Re: The "near death experiences" - suggestions for books & studie

Posted on Aug 14th, 2009 by starpeople in What Is Enlightenment?

Thanks for posting this, I will come back to it Bob and have a good slow read of it later Tony

Re: If you want to write... (Brenda Ueland)

Posted on Aug 11th, 2009 by Sandra in DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop

Ruth. this is bizarre. Out of my boxes of stuff that was in storage for 7 years I found this book. A couple of days ago. It's sitting next to my computer, waiting to be... More »

If you want to write... (Brenda Ueland)

Posted on Aug 11th, 2009 by rudyan in DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated, perhaps; and forever talked to by god and his messengers. ---Brenda Ueland ( If You Want to Write: A Book About Art, Independence and Spirit )

Re: What makes your heart SING ?

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

And also, someone buying my book, Experiencing Divinity, Sharing Awakening.

Re: Wilber's Post-Metaphysical Spirit (God)

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by Zakariyya in Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality

I beg everybody  to read my book. The cosmology there explains all of this.Buy an eBook of it, it’s cheaper. Therein are all mysteries answered

Re: Discussing and analysing bhagavad Gita

Posted on Jul 19th, 2009 by sanmugan in Ancient works of wisdom

Even if you have already read the Gita I think you will find this information interesting. Bhagavad Gita is an amazing book. Even if you were to read the entire book every day of your... More »

Spiritual Materialism

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Tharlam in Three Turns Buddhism Forum

Audio recording of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche teaching on Spiritual Materialism : Part One Part Two Discsussion on this teaching or Rinpoche's book 'Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism' is encouraged here.

Re: Haiku Chain - Going Global (2)

Posted on May 18th, 2009 by sandy in The GLOBAL PEACE POD.

Book of Life open new beginning, new chapter, new page for fresh start

Bad books

Posted on May 17th, 2009 by Tom in DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop

Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. ~  Carlos Fuentes http://www.tomhowe.org/extracto-literarium.php

"How To Read a Film" , etc.

Posted on May 17th, 2009 by Desafinada in Dreams of Artists™

If anybody is interested... Here you can read the PDF version of the second edition of the book "How To Read a Film" by James Monaco.

Why should Matthew read the Alchemist?

Posted on Oct 28th, 2009 by Gaia Team

Hello lovely Gaians! We need your help. Most of you beautiful beings know we're celebrating The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. It's a fable of magic, transformation, growth, miracles and listening to your Heart. I know... More »

What do you do when you're bored?

Posted on Oct 23rd, 2009 by jagadish

,,, Read any of my favourite books or go SWIMMING !!.. . mimi, rani & Jon would have expected my answer already... ...btw let me add that i have never any boring moment in life... More »

Who around you do you consider wise?

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by Ted

I find wisdom and courage in everyone I meet. We all contain all things, and all experess all things, in some measure at some time. I find great wisdom in many books. I like Brian... More »

Where do you feel most safe?

Posted on Jun 30th, 2009 by jagadish

...in my little den called Home surrounded by books of all hues and size...i simply get transported to a  different dream world altogether !!

06.09.09 “I Am”

Posted on Jun 9th, 2009 by elford-gnofleas

06.09.09  “I Am” I Am the God of the gentiles, God of the jews, God of the christians and I’m islam’s Allah too! I’m the first cause of magic, hedonism and laughter. No black cat theology... More »

Enlightenment and the void

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by Alan

What if enlightenment exists not in form, but formless?  Not in stuff, but void? If so... well, lets jus assume so for a second.  If so, you couldn't ever get to enlightenment by thinking alot... More »

What secrets do you hide even from yourself?

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by synonym for light

My filing system is one big treasure hunt whenever I want to find something.  I put things in "safe" places all the time.  Passport, birth certificates, social security cards, immunization records -- you'd think these... More »

Where, or what, would you like to finally surrender?

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Jamilah

I have already surrendered some things. Several years ago I realized that I would never be able to keep the house exactly as I wanted, not unless I spent all my waking hours doing housework.... More »

I choose not to be afraid

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by burnsrunner

I am new to the idea of energy healing. I have been inspired to the core of my being after reading and amazing book titled, "Liquid Mirror." Thanks to Kelly La Sha , I am... More »

Edward Said and a mind of winter

Posted on May 11th, 2009 by Laura

I rediscovered this passage tonight, copied by hand into a notebook of mine a few years ago. I had forgotten how much I liked what Said had to say. I used to be quite preoccupied with the notion... More »

Oh, you who believe! Fear Allah, and seek a means of access to Him, and struggle on His way; perhaps you will succeed! (Koran 5:35) Commentary: . . . God commands believers to practice the fear of Him. This corresponds to what is called . . . the "station of repentance" which is the basis of all progress on the Way and the key which permits one to arrive at the "station of realization". . . . After that God says to us: "And seek a means of access to Him" . . . There is absolute unanimity among the People of Allah on the fact that, in the Way toward Gnosis, a "means of access", that is to say, a master, is indispensable. However, at the beginning of the Way he can be satisfied with books which deal with pious behavior and with spiritual combat in its most general sense. "And struggle on His Way": this is an order to do battle after having found a master. It is a matter of a special holy war (jihad), which is carried out under the command of the master and according to the rules which he prescribes. One cannot have confidence in a spiritual combat carried on in the absence of the master, except in very exceptional cases. . . . The dispositions of beings are varied, their temperaments are very different one from another and something which is profitable for one can be harmful for another.

Ten Spiritual Tonics 1. Stop worrying. Worry kills life. 2. Begin each day with a prayer. It will arm your soul. 3. Control appetite. Over-indulgence clogs body and mind. 4. Accept your limitations . . . 5. Don't envy. It wastes time and energy. 6. Have faith in people. Cynicism sours the disposition. 7. Find a hobby. It will relax your nerves. 8. Read a book a week to stimulate imagination and broaden your views. 9. Spend some time alone for the peace of solitude and silence. 10. Try to want what you have, instead of spending your strength trying to get what you want.

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book.

The best gift God has given man is the Bible. It is by all odds the most influential book (or rather collection of books) in existence. The Old and New Testaments have held men together spiritually through the centuries. Three hundred and fifty years ago, in 1611, fifty four devoted English scholars and churchmen, assigned to the task by King James I , gave to the English speaking world a monument of noble prose, on which so many of us have been brought up. The Bible has been translated into more than 1,150 languages. In short, the Bible has had the most dramatic career of any book in the world.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can not fool all the people all of the time. Attributed to Abraham Lincoln. - Alexander K. McClure, "Abe" Lincoln's Yarns and Stories, p. 184 (1904). Many quotation books have also attributed this to Lincoln, with a variety of sources given. According to Roy R Basler ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 3, p. 81 (1953), "Tradition has come to attribute to the Clinton [Illinois] speeches [September 2, 1858] one of Lincoln's most famous utterances - 'You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.'" But he goes on to say that the epigram and any references to it have not been located in Surviving Lincoln documents. This remark has also been attributed to P. T. Barnum.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. Josiah G. Holland, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 23 (1866), and George Alfred Townsend, The Real Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 6 (1867). According to the latter, Lincoln made this remark to his law partner, William Herndon. Lincoln's natural mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, died when he was nine years old and his father remarried the following year. His stepmother, Sarah Bush (Johnston) Lincoln, was loved and respected by Lincoln throughout her life, as evidenced in the many biographical studies of Lincoln. Benjamin P. Thomas says in Abraham Lincoln, p. 12 (1952): "The boy Abraham adored her. Recollection of his own mother dimmed. And in later years he called this woman, who filled her place so well, 'my angel mother.'" The Macmillan Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Famous Phrases, ed. Burton Stevenson, p. 1627 (1965), comments that the remark referred to Lincoln's stepmother. But the biographers of Lincoln's natural mother claim the remark referred to her: Caroline Hanks Hitchcock, Nancy Hanks, p. 105 (1899) and Charles Ludwig, Nancy Hanks: Mother of Lincoln, p. 84 (1965).

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army. Attributed to President Abraham Lincoln by General James B. Fry.-Allen Thorndike Rice, Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, chapter 22, p. 393 (1886). This supposedly had been part of Lincoln's response to a young volunteer soldier who had come to Lincoln's office asking his help with a grievance. The story has been repeated in numerous books on Lincoln: Alexander K. McClure, "Abe" Lincoln's Yarns and Stories, p. 162 (1904); Ida M. Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 2, p. 153 (1917); and Caroline T. Harnsberger, The Lincoln Treasury, p. 14 (1950).

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