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April 24, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Gospel According to Thomas
Revered is he who, knowing self through self,
Maintains equanimity to attachment and deception.
— DASHAVAIKALIKA SUTRA

Unless you abstain from the world, you will not find the Kingdom.

— JESUS

April 23, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Gospel According to Thomas

All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
— WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Endless activities go on all the time throughout creation. But karmayoga
means performing all actions with a special mental attitude.
— VINOBA BHAVE

April 23, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Gospel According to Thomas

All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
— WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Endless activities go on all the time throughout creation. But karmayoga
means performing all actions with a special mental attitude.
— VINOBA BHAVE

April 22, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Gospel According to Thomas
Waking up
I dream this life.
— NAHUATL SHAMAN

There is one eternal Law in nature, one that always tends to adjust
contraries and to produce final harmony. — H. P. BLAVATSKY

“By the study of this Law of Cycles we learn that natural progress of all kinds does not occur in one steady stream, like the rush of a railway train on a straight track, but on the contrary, it proceeds by a spiral or screw-like course, in which the same points are successively and continually reached on higher circles of existence. It might, p…[Read more]

Studies in the Secret Doctrine: B.P. Wadia
Growth Through Self-Effort

That is the first step — the complete rejection of orthodox creeds which have to be blindly believed, or which encourage dependence on outer agencies, personal or institutional.

The next is to practise every day and in all circumstances self-reliance, to gain the habit of m…[Read more]

When waxing stronger, thy Soul glides forth from her secure retreat; and breaking loose from the protecting shrine, extends her silver thread and rushes onward; when beholding her image on the waves of Space she whispers, “This is I,”—declare, O Disciple, that thy Soul is caught in the webs of delusion.7

This Earth, Disciple, is the Hall of Sorro…[Read more]

April 21, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Gospel According to Thomas

O what their joy and their glory must be,
Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see.
— PETER ABELARD

Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds
Of high resolve; on fancy’s boldest wing
To soar unwearied, fearlessly to turn
The keenest pangs to peacefulness, and tas…[Read more]

April 19, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Deity, Nature and Man

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

— PSALMS

To be able to stand is to have confidence. — LIGHT ON THE PATH

April 18, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Deity, Nature and Man
Descend, prophetic Spirit! that inspir’st
The human Soul of universal earth,
Dreaming on things to come.
— WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

It is spiritual fire that burns out all the dross. — ROBERT CROSBIE

April 17, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Deity, Nature and Man
Let brotherhood with every man on earth
Be the highest aspiration of your Yogic Order.
Know that to sudue the mind
Is to subdue the world.
— GURU NANAK

April 16, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Deity, Nature and Man

The bird is beyond seeking,
Yet it is most clearly visible.
The Formless is in the midst of forms.
I sing the glory of forms.
— KABIR

April 15, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Deity, Nature and Man
For a spirtual seeker, there is no greater evil than negligence in recollection. From it arises delusion. From delusion arises egoism. From egoism comes bondage and from bondage misery. — SHANKARACHARYA

Resolve thou to become a man of meditation. — SHRI KRISHNA

April 14, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Deity, Nature and Man

Seek your source. Find out whence the thought
‘I’ springs. — SHRI RAMANA MAHARSHI

Down the ages the Great Masters have revealed to men what it is to be a Son of God, a being who radiates the Light of wisdom and the power of love with a redeeming intensity. — HUGH I’ANSON FAUSSET

April 13, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Deity, Nature and Man

“Speak not of this”, Thou saidst,
Then into speechless mysteries Thou ledst
My wondering soul:
Can utterance describe th’ unutterable?
— AL-NURI

Arouse, arouse in yourself the meaning of ‘Thou art That’. — W. Q. JUDGE

Friday
April 12, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Mystery of the Ego

Our mind departs at the coming of the Divine Spirit and returns when it
departs. It is not lawful for mortal and immortal to dwell together.
— PHILO JUDAEUS

April 11, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Mystery of the Ego

Like the sages of realization fully absorbed in the SELF, or rivers which have emptied their waters into the ocean, losing their name-and-form personalities, they become one with Me. — SHRI KRISHNA

And when a man hath thus broken loose from and out leaped all temporal t…[Read more]

April 10, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Mystery of the Ego
In musk if dust is mixed,
How can they be separated?
— TUKARAM

There is within us a little space through which all the threads
of the universe are drawn. — GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL