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ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Continuity of Consciousness in the forum 
Art of Living Study Group 6 hours ago
October 17, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Continuity of Consciousness
Love is watchful, and whilst resting never sleeps; weary, it is never exhausted; imprisoned, it is never in bonds; alarmed,it is never afraid; like a living flame and a burning torch, it surges upward and surely surmounts every obstacle.
— THOMAS à KEMPIS
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Continuity of Consciousness in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 day, 5 hours ago
October 16, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Continuity of Consciousness
As Shiva is all and ominpresent,
Everywhere is Shiva’s gracious dance made manifest.
— TIRUMALAR
Hast though attuned thy heart and mind to the great mind and
heart of all mankind? — THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Continuity of Consciousness in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 days, 5 hours ago
October 15, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Continuity of Consciousness
I feel again a spark of that ancient flame. — VIRGIL
I know the far-sent message of the years, I feel the coming glory
of the Light. — EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Continuity of Consciousness in the forum Art of Living Study Group 3 days, 15 hours ago
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
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Continuity of Consciousness in the forum Art of Living Study Group 3 days, 15 hours ago
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
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Continuity of Consciousness in the forum Art of Living Study Group 3 days, 15 hours ago
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]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Self-Testing in the forum Art of Living Study Group 6 days, 5 hours ago
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
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Self-Testing in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week ago
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]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Self-Testing in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 1 day ago
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
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Self-Testing in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 2 days ago
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
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Self-Testing in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 3 days ago
October 8, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Self-Testing
My time on earth
Is borrowed.
— NAHAUATL SHAMAN
Clarity is gained through breadth. — NIELS BOHR
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Self-Testing in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 3 days ago
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
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Self-Testing in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 3 days ago
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
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Paracelsus in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 6 days ago
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]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Paracelsus in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks ago
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
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Paracelsus in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks ago
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
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Paracelsus in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks, 2 days ago
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
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Paracelsus in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks, 2 days ago
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
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Paracelsus in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks, 2 days ago
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
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Paracelsus in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks, 2 days ago
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
Mark Casady replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum 
Sacred Texts Study Group 2 weeks, 2 days ago
We have reached the end of the first fragment of the The Voice of the Silence. Thank you fellow lanoos, for participating in this ambitious undertaking. It was certainly a big learning experience for me. I was genuinely surprised to discover the rich supply of amazing texts related to these teachings. I will be taking a short break before adding…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Paracelsus in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks, 3 days ago
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
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Paracelsus in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks, 3 days ago
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
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Paracelsus in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 weeks, 3 days ago
September 29, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Paracelsus
The spirit is the master, imagination the tool, and
the body the plastic material. — PARACELSUS
An eternal love is within and around him, pressing upon him and sustaining with infinite tenderness his body, his soul and his spirit.
— GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Mental Quiescence in the forum Art of Living Study Group 3 weeks ago
September 26, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Mental Quiescence
The act of supplication removes earthly desires from the heart, as
polishing removes dust from the mirror. — ABBAS EFFENDI
If the Sun and Moon should doubt,
They’d immediately go out.
— WILLIAM BLAKE
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