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Mark Casady replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum 
Sacred Texts Study Group 11 hours, 25 minutes ago
Section four taught us to have patience, as one who fears no failure, courts no success; fix your Soul’s gaze upon the star whose ray you are. Have perseverance as one who for evermore endures; sow with the seeds of merit the fields of future harvests; accept the woes of birth; step out from sunlight into shade, to make more room for…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Power of the Word in the forum 
Art of Living Study Group 15 hours, 30 minutes ago
January 23, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Power of the Word
If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the
fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever
unquenchable. — PINDAR
The Word is the sole Truth, eternal and constant.
All else fails, illusory, deceptive. — KABIR
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Power of the Word in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 day, 15 hours ago
January 22, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: The Power of the Word
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the
vantage-ground of truth. — FRANCIS BACON
Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this
world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
— GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Power of the Word in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 days, 9 hours ago
January 22, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: The Power of the Word
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the
vantage-ground of truth. — FRANCIS BACON
Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this
world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
— GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON
Mark Casady replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 2 days, 14 hours ago
146-Know, O Disciple, this is the Secret Path, selected by the Buddhas of Perfection, who sacrificed The SELF to weaker Selves. Work for tomorrow
DHARMAKAYA (Tib. Cos kyi sku) lit. the spiritual body. (1.) The first of the 3 qualities (v. Tiikaya) belonging to the body of every Buddha, viz. luminous spirituality. (2) The 4th of the…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Power of the Word in the forum Art of Living Study Group 3 days, 14 hours ago
January 20, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: The Power of the Word
Let freedom ring. — MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Human beings have been endowed with reason, with the power to create, sothat they each can add to what they have been given.
— ANTON CHEKHOV
Mark Casady replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 4 days, 7 hours ago
143-Know, O beginner, this is the Open Path, the way to selfish bliss, shunned by the Bodhisattvas of the “Secret Heart,” the Buddhas of Compassion.
In Sufism, there is a doctrine of subtle bodies, one of which is the Sir, secret of secrets, which can mean secret heart:
The heart is the secret inside the secret (Jalaluddin Rumi in Barks, Coleman.…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Power of the Word in the forum Art of Living Study Group 4 days, 12 hours ago
January 19, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: The Power of the Word
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical
creation of Beauty. — EDGAR ALLAN POE
A word to the wise is enough, and many words
won’t fill a bushel. — BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Power of the Word in the forum Art of Living Study Group 5 days, 10 hours ago
January 18, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Power of the Word
The Sower soweth the word. — ST. MARK
Not and act which is not a development and extension of the vivifying
power of the WORD. — CLAUDE de SAINT-MARTIN
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Unity and Polarity in the forum Art of Living Study Group 6 days, 15 hours ago
January 17, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Unity and Polarity
That which makes for evil can be turned into that which makes for good;
that which makes for destructiveness can be turned into that which makes for constructiveness; that which makes for separation and selfishness can be turned into that which makes for unity and…[Read more]
Mark Casady replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 6 days, 18 hours ago
Sorry to be posting long texts, but since Blavatsky presents some important esoteric ideas about the Trikaya, I thought it might to be useful to share some basic notions about the Trikaya from an exoteric, or semi-esoteric perspective, in order to compare. In Fragment 3, I will post some more material by Blavatsky on the Trikaya.
The Trikaya…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Unity and Polarity in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week ago
January 16, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Unity and Polarity
In time Unity will perfect the spaces,
And in Unity each one will attain himself.
— EVANGELIUM VERITATIS
And all real unity commences
In consciousness of differences
That have wants to satisfy
And each a power to supply.
— W.H. AUDEN
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Unity and Polarity in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 1 day ago
January 15, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: Unity and Polarity
Harmony does not come through likeness. harmony comes from a balancing of diversities, and discord from any effort to make harmony by force. — W.Q. JUDGE
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love; we must meet
physical force with soul force. — MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Mark Casady replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 1 week, 2 days ago
140-Step out from sunlight into shade, to make more room for others. The tears that water the parched soil of pain and sorrow, bring forth the blossoms and the fruits of Karmic retribution. Out of the furnace of man’s life and its black smoke, winged flames arise, flames purified, that soaring onward, ‘neath the Karmic eye, weave in the end the…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Theosophical Tenets: Divine Wisdom, Theosophia, The Secret Doctrine, The Perennial Philosophy in the forum 
Key Concepts Study Group 1 week, 2 days ago
“. . . the essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities and aspirations, and their sway over the terrestrial or animal passions in him. Kindness, absence of every ill feeling or selfishness, charity, goodwill to all beings, and perfect justice to others as to o…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Unity and Polarity in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 2 days ago
January 14, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: Unity and Polarity
When we look outside of that on which we depend, we ignore our unity;
looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is the one head.
— PLOTINUS
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and
to exalt the will to live. — ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Mark Casady replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 1 week, 3 days ago
Mark Casady replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 1 week, 3 days ago
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, 1943)
Gerry Kiffe replied to the topic Theosophical Tenets: Divine Wisdom, Theosophia, The Secret Doctrine, The Perennial Philosophy in the forum Key Concepts Study Group 1 week, 3 days ago
Another term that was used for Divine Wisdom was mentioned by Patrice, The Gupta Vidya, Secret Knowledge.
Gerry Kiffe replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 1 week, 4 days ago
What does it mean to say “action and in action may find room in thee”?
Gerry Kiffe replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 1 week, 4 days ago
Why do you suppose the metaphor of the Eye and Heart are used to describe the Esoteric and Exoteric paths?
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Theosophical Tenets: Divine Wisdom, Theosophia, The Secret Doctrine, The Perennial Philosophy in the forum Key Concepts Study Group 1 week, 4 days ago
“The Secret Doctrine is the accumulated Wisdom of the Ages, and its cosmogony alone is the most stupendous and elaborate system: e.g., even in the exotericism of the Puranas. But such is the mysterious power of Occult symbolism, that the facts which have actually occupied countless generations of initiated seers and prophets to marshal, to set d…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Unity and Polarity in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 4 days ago
January 12, 2020 Theme for Contemplation: Unity and Polarity
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens
our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. — EDMUND BURKE
Polarity is universal, but the polariser lies in
our own consciousness. — H.P. BLAVATSKY
The harmony of nature consists in symphonious
discord. — D.K. MAVALANKAR
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Unity and Polarity in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 4 days ago
January 11, 2020 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Unity and Polarity
By the pure mind alone the Atman is to be seen. There is
no duality in it. — BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervour with measure,
passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. — WILLIAM JAMES
Mark Casady replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 1 week, 4 days ago
Section 3 (123-136) gave the following advice: love all beings, do not neglect your parents, non-action does not mean inaction, the lamp burns bright when wick and old are clean, one can face physical agitation and still have a tranquil mind, solitary forest asceticism is not the way to final liberation, physical punishment and conquering…[Read more]
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