This document contains a collection of quotes and reflections on various philosophical and spiritual topics. In 3 sentences:
The document touches on themes of nature, mindfulness, compassion, love and spirituality. It includes quotes and passages from figures like the Dalai Lama, Rumi, Einstein and others. The selections provide insights into topics like prayer, art, kindness and finding simplicity from various religious and philosophical perspectives.
This document is an essay on optimism by Helen Keller. It is divided into two parts. In part one, Keller discusses how her optimism comes from within despite her disabilities. She was once in darkness but found hope, joy, and freedom through learning. Her optimism comes from understanding both good and evil. She believes the world is full of overcoming suffering. In part two, Keller will discuss how the outward world justifies her inner optimism, though the summary is cut off after setting up part two. The essay explores the roots and reasoning behind Keller's lifelong optimism.
This chapter discusses key concepts from the Tao Te Ching, including:
- The Tao that can be described is not the eternal Tao, and the name that can be named is not the eternal name.
- The Tao is formless and invisible yet exists everywhere. It existed before heaven and earth.
- The sage harmonizes with the Tao and follows the natural way without desire or personal intention.
This document contains an introduction and poems from a book titled "Inspiring poems & citations from the book (Scriptural Perspective)" by Obute Nathan Agada. The introduction discusses what poetry is and the themes covered in the book, which include love for God, relationships, and narrative poems. The poems cover various religious and spiritual topics such as the nature of Christianity, God's protection and mercy, purity, faith, destiny, and the dangers of sin.
The poem "The Utopian's Cry" describes a utopian who searches for ideals of beauty, love, and harmony but finds reality to be ugly and lacking in compassion. The utopian cries out for change but feels unheard by the miserable mortals who find solace only in immortality. The collection of poems explores themes of dreams, destiny, loneliness, faith, love and mythical creatures.
This document provides an index and overview of a published collection of essays, stories, poems and other works by Christopher G. Burley exploring philosophical and social issues. The preface introduces some of the key themes to be examined, including the nature of perception, duality, free will and the possibility of meaning or purpose to life. It references concepts like omnipotence, omniscience and a singular creative force or god behind the universe. The first work in the collection, "Subject and Object", is a short story that uses allegory to examine the emergence of duality and relationships between self and other.
The document describes a fable about the Christmas star. In the story, the most beautiful and prideful star is chosen to shine above the stable where Jesus will be born. However, when it sees the humble stable, it becomes angry and burns out due to its pride. The angels then choose the smallest and most humble star instead. Though it doubts its ability, it invites all the other stars to join it and together they create the most beautiful Christmas star ever seen, shining over the stable in humility and generosity. The moral of the story promotes humility over pride.
Introduction to the art of creating an epicnagaffney
The document summarizes Joseph Campbell's theory of the monomyth, or hero's journey, which describes common patterns found in heroic tales across cultures. It outlines the typical stages of the hero's journey according to Campbell's work, including the call to adventure, road of trials, meeting with the goddess, atonement with the father, and return. The document also provides examples and brief explanations of each stage to illustrate Campbell's theory of the universal pattern underlying stories of heroes embarking on quests.
A humble presentation - a spontaneous result of awe and inspiration on my reading - THE SUFI PATH OF LOVE
The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi by William C. Chittick
This document is an essay on optimism by Helen Keller. It is divided into two parts. In part one, Keller discusses how her optimism comes from within despite her disabilities. She was once in darkness but found hope, joy, and freedom through learning. Her optimism comes from understanding both good and evil. She believes the world is full of overcoming suffering. In part two, Keller will discuss how the outward world justifies her inner optimism, though the summary is cut off after setting up part two. The essay explores the roots and reasoning behind Keller's lifelong optimism.
This chapter discusses key concepts from the Tao Te Ching, including:
- The Tao that can be described is not the eternal Tao, and the name that can be named is not the eternal name.
- The Tao is formless and invisible yet exists everywhere. It existed before heaven and earth.
- The sage harmonizes with the Tao and follows the natural way without desire or personal intention.
This document contains an introduction and poems from a book titled "Inspiring poems & citations from the book (Scriptural Perspective)" by Obute Nathan Agada. The introduction discusses what poetry is and the themes covered in the book, which include love for God, relationships, and narrative poems. The poems cover various religious and spiritual topics such as the nature of Christianity, God's protection and mercy, purity, faith, destiny, and the dangers of sin.
The poem "The Utopian's Cry" describes a utopian who searches for ideals of beauty, love, and harmony but finds reality to be ugly and lacking in compassion. The utopian cries out for change but feels unheard by the miserable mortals who find solace only in immortality. The collection of poems explores themes of dreams, destiny, loneliness, faith, love and mythical creatures.
This document provides an index and overview of a published collection of essays, stories, poems and other works by Christopher G. Burley exploring philosophical and social issues. The preface introduces some of the key themes to be examined, including the nature of perception, duality, free will and the possibility of meaning or purpose to life. It references concepts like omnipotence, omniscience and a singular creative force or god behind the universe. The first work in the collection, "Subject and Object", is a short story that uses allegory to examine the emergence of duality and relationships between self and other.
The document describes a fable about the Christmas star. In the story, the most beautiful and prideful star is chosen to shine above the stable where Jesus will be born. However, when it sees the humble stable, it becomes angry and burns out due to its pride. The angels then choose the smallest and most humble star instead. Though it doubts its ability, it invites all the other stars to join it and together they create the most beautiful Christmas star ever seen, shining over the stable in humility and generosity. The moral of the story promotes humility over pride.
Introduction to the art of creating an epicnagaffney
The document summarizes Joseph Campbell's theory of the monomyth, or hero's journey, which describes common patterns found in heroic tales across cultures. It outlines the typical stages of the hero's journey according to Campbell's work, including the call to adventure, road of trials, meeting with the goddess, atonement with the father, and return. The document also provides examples and brief explanations of each stage to illustrate Campbell's theory of the universal pattern underlying stories of heroes embarking on quests.
A humble presentation - a spontaneous result of awe and inspiration on my reading - THE SUFI PATH OF LOVE
The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi by William C. Chittick
Layering Meaning Into Your Scenes, with Linda Joy MyersBrooke Warner
The document provides guidance on writing memoir scenes in 3 key points:
1) Significant turning points and emotionally resonant experiences should be selected to build the structure of the memoir through a series of scenes.
2) Effective scenes show rather than tell through vivid sensory details, actions, dialogue and reflection to immerse the reader.
3) Different types of narrators like guiding, reflecting and "then" narrators can be used to weave interpretation and insight while moving through time. The example given illustrates these elements well.
Voice Excepts from WRITING THROUGH THE CRISISBrooke Warner
The summary provides high-level information about the key details and events across multiple documents in 3 sentences or less:
The documents describe various musical compositions and their ability to convey emotion through different instruments and sections of the orchestra. Several passages then discuss family dynamics and relationships, including a mother's love for her son and recollection of her marriage. Additional excerpts explore themes of identity, memory, and storytelling from the perspective of different authors.
When I give a Relflections On Life Workshop, I design the second Slide Show for a specific group. This version is designed for Inter Faith groups but I adapt it and use slides from it as the \'framework\' for all the workshops. This version is quite \'serious.\' It includes images and quotations not just from the six major religions but also from Bah\'ai, Jain, Rastafarian and Native American sources. I would love to get some feedback and suggestions of other inspiring quotations which I could include.
Many people like watching the original Reflections on Life slide show to de-stress, almost as a meditation. I like to use this version in the same way. It never ceases to inspire me and restore my focus and perspective, especially if things have been getting me down. Life is beautiful. It is mysterious. There is meaning in every incident. We are here to learn and every experience is an opportunity to learn something important and deepen our relationship not just with each other but also with the One from whom we all came and (so I believe) to Whom we will return.
Do send me some feedback, to info@bluelotus.coand invite me to come and give your group or community one of my fantastic workshops.
The document discusses using semantic similarity techniques to analyze poetic works by Lord Byron and Thomas Moore in order to identify influence and trace the transmission of ideas between the authors. It describes extracting line groups from poems by both writers and calculating similarity scores between the lines. Preliminary experiments using this approach aimed to determine if Byron influenced Moore's writing on certain topics. The work is being done as a collaboration between several researchers and departments at NUIGalway.
A collection of texts published in various web pages at random who were together in one volume the author (smcvinicius) for editing a book. They are poetry, poetic prose, music lyrics and tests that report the most varied themes.
The poem describes the importance of cats having three different types of names - an everyday name used by the family, fancier names if they sound sweeter, and a name that is particular and more dignified to help the cat keep their tail up and pride. It provides examples for each type of name, such as everyday names like Peter or George, fancier names like Plato or Electra, and more dignified names like Munkustrap, Quaxo or Bombalurina.
The document discusses the "Woman Question" and changing views of women's roles in Victorian England. It provides excerpts from writings that showcase the debate, including those advocating for expanding women's education and opportunities beyond the home, as well as those promoting the ideal of women's primary role being in the domestic sphere as wives and mothers. The selections illustrate the tensions between traditional views and the emergence of feminist thought advocating for women's independence and ability to pursue meaningful work and advancement.
The Ultimate Gift For Humanity is Death ItselfLucais Donnell
1. The narrator, an immortal mechanical being created by scientists, seeks death but is unable to die. They intervene to save a woman from being stabbed, killing the attacker.
2. A spectral being appears and tells the narrator they were created to help others. The being shows the narrator visions of their creation in a lab.
3. The narrator comes to accept their purpose is to use their gift of immortality to protect others, like a blind woman they save from attackers. The spectral being approves of their choice to keep living to help others.
The Comfort of God's Omnipresence
" If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the utter-
most parts of the sea : even there Thy right hand shall hold
me." — Psalm cxxxix. 9, 10.
This summary provides the key ideas from the first 8 rules presented in the document:
1. How we see God reflects how we see ourselves, and seeing God as loving makes us more loving.
2. The path to truth is through the heart, not the mind. Knowing yourself leads to knowing God.
3. There are 4 levels of understanding the Quran - outer, inner, inner of inner, and indescribable.
4. God can be studied through everything because He is present everywhere, but is found in a true lover's heart.
5. Most problems stem from misunderstandings, so don't take words literally. Love is beyond words.
6.
The document contains a collection of poems and reflections on spiritual themes such as love, angels, peace, and eternity. The poems explore connections between humans, nature, and the divine. They emphasize spreading love, nurturing others, and living according to spiritual principles of compassion.
This document contains a collection of love poems and reflections written by someone named Liza. The poems explore themes of love, loss, faith, hope, and finding purpose. They describe intense romantic feelings for another person who is physically distant. The poems express a desire to better understand life's struggles and find happiness through faith in God.
Sample of a book of poems sampling what I've squeezed out of life that past years. Please support self publishing by picking up a copy at Lulu. Thanks, enjoy.
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/electric-chair-for-the-sun/12305241
This document discusses John Donne's love poetry and its connection to his views on death. It analyzes several of Donne's poems, including "Go and Catch a Falling Star" and "The Good-Morrow," noting his use of metaphysical conceits and wit. The document also examines Donne's religious writings and sermons, exploring his fascination with death and the relationship between the body and soul. It considers whether Donne's treatment of love and death in his works contradicts or reinforces his Christian morality. Overall, the document appears to be developing an argument about how Donne reconciled his views on love, death, and religion in his poetry and prose.
Famous Quotes from Famous Quotation MastersJenita Guinoo
This document contains a collection of quotes, prayers, poems and reflections on topics like life, love, friendship, happiness, faith, challenges and more. Some of the key ideas expressed are:
1) Have faith that God is with you during times of crisis and weakness.
2) True happiness comes from living gratefully in the present moment rather than dwelling on past regrets or future worries.
3) Friendship, kindness, humility and forgiveness are virtues worth cultivating in life.
4) While life presents challenges, having perseverance, hope and faith in God can help one overcome difficulties.
A Young Caesar Of A Hollywood Mind filled with Neroish Mightredmoonrising
This document appears to be a collection of poetic passages or musings that explore spiritual, philosophical and political themes through allegory and symbolism. It touches on ideas of leadership, good versus evil, restoring an idealized version of America, and empowering individuals to fight darkness. The writing style is abstract and the meaning or narrative is unclear.
Known as 'the Book of Love', Mary Magdalene witnessed of her teachings from her beloved Jesus after he was crucified. This esoteric Gospel became forbidden by the Catholic Church founders. Mary went to the South of France after the dead of Jesus and continued His real teachings a kind of underground. The carthars were finally all killed around 1300. And this Booklet of Love was hided and found back in the 1950's in Egypt, together with other scriptures, known as the 'Dead Sea Scrolls'.
This Book of Love is a universal and profound teaching, which you don't find anywhere. Although it speaks of the essence of our true nature, it clarifies very beautifully how the elements are related to our four 'verhicles'; namely body, soul, mind & spirit. And how to overcome their unenlightened nature; all in their own specific characters, so that we can establish our true nature and be free, in peace.
Transcendentalism emphasized connecting with nature on a spiritual level to find deeper truths. It valued individualism and believed that society could corrupt people by focusing on materialism. Transcendentalist authors like Thoreau and Emerson sought the essential truths of life by living deliberately and being true to oneself rather than conforming to society. They found inspiration and meaning in nature and advocated nonconformity.
This document discusses religious experience from a philosophical perspective. It examines how people assess the probability of various phenomena like God, life after death, and religious experiences. Professor Richard Swinburne is discussed as arguing that none of the traditional arguments for God's existence alone are persuasive, but taken together they make it reasonably plausible. Swinburne also proposes two principles for evaluating religious experiences - the principle of credulity and the principle of testimony. The document then examines several thinkers and their perspectives on religious experience, beauty, and their relationship to belief in God, including Kant, Proust, and Etty Hillesum.
Layering Meaning Into Your Scenes, with Linda Joy MyersBrooke Warner
The document provides guidance on writing memoir scenes in 3 key points:
1) Significant turning points and emotionally resonant experiences should be selected to build the structure of the memoir through a series of scenes.
2) Effective scenes show rather than tell through vivid sensory details, actions, dialogue and reflection to immerse the reader.
3) Different types of narrators like guiding, reflecting and "then" narrators can be used to weave interpretation and insight while moving through time. The example given illustrates these elements well.
Voice Excepts from WRITING THROUGH THE CRISISBrooke Warner
The summary provides high-level information about the key details and events across multiple documents in 3 sentences or less:
The documents describe various musical compositions and their ability to convey emotion through different instruments and sections of the orchestra. Several passages then discuss family dynamics and relationships, including a mother's love for her son and recollection of her marriage. Additional excerpts explore themes of identity, memory, and storytelling from the perspective of different authors.
When I give a Relflections On Life Workshop, I design the second Slide Show for a specific group. This version is designed for Inter Faith groups but I adapt it and use slides from it as the \'framework\' for all the workshops. This version is quite \'serious.\' It includes images and quotations not just from the six major religions but also from Bah\'ai, Jain, Rastafarian and Native American sources. I would love to get some feedback and suggestions of other inspiring quotations which I could include.
Many people like watching the original Reflections on Life slide show to de-stress, almost as a meditation. I like to use this version in the same way. It never ceases to inspire me and restore my focus and perspective, especially if things have been getting me down. Life is beautiful. It is mysterious. There is meaning in every incident. We are here to learn and every experience is an opportunity to learn something important and deepen our relationship not just with each other but also with the One from whom we all came and (so I believe) to Whom we will return.
Do send me some feedback, to info@bluelotus.coand invite me to come and give your group or community one of my fantastic workshops.
The document discusses using semantic similarity techniques to analyze poetic works by Lord Byron and Thomas Moore in order to identify influence and trace the transmission of ideas between the authors. It describes extracting line groups from poems by both writers and calculating similarity scores between the lines. Preliminary experiments using this approach aimed to determine if Byron influenced Moore's writing on certain topics. The work is being done as a collaboration between several researchers and departments at NUIGalway.
A collection of texts published in various web pages at random who were together in one volume the author (smcvinicius) for editing a book. They are poetry, poetic prose, music lyrics and tests that report the most varied themes.
The poem describes the importance of cats having three different types of names - an everyday name used by the family, fancier names if they sound sweeter, and a name that is particular and more dignified to help the cat keep their tail up and pride. It provides examples for each type of name, such as everyday names like Peter or George, fancier names like Plato or Electra, and more dignified names like Munkustrap, Quaxo or Bombalurina.
The document discusses the "Woman Question" and changing views of women's roles in Victorian England. It provides excerpts from writings that showcase the debate, including those advocating for expanding women's education and opportunities beyond the home, as well as those promoting the ideal of women's primary role being in the domestic sphere as wives and mothers. The selections illustrate the tensions between traditional views and the emergence of feminist thought advocating for women's independence and ability to pursue meaningful work and advancement.
The Ultimate Gift For Humanity is Death ItselfLucais Donnell
1. The narrator, an immortal mechanical being created by scientists, seeks death but is unable to die. They intervene to save a woman from being stabbed, killing the attacker.
2. A spectral being appears and tells the narrator they were created to help others. The being shows the narrator visions of their creation in a lab.
3. The narrator comes to accept their purpose is to use their gift of immortality to protect others, like a blind woman they save from attackers. The spectral being approves of their choice to keep living to help others.
The Comfort of God's Omnipresence
" If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the utter-
most parts of the sea : even there Thy right hand shall hold
me." — Psalm cxxxix. 9, 10.
This summary provides the key ideas from the first 8 rules presented in the document:
1. How we see God reflects how we see ourselves, and seeing God as loving makes us more loving.
2. The path to truth is through the heart, not the mind. Knowing yourself leads to knowing God.
3. There are 4 levels of understanding the Quran - outer, inner, inner of inner, and indescribable.
4. God can be studied through everything because He is present everywhere, but is found in a true lover's heart.
5. Most problems stem from misunderstandings, so don't take words literally. Love is beyond words.
6.
The document contains a collection of poems and reflections on spiritual themes such as love, angels, peace, and eternity. The poems explore connections between humans, nature, and the divine. They emphasize spreading love, nurturing others, and living according to spiritual principles of compassion.
This document contains a collection of love poems and reflections written by someone named Liza. The poems explore themes of love, loss, faith, hope, and finding purpose. They describe intense romantic feelings for another person who is physically distant. The poems express a desire to better understand life's struggles and find happiness through faith in God.
Sample of a book of poems sampling what I've squeezed out of life that past years. Please support self publishing by picking up a copy at Lulu. Thanks, enjoy.
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/electric-chair-for-the-sun/12305241
This document discusses John Donne's love poetry and its connection to his views on death. It analyzes several of Donne's poems, including "Go and Catch a Falling Star" and "The Good-Morrow," noting his use of metaphysical conceits and wit. The document also examines Donne's religious writings and sermons, exploring his fascination with death and the relationship between the body and soul. It considers whether Donne's treatment of love and death in his works contradicts or reinforces his Christian morality. Overall, the document appears to be developing an argument about how Donne reconciled his views on love, death, and religion in his poetry and prose.
Famous Quotes from Famous Quotation MastersJenita Guinoo
This document contains a collection of quotes, prayers, poems and reflections on topics like life, love, friendship, happiness, faith, challenges and more. Some of the key ideas expressed are:
1) Have faith that God is with you during times of crisis and weakness.
2) True happiness comes from living gratefully in the present moment rather than dwelling on past regrets or future worries.
3) Friendship, kindness, humility and forgiveness are virtues worth cultivating in life.
4) While life presents challenges, having perseverance, hope and faith in God can help one overcome difficulties.
A Young Caesar Of A Hollywood Mind filled with Neroish Mightredmoonrising
This document appears to be a collection of poetic passages or musings that explore spiritual, philosophical and political themes through allegory and symbolism. It touches on ideas of leadership, good versus evil, restoring an idealized version of America, and empowering individuals to fight darkness. The writing style is abstract and the meaning or narrative is unclear.
Known as 'the Book of Love', Mary Magdalene witnessed of her teachings from her beloved Jesus after he was crucified. This esoteric Gospel became forbidden by the Catholic Church founders. Mary went to the South of France after the dead of Jesus and continued His real teachings a kind of underground. The carthars were finally all killed around 1300. And this Booklet of Love was hided and found back in the 1950's in Egypt, together with other scriptures, known as the 'Dead Sea Scrolls'.
This Book of Love is a universal and profound teaching, which you don't find anywhere. Although it speaks of the essence of our true nature, it clarifies very beautifully how the elements are related to our four 'verhicles'; namely body, soul, mind & spirit. And how to overcome their unenlightened nature; all in their own specific characters, so that we can establish our true nature and be free, in peace.
Transcendentalism emphasized connecting with nature on a spiritual level to find deeper truths. It valued individualism and believed that society could corrupt people by focusing on materialism. Transcendentalist authors like Thoreau and Emerson sought the essential truths of life by living deliberately and being true to oneself rather than conforming to society. They found inspiration and meaning in nature and advocated nonconformity.
This document discusses religious experience from a philosophical perspective. It examines how people assess the probability of various phenomena like God, life after death, and religious experiences. Professor Richard Swinburne is discussed as arguing that none of the traditional arguments for God's existence alone are persuasive, but taken together they make it reasonably plausible. Swinburne also proposes two principles for evaluating religious experiences - the principle of credulity and the principle of testimony. The document then examines several thinkers and their perspectives on religious experience, beauty, and their relationship to belief in God, including Kant, Proust, and Etty Hillesum.
This document discusses storytelling and cinema from a theological perspective. It argues that stories and films can reveal spiritual truths and invite viewers to have deeper empathy for humanity. Movies can lead viewers beyond just what is seen and heard to understand the deeper meaning and implications for faith. Some examples of films that showcase redemption, mercy, and revelation are discussed. The document also references Thomas Merton's idea of cultural mysticism, where encountering stories and art can transport people to other places and help them see beauty in other people.
This document provides background information about the author and his book of journal entries from 1997-1998 while living in the Czech Republic. The author introduces himself and explains that the journal was written during a time when he was trying to understand the words and ideas that came to him. He was seeking a place where he could define himself as a poet. The entries surprise him now as they still speak with urgency about topics humanity has yet to fully understand, like purpose and our relationship with the earth. He encourages readers to read the entries and find their own meanings and insights from them.
Global blights can be resolved by individuals getting together. Global warming and global arming are symptoms of our failure to obtain joy in our individual lives.
The narrator visits his family's mausoleum as a child and becomes obsessed with gaining immortality after getting lost inside. He meets a man named Luther who offers him immortality in exchange for souls. The narrator completes the task but soon realizes the deal has cursed him. He is imprisoned for life but receives a possible way to end his immortality from Promethe.
This document summarizes the journey of writing and publishing a poem and story called "Awakening" over several years. It began as a story concept in 1991 and was finally written and edited from 2008 to 2012. The author thanks friends and family for supporting them throughout the long creative process. The work contains over 160,000 words and 453 pages, exploring vampire mythology and characters. It includes an in-depth dictionary defining vampire terms from the story.
THE ROSICRUCIAN ORDER
PURPOSE AND WORK OF THE ORDER
The Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, is a philosophical and initiatic tradition. As students progress in their studies, they are initiated into the next level or degree.
Rosicrucians are men and women around the world who study the laws of nature in order to live in harmony with them. Individuals study the Rosicrucian lessons in the privacy of their own homes on subjects such as the nature of the soul, developing intuition, classical Greek philosophy, energy centers in the body, and self-healing techniques.
The Rosicrucian tradition encourages each student to discover the wisdom, compassion, strength, and peace that already resides within each of us.
ISHMAEL An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Daniel Q.docxchristiandean12115
ISHMAEL
An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Daniel Quinn
VTN 2
ONE
1
The first time I read the ad, I choked and cursed and spat and threw the paper to the floor. Since
even this didn’t seem to be quite enough, I snatched it up, marched into the kitchen, and shoved it
into the trash. While I was there, I made myself a little breakfast and gave myself some time to cool
down. I ate and thought about something else entirely. That’s right.
Then I dug the paper out of the trash and turned back to the Personals section, just to see if the
damn thing was still there and just the way I remembered it. It was.
TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire
to save the world. Apply in person.
An earnest desire to save the world! Oh, I liked that. That was rich indeed. An earnest desire to save
the world—yes, that was splendid. By noon, two hundred mooncalfs, softheads, boobies,
ninnyhammers, noodleheads, gawkies, and assorted oafs and thickwits would doubtless be lined up
at the address given, ready to turn over all their worldlies for the rare privilege of sitting at the feet
of some guru pregnant with the news that all will be well if everyone will just turn around and give
his neighbor a big hug. You will wonder: Why is this man so indignant? So bitter? It’s a fair
question. In fact, it’s a question I was asking myself.
The answer goes back to a time, a couple decades ago, when I’d had the silly notion that the thing I
most wanted to do in the world was . . . to find a teacher. That’s right. I imagined I wanted a
teacher—needed a teacher. To show me how one goes about doing something that might be called .
. . saving the world.
Stupid, no? Childish. Naïve. Simple. Callow. Or just fundamentally dumb. In one so manifestly
normal in other respects, it needs explaining.
It came about in this way.
During the children’s revolt of the sixties and seventies, I was just old enough to understand what
these kids had in mind—they meant to turn the world upside down—and just young enough to
believe they might actually succeed. It’s true. Every morning when I opened my eyes, I expected to
see that the new era had begun, that the sky was a brighter blue and the grass a brighter green. I
expected to hear laughter in the air and to see people dancing in the streets, and not just kids—
everyone! I won’t apologize for my naïveté; you only have to listen to the songs to know that I
wasn’t alone.
Then one day when I was in my mid–teens I woke up and realized that the new era was never going
to begin. The revolt hadn’t been put down, it had just dwindled away into a fashion statement. Can I
have been the only person in the world who was disillusioned by this? Bewildered by this? It
seemed so. Everyone else seemed to be able to pass it off with a cynical grin that said, “Well, what
did you really expect? There’s never been any more than this and never will be any more than this.
Nobody’s out to save the world, b.
This document contains excerpts from "The Book of Joy" discussing the teachings of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The passages discuss Tutu's views that discovering joy allows one to face suffering without bitterness; forgiveness is necessary to heal from past harms; and acting with compassion for others brings the greatest joy, as intended by God who wants people to flourish.
Transcendentalism was a philosophical and literary movement that originated in the 1830s among New England intellectuals who believed in the inherent goodness of both people and nature. Key figures included Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. They emphasized non-conformity, self-reliance and intimacy with nature. Thoreau's Walden documented his two years living simply in a cabin to gain spiritual insights through solitude and close observation of nature.
This document is an excerpt from a novel introducing the main character Robert Langdon. It describes Langdon arriving by private jet in Washington D.C. and being picked up by a limousine to be taken to the Capitol Building at 7pm. On the way, the driver confirms Langdon's arrival with another person. The excerpt sets up a mysterious situation where Langdon will be meeting someone important at the Capitol Building that evening.
Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. On a stormy night, Victor brings the creature to life and is filled with horror by its appearance. The creature later confronts Victor, pleading for compassion as he is alone in the world due to Victor's abandonment of him after his creation. The creature makes demands of his creator in exchange for peace. The document explores themes of scientific hubris, the nature of humanity, and the relationship between creator and created.
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existentialism in "The Flies" by Jean Paul SarteAmian Naima
This presentation brings out Jean Paul Sarte's existential philosophy illustrated in the play The Flies, an original work based on the understanding of the text and Sarte's philosophy.
Dare to Dream and Live those Dreams. Naima Minhas!
This document provides cover concepts and interior pages for several book design projects. It includes draft covers and interior pages for books on topics like existentialism, poetry, leadership, and faith. Sample covers show variations on layout, images, and text treatments. Interior pages show page designs, headers, chapter openings, and tips for writing poetry. The document was created by Kinetics Design and contains work for several publishers and authors.
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3. TOPICS TOUCHED ON IN THESE PAGES
1. LONGING - yearning, desiring, searching
2. INTIMACY - closeness, togetherness, union
3. REFLECTION - mirroring, recalling, musing
4. CONTEMPLATION - introspective reverie
5. EQUANIMITY - composed mindfulness
6. COMPASSION - empathetic solicitude
7. ABSORPTION - harmonized oneness
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"' green is a sanctuary"' serene"' refreshing"' profound"'
"'green evokes life"'its beginning "'ittranscendence"'its evolution "'
Carbon manifests itself in green and humanity is a manifestation of
carbon's innate desire to organize itself at higher and higher
levels of complexity.
The story of green is interwoven in our DNA. We should listen
to it. Especially now that so much green has been slashed
and burnt by the poor struggling to grow enough food to
stay alive. Ultimately, our addiction to cheap fossil fuels could
turn green to grey.
What follows, however, is not about the environment.
Rather, simple reflections are presented about things that
seize me: like - forests and trees - lakes and rivers -
mountains and canyons in Colorado where I grew up and in
Japan where I fell in love.
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river rocks
by cottonwoods
and meadow larks
the humble Saint Vrain flows
through Lyons, Hygiene and old Crane Hollow
on its way to lovers lane and Longmont Colorado
ditching our bikes on its grassy bank
we entered the river’s shallow warmth
and headed upstream against the flow
slipping on moss slick rocks as we went
some of us got killed in Vietnam
others got high in San Francisco
you got married and never left town
I got drafted and never returned
to where the humble Saint Vrain flows
over
river rocks
by cottonwoods
and meadow larks
the humble Saint Vrain flows
through Lyons, Hygiene and old Crane Hollow
on its way to lovers lane and Longmont Colorado
23. Then, as now, an lnflnltely loving presence•••
the calming of all fear••• come closer to the light•••
at the end of the tunnel••• in a death nearly experienced•••
ever forgiving•••always comforting•••ever nurturing•••always caring•••
desiring only to love••• totally••• heart and soul and mind•••
unspoken caveat precluding
differentiation of what Is heart•••
what is soul••• what Is mind•••
what is mine••• what Is yours•••
just by knocking the door Is opened•••
just by seeking It Is found•••
Could infinite love have been so misunderstood that it had to become flesh?
And God so loved the world; became flesh; walked among us; grew a beard•••
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infinite love Is really good••• right?
and flesh••• uh
well••• flesh Is really great••• right?
but••• masculine?
Why couldn't God have had an only begotten daughter?
female flesh•••
now that would do•••
women make great friends•••
now head large corporations•••
generally oppose war•••
will lead the world's nations•••
or God willing•••
a female messiah comes•••
"The Daughter of Man"•••
not an avatar but an avatrix•••
not_ y rophet but a prophetess•••
all 1n~a n·111e •••
but worry not•••
for God - r e - has a very big heart
and is t9Y a111used by musings such as these•••
it is gooJ9to admit that we really do not know•••
far better Is unabashedly loving what we can never fully understand•••
while best is simply seeking to find ••• knocking for those doors to open•••
for just by knocking the doors are opened ••• and just by seeking are we found•••
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The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out.
For if you want the grain, you break the shell. If you wan~ to discover
nature's nakedness, you must destroy its symbols. The farther you go;
the nearer you come to its essence; and, when you come to the One
that gathers all things up into itself, there you must stay.
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Oogen Zenji
To move close to all things in order to discover their dharma by an
act of your own will is called delusion. To move into the presence of
things such that all dharma are pursing themselves in their own way
is called enlightenment.
Hermann Hesse
Grace, or the Tao, surrounds us always. It is the light and it is God Himself.
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Whenever we are open for a moment, it enters into us, into every child,
into every wise man.
St. Augustine
Love and do what you will.
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"Fly, now'', said the bird
"mankind can not bear too much reality."
Albertus Secundus
from the Latin in Herman Hesse's "Oas Glasperlenspiel"
Nothing is harder yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain
things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very
fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings
them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.
from the "Song of Zazen" by Hakuin Zenji
Not knowing how close the Truth is to them,
people look for it far away. What a pity!
Like a man standing in a river
crying out for water to quench his thirst.
Like the son of a very rich man
who lost his way among the poor.
Boris Pasternak
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It's not the earthquake that controls the advent of a different life
but storms of generosity and visions of incandescent souls.
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Prayer of Simplicity
by San Francesco de Assisi
Oh! Signore, fa di me un istrumento della tua Pace:
Oh! Sir, make me an instrument of your peace:
Dove 'e odio, fa ch'lo porti I'Amore.
Where there is hatred, let me bring love.
Dove 'e offesa, ch'lo porti ii Perdono.
Where there is injury, let me bring pardon.
Dove 'e discordia, ch'lo porti l'Unione.
Where there is discord, let me bring unity.
Dove 'e dubbio, ch'lo porti la Fede.
Where there is doubt, let me bring faith.
Dove •e errore, ch'lo porti la Verita.
Where there is error, let me bring truth.
Dove 'e disperazione, ch'lo porti la Speranza.
Where there is despair, let me bring hope.
Dove 'e tristezza, ch'lo porti la Gioia.
Where there is sadness, let me bring joy.
Dove sono le tenebre, ch'lo porti la Luce,
Where there is that darkness, let me bring light.
Oh! Maestro, fa ch'lo non cerchi tanto:
Of Master, grant that I may not so much seek:
Ad essere consolato, quanto a consolare.
To be consoled... as to console.
Ad essere compreso, quanto a comprendere.
To be understood... as to understand.
Ad essere amato, quanto a amare.
To be loved... as to love.
Doiche' si ·e:
For it is by:
Dando ... che si riceve;
Giving... that we receive;
Perdonando ... che si perdonati;
Pardoning... that we are pardoned;
Morando ... che si risuscita a Vita Eterna.
Dying... that we are born to eternal life.
attributed to Socrates
I know that I do not know and in this I am wise.
from the "Tao-Te Ching" of LaoTzu
To know that you do not know is best.
Not to know that you do not know is a serious flaw.
from the film, "Zorba the Greek" based on the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis
Damn it, boss, I like you too much not to say it. You've got everything except
one thing, madness! A man needs a little madness or else he never really.
da·res cut the rope and be free.
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from "The Book of Five Rings" by Miyamoto Musashi
• nurture the ability to see truth in all things
• see what can not be seen with the eye
• do not be negligent; even in trifling matters
• do not engage in useless activities
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Hermann Hesse
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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called Moses Maimonides
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Al Qadi al Fadil and then to Sultan Saladin.
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty
assist the reduced fellow man,
either by a considerable gift
or a sum of money
or by teaching him a trade
or by putting him in the way of business
so that he may earn an honest livelihood
and not be forced to the dreadful alternative•
of holding out his hand for charity.
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of charity's golden ladder.
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I slept and dreamed that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted, and behold, service was joy.
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Think of yourself as nothing and totally forget yourself when you pray.
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Only have in mind that you are praying for the Divine Presence.
You can then enter the Universe of thought- a state that is beyond time.
Everything in this realm is the same, life and death, land and sea...
But in order to enter the Universe of thought where all is the same,
you must relinquish your ego and forget all your troubles
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It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men,
but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.
Albert Einstein
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger,
more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius
and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
Leonardo Oa Vinci
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Albert Einstein
Out of clutter, find simplicity.
From discord, find harmony.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Thomas Traherne from "Centuries of Meditations
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to another
and another's love to us. We ought, therefore, above all things
to get acquainted with the nature of love. For love is the root and
foundation of nature: love is the soul of life and its crown of rewards.
Joseph Campbell from "The Power of Myth"
If you follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has
been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to
be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin
to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the
doors to you. I say follow your bliss and don't be afraid and doors will
open where you didn't know they were going to be.
Koun Yamada Roshi on the practice of Zen
It's best described as becoming intimate with Something.
Rainer Maria Rilke from "Letters to a Young Poet"
Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like
the tree which does not force its sap and stands confident in the
storms of spring without the fear that after them may come no summer.
It does come. But it comes only to the patient, who are there as
though eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly still and wide...
Patience is everything.
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M.K. Gandhi
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul...
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
The Oalai Lama
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Ana1s Nin
There are two kinds of freedom in the world;
the freedom of the rich and powerful,
and the freedom of the artist and the monk
who renounce possessions.
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Rabbi
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
Khalil Gibran
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
Shunryu Suzuki
In zazen. leave your front door and your back door open.
Let thoughts come and go.Just don't serve them tea.
Blaise Pascal
All human evil comes from- "man's being unable to sit still in a room··.
Umar Khayyam
Of knowledge naught remained I did not know,
Of secrets, scarcely any, high or low;
All day and night for three score and twelve years,
I pondered,just to learn that naught I know.
If with wine you are drunk. be happy,
If seated with a moon-face (beauty). be happy,
Since the end purpose of the universe is nothing-ness;
Hence picture your nothing-ness, then while you are, be happy!
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Humanity is being taken to the point where it will have
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T.S. Eliot
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What is strong and rigid fosters death.
What is humble and weak fosters life.
If a soldier is rigid, he is undone.
If a tree is rigid, it meets its end.
Rigidity and strength are ultimately inferior.
Humility and weakness are ultimately superior.
Wallace Stevens
There is a poem at the heart of things.
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections
and the truth of Imagination. What the imagination seizes as Beauty
must be truth.
on Simone Weil's use of language by E.W.F. Tomlin
Just as we build a house or a cathedral with the same kind of stone,
so we may use the same common and homely metaphors and images
to convey truths on widely separated planes of discourse.
And the highest is often best conveyf?d in terms of the lowest.
In exploring the highest reaches of experience, we need a language.
as fresh and living as the truths with which we are in contact.
For most mystics, this is the language of nerve tips.
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Blaise Pascal
From about half past ten in the evening
to about half an hour after midnight.
Fire, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob.
Not the god of philosophers and scholars.
Absolute Certainty: Beyond reason, Joy. Peace.
Forgetfulness of the world and everything but God.
The world has not known thee,
but I have known thee, Joy! Joy! Joy!
Tears of Joy!
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It is as if a tiny streamlet enters the sea, from which it will find no way
of separating itself, or as if in a room there are two large windows
through which the light streamed in: it enters in different places but it
all becomes one.
Meister Eckhart from "Tractate 11"
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God!... The divine love-spring surges over the soul sweeping her out of
herself into the unnamed being of her original source... In this exalted
state she has lost her proper self and is flowing full-flood into the unity
of the divine nature.. Henceforth I shall not speak about the soul, for
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It takes a man to make a room silent.
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When the moon rises in the Heart of Heaven
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There is in all~things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity,
a silence that is a fountain of action and joy.
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It is not how things are in the world that is mystical,
but that it (the world) exists at all...
Faru'din Ibrahim Iraqi
He put color and perfume into flowers
to feed the song of the nightingale.
He tossed our names and titles of glory to the winds
and called us fools and the most miserable of all beings.
When He found the humble Iraqi on the road,
he breathed into his heart the fire of passion.
Greek Myth
Several beautiful children were born to Aphrodite and Aries.
Eros, their little son, was appointed god of love. Although nursed
with tender solicitude, this second-born child did not grow as
other children do, but remained a small, rosy, chubby child, with
gauzy wings and roguish, dimpled face. Alarmed for his health,
Aphrodite consulted Themis who responded through the oracle,
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'...whom I loved, or what in me was loving, I do not know
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The sexual life is usually enveloped in'many layers
for all of us poets, writers, artists.
It is a veiled woman, half-dreamed.
Nikos Kazantzakis's Alexis Zorba
from the novel. "Zorba the Greek"
Do~'t laugh, boss! If a woman sleeps ~lone, it's the fault of us
men. God will forgive all sins... but that sin he will not forgive.
Wo~ betide the man who could sleep with a woman and who did
not do so! Woe betide the woman who could sleep with a man
and did not do so!
Song of Songs 6:3
I found him whom my soul loveth; I held him, and would not let
him go... I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine.
from "The Zohar"
No other love is like unto the ecstasy of the moment when
spirit cleaves to spirit and becomes one ,...., one love.
41. Henri
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Chandogya Upanishad
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Where there is joy there is creation.
Where there is no joy there is no creation:
Know the nature of joy.
Where there is the Infinite there is joy.
There is no joy in the finite.
An English Mystic
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