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ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: ULT Day in the forum 
Art of Living Study Group 3 hours, 4 minutes ago
June 26, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: ULT Day
As the one air, after it has entered the world, though single, becomes manifold according to whatever it enters, thus the One Self within all things becomes manifold, according to whatever it enters, and exists also without. — KATHA UPANISHAD
Mark Casady replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum 
Sacred Texts Study Group 5 hours, 29 minutes ago
Read carefully, Lanoo, light your lamp with care, the following terms must be studied well before passing on to the next stage…
Iddhi/ Siddhi
Nâda
Dhâranâ
rājā of the senses
Slayer of the Real
Asat
Sat
Silent Speaker
inner ear
Voice of the Silence
Great Master
Higher Self
Avalokiteśvara
Âdi-Buddha
Atmâ
Christos
Silver Thread
shy turtle…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: ULT Day in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 day, 3 hours ago
June 25, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: ULT Day
We shall do rightly and well in any event if we are single-hearted
in what we do. — ROBERT CROSBIE
Suffering and dying
Does not horrify our souls,
As long as we learn more deeply to love.
— HERMANN HESSE
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: ULT Day in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 day, 3 hours ago
June 25, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: ULT Day
We shall do rightly and well in any event if we are single-hearted
in what we do. — ROBERT CROSBIE
Suffering and dying
Does not horrify our souls,
As long as we learn more deeply to love.
— HERMANN HESSE
Mark Casady replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 1 day, 23 hours ago
How is everybody doing? I cannot begin to say how much I’ve learned since embarking on this study. I’ve come to notice this text fits rather well within a certain framework of other texts such as the Nadabindu Upanishad, Light on the Path, Baghavad Gita/Janeshwari and Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, so there is a harmony there that gives a wider…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: ULT Day in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 days, 3 hours ago
June 24, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: ULT Day
Now sunken in the mirk of sense,
Not wholly doth the soul forget,
Still grasps the whole, lets go the part.
— BOETHIUS
He who truly arrives there
Cuts free from himself.
— JOHN of the CROSS
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: ULT Day in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 days, 3 hours ago
June 23, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: ULT Day
And like a new-born eye veiled by its lids,
Pure spirit grows beneath the spirit of stones.
— GERALD de NERVAL
There is no human power which does not minister, whether it will
or not, to other designs than its own. — GIAMBATTISTA VICO
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: ULT Day in the forum Art of Living Study Group 2 days, 3 hours ago
June 22, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: ULT Day
To see a World in a grain of sand,
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
— WILLIAM BLAKE
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Reincarnation and Anamnesis in the forum Art of Living Study Group 4 days, 2 hours ago
Friday
June 21, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Reincarnation and Anamnesis
Whatever state a man whose nature is purified imagines, and whatever desires he desires for himself or for others, that state he conquers and those desires he obtains. — MUNDAKA UPANISHAD
Out of the silence that is peace a resonant voice
shall arise. — LIGHT ON THE PATH
Mark Casady replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 5 days, 4 hours ago
20 Bestride the Bird of Life, if thou would’st know (12).
(12). Says the same Nâda-Bindu, “A Yogi who bestrides the Hamsa (thus contemplates on Aum) is not affected by Karmic influences or crores of sins.”
The passage below (a kind of Macrocosmic-Microcosmic correspondence) is perhaps similar to the image of Adam Kadmon’s body and the co…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Reincarnation and Anamnesis in the forum Art of Living Study Group 6 days, 3 hours ago
June 20 , 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Reincarnation and Anamnesis
Thou seest the Constellations in the deep & wondrous Night:
They rise in order and continue their immortal courses
Upon the mountains & in vales with harp & heavenly song.
— WILLIAM BLAKE
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Reincarnation and Anamnesis in the forum Art of Living Study Group 6 days, 3 hours ago
June 19, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Reincarnation and Anamnesis
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
— BLAISE PASCAL
I feel no shadow of the winds that brood,
I hear no whisper of a tide that veers,
I weave no thought of passion, nor of tears,
Unfettered I of time, of habitude.
— JOHN SPENCER MUIRHEAD
Mark Casady replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 1 week ago
19 Saith the Great Law: — “In order to become the knower of ALL SELF (9) thou hast first of self to be the knower.” To reach the knowledge of that self, thou hast to give up Self to Non-Self, Being to Non-Being, and then thou canst repose between the wings of the GREAT BIRD. Aye, sweet is rest between the wings of that which is not born, nor d…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Reincarnation and Anamnesis in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 1 day ago
June 18, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Reincarnation and Anamnesis
hat if you become worse you shall go to the worse souls, or if better to the better, and in every succession of life and death you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. — PLATO
Mark Casady replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 1 week, 1 day ago
15 When to the World’s turmoil thy budding soul (5) lends ear; when to the roaring voice of the great illusion thy Soul responds (6); when frightened at the sight of the hot tears of pain, when deafened by the cries of distress, thy soul withdraws like the shy turtle within the carapace of SELFHOOD, learn, O Disciple, of her Silent “God,” thy Soul…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Reincarnation and Anamnesis in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 2 days ago
June 17, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Reincarnation and Anamnesis
I maintain that every substance involves in its present state all its past and
future states and even expresses the whole universe according to its point of view, since nothing is so far from anything else that there is no relation between them. — WILHELM von LEIBNIZ
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Reincarnation and Anamnesis in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 2 days ago
June 16, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Reincarnation and Anamnesis
All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
— ALEXANDER POPE
Fix thy Soul’s gaze upon the star whose ray thou
art. — THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Reincarnation and Anamnesis in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 2 days ago
June 15, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Reincarnation and Anamnesis
Now we all move, we’re moving with this earth.
The earth is moving along, the water is moving along.
The grass is moving, the trees are moving, the whole earth is moving.
So we all move along with the earth, keeping time with the earth.
— Potawatomi Chant
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Instinct and Intuition in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 2 days ago
June 16, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: Reincarnation and Anamnesis
All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
— ALEXANDER POPE
Fix thy Soul’s gaze upon the star whose ray thou
art. — THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Instinct and Intuition in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 5 days ago
Friday
June 14, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Instinct and Intuition
I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test: Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man whom you may have seen and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Instinct and Intuition in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 5 days ago
Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Instinct and Intuition
“The awakening of intuitive insight is an essential prerequisite to authentic
participation in human life. Noetic awakening presupposes that one learns to take
nothing for granted. ” — Aquarian Almanac
Mark Casady replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 1 week, 5 days ago
Avalokiteśvara
Avalokiteswara (Sk.) “The on-looking Lord” In the exoteric interpretation, he is Padmapâni (the lotus bearer and the lotus-born) in Tibet, the first divine ancestor of the Tibetans, the complete incarnation or Avatar of Avalokiteswara; but in esoteric philosophy Avaloki, the “on-looker”, is the Higher Self, while Padmapâni…[Read more]
Mark Casady replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 1 week, 5 days ago
14 – And say: —
If thy soul smiles while bathing in the Sunlight of thy Life; if thy soul sings within her chrysalis of flesh and matter; if thy soul weeps inside her castle of illusion; if thy soul struggles to break the silver thread that binds her to the MASTER (4); know, O Disciple, thy Soul is of the earth.
(4). The “great Master” is the t…[Read more]
ModeratorTN replied to the topic Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Instinct and Intuition in the forum Art of Living Study Group 1 week, 6 days ago
June 13 , 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: Instinct and Intuition
Just let things be in their own way
And there will be neither coming nor going.
One thing, all things;
Move among them and intermingle,
Without distinction.
To live in this realization
Is to be without anxiety about non-perfection.
— HSIN HSIN MING
barbara replied to the topic Sacred Texts: The Voice of the Silence in the forum Sacred Texts Study Group 1 week, 6 days ago
Thank you, Peter, for the beautiful illustration.
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