From Philosophers And Sages And Seers Of Truth: Miscellaneous Quotations And Pointers That Are Relevant To Advaitins / Non-Dualists

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From Philosophers And Sages And Seers Of Truth: Miscellaneous Quotations And Pointers That Are Relevant To Advaitins / Non-Dualists 

excerpted from the book 

 QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS dealing with NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA and more  

Lao-tzu 

"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are . . . ." 

"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." 

" . . . The wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions." 

"He who knows himself is enlightened." 

"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough." 

"He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know."

"Nature is not human hearted." 

"Silence is a source of great strength." 

"We turn clay to make a vessel, but it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the vessel depends." 

 “If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.” 

“When there is no desire, all things are at peace.” 

 “If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.” 

“If you want to be given everything, give everything up.” 

" . . . Realize there is nothing lacking . . . ." 

“In the pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added." 

"In the practice of the Tao, every day something is dropped.” 

"Empty your mind of all thoughts." 

"Returning to the source is serenity." 

“Stop thinking and end your problems.” 

“At the center of your being, you have the answer: you know who you are." 

"The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao." 

"The name that can be named is not the eternal name." 

" . . . The greater whole is undivided." 

Jhian Yang 

"What we mean by Tao is the way or course of Nature. This way has nothing good or bad. It is a mere flowing of things following the development and decline attributes of the moment." 

Richard E. Lingenfelter 

Regarding what is imagined to be seen when all is viewed through blocked consciousness:  

"For it is a land of illusion, a place in the mind, a shimmering mirage of riches and mystery and death. These illusions have distorted its [reality's] landscape and contorted its history." 

Robert Burton 

"Great feelings will often take an aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion." 

Daniel H. Boorstin 

"The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge." 

Gary Zukav 

"The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place." 

Mark Twain 

"The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up all of the insane, we should run out of building materials." 

"Really, what we want now is not laws against crime but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies." 

"Once, I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane." 

Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." 

"A man is what he thinks about all day long." 

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." 

"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff." 

"For every benefit you receive, a tax is levied." 

"As soon as there is life there is danger." 

"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes." 

"Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified." 

Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau 

"I have a great deal of company in my house, especially in the morning when nobody calls." 

"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" 

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." 

"I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust." 

"To be awake is to be alive." 

"My Aunt Maria asked me to read the life of Dr. Chalmers, which, however, I did not promise to do. Yesterday, Sunday, she was heard through the partition shouting to my Aunt Jane, who is deaf, "Think of it! He [Twain] stood half an hour today to hear the frogs croak, but he wouldn't read the life of Chalmers." 

"The frontiers are not east or west, north or south but wherever a man 'fronts' a fact." 

"In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line." 

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion." 

"Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores." 

In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated; my life is unspeakably mean. No amount of gold or respectability would in the least redeem it - dining with the Governor or a member of Congress!! But alone in the distant woods or fields, in unpretending sprout-lands or pastures tracked by rabbits, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day, like this, when a villager would be thinking of his inn, I come to myself, I once more feel myself grandly related, and that cold and solitude are friends of mine. I suppose that this value, in my case, is equivalent to what others get by churchgoing and prayer. I come home to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful. I have told many that I walk every day about half the daylight, but I think they do not believe it. I wish to get the Concord, the Massachusetts, the America, out of my head and be sane . . . every day." 

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." 

"I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born." 

"The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a trivial place. The waves forever rolling to the land are too far-travelled and untamable to be familiar. Creeping along the endless beach amid the sun-squall and the foam, it occurs to us that we, too, are the product of sea-slime." 

"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust." 

"Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe." 

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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.

THE EXPLANATION

If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you." 

Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:

"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II 

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.] 

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