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I found this on another forum ans was blown away by it....plz no off-topics and only add contribute words of wisdom :)

"It is not your action that condemns you, but it is your judgement of what you think and what you do that condemns you." And there comes another quotation from Christianity, "Judge not that ye be not judged." Don't even judge yourself. Who are you to judge when somebody is there to judge? Why do you think you are a sinner or you are a saint? You are neither. Sometimes your actions are those of a sinner, which doesn't make you a sinner. Sometimes they are those which can be called saintly, which of course doesn't make you a saint either. We are what we are.

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A Grandfather from the Cherokee Nation was talking with his grandson.

"A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy.

"It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves."

"One wolf is evil and ugly: He is anger, envy, war, greed, self-pity, sorrow, regret, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, selfishness and arrogance."

"The other wolf is beautiful and good: He is friendly, joyful, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, justice, fairness, empathy, generosity, true, compassion, gratitude, and deep VISION."

"This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other human as well."

The grandson paused in deep reflection because of what his grandfather had just said. Then he finally cried out; "Oyee! Grandfather, which wolf will win?"

The elder Cherokee replied, "The wolf that you feed."

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God is not a concept, not a thought. He is not the settlement of an argument, not an outcome of the mind. God is truth. Thinking isn't relevant -- you have to see. By thinking you will only wander. You have to open your eyes, but if they are filled with thoughts and concepts, they will remain sightless. Only eyes without thoughts enable you to see.

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Suffering is the sandpaper of our life. It does its work of shaping us.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

~ Ram Dass

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

~Aristotle~

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Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

~Saint Francis de Sales ~

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A Grandfather from the Cherokee Nation was talking with his grandson.

"A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy.

"It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves."

"One wolf is evil and ugly: He is anger, envy, war, greed, self-pity, sorrow, regret, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, selfishness and arrogance."

"The other wolf is beautiful and good: He is friendly, joyful, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, justice, fairness, empathy, generosity, true, compassion, gratitude, and deep VISION."

"This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other human as well."

The grandson paused in deep reflection because of what his grandfather had just said. Then he finally cried out; "Oyee! Grandfather, which wolf will win?"

The elder Cherokee replied, "The wolf that you feed."

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Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

~Saint Francis de Sales ~

Vaheguroo.....i like these two, so very true....

a few more.....

'a man may die, nations may fall, but an idea lives on' - jhon f kennedy

'kind words can be short and easy to speak, but thier echoes are truly endless' - mother teresa

and one which i read in a post here recently....'forced separation is not detachment'

and of course the pavitar words of Guroo Jee:

ik oa(n)kaar sathigur prasaadh ||

One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

raag gourree mehalaa 9 ||

Raag Gauree, Ninth Mehla

saadhho man kaa maan thiaago ||

: Holy Saadhus: forsake the pride of your mind.

kaam krodhh sa(n)gath dhurajan kee thaa thae ahinis bhaago ||1|| rehaao ||

Sexual desire, anger and the company of evil people - run away from them, day and night. ||1||Pause||

sukh dhukh dhono sam kar jaanai aour maan apamaanaa ||

One who knows that pain and pleasure are both the same, and honor and dishonor as well,

harakh sog thae rehai atheethaa thin jag thath pashhaanaa ||1||

who remains detached from joy and sorrow, realizes the true essence in the world. ||1||

ousathath ni(n)dhaa dhooo thiaagai khojai padh nirabaanaa ||

Renounce both praise and blame; seek instead the state of Nirvaanaa.

jan naanak eihu khael kat(h)an hai kinehoo(n) guramukh jaanaa ||2||1||

O servant Nanak, this is such a difficult game; only a few Gurmukhs understand it! ||2||1||

and finaly... 'stay in chardee kalaa, on this long journey khalsa jee!', daasn daas lol

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" Emptiness is perfect, but further perfection is to be attained. Emptiness is perfect, let me repeat it, but there is a perfection yet to be attained. Emptiness is perfect in a negative way. You have renounced - that is negative; you have not loved yet; the positive is missing. Unhappiness and misery are gone, but you are not yet ecstatic. You have attained a silence which is beautiful, but your silence is not yet a fulfillment; it is not an overflowing blissful dance of your inner being.

Kakuan goes beyond Taoism and Buddhism — both end with emptiness, as if the journey were complete. You have reached Everest: cool, collected, calm. Why go back to the marketplace? If your meditation does not become compassionate, then it is concealing your ego even now; it is still selfish. If your meditation does not make you simple and innocent like a child, then it is not true meditation. If you are scared of the world, then the world is still reality for you; till it is not an illusion, you have not arrived at the truth. "

~unknown~

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The Wise Ones do not depend on Philosophical Theories,

The Wise Ones do not bind themselves,

They only observe carefully and listen intentily

The Wise ones have Personally Varified the Truth in life as well as means to balance the body and the mind. Thru personal observations and experiences, they treat their own body and mind as objects under observation. Therefore they learn to understand the rise and fall of feelings, such as pain and eventually acquire the methods of conquering the body and the mind. Everyone of us can also treat our emotions as objects of observation & thru the experiences personally verify effective means of unifying the body and the mind.

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As fragrance abides in the flower,

As the reflection is within the mirror,

So doth thy Lord abide within thee,

Why search Him without?

- Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji

The subject on which I meditate is truth.

The practice to which I devote myself is the truth.

The topic of my conversation is truth.

My thoughts are always in truth.

For lo! my self has become the truth

- Lord Buddha

Being asked by the Pharisees when the

kingdom of God was coming, he answered them,

"The kingdom of God is not coming with signs

to be observed; nor will they say, 'Lo, here it is!' or

'There!' for behold, the kingdom of God is within you."

- Jesus Christ

There is one Supreme Ruler, the inmost Self of all beings,

who makes His one form manifold.

Eternal happiness belongs to the wise,

who perceive Him within themselves - not to others.

- the Vedas

He who knows his own self, knows God.

- Prophet Mohammed

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

- Albert Einstein

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

- Lao Tzu

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

~Aristotle~

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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

~Saint Augustine~

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jo tho praem khaelan kaa chaao ||

If you desire to play the game of love with Maharaj, with the king of kings, with our protector, friend, beloved...

sir dhhar thalee galee maeree aao ||

then step onto this Path. by taking amrit, singh/singhniaan sajoo dastaaran,banaaeh sajou.. with your head in hand, giving up any hope of life and be dedicate it to the guroo, give your man and chit towards the guroo

eith maarag pair dhhareejai ||

and When you do decide to place your feet on this Path, the path to akaal purakh, the path to a stable calm mind, full of pyare, but yet always tyar par tyar

sir dheejai kaan n keejai ||20||

give Me YOUR head, and do not pay any attention to public opinion..self explanatory... ||20||

how many of us actuallty give our sees to sree guroo gobind singh sahib jee maharaj?...to sree guroo nanak dev sahib jee maharaj??....

dhan sahib sree guroo granth sahib jee maharaj...

bhul chuk maaf!

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Viewing religion externally creates more and more division. We need to see and understand the inside, the essence of religion from a spiritual perspective. Where there is true spiritual experience there will be no division -- only unity and love.

~ Amritanandanmayi Devi

Parliament of World Religions, Barcelona 2004

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People are constantly crossing over

The threshold of eternity.

The door is open

If you can stay awake.

~Rumi

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"In order to return to a state of unlimitedness, to experience joy

and the freedom of being, you must once again become that which

holds you together. And the only way to become that, since you are

encumbered with a body, is to fully activate your seventh seal

pituitary so that your brain can receive the unlimited thoughts that

lie just beyond social consciousness. That is how you expand your

knowingness into the unlimited understanding of God: that which

allows, and loves, and is the totality of itself, which is the

totality of thought.

So how do you get this wonderful little gland to awaken the dormant

portions of your brain through its hormone flow? Simply through

desire. To become a christ is to desire to know the Father and

become the likeness of God. It is the deisre to allow all thought

to become the reality of self. It is the deisre to LOVE in every

moment all that you have become. It is the desire to BE the isness

of all that you are.

Why is it important to love the totality of what you are? When you

do, you immediately transcend social consciousness. Then you rise

above acceptance. You transcend judgment. Yu go beyond the

illusion of time. Then you live only for the fulfillment of self.

You listen only to the voice within. You follow only the path of

joy; and on that path lies the knowingness of All That Is.

Now, you say to me, 'But Ramtha, that is being wholly selfish'.

Indeed it is! But selfish is Godish. Every moment you live for the

love of this God within you, every illusion you embrace and give up,

every thing you do to find your joy and light, emanates from your

being into consciousness flow to feed the WHOLE of mankind. When

you live wholly for the love of self- which IS the love of God -

then yu exude God into the density of social consciousness. Then

you light the way for your beloved brothers on their own paths back

into self - the only path that will take them home to their beloved

Father.

When you love yourself enough to feel worthy to receive all that God

is, and you desire to know that you are one with the Father, then

your pituitary beings to open like wondrous flower. That is how

you expand the capacity of your brain to receive all thought values

in the Mind of God - by wanting to know, by desiring to feel all the

emotion of that knowingness."

Ramtha

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There is the dual nature of self: The incomplete self and the complete self... As humans, we are seeing from the perspective of the incomplete self. This incomplete self is undoubtedly very important. But if we attach to this incomplete self, although this incomplete self is important, then we'll never be able to experience the complete self. We Zen people say, if you believe in God, this complete self means the same thing as God. That is, it shares the same standpoint as God.

~ Joshu Sasaki Roshi

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Tell the impeccable truth about your feelings in every situation. When

someone asks you which restaurant you would like to go to, be honest

about the choice that would make you happiest. When someone asks you

for

a date and the thought of going doesn't feel attractive, say no. (If

thinking about something doesn't feel good, doing it won't feel

better!)

When you feel drawn to a movie in the video store, take it home. If

you're watching a video that feels emotionally debilitating, turn it

off. Trust the messages your feelings are giving you as feedback on how

well your current choice matches your well-being. Living from joy is

like building a muscle; the more you trust and act on your intuition,

the louder, stronger, and more real it becomes. If you don't live from

your truth, your ability to access it will atrophy, and you will not

know who you are, what you want, or what you are doing here. Live from

the truth and you will be set free.

~ Alan Cohen

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Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change

them.. You will want to change them when you realize that each thought

creates according to its own nature. Remember that the law works at all

times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of

thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only

those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.

~Paramahansa Yogananda

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Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears but with your mind; do not listen with your mind but with your essence. The ears can't do more than to listen, the mind cannot do more than to recognize. As for the essence, it is a void completely unengaged. The Way gathers only in the void.

~ Confucius

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Sri Ramana Maharshi

Excerpts from his Spiritual Teachings

• Question. How can I control the mind?

• M. There is no mind to control if the Self is realized. The Self shines forth when the mind vanishes. In the realized man the mind may be active or inactive, the Self alone exists. For, the mind, body and world are not separate from the Self; and they cannot remain apart from the Self. Can they be other than the Self? When aware of the Self why should one worry about these shadows? How do they affect the Self?

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• Question. If the mind is merely a shadow how then is one to know

the Self?

• M. The Self is the Heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the Heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self; The world is perceived by an act of the mind. When the mind is illumined it is aware of the world; when it is not so illumined, it is not aware of the world.

If the mind is turned in, towards the Source of illumination, objective knowledge ceases, and the Self alone shines as the Heart.

The moon shines by reflecting the light of the sun. When the sun has set, the moon is useful for displaying objects. When the sun has risen no one needs the moon, though its disc is visible in the sky. So it is with the mind and the Heart. The mind is made useful by its reflected light. It is used for seeing objects. When turned inwards, it merges into the Source of illumination which shines by Itself and the mind is then like the moon in the day-time. When it is dark, a lamp is necessary to give light. But when the sun has arisen, there is no need for the lamp; the objects are visible. And to see the sun no lamp is necessary, it is enough if you turn your eyes towards the -self-luminous sun. Similarly with the mind, to see the objects the light reflected from the mind is necessary. To see the Heart it is enough that the mind is turned towards it. Then the mind does not count and the Heart is self-effulgent.

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• Question. Is a set meditation necessary for strengthening the mind?

• M. Not, if you keep the idea always before you, that it is not your work. At first, effort is needed to remind yourself of it, but later on it becomes natural and continuous. The work will go on of its own accord, and your peace will remain undisturbed.

Meditation is your true nature. You call it meditation now, because there are other thoughts distracting you. When these thoughts are dispelled, you remain alone—

that is, in the state of meditation free from thoughts; and that is your real nature, which you are now trying to gain by keeping away other thoughts. Such keeping away of other thoughts is now called meditation. But when the practice becomes firm, the real nature shows itself as true meditation.

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