HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY
SWAMI RAMANANDA: Planting Seeds for a Sustainable Future
We commit ourselves, in the daily ways we can, to live by the Yogic values that we have embraced:
To honor the Spiritual Light within all peoples of all races & religions.
To honor the earth, our home, as a manifestation of the Spirit.
To resist the cultural messages to accumulate achievements & possessions as a source of happiness.
To practice contentment & gratitude for all that we have been given & take joy in giving, sharing & serving others.
May these efforts bring some benefit to others, bring more peace to our own hearts & ion some small way uplift the consciousness of our planet.
BOOKS are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought & speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change, windows on the world. BARBARA TUCHMAN
ABOVE ALL, do not lose your desire to walk. everyday I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts & I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still & the more one sits still the closer one comes to feeling ill. thus if one just keeps on walking everything will be all right.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
IF you see change as an opportunity for awakening you’ve got the game beat. The deeper you are connected within, the more you are willing to deal with what is, the more free you will be of the anxiety that is connected with change.
As long as you are identified with anything external & think you need it for your own security, your own comfort, your own existence, for the essence of you, you are going to be frightened. RAM DASS
THEY DEEM ME MAD because I will not sell my days for gold; & I deem them mad because they think my days have a price. KAHLIL GIBRAN
WHAT SUNSHINE IS TO FLOWERS, SMILES ARE TO HUMANITY. These are but truffles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. JOSEPH ADDISON
BE KIND, FOR EVERYONE YOU KNOW IS FIGHTING A GREAT BATTLE. PHILO
KNOW HIM OR HER TO BE DEAR TO GOD in whom these three qualities are found: First, generosity like a river; second, affection like the sun; and third, humility like the earth. HAZRAT KHWAJA MU’IN AD-DIN CHRISTI
THE DREAM OF MY LIFE
IS TO LIE DOWN BY A SLOW RIVER
AND STARE AT THE LIGHT IN THE TREES —
TO LEARN SOMETHING BY BEING NOTHING
A LITTTLE WHILE
BUT THE RICH
LENS OF ATTENTION. MARY OLIVER
ALBERT EINSTEIN 1879-1955. UNIFIED FIELD THEORY E=MC-sqaareg.
WE are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical GARMENTS AND OUR BODIES ARE THE INSTRUMENTS through which our souls play their music.
WE can’t solve today’s problems with the mentality that creates them.
THE WORLD will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
THE ONLY THING MORE DANGEROUS THAN IGNORANCE IS ARROGANCE.
FAILURE IS SUCCESS IN PROGRESS.
THE MORE I STUDY SCIENCE — THE MORE I BELIEVE IN GOD.
INSANITY: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
IF YOU CAN’T EXPLAIN IT SIMPLY, YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND IT WELL ENOUGH.
EDUCATION is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.
JAMES MADISON 1751-1836—–4th. President of the United States—————–
IF Tyranny & oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
LIBERTY may be endangered by the abuse of liberty but also by the abuse of power.
THE ADVANCEMENT & DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE IS THE ONLY GUARDIAN OF LIBERTY.