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February 27, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Mirror
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each
man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
— HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

February 26, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: The Potency of Tapas
True tapas which establishes
One in the Self supreme is but
The concentrated bliss of pure awareness
Silently experienced as Shiva.
— MURUGANAR

If suffer we must, let’s suffer on the heights. — VICTOR HUGO

February 25, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: The Potency of Tapas

Strenuous is the life of a man who is modest, ever seeking purity, detached
and unassuming, clean in life and clear in vision. — BUDDHA

Perseverance, dear my lord,
Keeps honour bright.
— WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

February 24, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: The Potency of Tapas

Thou mayest sculpt thyself into whatever shape
thou dost prefer. — PICO della MIRANDOLA

Devotion is the skilled charioteer, selflessness the shield, contentment the
sword, charity the axe, intelligence the mighty bolt, the elevated mind is the
awesome bow. A heart, pure and u…[Read more]

February 23, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: The Potency of Tapas

By truthfulness, indeed, by penance, right knowledge, and abstinence, must
that Self be gained; the Self whom spotless anchorites gain is pure, and like a light within the body. — MUNDAKA UPANISHAD

February 22, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Potency of Tapas

Labour to keep alive in your breast that little celestial
fire, called conscience. — GEORGE WASHINGTON

Each of us takes the limits of our own field of vision for
the limits of the world. — ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

February 21, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Relationship and Solitude

To man, the world is a mirror to see the self. — BHAVANI SHANKAR
When our sattva nature is purified, when the mirror of our understanding
is cleansed of the dust of desire, the light of pure consciousness is reflected in it. — S. RADHAKRISHNAN

February 20, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Mirror
Liberty of thought is the life of the soul. — VOLTAIRE

Poets are the hierophants of unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the
gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
— PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

February 19, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: The Mirror
Magnetism is intensified and reflected by mirrors,
just like light. — FRANZ ANTON MESMER

February 18, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: The Mirror

Seek for wisdom with obeisance, by questioning, and through service; the
wise who see the Truth will instruct thee in the way of wisdom.
— SHRI KRISHNA

February 17, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: The Mirror
I apprehend three attributes, mind, intellect, and love, with which things
have: first, being, through the mind; next, ordered and distinct being, through the intellect; and third, concord and symmetry, through love.
— GIORDANO BRUNO

The act of supplication removes earthly desires from the h…[Read more]

In the same manner as man approaches a mirror placed upon a stand,
beholds in it his own image, so the energy or reflection of Vishnu is never
disjoined but remains in the Sun as in a mirror that is there stationed.
— VISHNU PURANA

Philosophy is written in this grand book — I mean
the universe — which stands continually open to our
gaze. — GALILEO GALILEI
Those who are really earnest must be willing to be
anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
— SUSAN B. ANTHONY

February 14, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Relationship and Solitude

The SELF alone is complete, constituting the ultimate refuge,
self-established and self-dependent. — SHANKARACHARYA

Keep yourself to yourself. — CHARLES DICKENS

February 13, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Relationship and Solitude
When men have been alone with God, and know,
This is their tongue’s expression,
And this their hearts’ confession:
This ecstasy of joy knits friend and foe
In common brotherhood,
Working to common good.
— HALLAJ

February 13, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Relationship and Solitude
When men have been alone with God, and know,
This is their tongue’s expression,
And this their hearts’ confession:
This ecstasy of joy knits friend and foe
In common brotherhood,
Working to common good.
— HALLAJ

February 12, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: Relationship and Solitude
Progress has been much more general than
retrogression. — CHARLES DARWIN

In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would
not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
— ABRAHAM LINCOLN

February 11, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: Relationship and Solitude

Having enjoyed the flavour of solitude and the sweetness of tranquility, he
becomes untroubled and stainless, imbibing the taste of devotion to the
dhamma. — BUDDHA