Miss Miscellany

Just trying to keep track of my many interests. . .and I read a lot about spirituality that I want to remember.

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Home for the Soul A home for the soul is not a material goal to be acquired, but a setting for inquiring into the processes of living. Anthony Lawlor A Home for the Soul: A Guide for Dwelling wtih Spirit and Imagination

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God is at home, it is we who have gone out for a walk. Meister Eckehart

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Once a Dancer

As a child, I knew I had one great possession: my body. It was little and quick. I lived within it…I’d wake up in the morning, excited, ready to go out and look at the world. Breakfast would only slow me down. I wanted to leap into the empty lots outside our windows just as soon as I could and see what had happened overnight…As an adult, I met people who talked passionately about their new…

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Tremendous Importance

It is of tremendous importance to the world, however, because insofar as one individual can show forth a measure of health, harmony, inner peace, joy, satisfaction, and abundance sufficient unto his needs, in that degree is that person the light of the world, the inspiration for others to follow, the light which fills them with that same hope, that same ambition, and that same willingness to…

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Everything you do

Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the truth. Oprah

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On the Way

The person who, being really on the Way, falls upon hard times in the world, will not, as a consequence, turn to that friend who offers him refuge and comfort and encourages their old self to survive. Rather, he will seek out someone who will faithfully and inexorably help him to risk himself, so that he may endure the difficulty and pass courageously through it. Only to the extent that the…

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Isn't it Funny

Isn’t it Funny

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best out of life, you very often get it. W. Somerset Maugham

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Do it well

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. Philip Stanhope

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The River of God

The River of God

This world is the wheel of God to which all beings cling. The world is the river of God, and all of its streams eventually return to Him. Around and around the individual self goes, all the while believing itself to be separate from everything else. Finally the individual soul realizes its essential unity with God, and achieves immortality. The Shvetashvatara Upanishad

Found here, p. 148

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The Silence Within

Within each of us there is a silence, a silence as vast as the universe, and when we experience that silence we remember who we are. -Gunilla Norris

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Like Glass

Like glass, polish your inner vision until it is spotless. The Tao Te Ching

Found here, p. 157

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Whole People Make No Demands Your holiness blesses him by asking nothing of him. Those who see themselves as whole make no demands. A Course in Miracles

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My Colorstrology I recently came across a book called Colorstrology, a blend of astrology, numerology and colour theory that describes you based on your birthday.

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Entos, Within You

A more important example is Luke 17:20, where Jesus says that the kingdom of God is not something one can find by physically looking for it. Rather, the kingdom of God is entos, “within you.” The Greek word, “entos,” can be translated as either “among you” or “within you,” but most Christian translators render the word “among you.” Yet the New Testamentscholar C. H. Dodd demonstrated many years…

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Would Blue Exist if We Didn't Have a Name for It?

Would Blue Exist if We Didn’t Have a Name for It?

But do you really see something if you don’t have a word for it?

Language shapes our thoughts. In a way, everything we label becomes distinct from other things that fall under a different label, so as we make labels for the world around us, we also learn to discern increasingly subtle details about the world. This article uses our perception of colours as an example of that. What is Blue and How…

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You Are Free When there are no more desires, and no more needs, and nothing attracts you, then you are free. Chuang Tzu Found here, p. 157

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The Dress and Perception By now you have no doubt heard of The Dress, in fact, you probably consider it old news by now.