Daily Wisdom Saying

[Bruce Michael]

"For all real knowledge, that hopes to have a chance of coming to grips
with the riddles of the world, must grow out of the seed of wonder.
A man may be ever so clever a thinker, he may even suffer from a
superabundance of intelligence; if he has never passed through the stage
of wonder nothing will come of it. He will give you a cleverly thought-out
concatenation of ideas, containing nothing that is not correct - but
correctness does not necessary lead to reality.
It is absolutely essential that before we begin to think, before we so
much as begin to set our thinking in motion, we experience the condition
of wonder.

A thinking which is set in motion without the condition of wonder
remains nothing but a mere play of thought."

-Rudolf Steiner The world of the senses and the world of the spirit

[Pathless]

"The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less."

--Eldridge Cleaver, in his book Soul on Ice

[Snoopy]

The Perfect Man has no self; the Holy Man has no merit; the Sage has no fame.

- Chuang Tzu.

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[Bruce Michael]

A wise man can learn from a child. A simple-minded person can consider a wise man's utterances in like manner as a child's babblings, convinced that he is superior to a child and unaware of the practicality of wisdom. Only when he has learned to listen to the
stammering of a babe as if it were a revelation, has he created within him power that wells forth from his soul.
-Rudolf Steiner

[Vajradhara]

Reality tastes of bread.


metta,

~v

[Bruce Michael]

THE ANCIENTS when looking heavenwards would picture the starry mass above, connected as it were by a frame of infinite threads; each orb held in suspension, woven by the actions of another.


Planets, stars, moons and smaller comets- interdependent with orbits and individual space defined within the network maze, held within. Like the egg, with the yolk in albumen, we are held in suspension - and it is absolute illusion to perceive or believe otherwise.


Rarely do people fix their eyes on the stars today. If they come to acknowledge them it is with the perception of tiny individual points of light, dispersed far away. Our eyes are simply not powerful enough to appreciate the splendor of these heavenly bodies, nor their connecting paths and beams that blaze trails from one to another, to another - and so it goes.
Such it is with the concept of Brotherhood.



-the Elder Brothers

[Bruce Michael]

How can we look understandingly into somebody's being? We should not
condemn but understand the criminal's personality, understand the
criminal and the saint equally well. Empathy for each and everyone is
required and this is what is meant with higher, occult "listening."

Thus, if a person brings himself with strict self-control to the
point of not evaluating his fellowman, or the rest of the world for
that matter, according to his personal judgment, opinion and
prejudice and instead lets both work on him in silence, he has the
chance to gain occult powers. Every moment during which a person
becomes determined to refrain from thinking an evil thought about his
fellowman is a moment gained.

-Rudolf Steiner

[Ciel]

Today poetry in soul awakening

Ah This !!!


http://www.gardendigest.com/zen/index.htm


metta - c -

[Ciel]

The day the earth stood still........ it turned.

- c -

[Snoopy]

“There is what is, and there is what is not. It is not easy to confirm that what is not, is not. This is a statement. Yet I do not know whether my statements affirm what is, or affirm what is not.”

-Chuang Tzu.

s.

[Pathless]

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."

--Marie Curie

[Snoopy]

“So you should view all of the fleeting world:
A star at dawn, a bubble in the stream;
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud;
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.”

-from “The Diamond Sutra.”

s.

[flowperson]

"Sometimes God doesn't tell us his plans because we wouldn't believe it anyway." Vaclav Hlavaty

[chakraman]

"its not until you have lost everything, that you are free to do anything"

brad pitt as tyler durgan in the film "fight club"

[Snoopy]

“Buddhism is not a monolithic entity. It is rather a tradition from which people who consider themselves Buddhists draw inspiration and to which they add as they respond to the problems of their lives, sometimes reformulating the doctrine in new ways to make it more relevant, sometimes returning to earlier principles when they seem to be timely or in danger of becoming lost. The tradition is thus a history of what Buddhists think and do.”

-Mu Soeng.