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Statements that have profound meaning for you.

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mostly harmless

Endlessly amused
" Like what is unlike what you like."
Neale Donald Walsch

"All of life is a conversation with God."
Neale Donald Walsch

"Your life is not about your body."
Neale Donald Walsch

"You are a human BE-ing."
Neale Donald Walsch

"There's enough."
Neale Donald Walsch

"What you resist persists."
Neale Donald Walsch

"God never shuts up."
Neale Donald Walsch
 
PureX

PureX

Veteran Member
I'm going to have to paraphrase, as I'm too lazy to bother searching for the exact scriptural quote, but here goes:

I was raised Catholic, and was given a Catholic bible when I was 'confirmed' in the faith at age 12. I mostly ignored it, of course, because at the age of 12 I wasn't much interested in theological propositions. But I did keep the book.

Many years later, when I was recovering from chronic alcoholism, it was suggested to me by my mentors in AA that I revisit the religion of my youth, and see what's there that may be able to help me learn how to live life as a sober man. So I did as they suggested, and for the first time, really, began to read the bible cover to cover.

I don't know if you all are aware of this, or not, but the Catholic bible has a book in it that the protestant bible do not have. It's called the Book of Wisdom, and is apart from Ecclesiastes. In the Book of Wisdom the author writes a lot about wisdom itself, in rather poetic terms, as though wisdom is a female spirit, and I was taken by the artistry of images and ideas being presented in this book. As I read, I came across the line "and man is punished through that with which he sins". As you might imagine, as a recovering alcoholic, this line struck home with me. And more then that, there was a long story/explanation of this assertion using the final deadly plague upon the Egyptians as it's lesson example. It explained in detail just we are indeed punished through the mechanism of our own sins. It was a kind of in depth explanation of the mechanics of karma. And as I read this, fascinated, I was clobbered with yet another revelation: and that was that it was NOT GOD who was punishing us for our sins, but the SINS THEMSELVES!

Reading the Book of Wisdom at that time in my life completely changed and opened up my understanding of Christ and Christianity, a religion that I had long ago rejected. It struck me so hard, that I soon joined a progressive bible discussion group that a friend was attending and continued to participate in that group for years. The old Catholic religion that I was raised with fell away, and a new vision of Christianity was born in my mind, that made sense to me in my heart. And it really did all come from that one line: "... for man is punished through that with which he sins".
 
jacquie4000

jacquie4000

Well-Known Member
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

Demosthenes


I also read this once and it had profound meaning in the way i thought. I do not know the exact wording it is I believe from the Quran or a hadith.

God is made up of 99% Mercy he gave us 1%........That really made me think of the comparison there. It had as still has very deep meaning for me.
 
MysticSang'ha

MysticSang'ha

Big Squishy Hugger
Premium Member
One of my absolute favorites:


Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. - originally written by Marianne Williamson but best known from a speech by Nelson Mandela



Peace,
Mystic
 
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Phil Osophy

Member
Our family saying:

"Never let it be said."

It is either deeply profound or complete rubbish - not sure which, but probanly the latter.
 
Djamila

Djamila

Bosnjakinja
Two of my favorite quotes from "Sex Roles", a research journal published by 2004.

Bosnian women have been my inspiration since July 4th, 1994, when, during a lull in the fighting, I flew down to Bosnia in the belly of a cargo plane, strapped in with 50,000 pounds of flour supplies urgently needed to feed the 200,000 Sarajevans trapped in the siege. I met with seven women. In bizarre juxtaposition with the grittiness of war, they wore pearls, stylish high heels, and carefully applied makeup as they relayed accounts of hospitals with no anesthetics or medicines, and university architecture classes with no pencils. A cardiac specialist described how she had not seen her octogenarian parents for 2 years, even though they lived only a 15-min walk away, but across a war line she could not penetrate. This was the jagged disconnect of their lives: sophisticated, educated women coping with blunt barbarity.

Valentina (young, rural): All women are alike, no matter their tradition. In this war, we went through the same things. We suffered in the same way, and we were brave in the same way.
 
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Hacker

Well-Known Member
Great thread Jackie! Frubals when I get them in!:)

_Michelangelo..."Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we ll come..."

_Swmi Paramananda..."Self Realization means that we have been consciously connected to our source of being. Once we have made this connection, then nothing can go wrong."

"In the universe, there is an immeasurable, indescribble force which shamans call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link." _Carlos Castaneda

"Your sole business in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless." _Silvananda

"Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is."
_Voltaire

"Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it...If you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere." _Joseph Campbell
 
Gentoo

Gentoo

The Feisty Penguin
"Be as the frog in the pond watching the fly."

"Life sucks, then you die."

"Slow and steady wins the race."

"Patience is a virtue that would otherwise get you killed."
 
jacquie4000

jacquie4000

Well-Known Member
Two of my favorite quotes from "Sex Roles", a research journal published by 2004.

Bosnian women have been my inspiration since July 4th, 1994, when, during a lull in the fighting, I flew down to Bosnia in the belly of a cargo plane, strapped in with 50,000 pounds of flour supplies urgently needed to feed the 200,000 Sarajevans trapped in the siege. I met with seven women. In bizarre juxtaposition with the grittiness of war, they wore pearls, stylish high heels, and carefully applied makeup as they relayed accounts of hospitals with no anesthetics or medicines, and university architecture classes with no pencils. A cardiac specialist described how she had not seen her octogenarian parents for 2 years, even though they lived only a 15-min walk away, but across a war line she could not penetrate. This was the jagged disconnect of their lives: sophisticated, educated women coping with blunt barbarity.

Valentina (young, rural): All women are alike, no matter their tradition. In this war, we went through the same things. We suffered in the same way, and we were brave in the same way.
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So many of your stories amaze me and you are so in touch with your culture and history. You should be proud.
 
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evearael

Well-Known Member
There are so many amazing quotes! Here are the first few that come to mind:

Litany against fear, from Frank Herbert's Dune:
I must not fear.Fear is the mind-killer.Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.I will face my fear.I will permit it to pass over me and through me.And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.Only I will remain.

By Kabir:
When you were born, you cried, and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

By Mahatma Gandhi:
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
 
ch'ang

ch'ang

artist in training
First one I find extremely relevant to todays politics

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.-Benjamin Franklin

Next one I just particularly enjoy

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. -Bertrand Russell

A little Voltaire

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. -Voltaire

And lastly probably my personal favorite

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. -Aldous Huxley
 
jamaesi

jamaesi

To Save A Lamb
The one in my signature. It's from the book Too Late to Die Young.

"Living our lives openly and without shame is a revolutionary act."
 
R

Random

Well-Known Member
"The River of Time flows from the Ocean of the Mind to the Mountain of Destiny" -- Godlike​


Indeed, twas I who first said this: my fellow Emancipates get a kick out of it too. I said it in response to the question "Why does Enlightenment take so long, Conor?" The adept really got it and understood too! She went off and never worried about waking up again: consequently, it happened spontaneously to her one day thence and it all worked out fine.​

Amazing what the mind will grasp @ when imagination is the only answer, isn't it? :)​
 
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