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ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: From Puck to Prospero in the forum 
Art of Living Study Group 3 hours, 38 minutes ago
April 21, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: From Puck to Prospero
The Ego begins his life-pilgrimage as a sprite, an ‘Ariel’, or a ‘Puck’; he plays
the part of a super, is a soldier, a servant, one of the chorus; rises then to ‘speaking
parts’, plays leading roles, interspersed with insignificant parts, till he finally
retires from the st…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Christos and Prometheus in the forum Art of Living Study Group 4 hours, 25 minutes ago
April 20, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Christos and Prometheus
The act of supplication removes earthly desires from the heart, as polishing removes dust from the mirror. — Abbas Effendi
Radium Isolated by Madam Curie 1902
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Christos and Prometheus in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 day, 19 hours ago
April 19, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Christos and Prometheus
There is nothing in heaven or upon the earth which does not also exist in Man, and God who is in heaven exists also in man, and the two are but One. — Paracelsus
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Christos and Prometheus in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 day, 19 hours ago
April 18, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Christos and Prometheus
Take courage, the race of men is divine. — Pythagoras
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Christos and Prometheus in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 day, 19 hours ago
April 17, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Christos and Prometheus
Follow the movements of your faith; address your soul and your worship to the fountain. — Claude De Saint-Martin
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Christos and Prometheus in the forum Art of Living Study Group 4 days, 20 hours ago
April 16, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Christos and Prometheus
Those in whom the eye of wisdom has been opened do recognize Him.
— Bhavani Shankar
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Christos and Prometheus in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week ago
April 15, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Christos and Prometheus
The Son of Man has no place to lay down his head, and rest.
— Jesus
Iron rusts from disuse; even so does inertia sap the vigours of the mind.
— Leaonardo Da Vinci
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Christos and Prometheus in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week ago
April 14, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Christos and Prometheus
Recall the past afflictions that have successfully survived, and the memory of these experiences will hearten you to brave your current trials.
— Arnold Toynbee
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Law of Cycles in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 2 days ago
April 12, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Law of Cycles
Magnetic action results in alternate effects which may be regarded
as an Ebb and Flow. — FRANZ ANTON MESMER
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Law of Cycles in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 2 days ago
April 11, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: The Law of Cycles
Thou canst create this ‘day’ thy chances for thy ‘morrow’. In the ‘Great
Journey’, causes sown each hour bear each its harvest of effects, for rigid Justice
rules the World. — THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Law of Cycles in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 3 days ago
April 10, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Law of Cycles
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 Law of Cycles in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 5 days ago
April 9, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: The Law of Cycles
It is our will which determines whether we shall serve the law of growth, or that
of decay — the law opening towards freedom, or the law converging on slavery.
— CLAUDE HOUGHTON
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Law of Cycles in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 5 days ago
April 8, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: The Law of Cycles
As each man has his period of rest and activity, day and night, so must a nation,
a kingdom, a planet, a solar system, and finally the Universe.
— D. K. MAVALANKAR
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Law of Cycles in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 5 days ago
April 7, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Law of Cycles
We can only have the highest happiness by having wide thoughts and much
feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
— WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Motivation and Karma in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 6 days ago
April 6, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Motivation and Karma
Concord is to be commended, so that men may hear one another’s principles and obey them. — Asoka
Remember to retire into this little territory of thine own, and above all do not distract or strain thyself, but be free.
— Marcus Aurelius
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Motivation and Karma in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 6 days ago
April 6, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Motivation and Karma
Concord is to be commended, so that men may hear one another’s principles and obey them. — Asoka
Remember to retire into this little territory of thine own, and above all do not distract or strain thyself, but be free.
— Marcus Aurelius
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Motivation and Karma in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 6 days ago
April 5, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Motivation and Karma
There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-Booker T. Washington
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Motivation and Karma in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 6 days ago
April 4, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Motivation and Karma
Unearned suffering is redemptive. — Martin Luther King
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Motivation and Karma in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks, 3 days ago
April 3, 2018 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Motivation and Karma
Real greatness has nothing to do with a man’s sphere… Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul — in the force of thought, moral principle, and love.
— W.H. Channing
Pierre Wouters replied to the topic Theosophical Tenets: Cycles in the forum 
Key Concepts Study Group 2 weeks, 4 days ago
That’s indeed a good question Grace, and Barbara’s comment is certainly applicable. Essentially there is no difference between karma and cycles (just like spirit and matter are essentially one). So we could say that karma corresponds to spirit, as cycles (the manifestations of karma) correspond to matter. Cycles ARE karma in operation, or the…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Crest Jewel of Wisdom Part 1 in the forum 
Sacred Texts Study Group 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Next Section:
“Pour out upon me thy words of immortal life, which bring the happiness of the sacred teaching, as they issue from the vessel of thy voice, clear, restoring, purifying, inspired by thine own experience of the essence of the joy of the Eternal; Master, I am consumed by the fiery flames, the scorching heat of this passional life! H…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Theosophical Tenets: Cycles in the forum Key Concepts Study Group 2 weeks, 4 days ago
The Theory of Cycles
It is now some time since this theory, which was first propounded in the oldest religion of the world, Vedaism, then taught by various Greek philosophers, and afterwards defended by the Theosophists of the Middle Ages, but which came to be flatly denied by the wise men of the West, like everything else, in this world of…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic The Gupta Vidya 2018 in the forum 
Secret Doctrine Study Group 2 weeks, 4 days ago
SD i page XXV
The danger was this: Doctrines such as the planetary chain, or the seven races, at once give a clue to the seven-fold nature of man, for each principle is correlated to a plane, a planet, and a race; and the human principles are, on every plane, correlated to seven-fold occult forces—those of the higher planes being of tremendous p…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Motivation and Karma in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks, 4 days ago
April 2, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Motivation and Karma
Karmic causes already set in motion must be allowed to sweep on until exhausted, but this permits no man to refuse to help his fellows and every sentient being. — Aphorisms on Karma
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Motivation and Karma in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks, 4 days ago
April 1, 2018 Theme for Contemplation: Motivation and Karma
If you have made a mistake, do not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending your ways. — Confucius
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