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October 16, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Hypostases

The right road in life is neither pursuit of pleasure nor yet unqualified
avoidance of pain, but that contentment with the intermediate condition of
graciousness. — PLATO

October 15, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Hypostases

Beauty is the depth of soul. — Sufi Saying

October 14, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Hypostases

Your only desire should be to do everything for humanity and not for yourself,
i.e., although you are in the world, your inner man should be out of it.
— D. K. MAVALANKAR

October 13, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Hypostases

Love is like understanding that grows bright
Gazing on many truths.
— PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

October 11, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Gupta Vidya

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

October 10, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Gupta Vidya

For the soul, the Good is its own natural act. — PLOTINUS

October 9, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Gupta Vidya

Secrecy is the power of meditation and the key to initiation. — CAGLIOSTRO

October 8, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Gupta Vidya

This Secret Doctrine contains the alpha and omega of universal science; therein
lies the corner and keystone of all the ancient and modern knowledge.
— H. P. BLAVATSKY

SD i page 272
Sri Sankaracharya, the greatest Initiate living in the historical ages, wrote many a Bhâshya on the Upanishads. But his original treatises, as there are reasons to suppose, have not yet fallen into the hands of the Philistines, for they are too jealously preserved in his maths (monasteries, mathams). And there are still weightier…[Read more]

“Those who falsely fancy themselves detached and seeking liberation, striving to reach the further shore of the ocean of passional life, seized by the shark of their desire, sink in the midst of their journey, caught by the throat and swiftly carried downward.

“He who slays the shark called sensuous desire with the sharp sword of true det…[Read more]

This world is part of a definite system having the sun as center. The evolutionary stream proceeds upon one definite plan for each manvantara. In order to carry this out all evolved objects and things must evolve upon one plan. All the forces must work from one center out to the various smaller centers, and in this the law of correspondence is…[Read more]

October 7, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Self-Conquest

Clarity is gained through breadth. — NIELS BOHR

October 6, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Gupta Vidya

There is nothing corporeal which does not possess a soul hidden in it. There
exists nothing in which is not a hidden principle of life. — PARACELSUS

October 5, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Self-Conquest

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honour
that; rejoice in it; and, as you can, try to imitate it; and your faults will drop off,
like dead leaves when the time comes. — JOHN RUSKIN

October 4, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Self-Conquest

He who has attained to meditation should constantly strive to stay at rest in the
Supreme, remaining in solitude and seclusion, having his body and his thoughts
under control, without possessions and free from hope. — SHRI KRISHNA

October 2, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Self-Conquest

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

October 1, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Self-Conquest

Hermes knows how to instruct in divine matters. — MARSILIO FICINO

September 30, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Self-Conquest

Man has come into the world for a particular task, and that is his purpose;
if he does not do it, he will have done nothing. — Jalāl al-Dīn Rumi

September 29, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Self-Conquest

It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not
to be able to love. — MIGUEL de UNAMUNO