in which He knew Himself in that person. What he attains is the Idea or rather the "Angel" of his person, of which his present self is only the terrestrial pole.” So far we have ascertained the ontological and metaphysical premises for the mystical use of the Imagination according to a particular iniciatic strain, and spoke briefly of the exercise of Creative Prayer through which the seeker was expected to open his access to the Mundus Imaginalis – and attain one’s Lord and Center. However, another aspect presses upon us which is less acute in focus and perhaps more appropriate for different natures, namely, the aspect of imagination which is not prayer in the sense of being theocentric and monotheistic but is rather a voyage or drama – even, at times, a cosmic drama. Ibn Arabi’s Sufis tended, in the prayer, towards a reception of God as a person, however, it is a particular focus – Corbin does describe, here and elsewhere, both ascents and journeys experienced by Sufis and Zoroastrians, but he does not refer to technical details. One can posit a few points, however, from what has hitherto been show. Firstly if a person is progressively trained in seeing through matter into the imaginative and symbolic potential of every sight it is not unlikely that strings of visions may spontaneously occur as was the case of many which transpired with the poet Blake, as he tells his friend in a letter: “When the Sun rises do you not see a round Disk of fire somewhat like a Guinea O no no I see an Innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty I question not my Corporeal or Vegetative Eye any more than I would Question a Window concerning a Sight I look thro it & not with it.”/ “I know that our deceased friends are more really with us than when they were apparent to our mortal part. Thirteen years ago I lost a brother, and with his spirit I converse daily and hourly in the spirit, and see him in my remembrance, in the region of my imagination.” Evola also mentions that even common folk in earlier times had their imaginative faculty less bound which allowed them to spontaneously converse with beings of the lands where they took leisure, since their oneirical faculty was fully present in their waking state. This, he declares, was an organic feature of the common man in the world of Tradition which enriched his life and brought him closer to the numinous.

It is also conceivable that a sitting exercise similar to the aforementioned Creative Prayer but without a particular goal in mind might yield different results, or else it is conceivable that the Lord/Angel of that particular exercise might take one by the hand, so to speak, and walk us through other scenes.

Earlier in the book, Corbin mentions that the reason why certain works of art are clearly numinous is because they were precipitated by a concentration of the himma (one sees no reason why a similar precipitation cannot occur in a playwright, a fiction writer or anyone else who uses imagination as a part of his works, provided the correct mindset and application of effort is also there, in fact it would seem only natural, if such a person is a karmayogin) – this, it seems, would be the central force in any exploration of the Mundus Imaginalis. It is therefore necessary, for one who would undertake such voyages, to learn how to forget his body and senses, and reach that innermost region where the worlds meet. Ibn Arabi’ says that whenever a seeker sits to contemplate in such a manner any inner or outer drive to interruption should be considered as coming from Satan.

If one examines the non-entheogenic method of indigenous peoples for obtaining visionary voyages, they will find the rudiments of the practice are solitude, fasting and prayer. These three ingredients are so deeply rooted in human nature that they are found virtually, and almost always combined, in all contemplative traditions. And after all, here perhaps we see a pattern. The Sufi also prayed alone to His God for revelation and waited, vigilant, for it; just as the Indian youth prayed to Nature for his visions. What is fundamental is that these are stances that are at the reach of anyone should anyone be so inclined. Prayer, furthermore, is a verbal, often poetic and evocative focusing of desire. It is liable to be used technically even outside of a religious framework. Quite simply, the Indian, in solitude and fasting, asks for a visionary voyage until he gets it. He might even sing or speak his prayers aloud. Essentially, he is exhausting his body and mind with all of his being focused on a single thing; to which eventually he is fired off. The same pattern can indeed be recognized in Ibn’ Arabi’s prayer. This focus, desire, ardency of prayer can in fact compared to the himma – longing; which consists in the power that the Heart has of giving reality to the hidden; and here, we believe, lies the key point. Usually when we “fantasize” we don’t do so in such lucid a way as to provide a world within so limpid as to possess actual ontological significance. That is the power of the himma. [“himma: a mysterious power of the heart, which includes the “force of an intention so powerful as to project and realize (essentiate) a being external to the being who conceives the intention….”] It may be supposed, then, that as a force behind the Sufis’ efforts of Imagination there can be found a drive to to get to the truth of things, of the All, of God; and a leap of faith that it is so, that it is truth, that it is God (that is being seen).

He who believes a lot, Experiences a lot. — Peasant woman from the Gospel of Mark It is our hope that the cognitive Imagination regains her proper place in our misguided, “Western” lives.

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Quotes for Thursday July 27,2017

Appreciation quotes Appreciate what you have, accept the blessings waiting for you to need them, and above all - realize that Source from which it all comes.--Michael Rawls Appreciation can make a day--even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.--Margaret Cousins Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.--Voltaire Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.--Marty Rubin Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.--Susan L. Lenzkes Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.--Sydney J. Harris Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.--Abraham Joshua Heschel =========== Attitude quotes Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.--Winston S. Churchill Attitude is the mind's paintbrush, it can color any situation.--Unknown The attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.--Alan Watts Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.--Jim Rohn Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.--Fulton J. Sheen Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.--Bill Meyer ========= Eleanor Roosevelt quotes Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift; that’s why they call it the present. You must do the things you think you cannot do. When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. ========= Encouragement quotes Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.--Booker T. Washington Appreciation can make a day--even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.--Margaret Cousins As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the slights of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.--Francesco Guicciardini Children may forget what you say, but they'll never forget how you make them feel.--Parker Palmer (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe) Correction does much, but encouragement does more.--Goethe ============ Faith quotes Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.--Mahalia Jackson Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.--Albert Pike Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.--Voltaire Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened.--Charles Spurgeon Faith is a continuation of reason.--William Adams Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.--Mitch Albom (Have a Little Faith: a True Story) Faith is a knowledge within the heart beyond the reach of proof.--Kahlil Gibron Faith is affirming success before it comes. Faith is making claims to victory before it is achieved.--Robert Schuller ========= Happiness quotes Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.--Nathaniel Hawthorne Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.--Gretta Palmer Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.--Samuel Levenson Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.--Ralph Waldo Emerson Happiness is a present attitude--not a future condition.--Hugh Prather Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.--Eleanor Roosevelt Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.--Thomas Merton Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.--Margaret Lee Runbeck Happiness is not found by searching for it, because you find it only when you realize you already have it.--David Charles Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.--Lilian Eichler Watson Happiness is not the end of life: character is.--Henry Ward Beecher (Life Thoughts) ========== Prayer quotes If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough. -Meister Eckhart The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. -Søren Kierkegaard Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. -Corrie ten Boom Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. -Benjamin Franklin You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. -Kahlil Gibran God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil. -E.M. Bounds We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. - Oswald Chambers A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual. -Paulo Coelho

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Analysis from Week 3 - Thomas Merton

The secret of my identity is hidden in the love and mercy of God. But whatever is in God is really identical with [God], for [God’s] infinite simplicity admits no division and no distinction. Therefore I cannot hope to find myself anywhere except in Him. Ultimately, the only way I can be myself is to become identified with Him in Whom is hidden the reason and the fulfillment of my existence. Therefore there is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, and my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find [God], I will find myself and if I find my true self, I will find [God]. --Thomas Merton - New Seeds of Contemplation

Central Question: What is my ultimate identity?

Part 1: The Poetry of the Ultimate Identity in God

- God the Origin (Father, Mother) is infinitely expressing themself in totality as the Word.

"God is like a woman in labor, constantly giving birth to God." --Meister Eckhart

Note: There is a poetic richness here: "speaking God, birthing God"

- God the Origin eternally contemplates themself in/into the Word, as the Word eternally contemplates himself in/into the Origin. The love that rises from this union is the Holy Spirit.

- The inter-divine life of the Triune God is infinite love and knowledge presented as the overflowing fullness of reality itself: the mystery of God.

- From all eternity, God the Origin expresses themself as the Word and contemplates themself in the Word, but not just THE Word (referring to Jesus as the first focus of divine incarnational expression), but also as the Word "You" -- who you are.

- When God creates us (in the human plane of time and space), God does not need to think up who we might be.

- The True Self is the birthless and deathless You, forever known by God. Our ultimate identity is hidden with Christ in God from before the foundations of the earth (Col. 3:3, Eph. 1:4).

That it is "hidden" seems to refer to it as a secret: something that has been prepared for us to discover. (Mt. 13:35, 25:34)

- True religious experience is our capacity to awaken to this, to say "yes" to it, and to give ourselves in love to the Love that gives itself to us. For in the reciprocity of love, our destiny is fulfilled.

- The depths of God is, by the generosity of God, being given to you as the depths of yourself, in your nothingness without God.

- Love is always offered, never imposed; we must give our free "yes."

- The ultimate dignity of the human person is not simple logical or moral reasoning,; rather, it is this primacy of love as identification in God's personal creation.

Part 2: Suffering as Exile from the Ultimate Identity (The Human Experience of our Passage through Sequential Time and Space)

- Our customary experience of ourselves (our human nature) is exiled or estranged from the invincible preciousness of ourselves in God that is our very reality (our Ultimate Identity). In this state of exile, the ego asserts itself, refusing to recognize our identity in God, and thus lays its claim on us as having the final say in who we are. Example: "I am nothing but my personality, emotions, etc."

- All of these natural experiences (the genetic me, the sexual me, the historical me, the moral me, the feeling me, etc.) are provisional and real, but our ego is blind to what is past them.

- Our identity, formed by our ego within our exiled state, is what Merton calls the "False Self."

"Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self."

"This is the [person] I want myself to be, but who cannot exist because God does not know anything about him. And to be unknown by God is altogether too much privacy."

- The False Self is the self who wants to exist outside of God's love and will, and therefore, outside of reality and life itself.

- A Life of Sin is a life devoted to the cult of the shadow, a subjective reality that orders everything else around itself. Life is used up in the desire for pleasure, experiences, power, knowledge, etc. to clothe this False Self -- to try to make the False Self objectively real. Example: If the False Self to us is like an invisible man, we wrap bandages around him to try and make him visible, but there is ultimately no substance; he is hollow. In the end, when all of these clothes are gone, we will finally recognize our hollowness -- that we were our own mistakes.

- Egocentric desires are the wanting of everything we are capable of attaining or losing. These desires do not have the final say in who we are. Only Love has that: Love that is being poured out as mercy in the midst of our uncertainty and all the unresolved matters of our hearts.

- Conversion happens when we see beyond the ego to our true selves in God; it is an initial awakening.

Part 3: The Path of Healing & Reuniting with the Ultimate Identity

- Simply tasting what is true is not sufficient for us; we must begin, and will naturally, to desire a daily abiding awareness of the depths which we have so fleetingly glimpsed.

Important Questions: 1. How can I find my way out of the darkness of this claustrophobic world wherein I keep imagining that my finite conditions have authority to name who I am? 2. How can I learn to live in a habitual state of awareness of the divinity of every moment of my life? 3. How can I live in fidelity to this state, that I might share that generosity of God with all living things?

"If I find God, I will find myself, and if I join God in knowing who I am, always have been, and always will be, I will find God."

- This process is immensely difficult; if left to myself, it would be impossible.

- Although I can know something of God's existence as found in nature by my own reason, there is no human/rational way I can arrive at that point of contact with God -- the discovery of who God really is, and who I am with God -- that possession of Love. The only One who can teach me how to find God is God alone.

- In a life of devotional sincerity, we sit at a rendezvous with God; we sense his presence around us and in us, closer to us than we are to ourselves. The Spirit within us fills us with longings to be grounded in this Oneness.

- By our own power, we cannot do this. The only thing within our power is to turn to God, crying out to them out of the depths of ourselves.

-With childlike confidence, through meditation and prayer, we can slowly begin to stabilize ourselves within this clarity that leads to deeper clarity: deep acceptance of our brokenness, as illumined and embraced by God every step of the way.

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50 Quotes About New Beginnings and Starting Fresh

Our latest collection of quotes about new beginnings that will help you adjust to a new chapter in your life. These new beginnings quotes will motivate you to let go of your past so you can move forward.

Looking to get out of your comfort zone and start your life over? Each one of us reaches a point where we get fed up with our current situation. During such times, letting go and starting over can be the best thing for you.

When you let go of what didn’t work, what held you back previously, or wipe out those fears that don’t deserve to rule you anymore, you create room to become a more passionate, engaged and inspiring individual.

So how can you start over? When creating the life you want, start by clearing out the things you won’t have use for and get your surrounding in order.

If there are habits, relationships, or activities that don’t work for you anymore, it’s best to leave them out of your life altogether. After you’ve made some room, develop some new customs in your life and follow through with them.

Since none of us knows what the future holds, the idea of new beginnings can feel terrifying at times. However, if you focus on that which is optimistic and encouraging, starting afresh can be an exciting time.

Here are some inspirational quotes about new beginnings to give you the strength and courage to adjust to a new chapter in your life.

Quotes about new beginnings and starting fresh

1.) “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” —Seneca

2.) “No one can ever take your memories from you – each day is a new beginning, make good memories every day.” –Catherine Pulsifer

3.) “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

4.) “Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” ~ Carl Bard

5.) “It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

6.) “There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth… not going all the way, and not starting.” –Buddha

7.) “New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” – Lao Tzu

8.) “No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!” — C. JoyBell C.

9.) “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

10.) “No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.” – Proverb

Quotes about new beginnings and change.

11.) “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” —Guy Finley

12.) “I discovered that a fresh start is a process. A fresh start is a journey – a journey that requires a plan.” – Vivian Jokotade

13.) “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” – Herman Hesse

14.) “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” –Plato

15.) “Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.” ~ Muriel Rukeyser

16.) “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” – Meister Eckhart

17.) “You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.” — Barbara Shur

18.) “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.” – Louis L’Amour

19.) “Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” — Mandy Hale

20.) “Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.” — Jim Rohn

Quotes about new beginnings to inspire and teach

21.) “Each day is a new beginning, the chance to do with it what should be done and not to be seen as simply another day to put in time.” – Catherine Pulsifer

22.) “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” —T.S. Eliot

23.) “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” — Oprah Winfrey

24.) “I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” —Jeffrey McDaniel

25.) “The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.” –Steve Jobs

26.) “Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.” –Anne Sullivan

27.) “Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It’s the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill

28.) “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” – C. S. Lewis

29.) “Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.” – Dale Turner

30.) “Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.” –Ralph Blum

New beginnings quotes to help you erase the past

31.) “Let’s forget the baggages of the past and make a new beginning.” – Shahbaz Sharif

32.) “Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.” – Desmond Tutu

33.) “Every day is a chance to begin again. Don’t focus on the failures of yesterday, start today with positive thoughts and expectations.” – Catherine Pulsifer

34.) “Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.” – Joel Osteen

35.) “No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.” – Buddha

36.) “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” — Billie Jean King

37.) “Celebrate endings – for they precede new beginnings.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

38.) “Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy.” –Sarah Ban Breathnach

39.) “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” — Robin Sharma

40.) “Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.” – Marsha Petrie Sue

Other inspirational quotes about new beginnings

41.) “Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.” – Prince

42.) “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” – J.P. Morgan

43.) “Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.” – Alan Cohen

44.) “Let us make each day our birthday – every morning life is new, with the splendors of the sunrise, and the baptism of the dew.” – S.A.R

45.) “Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” – Daphne Rose Kingma

46.) “One can begin so many things with a new person – even begin to be a better man.” – George Eliot

47.) “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” — Nido Qubein

48.) “Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can’t change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough

49.) “Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” — Kristin Kreuk

50.) “Every day is a fresh beginning, Every morn is the world made new.” – Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

How did you find these new beginnings quotes?

Sometimes life requires us to start over and rebuild from scratch. In order, to create the life you want, you have to be willing to let go of what isn’t working or what’s holding you back.

But because you do not know what’s written in your next chapter of life, the idea of starting afresh can be intimidating. Hopefully, these new beginnings quotes have given you the courage to start over and reboot your life for the better.

Did you enjoy these quotes about new beginnings? Which of the quotes was your favorite? Tell us in the comment section below. We would love to hear all about it.

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17 Inspirational Quotes on Yoga and Gratitude • Yoga Basics

Gratitude is a simple, yet powerful, form of mindfulness that deepens our connection to the beautiful people, places, events, and things in our world. Fostering and expressing thankfulness can also improve mental and physical health, boost happiness, reduce depression, and enhance our relationships with others.

While we’ll see the most benefits from cultivating gratitude every day, a committed daily practice can be difficult when life gets busy. That’s why we’ve compiled these 17 inspiring quotes on yoga and gratitude—to inspire and motivate us to practice gratitude as often as we can.

Our Favorite Inspirational Quotes on Yoga and Gratitude

The attitude of gratitude is the highest way of living, and is the biggest truth, the highest truth. You cannot live with applied consciousness until you understand that you have to be grateful for what you have. If you are grateful for what you have, then Mother Nature will give you more. — Yogi Bhajan

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity… It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. — Melody Beattie

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,’ that would suffice. — Meister Eckhart

Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment. — Eckhart Tolle

The purpose of life is to be beautiful, to be bountiful, to be blissful, to be graceful and grateful. What a wonderful English word—grateful. If one is great and full, one is God. And whenever smallness faces you, you should be great. And full. Full of that greatness. — Yogi Bhajan

Cultivating thankfulness for being part of life blossoms into a feeling of being blessed, not in the sense of winning the lottery, but in a more refined appreciation for the interdependent nature of life. It also elicits feelings of generosity, which create further joy. Gratitude can soften a heart that has become too guarded, and it builds the capacity for forgiveness, which creates the clarity of mind that is ideal for spiritual development. — Phillip Moffitt

Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it’s important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level. We need to literally ‘count our blessings,’ give thanks for them, allow ourselves to enjoy them, and relish the experience of prosperity we already have. — Shakti Gawain

We can learn to be so fully immersed in the moment that even as it ends, we counterintuitively find an innate sense of non-attachment, which of course lies at the center of our ability to embrace authentic gratitude. Like little droplets, gratitude sinks into the heartbeat, into the natural pace of breath, into the essence of being. This vibrant energy sustains us, irrespective of circumstance. — Francesca Bove

As you breathe, savor the openness in your chest and lungs. On your inhale, think about each and every single thing that brings gratitude into your life. Exhale anything that doesn’t serve you, and smile to yourself for the things that do. — Georgina Berbari

Practicing gratitude doesn’t have to be difficult, but it will take effort. It’s the practice of seeing the quality of things alongside the quantity. It’s both the subconscious and conscious valuation you place on people, events, and challenges in your life. — Jessi Richardson

Great gratitude comes ultimately from a place of great humility. Replacing expectation with awe, we see the world through childlike eyes. Everything is a gift, everything is alive, everything is thrilling. — Monique Minahan

If you can learn how to be happy right here, right now in the middle of whatever mess you find yourself deep in, then you’ll carry that happiness to the highest peaks of your life. But if you can’t find gratitude and happiness in your heart now, it’s unlikely that soaring achievements will bring it to you. The external world is only an amplifier for the inner world. You can’t control the outer world, but you can learn to mold your thoughts and thereby change the vibration of your inner world. The best time for training your mind is when things are easy because it’s when things are difficult that you’re tested. — Kino MacGregor

Gratitude has a way of bringing us into the present moment, allowing us to be with what is. Our mind is no longer chasing after something in the future or lingering somewhere in the past. We are content. — Birgitte Kristen

From the perspective of Ayurveda, gratitude balances Vata. Some of the signs of an imbalance of the energy of Vata are a state of depletion of the mind, emotions, and energy; degeneration of the body and energetic state; and feelings of scarcity on all levels. When we are truly experiencing a state of gratitude, we feel naturally full, abundant, and blessed, which are all the exact opposites of the experience of Vata imbalance. — Dr. Siva Mohan

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. — Oprah Winfrey

Piglet noticed that even though he had a very small heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude. — A.A. Milne

We should not measure success by bank accounts filled with money, but rather by moments filled with joy and gratitude. Pursuing your passion vigorously and relentlessly will bring you those moments. — Dennis Houchin

How to Use Inspirational Quotes in Your Yoga Practice

Quotes are powerful tools you can use to inspire yourself to action. Each quote is a bite-sized nugget of potent wisdom, often presented in a poetic or otherwise memorable way. Here are a few practical ways to incorporate these inspirational quotes on yoga and gratitude into your practice:

1. Print out the list of quotes and post them wherever you might need a reminder to practice yoga and meditation.

2. Create an intention card or small piece of artwork featuring a quote and place it on your personal altar.

3. Share your favorite quotes on social media to build communal support for your yoga and gratitude practices.

4. Read a few quotes before you practice yoga or meditation to set an intention or mood for your practice.

5. Use a quote as the seed thought for deep contemplation or journaling.

May these powerful quotes on yoga and gratitude help you to express your thanks and appreciation for all that you have and for the people who encourage and inspire you.

And don’t forget to share the love—if you know someone who could use more gratitude in their life, consider sharing this article with them, including a quick note expressing your appreciation to them for their friendship.

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Everything is "Nothing"(No-mind)

with a "twist"(identify with any kind of ‘I am this or that.’ as real!).

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Which you? Which world? How to release yourself from self-limited?

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If we live life, we cannot help but understand life.

Life is a process of inward force working itself out into outward form.

It is the vital principle of the Universe animating all space and all form. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** 【Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East ；Volume 04 ; CHAPTER 09 ；By Baird T. Spalding】

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If you want check out old-world-reality-room, you need check in new-world-reality-room. *** *** *** Black-hole and White-hole are two aspects of a same thing. Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. *** *** *** Entering and leaving are two aspects of a same thing. Black-hole and White-hole are two aspects of a same thing. Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. *** *** *** Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren't enjoying the dream. ~Miguel Angel Ruiz *** *** ***

If it’s true and you like it – give it your undivided attention.

But if it’s true and you don’t want it – then why practice the Vibration of something that someone else made true by their attention to it?

Why practice that reality into your realization? You are sort of kind of getting this, aren’t you? YOU CREATE YOUR OWN REALITY, AND YOU DO IT BECAUSE YOU THINK. But you have control of what you think. But most of you don’t really exercise control of what you think because you believe that you owe your attention to it, if it is in front of you. ~Abraham

*** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Thanks “Abraham”

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Who knows whether 'what is' is real or unreal?! (To whom? Who am I? How was this universe born? Who is its maker? What is its material cause?;) *** Is everything we think and perceive “real” or it all imaginary?: *** *** *** All external objects are reflected in the mirror of one's consciousness which, when inquired into, is seen immediately. When thus investigated, their true nature as pure consciousness is realized. ~Yoga Vasistha *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***

You and that which you call "Source"(Tao; True Self) are the same. You cannot be separated from "Source"(Tao; True Self) . When we think of you, we think of "Source"(Tao; True Self) . When we think of Source, we think of you. Source never offers a thought that causes separation from you. ~Abraham *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love. - Meister Eckhart (1260 - 1328) *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Emptiness is form. Form is emptiness, Entering and leaving are two aspects of a same thing.. About emptiness is form. …: *** *** *** Everything Created Twice! *** *** *** Like building a house, first draw it in mind, and then draw on paper. *** *** *** Eagle dream of flying in the sky, While it still in the egg. Big oak tree dream of swaying in the wind, While it still in the seed. *** *** *** Everything is Created Twice. Once in the mind and then in reality. Pay close attention to the thoughts-feeling-emotion you choose. They have a way of becoming real. *** *** *** If you want it, identify with it as " me; myself; I; mine" and "true". *** *** *** If you don't want it, use your heart like "Mirror-Witness-Consciousness", Relax-empty your mind-body, don't identify with it as " me; myself; I; mine" and "true". *** *** *** 99.99% of your creation is complete before you see Any physical evidence of it! ~Abraham *** *** *** The relationship between you and "YOU"(True Self; Tao; Brahman) is not one of separateness but of alignment and resonance. ~Abraham *** *** *** Faith is: Knowing what the "Source"(True Self; Tao; Brahman; God) within me Knows, without life having to prove it to me. ~AH *** *** *** The secret of change is to FOCUS ALL of your Energy, Not on fighting the Old, but on building the new. ~Socrates *** *** *** When you focus your want, when you live a life of deliberate alignment, you wake up, and get rid of old-belief-habitual-pattern *** *** *** See your dream as dream, see illusion as illusion, if you don’t want it. And if you want live a life of deliberate alignment, FOCUS ALL of your Energy, Not on fighting the Old, but on building the new. *** *** *** Because, it’s your 3D*-Life-Movie, it’s your imagination projected by your suggestion about your self and world…. *** *** *** Your environment is the physical picture of your thoughts, emotions and beliefs made visible. *** *** *** "Once you understand the symbolic nature of physical reality, then you will no longer feel entrapped by it. You have formed the symbols, and therefore you can change them. You must learn, of course, what the various symbols mean in your own life, and how to translate their meaning." *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Thanks for “Seth Speaks Wisdom” *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** To find the Beloved is to find one's “True Self”(Source; Tao), to discover that God is one's very own, wholly identical with one's “True Self”(Source; Tao), the innermost Self, the Self of the self. ~ Sri Anandamayi Ma *** *** *** The relationship between you and "YOU"(True Self; Tao; Brahman) is not one of separateness but of alignment and resonance. ~Abraham *** *** *** Faith is: Knowing what the "Source"(True Self; Tao; Brahman; God) within me Knows, without life having to prove it to me. ~AH *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** We want you to understand that there is nothing that you cannot be or do or have. But today we want you to understand that in a whole new level. We want you to understand that there's nothing you haven't already been, there's nothing that you haven't already done and there isn't anything that hasn't already come. In other words vibrationally speaking it is all done. The art of allowing is you figuring out how to get up to speed with what you have already achieved. ~Abraham *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** You are extensions of Source Energy. And when you allow that pure Source Energy to flow through you, you are so bright and beautiful; your timing is good; and you feel vital and alive in your body. And so others see you, they wonder what your magic is. But it only seems like magic because it is experienced by so few. It isn't magic. It is available to everyone. But you must allow your alignment. ~Abraham-Hicks *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Tao Te Ching by Laozi - 老子 : 道德經 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** The "Source"(Tao; Logos; Ma-at; Dharma ; According to the Law that governs the Universe) that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging "Source"(Tao; Logos; Ma-at; Dharma). The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name. (Conceived of as) having no name, it is the Originator of heaven and earth; (conceived of as) having a name, it is the Mother of all things. 道可道，非常道。名可名，非常名。無名天地之始；有名萬物之母。 *** *** *** Always without desire we can "Realize"(become fully aware of) it "Original face"(True Self; Source), If its deep mystery we would sound; But if one have Well-Being-desire always, we can "Realize"(become fully aware of) it "Logos"(Ma-at; Dharma; Tao ; According to the Law that governs the Universe), Its function is running between heaven and earth , in all that we shall see "That"(Logos; Ma-at; Dharma; Tao; According to the Law that governs the Universe). 故常無欲，以觀其妙；常有欲，以觀其徼。 *** *** *** Under these two aspects, it is really the same "Source"(Tao; Logos; Ma-at; Dharma ; According to the Law that governs the Universe); but as self-development takes place, it receives from the different Gurus in the different names. Together we call them the "Mystery Source"(Tao; Logos; Maat; Dharma). Where the "Mystery Source"(Tao; Logos; Ma-at; Dharma) is the deepest is the gate of all that is subtle and wonderful. 此兩者，同出而異名，同謂之玄。玄之又玄，衆妙之門。 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Tao Te Ching by Laozi - 老子 : 道德經 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** What is “if one have Well-Being-desire always, we can "Realize"(become fully aware of) it "Logos"(Ma-at; Dharma; Tao) mean?:

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The evidence has been created from the thought, and now you use that as proof to work against yourselves. If you could understand that all of this evidence has been created by thought, then you are in a very secure place. ~AH *** *** *** *** *** *** And once you begin looking into your life experience and begin to see the absolute correlation between what you are speaking, what you are thinking, and what you are getting, then you will clearly understand that , indeed, you are the inviter, you are the attractor, and you are the creator of your physical experience. ~AH *** *** *** *** *** *** Once you begin to understand the correlation between what you are thinking, what you are feeling, and what you are receiving, now you have it. Now you hold all the keys that are necessary to get from where you are to wherever you want to BE, on all SUBJECTS. ~AH *** *** *** *** *** ***

Build not a one-sided life, knowing that he that is well-grounded is as a tree planted by the water of life, that that given out is as for the healings of many—whether in those of the mental forces or those of material gains of life; and let not thine physical endeavors be evil-spoken of.#EdgarCayce reading 1727-1 *** *** *** He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. ~Marcus Aurelius *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Thanks for “Edgar Cayce & Marcus Aurelius” *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***

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50 Quotes About New Beginnings and Starting Fresh

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