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"The universe and I came into being together; and I, and everything therein, are One." ~ Chang Tzu
Since all things revolve around a common Love, the heavens and earth are made of one substance. - Zhuangzi
When I awoke... I didn't know if I was Zhou dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I was a butterfly dreaming I was Zhou. - Zhuangzi
Restricted knowledge isn't as good as expansive knowledge. - Zhuangzi
"Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone." - Zhuangzi
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. - Chuang Tzu
You will always find an answer in the sound of water.- Chuang-Tse
"It's not what you look at that matters. It's what you see." — Henry David Thoreau
When desires are dissolved in the primordial presence, peace and harmony naturally occur + the world orders itself ~ TaoTeChing37
Love for mankind is the first step toward spirituality. -Kirpal Singh
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Aleph Bayt. ALL Love - Be it
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Why did Jesus always call "God" Aleph Bayt ? אב (Father)
From 300 BC to 300 AD. ie: Dead Sea scrolls (Sons of Zadok/Essenes) - I'd love to see all writings since 0 AD through 300 AD - ALL LOVE. Be it.
Hebrew "Father" is Aleph-Bayt. And the numbers 1 and 2
I'd like to get my hands on book of Matthew written in Hebrew.
It's Hidden I guess... ALL LOVE = One. Aleph
http://translate.google.ca/translate_t?hl=&ie=UTF-8&text=Father&sl=en&tl=iw#iw|en|כל
כל האהבה אוליב Be Love. That's what you are. - Be Love.
When you study letters - you realize that it's all about LOVE. Love your neighbor. Love your enemy. We are ALL ONE LOVE.
When you read the letters from left to right - it sounds like "Be it - ALL LOVE"
אב. Bayt -Aleph Be it. ALL Love. Jesus called "God" ABBA. ALL LOVE -BE IT BE IT - ALL LOVE.
Learn your Alphabet. Alpha-bet. Aleph-Bayt. All Leph Be it. All Love - Be it.
Be it - ALL Love. Aleph. Olive. bayt aleph.
Jesus spoke on the Mount of Olive. or was it the Mount of Aleph ... ALL-LOVE
The 1st 2 letters of the Hebrew Alpha-bet. (and all others) I just realized that. Aleph Bayt (A Love. Be it)
RT @TheQuietAnswer Only in each other can we find ourselves. #ACIM
A Love. Be it. (aleph bayt)
It's too bad more people don't know about Q or Thomas - it would end all the Wars. @MartijnLinssen
I'd like to get on a dig in Egypt or Qumran - where they'll most likely find the Logia (Q) later this year. (or next)
Earlier Logia ( sayings of Jesus) ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logia
Papias (c 60 - 130) Early Christian Bishop of Hierapolis,"Expositions of the Oracles of the Lord" states: "Matthew compiled the Logia in the Hebrew language, and each person interpreted them as he was able", survives only in quotations made by Irenaeus and Eusebius.
RT @Cosmunity The spirit who lives in us all, is equal as the spirit who lives in the world and all universes
RT @InnerPeaceSage Life Is. I Am.
Q or Bayt (Aleph Bayt Bayt Aleph) sayings ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_document
Why did Jesus always call "God" Aleph Bayt ? אב (Father)
From 300 BC to 300 AD. ie: Dead Sea scrolls (Sons of Zadok/Essenes) - I'd love to see all writings since 0 AD through 300 AD - ALL LOVE. Be it.
Hebrew "Father" is Aleph-Bayt. And the numbers 1 and 2
I'd like to get my hands on book of Matthew written in Hebrew.
It's Hidden I guess... ALL LOVE = One. Aleph
http://translate.google.ca/translate_t?hl=&ie=UTF-8&text=Father&sl=en&tl=iw#iw|en|כל
כל האהבה אוליב Be Love. That's what you are. - Be Love.
When you study letters - you realize that it's all about LOVE. Love your neighbor. Love your enemy. We are ALL ONE LOVE.
When you read the letters from left to right - it sounds like "Be it - ALL LOVE"
אב. Bayt -Aleph Be it. ALL Love. Jesus called "God" ABBA. ALL LOVE -BE IT BE IT - ALL LOVE.
Learn your Alphabet. Alpha-bet. Aleph-Bayt. All Leph Be it. All Love - Be it.
Be it - ALL Love. Aleph. Olive. bayt aleph.
Jesus spoke on the Mount of Olive. or was it the Mount of Aleph ... ALL-LOVE
The 1st 2 letters of the Hebrew Alpha-bet. (and all others) I just realized that. Aleph Bayt (A Love. Be it)
RT @TheQuietAnswer Only in each other can we find ourselves. #ACIM
A Love. Be it. (aleph bayt)
It's too bad more people don't know about Q or Thomas - it would end all the Wars. @MartijnLinssen
I'd like to get on a dig in Egypt or Qumran - where they'll most likely find the Logia (Q) later this year. (or next)
Earlier Logia ( sayings of Jesus) ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logia
Papias (c 60 - 130) Early Christian Bishop of Hierapolis,"Expositions of the Oracles of the Lord" states: "Matthew compiled the Logia in the Hebrew language, and each person interpreted them as he was able", survives only in quotations made by Irenaeus and Eusebius.
RT @Cosmunity The spirit who lives in us all, is equal as the spirit who lives in the world and all universes
RT @InnerPeaceSage Life Is. I Am.
Q or Bayt (Aleph Bayt Bayt Aleph) sayings ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_document
Friday, January 29, 2010
Sayings of Jesus - Logion (Gospel of Thomas)
Rather, the kingdom of the father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it. - Logion 113
Jesus said, "It is I who am the light which is above them all. It is I who am the all. - Logion 77
From me did the all come forth, & unto me did the all extend. Logion 77
Split a piece of wood, and I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there. - Logion 77
That which you have will save you if you bring it forth from yourselves - Logion 70
Blessed are the poor, for yours is the kingdom of heaven. Logion 54
What you look forward to has already come, but you do not recognize it. - Logion 51
We came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord and established itself and became manifest..Logion 50
If they ask you, 'What is the sign of your father ...', say to them, 'It is movement and repose.'" Logion 50
Blessed are the solitary and elect, for you will find the kingdom. For you are from it, and to it you will return. Logion 49
If two make peace with each other in this one house, they will say to the mountain, 'Move Away,' and it will move away.-Logion 48
Jesus said, "Love your brother like your soul, guard him like the pupil of your eye." Logion 25
There is light within a man of light, and he lights up the whole world. If he does not shine, he is darkness.-Logion 24
When you make the two one, & when you make.. the outside like the inside... then will you enter the kingdom.-Logion 22
"Tell us what the kingdom of heaven is like." He said to them, "It is like a mustard seed. It is the smallest of all seeds. Logion 20
If you become my disciples and listen to my words, these stones will minister to you. - Logion 19
Jesus said, "Blessed is he who came into being before he came into being. - Logion 19
Blessed is he who will take his place in the beginning; he will know the end and will not experience death. - Logion 18
When you come to dwell in the light, what will you do? Logion 11
Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate, for all things are plain in the sight of heaven - Logion 6
... For there is nothing hidden which will not become manifest. - Logion 5
For many who are first will become last, and they will become one and the same."- Logion 4
But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty. - Logion 3
When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living father. -L3
Rather, the kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. - Logion 3
From .... The Gospel of Thomas (50 AD)
Thursday, January 21, 2010
A Course in Miracles - Quotes #ACIM
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"Ask for Light and learn that you are Light." #ACIM
"...if you want peace, you must give up the idea of conflict entirely...." #ACIM
"Joy is eternal." #ACIM
"There is nothing that you cannot do." #ACIM
"Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all." #ACIM
"Only in someone else can you forgive yourself,...." #ACIM
"...you cannot be anywhere but in the Mind of God." #ACIM
"Heaven is not a place....It is merely an awareness of perfect oneness." #ACIM
"Heaven itself is reached with empty hands and open minds." #ACIM
"Love is One. It has no separate parts and no degrees." #ACIM
"Your goal is to find out who you are." #ACIM
"It is impossible to overestimate your brother's value." #ACIM
"The truth is simple; it is one without an opposite." #ACIM
"Love makes no comparisons." #ACIM
"Ask for Light and learn that you are Light." #ACIM
"...if you want peace, you must give up the idea of conflict entirely...." #ACIM
"Joy is eternal." #ACIM
"There is nothing that you cannot do." #ACIM
"Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all." #ACIM
"Only in someone else can you forgive yourself,...." #ACIM
"...you cannot be anywhere but in the Mind of God." #ACIM
"Heaven is not a place....It is merely an awareness of perfect oneness." #ACIM
"Heaven itself is reached with empty hands and open minds." #ACIM
"Love is One. It has no separate parts and no degrees." #ACIM
"Your goal is to find out who you are." #ACIM
"It is impossible to overestimate your brother's value." #ACIM
"The truth is simple; it is one without an opposite." #ACIM
"Love makes no comparisons." #ACIM
Monday, January 18, 2010
We are made of star stuff. - Dr Carl Sagan
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” - Carl Sagan “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Meister Eckhart and God
God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk. - Meister Eckhart
The knower and the known are one... God and I, we are one in knowledge - Meister Eckhart
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. - Meister Eckhart
Words derive their power from the original word. - Meister Eckhart
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. - Meister Eckhart
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love. - Meister Eckhart
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. - Meister Eckhart
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God. - Meister Eckhart
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. - Meister Eckhart
The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me. - Meister Eckhart
Every creature is a word of God. - Meister Eckhart
There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. - Meister Eckhart
The knower and the known are one... God and I, we are one in knowledge - Meister Eckhart
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. - Meister Eckhart
Words derive their power from the original word. - Meister Eckhart
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. - Meister Eckhart
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love. - Meister Eckhart
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. - Meister Eckhart
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God. - Meister Eckhart
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. - Meister Eckhart
The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me. - Meister Eckhart
Every creature is a word of God. - Meister Eckhart
There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. - Meister Eckhart
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Let there be Light. Our Universe 13.7 Billion Years ago....
"The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the earliest image yet of the universe -- just 600 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was just a toddler.
Scientists released the photo yesterday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. It's the most complete picture of the early universe so far, showing galaxies with stars that are already hundreds of millions of years old, along with the unmistakable primordial signs of the first cluster of stars." ....
Actually, you can see, after a fashion, farther back in the comfort of our own home, if you have a TV with the older picture tube (not an LCD or a plasma set). Cut the set on to an unused channel (you may have to disconnect the cable input), and look at the static on the screen. About 10% of that static is caused by radiation emitted about 379,000 years after Creation during a period called The Recombination (This is when God actually said "Let there be light!"). The radiation was originally an orange-colored light, but space has expanded by a factor of over a thousand over the 13.7 billion years since then, thus stretching the orange light wavelengths a thousand times, changing them into the microwaves that react with the old-style television tube."
Isha Upanishad - Everything is God
It moves and It moves not. It is far and also It is near. It is within and also It is without all this. - Isha Upanishad
All manifestation is merely a modification of the One Supreme Whole .... The Whole therefore remains unaltered. - Isha Upanishad
All existence is in the Absolute; and whatever exists, must exist in It; - Isha Upanishad
In the light of true wisdom the phenomenal and the Absolute are inseparable. - Isha Upanishad
The indefinite term “That” is used in the Upanishads to designate the Invisible–Absolute, because no word or name can fully define It. - Isha Upanishad
OM! That (the Invisible–Absolute) is whole; whole is this (the visible phenomenal); from the Invisible Whole comes forth the visible whole. - Isha Upanishad
... the One Cosmic Existence shines through all things - Isha Upanishad
...so long as man believes himself to be separate from the Whole, he is helpless. - Isha Upanishad
That is the ocean, we are the drops. So long as the drop remains separate from the ocean, it is small and weak; - Isha Upanishad
That which comes out of the Infinite Whole must also be infinite; hence the Self is infinite. - Isha Upanishad
...there is no difference between the Self and God. They are one and the same. - Isha Upanishad
Transcending death means realizing the difference between body and Soul and identifying oneself with the Soul - Isha Upanishad
..when he sees all creatures within his true Self, then jealousy, grief and hatred vanish. He alone can love. - Isha Upanishad
He who sees all beings in his Self and his Self in all beings, he never suffers - Isha Upanishad
We must not divide our conception of the universe; for in dividing it, we have only fragmentary knowledge and we thus limit ourselves. -Isha Upanishad
.... behold the vast, radiant, subtle, ever–pure and spotless Self, the true basis of our existence. - Isha Upanishad
When a man sees God in all beings and all beings in God, and also God dwelling in his own Soul, how can he hate any living thing? - Isha Upanishad
He who perceives the Self everywhere never shrinks from anything, because through his higher consciousness he feels united with all life.
He who perceives all beings as the Self for him how can there be delusion or grief, when he sees this oneness (everywhere) ? Isha Upanishad
He who sees all beings in the Self and the Self in all beings, he never turns away from It - Isha Upanishad
It is the innermost Soul of all creatures & It is without as the essence of the whole external universe... Isha Upanishad
It is near to those who have the power to understand It, for It dwells in the heart of every one - Isha Upanishad
All manifestation is merely a modification of the One Supreme Whole .... The Whole therefore remains unaltered. - Isha Upanishad
All existence is in the Absolute; and whatever exists, must exist in It; - Isha Upanishad
In the light of true wisdom the phenomenal and the Absolute are inseparable. - Isha Upanishad
The indefinite term “That” is used in the Upanishads to designate the Invisible–Absolute, because no word or name can fully define It. - Isha Upanishad
OM! That (the Invisible–Absolute) is whole; whole is this (the visible phenomenal); from the Invisible Whole comes forth the visible whole. - Isha Upanishad
... the One Cosmic Existence shines through all things - Isha Upanishad
...so long as man believes himself to be separate from the Whole, he is helpless. - Isha Upanishad
That is the ocean, we are the drops. So long as the drop remains separate from the ocean, it is small and weak; - Isha Upanishad
That which comes out of the Infinite Whole must also be infinite; hence the Self is infinite. - Isha Upanishad
...there is no difference between the Self and God. They are one and the same. - Isha Upanishad
Transcending death means realizing the difference between body and Soul and identifying oneself with the Soul - Isha Upanishad
..when he sees all creatures within his true Self, then jealousy, grief and hatred vanish. He alone can love. - Isha Upanishad
He who sees all beings in his Self and his Self in all beings, he never suffers - Isha Upanishad
We must not divide our conception of the universe; for in dividing it, we have only fragmentary knowledge and we thus limit ourselves. -Isha Upanishad
.... behold the vast, radiant, subtle, ever–pure and spotless Self, the true basis of our existence. - Isha Upanishad
When a man sees God in all beings and all beings in God, and also God dwelling in his own Soul, how can he hate any living thing? - Isha Upanishad
He who perceives the Self everywhere never shrinks from anything, because through his higher consciousness he feels united with all life.
He who perceives all beings as the Self for him how can there be delusion or grief, when he sees this oneness (everywhere) ? Isha Upanishad
He who sees all beings in the Self and the Self in all beings, he never turns away from It - Isha Upanishad
It is the innermost Soul of all creatures & It is without as the essence of the whole external universe... Isha Upanishad
It is near to those who have the power to understand It, for It dwells in the heart of every one - Isha Upanishad
Monday, January 11, 2010
Albert Einstein and the Nazarene.
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As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.... No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.
As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.... No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.
God according to Albert Einstein, Baruch Spinoza, Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan writes,
Some people think God is an outsized, light-skinned male with a long white beard, sitting on a throne somewhere up there in the sky, busily tallying the fall of every sparrow. Others—for example Baruch Spinoza and Albert Einstein—considered God to be essentially the sum total of the physical laws which describe the universe. I do not know of any compelling evidence for anthropomorphic patriarchs controlling human destiny from some hidden celestial vantage point, but it would be madness to deny the existence of physical laws.
And Einstein states:
I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings. (Albert Einstein)
And Spinoza writes:
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived. – Baruch Spinoza
We feel and Know that we are eternal. – Baruch Spinoza
God is the indwelling …… Baruch Spinoza
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. – Baruch Spinoza
Einstein believed that “God” exists in everything. He is the same kind of atheist as Baruch Spinoza. One that believed “God/Nature” is all there is.
"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." (Albert Einstein, 1954)
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived. – Baruch Spinoza
“I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.”
Albert Einstein – 1949
However, Einstein’s God was not the God of most other men. … Einstein’s God appears as the physical world itself, with its infinitely marvelous structure operating at atomic level with the beauty of a craftsman’s wristwatch, and at stellar level with the majesty of a massive cyclotron.
Ronald W. Clark, Einstein: The Life and Times, New York: World Publishing, 1971, pp. 19-20.
Some people think God is an outsized, light-skinned male with a long white beard, sitting on a throne somewhere up there in the sky, busily tallying the fall of every sparrow. Others—for example Baruch Spinoza and Albert Einstein—considered God to be essentially the sum total of the physical laws which describe the universe. I do not know of any compelling evidence for anthropomorphic patriarchs controlling human destiny from some hidden celestial vantage point, but it would be madness to deny the existence of physical laws.
And Einstein states:
I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings. (Albert Einstein)
And Spinoza writes:
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived. – Baruch Spinoza
We feel and Know that we are eternal. – Baruch Spinoza
God is the indwelling …… Baruch Spinoza
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. – Baruch Spinoza
Einstein believed that “God” exists in everything. He is the same kind of atheist as Baruch Spinoza. One that believed “God/Nature” is all there is.
"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." (Albert Einstein, 1954)
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived. – Baruch Spinoza
“I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.”
Albert Einstein – 1949
However, Einstein’s God was not the God of most other men. … Einstein’s God appears as the physical world itself, with its infinitely marvelous structure operating at atomic level with the beauty of a craftsman’s wristwatch, and at stellar level with the majesty of a massive cyclotron.
Ronald W. Clark, Einstein: The Life and Times, New York: World Publishing, 1971, pp. 19-20.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Some Baruch Spinoza Quotes.
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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived. - Baruch Spinoza
We feel and Know that we are eternal. - Baruch Spinoza
God is the indwelling ...... Baruch Spinoza
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by Love. - Baruch Spinoza
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. - Baruch Spinoza
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. - Baruch Spinoza
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone-Baruch Spinoza
...all things exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature. - Baruch Spinoza
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow. - Baruch Spinoza
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. - Baruch Spinoza
I call him free who is led solely by reason. - Baruch Spinoza
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. - Baruch Spinoza
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself. - Baruch Spinoza
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived. - Baruch Spinoza
We feel and Know that we are eternal. - Baruch Spinoza
God is the indwelling ...... Baruch Spinoza
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by Love. - Baruch Spinoza
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. - Baruch Spinoza
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. - Baruch Spinoza
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone-Baruch Spinoza
...all things exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature. - Baruch Spinoza
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow. - Baruch Spinoza
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. - Baruch Spinoza
I call him free who is led solely by reason. - Baruch Spinoza
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. - Baruch Spinoza
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself. - Baruch Spinoza
My Favorite Peace Pilgrim Quotes.
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“You are within God. God is within you.” - Peace Pilgrim quote
“This is the Way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with Love.” - Peace Pilgrim quote
“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”- Peace Pilgrim quotes
“The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.” - Peace Pilgrim quotes
“Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.” - Peace Pilgrim quote
“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” - Peace Pilgrim quote
“As I lived up to the highest Light I had, higher and higher Light came to me.” - Peace Pilgrim quote
“For Light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.” - Peace Pilgrim quote
“World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it” - Peace Pilgrim quote
“We are that which activates the body.” - Peace Pilgrim quote
“We are all cells in the same body of humanity.” - Peace Pilgrim quote
“A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.”- Peace Pilgrim quote
“You are within God. God is within you.” - Peace Pilgrim quote
“This is the Way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with Love.” - Peace Pilgrim quote
“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”- Peace Pilgrim quotes
“The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.” - Peace Pilgrim quotes
“Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.” - Peace Pilgrim quote
“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” - Peace Pilgrim quote
“As I lived up to the highest Light I had, higher and higher Light came to me.” - Peace Pilgrim quote
“For Light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.” - Peace Pilgrim quote
“World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it” - Peace Pilgrim quote
“We are that which activates the body.” - Peace Pilgrim quote
“We are all cells in the same body of humanity.” - Peace Pilgrim quote
“A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.”- Peace Pilgrim quote
The Ad Herennium - Memory Technique (90 BC)
Why is it that some images are so strong and sharp and so suitable for awakening memory, whilst others are so weak and feeble that they hardly stimulate memory at all ? We must enquire into this so as to know which images to avoid and which to seek.
"Now nature herself teaches us what we should do. When we see in every day life things that are pretty, ordinary, and banal, we generally fail to remember them, because the mind is not being stirred by anything novel or marvellous. But if we see or hear something exceptionally base, dishonorable, unusual, great, unbelievable, or ridiculous, that we are likely to remember for a long time.... We ought then, to set up images of a kind that can adhere longest in memory. And we shall do so if we establish similitudes as striking as possible; if we set up images that are not many or vague but active (imagines agentes); if we assign to them exceptional beauty or singular ugliness; if we ornament some of them, as with crowns or purple cloaks, so as the similitude may be more distinct to us; or if we somehow disfigure them, as by introducing one stained with blood or soiled with mud or smeared with red paint, so that it's form is more striking, or by assigning certain comic effects to our images, for that too, will ensure our remembering them more readily. The things we easily remember when they are real we likewise remember them without difficulty when they are figments." (Ad Herennium - 90 BC)
Mark 15:17
They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him.
Isaiah 52:14
Just as there were many who were appalled at him — his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness—
John 19:34
Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.
"Now nature herself teaches us what we should do. When we see in every day life things that are pretty, ordinary, and banal, we generally fail to remember them, because the mind is not being stirred by anything novel or marvellous. But if we see or hear something exceptionally base, dishonorable, unusual, great, unbelievable, or ridiculous, that we are likely to remember for a long time.... We ought then, to set up images of a kind that can adhere longest in memory. And we shall do so if we establish similitudes as striking as possible; if we set up images that are not many or vague but active (imagines agentes); if we assign to them exceptional beauty or singular ugliness; if we ornament some of them, as with crowns or purple cloaks, so as the similitude may be more distinct to us; or if we somehow disfigure them, as by introducing one stained with blood or soiled with mud or smeared with red paint, so that it's form is more striking, or by assigning certain comic effects to our images, for that too, will ensure our remembering them more readily. The things we easily remember when they are real we likewise remember them without difficulty when they are figments." (Ad Herennium - 90 BC)
Mark 15:17
They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him.
Isaiah 52:14
Just as there were many who were appalled at him — his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness—
John 19:34
Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Are you implying there was no historical Jesus ?
My Response to Rationalists:
You asked,
Are you implying there was no historical Jesus?
Jesus exists before History. Because he understood that he was the same “I am” that exists in all things before time.
You are the same “I am” – everything is “that”
Why does evolution stop at the monkey, the fish, the Icthys, the algae, the bacteria, the single celled organism, the zygote ?
Where does the Universe come from ?
What does the best Science tell us ?
From a single point? – A Quark ? A fermion ? A Higgs Boson, something smaller ?
Infinitly smaller – that means that we have all evolved from “that”
We are all made of the same stuff. Carl Sagan called it Star Stuff – and he was correct,
Einstein was Correct.
Baruch Spinoza was Correct.
Yahshua (Esse) of Nazareth was Correct.
The Essenes, the Nazarenes were Correct.
Parable ? Yes .
Mythology ? Yes
Fiction ? Yes
Quantum Physics ? Yes
Truth ? What is Truth ?
You asked,
Are you implying there was no historical Jesus?
Jesus exists before History. Because he understood that he was the same “I am” that exists in all things before time.
You are the same “I am” – everything is “that”
Why does evolution stop at the monkey, the fish, the Icthys, the algae, the bacteria, the single celled organism, the zygote ?
Where does the Universe come from ?
What does the best Science tell us ?
From a single point? – A Quark ? A fermion ? A Higgs Boson, something smaller ?
Infinitly smaller – that means that we have all evolved from “that”
We are all made of the same stuff. Carl Sagan called it Star Stuff – and he was correct,
Einstein was Correct.
Baruch Spinoza was Correct.
Yahshua (Esse) of Nazareth was Correct.
The Essenes, the Nazarenes were Correct.
Parable ? Yes .
Mythology ? Yes
Fiction ? Yes
Quantum Physics ? Yes
Truth ? What is Truth ?
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Luke 17:21 Research by Ilaria Ramelli - Catholic University Milan
....In this study Ilaria Ramelli clearly demonstrates that in Luke 17:21 the right translation of Jesus’ words is not, “God’s Kingdom is among you,” or “in the midst of you,” as modern versions into English and other languages gener- ally render, but “God’s Kingdom is inside you.” Strong support for the latter comes from ancient Syriac versions of this and other Gospel
passages, from a systematic investigation of the meaning of e)nto/j in all of Greek literature anterior to, and contemporary with, Luke, and from a careful analysis of the expression e)nto/j + genitive in the New Testament and the Septuagint. Ramelli argues that, if the evangelist
had meant “The Kingdom of God is among you,” he would have used, not e)nto\j u(mw=n, but e)n me/sw| u(mw=n, which is widely at- tested in this meaning in the New Testament and especially in Luke.
Moreover, the translation that Ramelli advocates and that the Syriac versions support fits better in the immediate context of an address to the Pharisees and in Luke’s theology and conception of God’s Kingdom, and is also corroborated by a Kingdom logion in the Gospel of Thomas and by Greek and Syriac Patristic exegesis.
Click here to see the full paper,
http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol12No2/HV12N2Ramelli.pdf