Selected Quotes
I believe in God, only I spell it "Nature". - Frank Lloyd Wright
Every event we experience and every person we meet has been put in our path for a reason. When we awaken to this fundamental truth, we begin to understand that a benevolent force of energy is available to guide and direct our lives. I call this energy the unmistakable touch of Grace. - Cheryl Richardson
I have been here before, but when or how I cannot tell;
I know the grass beyond the door, the sweet keen smell,
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.
You have been mine before – how long ago I may not know;
But just when at that swallow’s soar
Your neck turned so, some veil did fall
I knew it all of yore.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
I am constantly amazed by the shortsightedness of people. I have many acquaintances who obsess daily about their children’s education: which nursery school is the best, private schools versus public schools, which college-board prep courses are the most effective, how to maximize grades and extracurricular activities to give their children an edge to get into that college, that grad school, ad infinitum. Then the same cycle will start with their grandchildren.
But these people think that this world is frozen in time, that the future will be a replica of the present. If we continue to chop down our forests and destroy oxygen sources, what will these children breathe in twenty or thirty years? If we poison our water systems and food cycles what will they eat? If we blindly continue to overproduce fluorocarbons and other organic wastes and blow holes in the ozone layer, will they be able to live outdoors? If we overheat this planet by some greenhouse effect and the oceans rise and we flood our coasts and overstress oceanic and continental fault lines, where will they live? And the children and grandchildren in China and Africa and Australia and everywhere else are just as vulnerable because they are all inescapably residents of this planet. And consider this. If and when you reincarnate, you will be one of those children. – Brian Weiss, M.D. , Only Love is Real
There are numerous Indigenous cultures with traditional knowledge systems that are relatively intact and uncorrupted by scientific materialism. They already have, or are equally capable of developing Weather Modification methods like the Traditional Weather Modification model. Included in this group are China, India, parts of Africa, North and South America and the Asia-Pacific region. All have long histories of practical research in and demonstration of psycho-spiritual abilities. - Traditional Weather Modification, New Zealand
It is becoming increasingly apparent that we shall not have the benefits of this world much longer. The imminent and expected destruction of the life cycle of world ecology can only be prevented by a radical shift in outlook from our present naive conception of this world as a testing ground to a more mature view of the universe as a comprehensive matrix of life forms. Making this shift in view point is essentially religious, not economic or political. - Vine Deloria Jr. in God is Red
When you see the problems which organized religion has caused - "holy" wars, religious extremism, bigotry against women and gays, intolerance of other religious traditions - you realize that religion is often motivated by politics rather than by love, that it is driven by fear and prejudice instead of a true understanding of the nature of God. Perhaps the biggest problem with much of Christianity is that it is trapped by its own past. It jealously defends its view of what God did in ancient times while turning a blind eye to what God is doing today. - John Sloat, 40-year Presbyterian Minister, www.beyondreligion.com
The current concern for environmental degradation around the globe makes Rolston's prize particularly timely. "Within religious thought and practice in the second half of the twentieth century, no development is more striking than the re-consideration of the human relation to the natural world, launched by environmental concerns," wrote Dr. Perry H. Biddle, Jr., Minister-at-Large for the Middle Tennessee Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in his nomination of Rolston for the Templeton Prize. "Rolston, more than any other living person, has been the seminal thinker who makes possible a new rapprochement between biology and religion, joining theologians and biologists in their common respect/reverence for nature. In the ancient Hebrew Scriptures, the Hebrew people envisioned a promised land, flowing with milk and honey, but if and only if they resided in that land with justice and love, rolling down like waters. Rolston has enlarged that vision a hundredfold, from locally to globally, placing on the agenda for Earth in the new millennium the vision of Earth as the promised planet." - HOLMES ROLSTON III WINS 2003 TEMPLETON PRIZE, www.templetonprize.org
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - Krishnamarti
To hunt a species to extinction is not logical - Spock, Star Trek
There is a loneliness in us that hears. When the soul parts company from the ego and its retinue of petty conceits; when we cease to exploit all things but instead pray the world’s cry, the world’s sigh, our loneliness may hear the living grace beyond all power. – Rabbi Heschel in Spiritual Intelligence; The Ultimate Intelligence – Dana Zohar and Dr. Ian Marshall
Hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed. This is the ancient and eternal law. - Buddha
As the inspired metaphysical teacher Rudolph Steiner noted; nationalistic chauvinists who hate other countries are actually having premonitions that they will be born into that nationality in their next life. The Higher Self knows, but the personality resists. – Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, Spiritual Politics.
I’m placing my hope in those people who are awake and who have the courage and conviction to see how many other people they can wake up. If that happens, then we will have a renaissance. Listen to those leaders who encourage us to be better people, not those playing to our fears. As I see it, either we are going to have a very rapid decline into a “worst-case” scenario, or else the dream of a new renaissance will be made a reality. The choice is ours. – Larry Dossey, M.D. , Towards a New World View, by Russell DiCarlo
The greatest danger is not that our hopes will be too high and not attained - but that they'll be too low, and will. - Michaelangelo
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. - Sir Winston Churchill
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go. - James Baldwin
Few things are harder to bare than the annoyance of a good example. - Mark Twain
Since when does imagination cause scars and markings, or pain that puts you in the hospital, all before you were even aware of a past life? - Jeff Keene
If any religious belief could be said to be even more universal than that of the Netherworld, it would have to be the doctrine of reincarnation. Repeatedly appearing among the most ancient beliefs of every continent, the belief in rebirth seems to also be a naturally-occurring element of native religions. From the Indians of North America to the tribesmen of Africa, from the Aborigines of Australia to the teeming masses of India, China, and Japan, people everywhere seem to have independently reached the same conclusion: that after death, a person is always reborn again, given a new chance, a new life, and a new identity.
The belief in reincarnation seems to have covered the entire world at one point or another. In the East, the Zoroastrians of Persia, the Egyptians of Africa, and the Pythagoreans and Plat onists of Greece all maintained this belief. In ancient Europe, this doctrine was native to the Finns, Danes, Norse, Saxons, Celts, and Prussians, among others. In the Americas, similar views were held by the Incas and the Aztecs, and later by the Mayans, Hopi, Iroquois, Algonquins, Dakotas, Tlingits, and many, many other tribes. Since this doctrine has been found in native cultures all across the world, from Africa to South America to Alaska to Australia to a myriad of completely isolated oceanic islands, rebirth cannot be a tradition handed down from any one source, but instead must be considered a truly universal indigenous belief. - Peter Novak, www.divisiontheory.com
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too self-ful to seek other than itself. - Khalil Gibran
The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done – that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual. - Buckminster Fuller
Death is the pervasive conditioner, the source of the enervation of all effort toward transcendent expansion and an excuse for not even trying. We get here without a manual and the struggle for survival prevents even beginning to write one for oneself. That desperate cynicism holds it impossible to arrive at an overview of the human situation comprehensive enough to subsume all familiar worldviews and unite humans in a planetary paradigm. I categorically, unequivocally and emphatically reject that point of view. Our most advanced thought from the ancient maps of consciousness to quantum mechanics points to the fact that we are capable of and do, indeed, create our own reality. – Neil Freer, God Games – What do you do forever?
…Do not be ignorant of me.
For I am the first and the last.
I am the honored one and the scorned one.
I am the whore and the holy one.
I am the wife and the virgin.
I am the mother and the daughter.
I am the members of my mother.
I am the barren one, and many are her sons.
I am she whose wedding is great, and I have not taken a husband.
I am the midwife, and she who does not bear.
I am the solace of my labor pains.
I am the bride and the bridegroom,
and it is my husband who begot me.
I am the mother of my father
and the sister of my husband
and he is my offspring.
I am the slave of him who prepared me.
I am the ruler of my offspring.
But he is the one who begot me before the time on a birthday.
And he is my offspring in due time, and my power is from him.
I am the staff of his power in his youth, and he is the rod of my old age.
And whatever he wills happens to me.
I am the silence that is incomprehensible
and the idea whose remembrance is frequent.
I am the voice whose sound is manifold
and the word whose appearance is multiple.
I am the utterance of my name…
The Thunder : Perfect Mind - The Nag Hammadi
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