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Friday
June 14, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Instinct and Intuition

I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test: Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man whom you may have seen and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to…[Read more]

Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Instinct and Intuition
“The awakening of intuitive insight is an essential prerequisite to authentic
participation in human life. Noetic awakening presupposes that one learns to take
nothing for granted. ” — Aquarian Almanac

June 13 , 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Instinct and Intuition
Just let things be in their own way
And there will be neither coming nor going.
One thing, all things;
Move among them and intermingle,
Without distinction.
To live in this realization
Is to be without anxiety about non-perfection.
— HSIN HSIN MING

June 12, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Instinct and Intuition
Yield and overcome; bend and be straight; empty
and be full; wear out and be new. — LAO TZU

Love, Hope, and Self-esteem, like clouds depart
And come, for some uncertain moments lent.
— PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

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]

From Mr. Judge

THE word “evolution” is the best word from a theosophical standpoint to use in treating of the genesis of men and things, as the process which it designates is that which has been always stated in the ancient books from whose perusal the tenets
of the wisdom religion can be gathered. In the BhagavadGita we
find Krishna saying tha…[Read more]

June 11, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Instinct and Intuition

To attain this benefit
Begin the work joyfully,
And he, too, who has begun already,
Let him begin afresh today.
— WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

June 10, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Instinct and Intuition
We do not know what rays from how many quarters of the heavens are focussed on the burning point of consciousness.

— GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

Veil after veil will lift — but there must be
Veil upon veil behind.
— SIR EDWIN ARNOLD

June 8, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Instinct and Intuition

If we do all our acts, small and great, every moment, for the sake of the whole human race, as representing the Supreme Self, then every cell and fibre of the body and inner man will be turned in one direction, resulting in perfect concentration. — W. Q. JUDGE

Kindness is a m…[Read more]

Friday
June 7, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Bhagavad Gita

There is another philosophy that is more pliable, that knows its proper scene, accommodates itself to it, and teaches a man with propriety and decency to act that part which has fallen to his share.

— SIR THOMAS MORE

Now free, I once more weave together
Emotion, thought, and m…[Read more]

June 6 , 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Bhagavad Gita
Time cools, time clarifies. — THOMAS MANN

We value life for its own sake, not as something to be held under a constant threat of loss, but to be received and given mindfully, as the circumstance of each
moment allows. — HUGH I’ANSON FAUSSET

June 5, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Bhagavad Gita
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. — SOCRATES

By how much the less you are under external ties, esteem your
inward ties so much the stronger. — WILLIAM PENN

June 4, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Bhagavad Gita

The Divine Spirit is all-pervading, and those who put themselves en rapport with the Divine Spirit are necessarily en rapport with all other entities who are also en rapport with it. — D. K. MAVALANKAR

June 3, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Bhagavad Gita
The grateful soul of the wise man is the true altar of God.
— PHILO JUDAEUS

To man, the world is a mirror to see the Self. — BHAVANI SHANKAR

June 2, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Bhagavad Gita
The depths of the oceans can be measured but the Bodhisattva’s serenity,
wisdom, imperturbability, power of speech and all his merits cannot be measured.
— VIMALAKIRTI NIRDESA SUTRA

He who has knowledge of death knows the art
of dominating it. — COUNT CAGLIOSTRO

In this system of Yoga no effort is wasted, nor are there any evil consequences,
and even a little of this practice delivereth a man from great risk.
— SHRI KRISHNA

Both ease and difficulty would disappear:
You’d simply throw. A meteor would flame
Out of your hands and tear through its own spaces.
— RAINER MARIA RILKE

Friday
May 31, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Plotinus

In the faces of men and women I see God. — WALT WHITMAN

Resist not evil, but rather learn of it all the good
which in reality it only veils. — W. Q. JUDGE

May 30 , 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Plotinus
All steps are necessary to make up the ladder. — LIGHT ON THE PATH

Harmony is the law of life, discord its shadow; whence springs suffering,
the teacher, the awakener of consciousness. — Aquarian Axiom

May 29, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Plotinus
The highest notes are hard to hear; the greatest form has no shape.

— LAO TZU

I knew the Golden Age was all about me, and it was we who had been blind to it but that it had never passed away from the world.
— GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL