Quote of the day

[Geoff-Allen]

"May peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through."

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[Geoff-Allen]

“I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays – let them overtake me unexpectedly – waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: ‘Why, this is Christmas Day!’”

~ David Grayson

More sentiments here -

48 Joyous Christmas Quotes to Brighten the Season

Enjoy your day!

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding yourself into the personality you want to be. Learn to love yourself, be gentle with yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others."

~ Wilfred Peterson

Much more at this site -

Compassion for Yourself Quotes 1 - Behavioural Techniques to facilitate Spiritual Growth

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Life was never meant to be a struggle; just a gentle progression from one point to another, much like walking through a valley on a sunny day."

~ Stuart Wilde

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it."

~ Sylvia Boorstein

Found it on this page -

Buddhist Quotes

Cheers!

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication."

~ Algernon Black

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance."

~ Eckhart Tolle

Try a search for Quotes power now

Enjoy your day!

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked by dew. Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things."

~ Desmond Tutu

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."

~ Lao Tzu

More here -

http://www.spiritual-experiences.com/spiritual-quotes/

 

[Jedster]

A couple of slokas from Kabir

Speech is priceless,
if you speak with knowledge,
Weigh it in your heart's balance
before it comes out of your mouth.

A sweet word is a healing herb
a bitter word is an arrow.
Entering by the door of the ear
it tears through the whole body.

 

[Geoff-Allen]

A couple of slokas from Kabir

Keep them coming - may Google it myself ...

Cheers

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life. Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind."

~ Anthony de Mello

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"When you are criticised, accept it as a opportunity to acknowledge your hidden faults and increase your humility. Criticisms are your teacher, destroying attachment and craving. If brought to the path, harsh words and blame will inspire your practice and strengthen your discipline. How can you ever repay such kindness?"

~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Makes an interesting search

 

[Jedster]

Keep them coming - may Google it myself ...

Cheers

Some more then,

Kabir says,clarity comes
when the musician lives
in your heart.

Do one thing completely, all is done;
To get your fill of flowers & fruit,
water the root

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Some more then,

Kabir says,clarity comes
when the musician lives
in your heart.

Do one thing completely, all is done;
To get your fill of flowers & fruit,
water the root

I did a quick Google ... here's an interesting page -

Kabir - Wikiquote

Namaste!

 

[Geoff-Allen]

More Kabir -

I have been thinking of the difference between water
and the waves on it. Rising,
water’s still water, falling back,
it is water, will you give me a hint
how to tell them apart?

Because someone has made up the word
“wave,” do I have to distinguish it
from water?

There is a Secret One inside us;
the planets in all the galaxies
pass through his hands like beads.

That is a string of beads one should look at with luminous eyes.

Comes from this site -

Poet Seers » Kabir Poems

Enjoy!

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Love is an endless mystery -

Poet Seers » Poems on Love

 

[Geoff-Allen]

When I teach meditation, I often begin by saying: “Bring your mind home. And release. And relax.”

To bring your mind home means to bring the mind into the state of Calm Abiding through the practice of mindfulness. In its deepest sense, to bring your mind home is to turn your mind inward and rest in the nature of mind. This itself is the highest meditation.

To release means to release the mind from its prison of grasping, since you recognize that all pain and fear and distress arise from the craving of the grasping mind. On a deeper level, the realization and confidence that arise from your growing understanding of the nature of mind inspire the profound and natural generosity that enables you to release all grasping from your heart, letting it free itself to melt away in the inspiration of meditation.

To relax means to be spacious and to relax the mind of its tensions. More deeply, you relax into the true nature of your mind, the state of Rigpa. It is like pouring a handful of sand onto a hot surface, and each grain settles of its own accord. This is how you relax into your true nature, letting all thoughts and emotions naturally subside and dissolve into the state of the nature of mind.

~ Sogyal Rinpoche

 

[Revoltingest]

Bart: What’s a castrati?
Marge: I don’t know, but I’m sure it’s spicy.

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Bart: What’s a castrati?
Marge: I don’t know, but I’m sure it’s spicy.

Funny!

There is also ajoke about them not leaving any descendants!