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October 15, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Continuity of Consciousness

Therefore to whom turn I but to thee, the ineffable Name? Builder and maker, thou, of houses not made with hands! What, have fear of change from thee who art ever the same? — ROBERT BROWNING

October 13, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Continuity of Consciousness

Spiritual culture is attained through concentration. It must be continued
daily and every moment to be of use. — H.P. BLAVATSKY

To transform ourselves into the steady-burning Flame of the Nachiketas
Fire; that is the task that lies before us. — B.P. WADIA

October 12, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Continuity of Consciousness

Whosoever has found and understood the Self that has entered this patched-up hiding place, he indeed is the creator, for he is the maker of everything, his is the world, and he is the world itself.

— BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD

What is found in the effect was already in t…[Read more]

October 11, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Self-Testing

Thou must be true thyself,
If thou the truth wouldst teach;
Thy soul must overflow If thou
Another’s soul wouldst reach.
— BONAR

To obtain the knowledge of Self is a greater achievement than to command the elements or to know the future. — Aquarian Axioms

October 10, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Self-Testing
For the soul, the Good is its own natural act. — PLOTINUS

God has furnished us with constant occasions of bearing one another’s burdens. For there is no man living without his failings; no man that is so happy as never to give offense; no man without his load of trouble; no man so…[Read more]

October 9, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Self-Testing
He shall be like a tree planted by streams of water,
That yieldeth its fruit in its season,
And whose leaf doth not wither.
— PSALMS

Patience, and shuffle the cards. — MIGUEL de CERVANTES

October 8, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Self-Testing

Everything that a man accomplishes or does, that he teaches or wants to learn, must have its right proportion; it must follow its own line and remain within its circle, to the end that a balance be preserved, that there be no crooked thing, that nothing exceed the circle.

— PICO della MIRANDOLA

October 8, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Self-Testing
My time on earth
Is borrowed.
— NAHAUATL SHAMAN

Clarity is gained through breadth. — NIELS BOHR

October 6, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Self-Testing
If for the sake of this great prize
Thou wilt not give thyself, with all thou hast and art
Then cease to prate of goodness.
— TUKARAM

Self-knowledge is of loving deeds the child. — THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE

October 5, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Self-Testing
Some men a forward motion love,
But I by backward steps would move;
And when this dust falls to the urn,
In that state I came, return.
— HENRY VAUGHAN

Oct. 4, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Paracelsus

Man’s freedom is never in being saved troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy. It can be made so only when we realize that our individual self is not the highest meaning of our being, that in us we have the world-man who i…[Read more]

October 3, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Paracelsus
Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither
anxiety nor doubt. — FRANCIS of ASSISI

A lifetime may be needed merely to gain the virtues which annul
the errors of man’s preceding life. — HONORÉ de BALZAC

October 2, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Paracelsus
Ideals must work in practice, otherwise they are not potent.

— M. K. GANDHI

Only through time time is conquered. — T. S. ELIOT

October 1, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Paracelsus

In truth only those are alive who have escaped the bondage of the flesh as froma prison, while that which you call life is in reality death. — CICERO

Man is like a star wrapped in a cloud. — MARSILIO FICINO

October 1, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Paracelsus

In truth only those are alive who have escaped the bondage of the flesh as froma prison, while that which you call life is in reality death. — CICERO

Man is like a star wrapped in a cloud. — MARSILIO FICINO

October 1, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Paracelsus

In truth only those are alive who have escaped the bondage of the flesh as froma prison, while that which you call life is in reality death. — CICERO

Man is like a star wrapped in a cloud. — MARSILIO FICINO

October 1, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Paracelsus

In truth only those are alive who have escaped the bondage of the flesh as froma prison, while that which you call life is in reality death. — CICERO

Man is like a star wrapped in a cloud. — MARSILIO FICINO

September 29, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Paracelsus
Just get rid
Of that small mind
That is called ‘self’,
And there is nothing in the universe
That can harm or hinder you.
— SENGTSAN

September 28, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Paracelsus
How shall he follow the unknown?
How shall he find it, and when found
How shall he know it? Did the soul
Once see the universal mind,
And know the part, and know the whole?
— BOETHIUS