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July 22, 2017 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Dhyana Marga

Let those who have by now set their lives in order be received
into the sanctuary. — PICO della MIRANDOLA

A man comes into possession of creative power by uniting his
own mind with the Universal Mind. — JACOB BÖEHME

July 21, 2017 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom

‘Great Sifter’ is the name of the ‘Heart Doctrine’,
O Disciple. — THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE

Logic is a matter of mere intelligence, which cannot apprehend
things that are clear as crystal to the heart. — M. K. GANDHI

July 20, 2017 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom

To be able to say how much you love is to love but little. — PETRARCH

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege
of wisdom to learn. — OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, Sr.

July 19, 2017 Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom

Knowledge is proud that he knows so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
— WILLIAM COWPER

Learn to unlearn. — BENJAMIN DISRAELI

July 18, 2017 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Heart-Wisdom

Blessed are the pure of heart; for they shall see God. — JESUS

‘Tis wisdom sometimes to seem a fool. — THOMAS FULLER

Fundamental theorem of the calculus (Leibniz) 1677

July 17, 2017 Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Soul-Wisdom

Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one
faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.
— FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

Where my heart lies, let my brain lie also. — ROBERT BROWNING

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July 16, 2017 Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Soul-Wisdom

To cling to the Void and neglect compassion
Is to fall short of the highest path.
— DOHAKOSA

The acquisition of Brahma Vidya is entirely dependent upon the development
of a feeling of universal love. — D. K. MAVALANKAR

July 15, 2017 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Head-Learning and Soul Wisdom

Can I see another’s woe,
And not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another’s grief,
And not seek for kind relief?
— WILLIAM BLAKE

Rembrandt van Rijn 1606
Thomas Bulfinch 1796
Inquisition ended (Spain) 1834

July 14, 2017 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Gratitude to the Guruparampara

They who are intelligent and free from sorrow are enabled to ascend above the
paradise of the Gods; and when they there have seen the subjection of man to birth
and death and the sorrows by which he is afflicted, they open the doors of the
immortal. — TCHED-DU BRJOD-PAI TSOMS

July 13, 2017 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Gratitude to the Guruparampara

O Awakened Ones, who for countless aeons
Generated compassion out of mercy for beings,
Delight in the thoughts of my prayers.
The time is right to work the good of the world.
— NAGARJUNA

July 12, 2017 Theme for Contemplation: Gratitude to the Guruparampara

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the
spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated even with the fumes, call it, of divine nectar,
to bear my head through atmospheres and over heights unknown to my feet, is
perennial and constant. — HENRY D…[Read more]

July 11, 2017 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Gratitude to the Guruparampara

Back of all is the Great Lodge, ever watchful, ever
working; never doubt that. — ROBERT CROSBIE

We could work like those who have made the Great
Sacrifice. — GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

July 10, 2017 Theme for Contemplation: Gratitude to the Guruparampara

The gods, the saints or common men, whoever realized
their identity with Essence, have become All.
— BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD

Where there is ‘I’ there is bondage, where there is
no ‘I’ there is release. — ASHTAVAKRA GITA

July 9, 2017 Theme for Contemplation: Gratitude to the Guruparampara

Truth is only one, its language also is one, and all who walk in this way must
say the same things, without seeing or knowing each other.
— CLAUDE de ST.-MARTIN

All the World-Saviours, the Bodhisattvas and the Avataras, are the trees of
salvation grown out from the one s…[Read more]

July 8, 2017 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Gratitude to the Guruparampara

The gods, the saints or common men, whoever realized
their identity with Essence, have become All.
— BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD

Where there is ‘I’ there is bondage, where there is
no ‘I’ there is release. — ASHTAVAKRA GITA

July 7, 2017 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Republic of Conscience

A true community is a place where truth and wisdom are its light, and where
the people know each other and trust each other and have things in common, and
where there is a harmonious organization. In fact, harmony is its life and its
happiness and its meaning. — MAHA P…[Read more]

July 6, 2017 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Republic of Conscience

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings
of humanity. — SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE

The supremacy of humanity over matter and ideology must always
be maintained. — TENZIN GYATSO, XIVth DALAI LAMA

July 5, 2017 Theme for Contemplation: The Republic of Conscience

Assemble, speak together, let your minds be all of one accord,
Even as the gods of ancient days await as one their appointed share.
The place is common, common the assembly, common the mind:
So be your thoughts united.
— RIG VEDA

July 4, 2017 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Republic of Conscience

We will take our plan
From the new world of man,
And our work shall be called the Promethean.
— PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY