Art of Living Study Group

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Theme for Contemplation: The Monadic Stream

“As pilgrim souls, all human beings are essentially integral parts of a single
monadic stream of evolution and a vast collective spiritual odyssey.”

— Aquarian Almanac

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April 1, 2017 Theme for Contemplation: The Monadic Stream

Superior individuals do not set their minds either for anything, or
against anything; what is right they will follow. — CONFUCIUS

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. — EDWARD GIBBON

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April 2, 2017 Theme for Contemplation: The Monadic Stream

Evolution is an eternal cycle of becoming… and nature
never leaves an atom unused. — H. P. BLAVATSKY

The action of the Centripetal Force keeps us to our gross forms. And if we have
to etherealize ourselves we must supply the Centrifugal Force, which is WILL.
— D. K. MAVALANKAR

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April 3, 2017 Theme for Contemplation: The Monadic Stream

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
— JOHN MILTON

It is our inward which ought to be the true thermometer, the true touchstone,
of what passes without. — CLAUDE de ST.-MARTIN

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April 4, 2017 Theme for Contemplation: The Monadic Stream

The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because
it must move all together. — THOMAS B. REED

Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher
destiny, to a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humaneness.
— MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

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The monadic stream is another way of saying the great pilgrimage of humanity. We are invited in theosophy to think about this immense journey through conditioned existence. What would it mean to rise above it and see it from the vantage point of the immortal soul?

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April 6, 2017 Theme for Contemplation: The Monadic Stream

It is difficult to achieve happiness, either in this world or in the next, except by
intense love of dharma (duty), intense self-examination, intense obedience,
intense fear of evil and intense enthusiasm. — ASHOKA

The natural movement of one’s soul is upwards. — VINOBA BHAVE

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April 7, 2017 Theme for Contemplation: The Monadic Stream

We should hasten our return to the nature which is
without colour and without quality. — PORPHYRY

Our noisy years seem moments in the being
Of the eternal Silence.
— WILLIAM WORDSWORTH