Re: My Statue

Posted on Oct 25th, 2009 by Nicola in Empowered by Poetry

Oh, Kevin, this is lovely.  Such a pure, beautiful feeling of well-being at the center. hugs to you! Nicola

Re: When you die, what would you like your legacy to be?

Posted on Aug 12th, 2009 by Jenny in 50+stars*~Half a century & more on earth

Off the top of my head; I want my children to say I was a good mother. 

Re: What makes your heart SING ?

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by astrobox in Questions & Reflections: The Group

Going for a bushwalk,  hearing waves crash on the shore, seeing birds in flight,  seeing the slow but sure arrival of spring with new flower blossoms, smelling mangolias,  tasting a nectarine,  having hugs with my... More »

Re: God and Evolution

Posted on Jun 9th, 2009 by Is. in Integral Archipelago

"does anything exist that is (spiritually) higher or more advanced than those beings?" In dualistic terms, human beings are the most advanced development of evolution in the whole of the known universe. (There is nothing more complex... More »

Re: My Next Album, What Should It Be?

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Silent Temple in Dreams of Artists™

Hey G, You be the dog. I am a moron when it comes to business, marketing, sales, etc. So, if you want to make money, run away from me. Spiritually, I always tell people to... More »

Re: Death

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Silent Temple in Now I Can See The Moon

Hi Leigh-Anne, You BE. I can tell...one of the lucky ones. ST

May 20th 2009

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by Tharlam in Three Turns Buddhism Forum

The Buddha and all sentinent beings are nothing but expressions of the one mind. There is nothing else.     ~ Huang Po

Re: How do you measure what can't be counted?

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by blewbird in Questions & Reflections: The Group

It seems to me that love, compassion and gratitude is always expanding simular to the universe.   If so, how do you measure Infinite Being?

Re: How do you wish to better the world?

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by we'r'1 in Questions & Reflections: The Group

Becuse of the fractal nature of the universe each cell is a microcasm of the universe. This applies on all levels. Rather than wishing I prefer being. By being what we wish to see we... More »

Re: Is waterboarding torture?

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by theurj in Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality

You're being far too kind to Hannity, assuming that his usual state is anything other than persistently vegetative.

How do you define power?

Posted on Oct 25th, 2009 by Dagmar MamaBear

to follow my dreams and visions 100 % which are given to me by the source through my innermost self and thus doing / being what I am meant to do/be during this EarthWalk.

YIPPEEE ! !

Posted on Oct 23rd, 2009 by Alluvja

I'm   loving   TUT 's daily message of today: "It's got nothing to do with being a perfect, goody-goody, selfless, sacrificing, spiritual saint, Lucienne,  Blah! That whole characterization was meant for a different audience... More »

What does greatness mean to you?

Posted on Aug 14th, 2009 by aeowen

Random acts of kindness, a pleasant greeting.  Greatness is the creativity, joy, and beauty of every being whom inhabits this Earth with grace and humility.

Sophia's Grace...

Posted on Aug 11th, 2009 by starlight

In the arms of Sophia’s grace... Is Joy beyond any to compare... The Kingdom of Heaven is waiting... Grace transports Being there...  May I never forget to be grateful... Or to turn the page on... More »

Why worry, Be Happy

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by CheyenneRivers1

Universal wisdom

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by Mila

All of nature and the universe is wise when each is its true self/being! So you know who you (we) are - truly loving and wise!

Who around you do you consider wise?

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by basicsense

to me wisdom is having a calm yet intense purpose for life.  wisdom is being able to focus on truth. It's being able to determine when to accept what is and when to change what... More »

One Simple Change Makes Life Easy

Posted on Aug 9th, 2009 by CheyenneRivers1

One Simple Change Makes Life Easy: “Most of us have never known that every single moment throughout night and day we are actually resting in complete well-being. There is never a single moment when we... More »

How do you deal with the unknown?

Posted on Aug 9th, 2009 by Satya-Seer

By being present as it arises and doing the best I can.

Dawn

Posted on Aug 4th, 2009 by Desafinada

  Pride and Prejudice-Dawn.mp3 The dawn is more like my sunset, almost literally and figuratively. I seem to find my self somewhere in it. I think sunsets are over-rated. Probably because not many people stop... More »

(In 1903) The most important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplemented in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote.

Responsibility for the creation of the good world in which the good life may be realized, which the frustrated ages of the past loaded upon the gods, is now being assumed by man. The ideal of this modern drift is the realization of the full joy in living.

A fine garden being no less difficult to contrive and order well than a good building.

Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level we cannot hope to achieve a high level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.

Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.

From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still lives, that God still observes, ... still reigns. Faith is now in the crucible, it is being tested by fire, and there is no fixed... resting place for the heart and mind but in the Throne of God. What is needed now, as never before, is a full, positive, constructive setting forth of the Godhood of God.

Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once. His Christian life ceases to be the complicated thing it had been before and becomes the very essence of simplicity.

The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.

And if you are patient - certainly that (huwa) is better (khayr) for those who are capable of being patient. (Koran 16:126) Commentary: In this verse, Allah consoles his patient servants in their trials by announcing that He Himself is the substitute and the replacement of that which they have lost and which was pleasing to their natural dispositions. In effect, being patient consists in constraining the soul to accept that which is repugnant to it. The soul experiences an aversion for everything which is not in accord with its predisposition in the present instant, even if it knows that it will be beneficial for it later on. . . . Allah has thus announced to those who patiently bear the loss of that which pleases them - health, riches, greatness, security, possessions and children - that "He" [for this is the proper sense of the pronoun huwa rendered above as "that" in conformity with the way the verse is usually understood] is better (khayr) for them than that which they have lost; for they know that "He" [who is the Name of the supreme absolutely unconditioned Essence] is their inseparable reality and their necessary refuge, and that the pleasing things that they have lost were pure illusions. . . . He who has found Allah has lost nothing, and he who has lost Allah has found nothing.

. . . Whoever adores Allah through the fears of the fires of hell or in order to gain Paradise, whoever invokes Him in order that his share in the goods of the world be enlarged, or so that people should turn their faces toward him in order that he be glorified, or to avoid the evil which an oppressor afflicts upon him; or further, if he has heard a hadith* of the Prophet according to which he who accomplishes a certain pious work, or recites a certain invocation, will receive from God some recompense - whoever does this, his adoration is tainted, and it will not be acceptable to God except by virtue of His grace and of His generosity. . . . God said, "Whoever hopes to encounter his Lord, let him do pious works and, in the adoration of his Lord, not associate any being with Him." (Koran 18:110) The things which I have mentioned are the "beings" which are associated with God. Now, God is, of all those that are associated in adoration, the One who absolutely transcends all association. That is why He prescribed to all His servants that they adore Him with a perfectly pure faith which implies the desire for no other recompense than His face. . . . *hadith: A saying of the Prophet transmitted outside the Qur'an through a chain of known intermediaries. There are two kinds of hadith: hadith qudsi (sacred sentence), a direct revelation, in which God speaks in the first person by the mouth of the Prophet, and hadith nabawi (prophetic sentence), an indirect revelation in which the Prophet speaks as himself. (Introduction to Sufism, p. 117)

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