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(26 June- 24 July, 2008)
June 26, 2008 Eat Any Food You Want
Eat any food you want, call it by any name you want, shelter yourself
anywhere you want, under the roof of a church, a synagogue, or the roof
of the sky. It doesn't matter.
Choose your own way, to suit your own taste, temperament, and capacity.
There's no need to criticize or condemn those who follow a different path.
Spiritual hunger is the same in all - the "food" to satisfy
their hunger may vary.
Swami Satchidananda
June 27, 2008: For my ally is the Force
For my ally is the Force. And a powerful ally it is. Life creates it,
makes it grow.
Its energy surrounds us and binds us.
Luminous beings are we...not this crude matter.
You must feel the Force around you.
Here, between you...me...the tree, the rock, everywhere!
Yes, even between this land and that ship.
Yoda
July 01, 2008: Care of the Soul
You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for
your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented,
often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms
of output -- how much you produce -- not in terms of the quality of your
life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive,
prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique
and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.
Jean Shinoda "Bolen"
July 16, 2008: No one Escapes
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
Annie Dillard
July 17, 2008: Just to be Alive
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable... but through
it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
July 18, 2008: You are here for a Purpose
You are here for a purpose. There is not a duplicate of you in the whole
wide world; there never has been, there never will be. You were brought
here now to fill a certain need. Take time to think that over.
Lou Austin
July 21, 2008: ILLUSIONS
People are constantly trying to use you to help them create the particular
illusions by which they live. This is particularly true of the collective
illusions which are sometimes accepted as ideologies. You must renounce
and sacrifice the approval that is only a bribe enlisting your support
of a collective illusion. You must not allow yourself to be represented
as someone in whom a few of the favourite daydreams of the public have
come true.
You must be willing, if necessary, to become a disturbing and therefore
an undesired person, one who is not wanted because she upsets the general
dream. But be careful that you do not do this in the service of some other
dream that is only a little less general and therefore seems to you to
be more real because it is more exclusive!
Thomas Merton "Conjectures."
July 22, 2008: You are the sun of the world
Why is your heart so dark?
Why do you fall back
on your drab and stagnant ways?
Don't stay melted like gold in a furnace --
Become a piece of jewelry!
...
The treasure of Unity is found
by those who look within.
Why not join your spirit to the one
who sits inside your heart?
...
Rumi "In The Arms of the Beloved"
July 23, 2008: COURAGE ON THE JOURNEY 2
"For the next year and a half, knowing full well that I had been
born for it, the spirits were to force me to find a way through a magically
designed maze of unfamiliar situations. The spirits knew I had no real
choice in the matter. I must learn to swim through the wonder and difficulties
of the next years or be killed through the wonder and difficulties of
my own natural soul, who would hate me for keeping it back from living
out its life because of spiritual cowardice and laziness.
Whether I knew this or not I can't remember, but my soul did, and for
whatever reasons I had at the time, I went on with it all, never turning
back
Martin Prechel "Secrets of the Talking Jaguar"
July 24, 2008: Accept the things to which fate binds you
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom
fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aurelius
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