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Friday
August 23, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Spiritual Perception

At all times be thou fixed in devotion. — SHRI KRISHNA

God is the centre of everything, whose circumference
is nowhere to be found. — ROBERT FLUDD

August 22, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Spiritual Perception
Beauty is the depth of the soul. — Sufi Saying

August 21, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Spiritual Perception
I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar;
Whilst, burning through the inmost veil of Heaven,
The soul of Adonais, like a star,
Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
— PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

August 20, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Spiritual Perception

Enkindle generous ardour, feed pure love,
Beget the smiles that have no cruelty,
Be the sweet presence of a good diffused,
And in diffusion ever more intense!
— GEORGE ELIOT

August 19, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Spiritual Perception
Like the sun flashing forth light unto one enshrouded in darkness, like the boat rescuing a person sinking in the sea, like the cloud showering forth its refreshing waters on the thirsty, like the storehouse of wealth removing the distress of the penniless, and like the physician…[Read more]

August 18, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Spiritual Perception
Does the fish soar to find the ocean,
The eagle plunge to find the air —
That we ask of the stars in motion
If they have rumour of thee there?
— FRANCIS THOMPSON

What we need is that interior tenderness shall be elevated into seership, that what in most is only yearning or blind lov…[Read more]

August 17, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Spiritual Perception

The centre of life is neither in thought nor in feeling nor in will, nor even in consciousness, so far as it thinks, feels, or wishes. For moral truth may have been penetrated and possessed in all these ways, and escape us still. Deeper even than consciousness, there is our…[Read more]

August 16, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Diamond Sutra

Awonawilona conceived within himself and thought outward in space, whereby mists of increase, potent streams of growth, were evolved and uplifted.
— Zuni Creation Myth

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. — RALPH WALDO EMERSON

August 15, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Inheritance of Humanity
Thou hast prepared vestures for these Sephiroth to serve human
souls as points of transition. — INVOCATION OF ELIJAH

The word Swaraj is a sacred word, a Vedic word, meaning
self-rule and self-restraint. — M. K. GANDHI

August 12, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Inheritance of Humanity
It is through the Divine Mind that we have
this vision of the Unity. — PLOTINUS

August 13, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Inheritance of Humanity

You should try to be poor as an individual, but to be
rich as a member of humanity. — APOLLONIUS
The true redemption of man’s soul can only happen
As he steps outside the body’s limits.
— SHEMU’AH TOVAH

August 14, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Inheritance of Humanity
The Good which is above all light is called a Spiritual Light because it is an
originating beam and an overflowing radiance, illuminating with its fullness every. Mind above the world, around it, or within it.
— DIONYSIUS the AREOPAGITE

August 13, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Inheritance of Humanity

You should try to be poor as an individual, but to be
rich as a member of humanity. — APOLLONIUS
The true redemption of man’s soul can only happen
As he steps outside the body’s limits.
— SHEMU’AH TOVAH

August 12, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Inheritance of Humanity
It is through the Divine Mind that we have
this vision of the Unity. — PLOTINUS

August 11, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Inheritance of Humanity
One need but worship the spirit of living nature and try to identify oneself with it. To revere that Presence, the invisible Cause, which is yet ever manifesting itself in its incessant results; the intangible, omnipotent, the omnipresent Proteus: indivisible in its Essence,…[Read more]

August 10, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Inheritance of Humanity

Its splendor shines in every individual thing according to its nature
and is called grace and beauty. — MARSILIO FICINO
Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
Bliss in our brows.
— WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Friday
August 9, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Diamond Sutra

Thou art greater than the greatest, Truth absolute, the very embodiment of existence (SAT), intelligence (CHIT), and bliss (ANANDA).
— SANATKUMARA SAMHITA

Master, go on, and I will follow thee,
To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.
— WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

August 8, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Diamond Sutra
Can anything be found on earth?
Beyond is the place where one lives.
— QUETZALCOATL

It is only on the ruins of the Tower of Confusion that the Temple
of Truth can be erected. — COUNT CAGLIOSTRO

August 7, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Diamond Sutra
They give to Me name, Who am without name, ascribe actions to Me, Who am without actions, think of Me with a physical body though I have none, give form to Me, though I am formless, give attributes to Me when I am without attributes, and worldly duties to Me where I have no obligations.…[Read more]