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Self Realisation is not however a state which is foreign to you, which is far from you, and which has to be reached by you. You are always in that state.
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Sunday, March 27, 2011
"Love is the most important thing in the world ...." - Herman Hesse
"Love is the most important thing in the world. It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect."
- Herman Hesse
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Friday, October 8, 2010
Aldous Huxley On The Perennial Philosophy, Literature, Humanity, History, Knowledge, Wonder, Experience, The Self, & The Universe
"It is only in the act of contemplation when words and even personality are transcended, that the pure state of the Perennial Philosophy can actually be known. The records left by those who have known it in this way make it abundantly clear that all of them, whether Hindu, Buddhist, Hebrew, Taoist, Christian, or Mohammedan, were attempting to describe the same essentially indescribable Fact.
The phenomenal world of matter and of individualized consciousness — the world of things and animals and men and even gods — is the manifestation of a Divine Ground within which all partial realities have their being, and apart from which they would be non-existent.
Human beings are capable not merely of knowing about the Divine Ground by inference; they can also realize its existence by a direct intuition, superior to discursive reasoning. This immediate knowledge unites the knower with that which is known.
Something inexpressively lovely and wonderful advances through the crystal, nearer, nearer. And, oh, inexpressively terrifying...
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Every man's memory is his private literature."
- Aldous Huxley
Monday, September 27, 2010
Melotte 15 In The Heart Nebula - Novalis On Stars
"I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance
Throughout my being's limitless expanse,
Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages
I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages."
- As quoted in Romantic Vision, Ethical Context: Novalis and Artistic Autonomy (1987) by Géza von Molnár, p. 2
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Chakras - Sri Aurobindo
"Hinduism, which is the most skeptical and the most believing of all, the most skeptical because it has questioned and experimented the most, the most believing because it has the deepest experience and the most varied and positive spiritual knowledge, that wider Hinduism which is not a dogma or combination of dogmas but a law of life, which is not a social framework but the spirit of a past and future social evolution, which rejects nothing but insists on testing and experiencing everything and when tested and experienced, turning in to the soul's uses, in this Hinduism, we find the basis of future world religion. This Sanatana Dharma has many scriptures: The Veda, the Vedanta, the Gita, the Upanishads, the Darshanas, the Puranas, the Tantras, nor could it reject the Bible or the Koran, but its real, the most authoritative scripture is in the heart in which the Eternal has his dwelling."
- Sri Aurobindo, The Ideal of the Karmayogin (1921), p. 9
Sunday, August 22, 2010
The Kinks - Living On A Thin Line
"I wish to write down my musical dreams in a spirit of utter self-detachment. I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naïve candour of a child. No doubt, this simple musical grammar will jar on some people. It is bound to offend the partisans of deceit and artifice. I foresee that and rejoice at it." - Claude Debussy (born 22 August 1862)
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush - Don't Give Up
Whenever you entrust your heart to a thought,
something will be taken from you inwardly.
Whatever you think and acquire, the thief will
enter from that side where you feel safe.
So busy yourself with that which is better, so
that something less may be taken from you.
~Maulana Rumi
Translated by William Chittick
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Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." -
William Shakespeare
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Sunday, May 16, 2010
The Neverending Story
"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."
- Henry David Thoreau
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Friday, May 14, 2010
Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within - "Don't Fade Away - Credits"
"I am the Spirit Moon.
You do not see me for I am hidden
inside the soul.
Others want you for themselves but I call you
back to yourself.
You give me many names but I am
beyond all names.
I am the garden of all gardens
I speak as the King of all flowers
I am the spring of all waters.
My words are like a ship and the sea
is their meaning.
Come to me and I will take you
to the depths of spirit."
- Mevlana Rumi
tr. Azima Melita Kolin & Maryam Mafi
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Saturday, May 8, 2010
Yeasayer - Madder Red (In-Studio TheAlternateSide.org)
“He that loveth not, Knoweth not God; for God is Love. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us. God is Love; and he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God and God in him.”
- Yeshua (Jesus Christ)
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Thursday, May 6, 2010
Big Star - My Life Is Right
"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."
- Iris Murdoch
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Leonard Cohen - Passing Through (1979)
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
of Montreal - Gronlandic Edit
☮ "You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." ☮
- Gautama Buddha
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