The absence of hate---of all hate---is Love
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Vivekananda Quotations
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him or her, that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
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All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life. Think of it, dream of it, live on the idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak or others are weak.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
The man or woman has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
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All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life. Think of it, dream of it, live on the idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak or others are weak.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
The man or woman has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
Love equals happiness. When we are not happy, we are not loving.
Happiness is our inherent, natural state.
Happiness is you being you without any negativity.
The best definition for happiness is peace, tranquility and serenity.
Happiness is the absence of apathy, grief, fear, jealousy, anger and hate.
There isn't anyone who isn't seeking it.
Happiness loves.
The only place where we can feel happiness is right within ourselves.
Happiness is freedom; absence of limitations.
The less limited we are the freer we are, the freer we are the happier we are.
Happiness is equal to one's capacity to love.
Happiness is keeping in mind the things we do want.
Unhappiness is keeping in mind the things we do not want.
If we love completely, we are perfectly happy.
Happiness is being cause rather than effect; master rather than victim.
Love equals happiness. When we are not happy, we are not loving.
Happiness involves thoughts of oneness; unhappiness, thoughts of separation.
An attitude of giving makes one happy.
Happiness is you being you without any negativity.
The best definition for happiness is peace, tranquility and serenity.
Happiness is the absence of apathy, grief, fear, jealousy, anger and hate.
There isn't anyone who isn't seeking it.
Happiness loves.
The only place where we can feel happiness is right within ourselves.
Happiness is freedom; absence of limitations.
The less limited we are the freer we are, the freer we are the happier we are.
Happiness is equal to one's capacity to love.
Happiness is keeping in mind the things we do want.
Unhappiness is keeping in mind the things we do not want.
If we love completely, we are perfectly happy.
Happiness is being cause rather than effect; master rather than victim.
Love equals happiness. When we are not happy, we are not loving.
Happiness involves thoughts of oneness; unhappiness, thoughts of separation.
An attitude of giving makes one happy.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Hold in Mind I Can, I Know, I Know How.
The start of the feelings of failure come from the earliest days. Our parents tell us what to do, they tell us what not to do. Every time we want to do something and they say, "Don't," we feel we can't, we don't know how.
If we don't want to something and they say, "Do," again we feel we don't know. All the "doing" and "don'ting" by parents gives us the feeling that we can't, we don't know, from the first days on. And this continues because it goes on through everyone's life.
Every teacher has it as his or her make-up that we cannot do. So they tell us what to do, and repeat it, and pound it into us, and the continue that negativity that started at infancy. So maybe 99% of us have a feeling of failure that we can't do. We don't know how.
When we look at ourselves as we really are, and discover what we are, we discover that all things are possible unto us, that all intelligence is available to us, that we have a direct line to omniscience, to omnipotence. And the only thing that keeps us from using it are those pre-indoctrinated dictums from our parents and teachers. Do. Don't.
So by discovering ourselves we see how ridiculous it is to hold on to the concept that we cannot. And when we see that everything is possible, methodically those concepts are dropped.
If we don't want to something and they say, "Do," again we feel we don't know. All the "doing" and "don'ting" by parents gives us the feeling that we can't, we don't know, from the first days on. And this continues because it goes on through everyone's life.
Every teacher has it as his or her make-up that we cannot do. So they tell us what to do, and repeat it, and pound it into us, and the continue that negativity that started at infancy. So maybe 99% of us have a feeling of failure that we can't do. We don't know how.
When we look at ourselves as we really are, and discover what we are, we discover that all things are possible unto us, that all intelligence is available to us, that we have a direct line to omniscience, to omnipotence. And the only thing that keeps us from using it are those pre-indoctrinated dictums from our parents and teachers. Do. Don't.
So by discovering ourselves we see how ridiculous it is to hold on to the concept that we cannot. And when we see that everything is possible, methodically those concepts are dropped.
Friday, October 15, 2010
An illiterate person has a much better chance of achieving total freedom because he's not clogged by accrued, accumulated encrustations of dogma, doctrine, education, ideas. The less ideas we have, the less education we have, the less demand we have to behave in accordance with the world, and therefore we're freer to dive into ourselves. The less cobwebs we have in the way of seeing ourselves the less we accept from society, because society is very much in the wrong direction. So anything it gives us becomes an obstacle.
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