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Commentary © 2007 Richard Chandler & Bonnett Chandler
This Lebanese-American artist, writer and poet’s work continues to inspire. He is most remembered for his book of poetry titled “The Prophet”.
“Your body is the harp of your soul,
And it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.”
- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
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From the conclusion of the USA’s Declaration of Independence, July 4 th, 1776…
“And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”
- Thomas Jefferson ((1743-1826)
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From the famous medicine man of the Oglala Lakakto, (Sioux) who wrote his autobiography, Black Elk Speaks…
“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within
the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with
the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of
the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really
everywhere, it is within each of us.”
- Black Elk (1863-1950)
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This author and clairvoyant influenced the Theosophical movement of the late 1800’s…
“It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.”
- C. W. Leadbeater (1854-1934)
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Christopher Isherwood, (1904-1986), an influential writer of fiction and nonfiction including works about eastern mysticism, shares a quote for navigating through life…
“The breeze of God’s grace is blowing continually. You have to set your sail to catch that breeze.”
- Swami Prabhavananda (1883-1986)
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The simplest way to make one's peace with God...
When his aunt Louisa asked Henry David Thoreau during his last weeks of life if he had made his peace with God, Thoreau responded quite simply: “I did not know we had ever quarreled.”
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
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Bob Hope apparently practiced a kind of spiritual risk management.
“I do benefits for all religions… I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.”
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A vision large enough to appreciate how limited our understanding is and is likely to be…
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.”
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
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What would really change if we won the 'Enlightenment Lottery'?
“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.”
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Motivation for the famous operatic composer Giacomo Puccini…
“The conscious, purposeful appropriation of one’s own soul-forces is the supreme secret…Then I feel the burning desire to create something worthwhile.”
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Consciousness quote from 'Grateful Dead' band leader...
"I think consciousness has a place in the cosmic game, the atoms and universe game, the big game. I can’t imagine that it’s mindless – there’s too much organization, and the organization is too incredible."
- Jerry Garcia (1942-1996)
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Weighing in on the paradox of attachment in spirituality
"The enlightened ones are neither attached to nor detached from their senses and thoughts."
- Huang-Po (This version of the quote was used by Aldous Huxley)
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From shamanistic teachings of Mexico about
the known, the unknown and the unknowable from author Carlos Casaneda.
"The unknown is something that is veiled from man, shrouded perhaps be a terrifying context, but which, nonetheless, is within man's reach. The unknown becomes the known at a given time. The unknowable, on the other hand, is the indescribable, the unthinkable, the unrealizable. It is something that will never be known to us, and yet it is there, dazzling and at the same time horrifying in its vastness."
- Carlos Castaneda (1925-1998) from his books, The Fire From Within and The Wheel of Time
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Prison Contemplation of Change From
Egyptian Peacemaker and former leader of Egypt who was born in 1918 and assassinated in 1981. From In Search of Identity: An Autobiography
"My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place had taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress. The fact that change is a prerequisite of progress may be axiomatic; but the fact that change should take place first at a deeper and perhaps subtler level than the conscious level was one that I had established as a basis for action ever since I discovered my real self in Cell 54."
- Anwar el-Sadat
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