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VYAYAM VACHAN ( Quotes). 1) Don’t think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness. Lao-Tzu, Hua Hu Ching. 2) To know and not to do, is in fact not to know. Wang Yang Ming. 3) I am truth. I cannot vary. Old Testament.
4) It is as if a king had sent you to a country to carry out one special, specific task. You go to the country and perform a hundred other tasks, but if you have not performed the task you were sent for, it is as if you have performed nothing at all. So man has come into the world for a particular task, and that is his purpose. If he doesn’t perform it, he will have done nothing. - Jalal al-Din (thirteenth century mystical poet). 5) Communion and Community may be seen as the common twofold prescription written by the great religions as the means to fulfill our "one task" of God-realization. Bo Lozoff. 6) We must be willing to do the spiritual work that gradually brings us into communion with what is eternal and divine within us. Our whole lives become a spiritual experiment in the laboratory of the real world. Bo Lozoff. 7) Practice is the means by which we try to tame the mind and body to be our servants rather than our masters. Bo Lozoff. 8) How to get rid of the lower self : the blossom vanishes of itself as the fruit grows, so will your lower self vanish as the divine grows in you. Ramkrishna. 9) All of a sudden the progress will stop one day, and you will find yourself, as it were stranded. Persevere. All progress proceeds by such rise and fall. Vivekananda. 10) Lakes in the Dry Season : drop by drop their depths are diminished, like as the enlightened gradually lose all notions of self. Ramkrishna. 11) Oh thou who art trying to learn the marvel of love from the copybook of reason, I am very much afraid that you will never really see the point. Hafiz. 12) Whatever you do, or eat, or give, or offer in adoration, let it be an offering to me;and whatever you suffer, suffer it for me. Thus you shall be free from the bonds of Karma which yield fruits that are evil and good; and with your soul one in renunciation you shall be free and come to me. Bhagvad Gita. 13) He who sees the inaction that is in action, and the action that is in inaction, is wise indeed. Even when he is engaged in action he remains poised in the tranquility of the Atman. Bhagvad Gita. 14) If you observe well, your own heart will answer. de Lubicz. 15) At first whenever I fell back into sin I used to weep and rage against myself and against God for having suffered it. Afterwards it was as much as I could dare ask, "Why has thou rolled me again in the mud, O my playfellow?" Then even that came to my mind to seem too bold and presumptuous; I could only get up in silence, look at him out of the corner of my eye and clean myself. Aurbindo. 16) As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births. Buddha. 17) How does the emancipated soul live in the world? He lives in the world like a diver bird. It dives into water, but the water does not wet its plumage; the few drops of water which may possibly stick to its body are easily jerked off when it once helps its wing. - Ramkrishna. 18) Can he rectify false weight whose own scales are uncertain? Can you enlighten your neighbor while you yourself have no light? Ramkrishna. 19) To think that working on oneself requires "dropping-out" of society is to miss the point. Certainly you must drop out….. but the drop-out is internal, not external. One drops out of one’s attachments; one drops out of one’s identification with the illusion of separateness. Baba Ram Dass (Dr. Richard Alpert). 20) To be "not caught" means to be unattached. To be unattached does not mean to be Uninvolved, it means to be involved "without attachment’. A conscious being is capable of making as many discriminations among components of the Universe as anyone else (perhaps even more). However, he is not caught in them. Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code. Keeping it together means keeping conscious at all levels-all planes-with no attachment to any of them. Baba Ram Dass (Dr. Richard Alpert). 21) The simple rule of conscious participation is "YOU MAY PROTEST IF YOU CAN LOVE THE PERSON YOU ARE PROTESTING AGAINST AS MUCH AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF". Baba Ram Dass (Dr. Richard Alpert).
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