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ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Gospel According to Thomas in the forum 
Art of Living Study Group 18 hours, 38 minutes ago
April 24, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Gospel According to Thomas
Revered is he who, knowing self through self,
Maintains equanimity to attachment and deception.
— DASHAVAIKALIKA SUTRA
Unless you abstain from the world, you will not find the Kingdom.
— JESUS
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Gospel According to Thomas in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 day, 20 hours ago
April 23, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Gospel According to Thomas
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
— WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Endless activities go on all the time throughout creation. But karmayoga
means performing all actions with a special mental attitude.
— VINOBA BHAVE
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Gospel According to Thomas in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 day, 20 hours ago
April 23, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Gospel According to Thomas
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
— WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Endless activities go on all the time throughout creation. But karmayoga
means performing all actions with a special mental attitude.
— VINOBA BHAVE
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Gospel According to Thomas in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 days, 20 hours ago
April 22, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Gospel According to Thomas
Waking up
I dream this life.
— NAHUATL SHAMAN
There is one eternal Law in nature, one that always tends to adjust
contraries and to produce final harmony. — H. P. BLAVATSKY
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Theosophical Tenets: Cycles in the forum 
Key Concepts Study Group 3 days, 21 hours ago
“By the study of this Law of Cycles we learn that natural progress of all kinds does not occur in one steady stream, like the rush of a railway train on a straight track, but on the contrary, it proceeds by a spiral or screw-like course, in which the same points are successively and continually reached on higher circles of existence. It might, p…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Secret Doctrine Study Aids 2019 in the forum 
Secret Doctrine Study Group 3 days, 21 hours ago
Studies in the Secret Doctrine: B.P. Wadia
Growth Through Self-Effort
That is the first step — the complete rejection of orthodox creeds which have to be blindly believed, or which encourage dependence on outer agencies, personal or institutional.
The next is to practise every day and in all circumstances self-reliance, to gain the habit of m…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum 
Sacred Texts Study Group 3 days, 21 hours ago
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]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Gospel According to Thomas in the forum Art of Living Study Group 3 days, 21 hours ago
April 21, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Gospel According to Thomas
O what their joy and their glory must be,
Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see.
— PETER ABELARD
Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds
Of high resolve; on fancy’s boldest wing
To soar unwearied, fearlessly to turn
The keenest pangs to peacefulness, and tas…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Deity, Nature and Man in the forum Art of Living Study Group 5 days, 21 hours ago
April 19, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Deity, Nature and Man
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
— PSALMS
To be able to stand is to have confidence. — LIGHT ON THE PATH
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Deity, Nature and Man in the forum Art of Living Study Group 6 days, 21 hours ago
April 18, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Deity, Nature and Man
Descend, prophetic Spirit! that inspir’st
The human Soul of universal earth,
Dreaming on things to come.
— WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
It is spiritual fire that burns out all the dross. — ROBERT CROSBIE
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Deity, Nature and Man in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week ago
April 17, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Deity, Nature and Man
Let brotherhood with every man on earth
Be the highest aspiration of your Yogic Order.
Know that to sudue the mind
Is to subdue the world.
— GURU NANAK
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Deity, Nature and Man in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 1 day ago
April 16, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Deity, Nature and Man
The bird is beyond seeking,
Yet it is most clearly visible.
The Formless is in the midst of forms.
I sing the glory of forms.
— KABIR
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Deity, Nature and Man in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 2 days ago
April 15, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Deity, Nature and Man
For a spirtual seeker, there is no greater evil than negligence in recollection. From it arises delusion. From delusion arises egoism. From egoism comes bondage and from bondage misery. — SHANKARACHARYA
Resolve thou to become a man of meditation. — SHRI KRISHNA
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Deity, Nature and Man in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 4 days ago
April 14, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Deity, Nature and Man
Seek your source. Find out whence the thought
‘I’ springs. — SHRI RAMANA MAHARSHI
Down the ages the Great Masters have revealed to men what it is to be a Son of God, a being who radiates the Light of wisdom and the power of love with a redeeming intensity. — HUGH I’ANSON FAUSSET
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Deity, Nature and Man in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 4 days ago
April 13, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Deity, Nature and Man
“Speak not of this”, Thou saidst,
Then into speechless mysteries Thou ledst
My wondering soul:
Can utterance describe th’ unutterable?
— AL-NURI
Arouse, arouse in yourself the meaning of ‘Thou art That’. — W. Q. JUDGE
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Mystery of the Ego in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 6 days ago
Friday
April 12, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Mystery of the Ego
Our mind departs at the coming of the Divine Spirit and returns when it
departs. It is not lawful for mortal and immortal to dwell together.
— PHILO JUDAEUS
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Mystery of the Ego in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 6 days ago
April 11, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Mystery of the Ego
Like the sages of realization fully absorbed in the SELF, or rivers which have emptied their waters into the ocean, losing their name-and-form personalities, they become one with Me. — SHRI KRISHNA
And when a man hath thus broken loose from and out leaped all temporal t…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Mystery of the Ego in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 6 days ago
April 10, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Mystery of the Ego
In musk if dust is mixed,
How can they be separated?
— TUKARAM
There is within us a little space through which all the threads
of the universe are drawn. — GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Mystery of the Ego in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks, 1 day ago
April 9, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Mystery of the Ego
I was on that day when the Names were not.
Nor any sign of existence endowed with name.
By me Names and Named were brought to view
On the day when there were neither ‘I’ nor ‘We’.
— JALALUDDIN RUMI
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Mystery of the Ego in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks, 2 days ago
April 8, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Mystery of the Ego
The ‘Higher Ego’, as part of the essence of the UNIVERSAL MIND, is
unconditionally omniscient on its own plane, and only potentially so in our terrestrial sphere, as it has to act solely through its alter ego, the Personal Self. — H. P. BLAVATSKY
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Mystery of the Ego in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks, 2 days ago
April 7, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Mystery of the Ego
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to the self that we are born to eternal life.
— FRANCIS of ASSISI
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Mystery of the Ego in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks, 2 days ago
April 6, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Mystery of the Ego
Thou will find the Treasure when the talisman has disappeared; the soul will manifest itself when the body shall have been laid aside. But thy spirit is another Talisman; it is for this mystery another substance. — FARID AD-DIN ‘ATTAR
ModeratorTN replied to the topic “Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Spiral in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks, 6 days ago
April 5, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Spiral
The Ogdoad or 8 symbolizes the eternal and spiral motion of cycles…and
is symbolized in its turn by the Caduceus. — H. P. BLAVATSKY
ModeratorTN replied to the topic “Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Spiral in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks, 6 days ago
April 4, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Spiral
It is easier to keep silence altogether than not to talk more than we should. It is easier to remain quietly at home than to keep due watch over ourselves in public. Therefore, whoever is resolved to live an inward and spiritual life must, with Jesus, withdraw from the crowd.
— THOMAS à KEMPIS
ModeratorTN replied to the topic “Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Spiral in the forum Art of Living Study Group 3 weeks ago
April 3, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Spiral
Whether mankind will consciously follow the law of love I do not know. But that need not perturb us. The law will work, just as the law of gravitation will work whether we accept it or no. — M. K. GANDHI
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