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March 17, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: The Flame of Bhakti
Out of devotion and love he meditates on and worships his Gurudeva; and
the inner spirit of surrender and worship is reduced to practice, and all his
activities become one service of his Guru. — BHAVANI SHANKAR

March 16, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: The Flame of Bhakti
Thou art present in me even in thy absence.
— IBN AL-FARID

But one ray of your light and I abound in light,
But one word from you and I am reborn,
But one tremor of your eternal life and I am drenched in the dew of childhood.
— HILLEL ZEITLIN

March 8, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: The Flame of Bhakti

If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man
from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.
— MICHELANGELO

I sense one Flame, oh Gurudeva, I see countless undetached
sparks shining in it. — OCCULT CATECHISM

March 14, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Flame of Bhakti

Yielding, devoted, furthering through perseverance; thus the
Superior Man has a direction for his way of life. — I CHING

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of
science. Truth is what stands the test of experience. — ALBERT EINSTEIN

March 13, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Good and Evil

Neither good nor evil, neither fair nor foul touch him, dwelling ever beyond
the body, full of the vision of the Eternal. — SHANKARACHARYA

Spirituality is not what we understand by the words ‘virtue’ and
‘goodness’. It is the power of perceiving formless, spiritual essences.
— Aquarian Axiom

March 12, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Good and Evil
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few. — GEORGE BERKELEY

The devil is an angel too. — MIGUEL de UNAMUNO

March 11, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: Good and Evil
We find that important parts of goodness are at variance with one another
and that they set at variance the men in whom they predominate. — PLATO

March 10, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: Good and Evil
Like the bee, take in little by little, and from good and bad alike, extract
the essence even as the bee gathers honey. — SHRI KRISHNA

Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse. — PROVERBS

March 9, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: Good and Evil
Evil is often the result of over-anxiety, and men are
always trying to do too much. — H.P. BLAVATSKY

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty
as is cooperation with good. — M.K. GANDHI

March 8, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: Good and Evil
Better be left undone an evil deed; a misdeed torments one hereafter. Better
is to do a good deed, doing which one does not repent later. — BUDDHA

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the
destiny of men. — OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR.

March 7, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Good and Evil
Wisdom is the only good, and folly the only evil.
All other things are indifferent. — PLATO

Whoso committeth sin committeth it only against himself. — QURAN

March 5, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Karma and Compensation

Grief may be joy misunderstood; Only the Good discerns
the good. — ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

Karma, not scientific and technological progress, is the factor in human life
that produces welfare and happiness, or, alternatively misery and sorrow.
— ARNOLD TOYNBEE

March 4, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: Karma and Compensatiion

Karma is an undeviating and unerring tendency in the Universe to restore
equilibrium, and it operates incessantly. — Aphorism on Karma

Karma compels us so long as we do not anticipate the direction of its course
by intelligence, nor endeavour to divert its flow by s…[Read more]

March 3, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: Karma and Compensation
The Way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that
each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent
accord with the Great Harmony. — I CHING

The compensations of calamity are apparent to the understanding
after long intervals of time. —…[Read more]

March 2, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: Karma and Compensation
We should have been undone, but for our undoing.— THEMISTOCLES

If you rightly bear your cross, it will bear you. — THOMAS KEMPIS

A man used to vicissitude is not easily dejected. — SAMUEL JOHNSON

March 1, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: Karma and Compensation
There is one eternal Law in nature, one that always tends to adjust
contraries and to produce final harmony. — H.P. BLAVATSKY

Misery, sorrow and suffering have a mission. It is usually only the misery
we bring on ourselves that makes us stop doing wrong, to look round and ask and s…[Read more]

February 29, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Karma and Compensation
Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business
better than we do. — MICHEL de MONTAIGNE

Chafe not at Karma, nor at Nature’s changeless laws. But struggle only
with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable.
— THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE

February 28, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Potency of Tapas

By constant meditation is kindled the flame of Knowledge which completely
burns up the fuel of ignorance. — SHANKARACHARYA

Because Thou lovest the burning ground,
I have made a burning ground of my heart.
— Bengali Hymn to Kali