OTHERS

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)

"I have too much respect for the idea of God
to make Him responsible for such an absurd world."
Georges Duhamel

"When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
Mark Twain

"Why is it that when you talk to God it's called praying,
but when God talks to you it's called schizophrenia?"
Lily Tomlin

“Strange that you should not have suspected, years ago, centuries ago, eons ago! For you have existed, companionless, through all eternities. Strange indeed that you should not have suspected that your universe and its contents were only dreams, visions, fictions! Strange because they are so frankly and hysterically insane ‑‑ like all dreams; A God Who could make good children as easily as bad ones; Who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; Who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; Who gave His angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required His other children to earn it; Who gave His angels painless lives, yet cursed His other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; Who mouths justice, and invented hell ‑ mouths mercy, and invented hell ‑‑ mouths golden rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; Who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; Who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honourably placing it where it belongs, upon Himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor abused slave to worship Him!” Mark Twain

God is Spirit, and that Spirit is MY spirit. God is Infinite Consciousness and constitutes my Consciousness therefore, my Consciousness is Infinite. Once this is accepted, we must refrain from asking or expecting anything, but go within to seek the Kingdom.

Once this state of consciousness is obtained, it is further revealed that, since the Kingdom of God is Spirit, that which It has to impart must also be Spiritual. Therefore, to go to It for money, beautiful houses, better or new employment, marriage, divorce or any type of happiness in the human rea1m, is nonsensical because Spirit , knows of no such things. God knows only a Spiritual universe, therefore our life becomes one of seeking more and more the experience of this Inner Grace, without trying to translate It into physical health, material wealth, or even human peace on earth. This may be summed up by such questions as, “What is the spiritual kingdom? What are spiritual children of God like? What is the spiritual household of God? What is spiritual health? and, What is spiritual prosperity?

The human mind is full of concepts such as - health is that of a painless body, and a heart, liver and lungs that function normally. Its concept of supply is that supply consists of money, income, property or investments. The human mind has many different concepts of home and church, however, this will not do! God is Spirit.

"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God?" "Ah, no", we say, "We have seen too many physical bodies in sickness, sin, disease, age, disintegration and deterioration. Do not tell me that they are the temples of God!"

What then IS the temple of God? How are we going to find out? Ask man, "Whose breath is in his nostrils?" Ask a spiritual teacher? No. How could they tell us? They know only what their vision is and what God has revealed to them. How can they impart this to us? It cannot be told; it can only be experienced within ourselves - through meditation. We must therefore go within and go to that which the Master called the "Father." We must go there, and, if necessary, plead: "Reveal Thyself. Reveal Thy temple to me, the temple that which I AM, the temple which my body is, the temple which my family is, the temple which my health is. Reveal these to me, reveal Spiritual Reality."

As long as we have only a human mind with which to receive, we shall not get the answers, because "natural man" - the human mind - cannot know the things of God. We must therefore keep seeking, not in the material world, but in the inner temple of our own being, in that sanctuary where Jesus told us we must go to prey, that inner sanctuary of our own consciousness. Continue seeking until the activity of the mind is stilled into peacefulness and quietness, so that in that quietness and confidence we can be still.

Once this state of stillness has been obtained, something within reveals, "I am Spirit," then and only then, will we know that we have attained some measure of spiritual discernment, enough of the Christ-consciousness so that we may keep listening for the rest of the message. Eventually, God will reveal Himself, His kingdom, His laws, His temples: temples of health, temples of wealth, temples of love, temples of family, temples of all good, each of which is a temple in the consciousness of God, and in fact, each is consciousness of God formed as a temple.

God is Infinite Consciousness; God is individual consciousness: yours. God is Spirit; therefore, turn within to your God-consciousness and seek the peace that passes understanding. Seek God's Grace which is your sufficiency in all things. Seek His love, and whatever else you may seek, but be certain that it is of a spiritual nature. Abide in this world; abide in this Grace; abide in this peace, never looking to the outside world to see what is going to happen or how it is going to manifest.

As long as you live and move and have your being within the Spiritual temple of your consciousness, realizing only the presence of Spiritual Grace, you are living in and through God, and God is really living as you: you in the Father, and the Father in you - one. You are relaxing your own sense of life that the divine life may take over. This is done silently and secretly, and that which God sees in secret is shouted from the hilltops. Not by you - no, by God.

Money is not supply, God's Grace is supply. We must realize that Grace and Peace, and let supply be added later, but let us not go to God for supply; let us go to God for God. You see, money cannot be eaten, as much as a gold mine cannot be eaten. Money is not supply except in the human three-dimensional world, and even then, it is here today and gone tomorrow. One cannot deal with money as supply: we must recognize consciousness as our supply; love, gratitude and benevolence as supply.

As with health; we must go within to seek God's peace, "Let us seek Spiritual health. Let us seek the temple of God which is our real body."

Family happiness can only be obtained by obtaining the presence of the Christ, the I AM presence, because only in the presence of the Christ can that harmony with our family be established. Let us go within and tabernacle with God; let us bring God into our family life, and let the Spirit make the adjustment, 'for we know not what we should pray for.' Let the divine Spirit bear witness with our spirit and see whether It will not bring peace between thee and thy household."

"The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything." Voltaire
"Every Generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new." Henry David Thoreau
"The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do." Harold Coffin
"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." Mark Twain
“What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.” Louise Nevelson

"A jury consists of twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer." Robert Frost
"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creative." Charles Mingus
"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads.
One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness - the other, to total extinction.
Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." Woody Allen

"The best of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it." William James.

"Faith is continuing to run the race trusting you will get your second wind." William A. Ward

"It is not guided missiles but guided morals that is our great need today." George L. Ford.

"Let prayer be the key of the day and the bolt of the night." Jean Paul Richter

"The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man." Cicero
"They that know God will be humble." John Flavel
"Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence or learning." F. W. Faber

"No one is living at his best who is not living at his best spiritually." W. M. Craig

"God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspiration." Alexander Vinet

"Let me be taught that the first great business on earth is the satisfaction of my own soul." Henry Martyn

"I marvel at the aim some sinners have when casting a stone." Annabel Ballistella

"Committing a great Truth to memory is admirable. Committing it to life is wisdom." William A. Ward

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." Samuel Johnson.

"Simplicity reaches out after God; purity discovers and enjoys Him." Thomas a'Kempis

"It is better to keep a friend from falling than to help him up." Arnold Glasgow

"The age of miracles is forever here." Thomas Carlyle
"Man is unjust, but God is just and finally justice triumphs." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness." William A. Ward
"The best exercise for strengthening the heart is reaching down and lifting people up." Ernest Blevins

"Stick with love ... hate is too great a burden to bear." Martin Luther King Jr.

"The best committee consists of three people; two of whom couldn't come to the meeting." W. B. Prescott

"One act of love when things go wrong is worth a thousand when things go well." St John of the Cross.

"People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen,
those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened." John Newborn
"There is something better than understanding God, and that is trusting Him." G. H. Night

"The Son of man became a man, thus enabling men to become sons of God." C. S. Lewis

"Prayer is like a computer. You can only get out of it what you put into it." J. G. Holland

"What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable." Louise Nevelson

"Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong." F. A. Hayek

"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." Jules De Gaultier
"The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything." Voltaire
"Every Generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new." Henry David Thoreau
"The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do." Harold Coffin
"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." Mark Twain
"A jury consists of twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer." Robert Frost
"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creative." Charles Mingus
"What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself." Abraham Lincoln
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx
"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." -- Albert Einstein
"You cannot travel the path until you become the path." Buddha

"The biggest mountain that my faith has to move is to get myself out of the way." Joe Obregon

"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master." - Leanardo Da Vinci
"Let there be no purpose in a friendship save the deepening of the spirit." Kahlil Gibram

"A great many think they are thinking, when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." William James.
"All knowledge is second hand." Sufi

"Think globally, act locally, be personally." Ghandi
"Ahimsa is soul-force and the soul is imperishable, changeless and eternal.

"Our scriptures bear witness that when soul-force is fully awakened in us, it becomes irresistible. But the test and condition of full awakening

is that it must permeate through every pore of our being and emanate with every breath that we take." Ghandi

"We can't always do great things in life, but we can do little things with great love." Dan Millman

Where there is form there is name
and where there is name there must be form.
You are not that, you are within the form
and you are someone which has no name
because only a form needs name.

Who is sitting in your own heart? Does this have a name?
The indweller of the heart: That is what you really are.
You are not born of your parents,
you are That which has no name,
which will never die or be born, That which is Eternal.”

"Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself." Eleanor Roosevelt
"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." Jonathon Swift
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry." Yeats
"Poetry is emotion recalled in tranquility." Longfellow
"The man is wisest who, like Socrates, realises that his wisdom is worthless!" Plato
"Wisdom is knowing how little we know.” Socrates

"In your light I learn how to love
In your beauty, how to make poems
You dance inside my chest
Where no one sees you
But sometimes I do
And that sight becomes this art."
Rumi

"Strive to bring back the god in yourselves to the Divine in the universe." Last words of Plotinus 205-270 AD

"While we are in sight of, we are not one with, what we see. While we notice anything we are not one with it. Where there is no more than one, no more than one is seen: God is not seen except in blindness, not known except by ignorance, not understood except by fools." Meister Eckhart

"Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is restless till it rest in Thee." Confessions; i. 1

"Thou wert more inward to me than my most inward part, and higher than my highest." Confessions; iii, 11

"God who is the cause of them all is none of the things we can understand................. He is none of the things that have no being, none of the things that have being. None of the things that are known know him for what he is." Dionysius the Areopagite Mystical Theologia ca. AD 5th Cent.

"I will give you what no man has seen, what no ear has heard, what no hand has touched, what has not arisen in the human heart." Jesus, Gospel of Thomas v. 17

"Split a piece of wood, I am there. Lift up the stone and you will find me there." Jesus, Gospel of Thomas v. 77

"If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark." St. John of the Cross, The Dark Night of the Soul

"God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are." 1 Corinthians 1 :27-28

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Courage also slays dizziness at the edge of abysses: and where does man not stand at the edge of abysses? Is not seeing always---seeing abysses?" Nietzsche Zarathustra 269

"If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo." Kuan Yin, from the Lieh Tzu

"The constant principle of Heaven and Earth is that their mind is in all things yet they have no mind of their own. The constant principle of the sage is that his feelings are in accord with all creation, and yet he has no feelings of his own." Ch'eng Hao 1032-1085.

"Without stirring abroad one can know the whole world. Without looking out of the window one can see the way of heaven. The further one goes the less one knows. Therefore the sage knows without having to stir, identifies without having to see. Accomplishes without having to act." Tao Te Ching XLVLlI

"Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates Heaven. The clouds pass and the rain does its work, and all individual beings flow into their forms." I Ching Ch'ien, The Creative

"When the Way prevails in the Empire, it goes where one's person goes; when the Way is eclipsed. one's person goes where the Way has gone. I have never heard of making the Way go where other people are going." Mencius ca. 320 BC

"None of us finds his mirror in flowing water - we find it in still water. Only the still can still whatever is stilled. When men do not lose sight of what is out of sight but do lose sight of what is in plain sight, we may speak off 'the oversight which is seeing things as they are.' How do I know that the doer I call 'Heaven' is not the man? How do I know that the doer I call 'man' is not Heaven? In what is neither speech nor silence, may discussion find its ultimate. Chuang Tzu

"The religious person is one who dies every day and is reborn every day. His mind is young, innocent, fresh. To die to your sorrow, die to your pleasure, die to the things that you hold secretly in your heart--do it--thus you will see you will not waste your life." Krishnamurti 131

"Let me do nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent." Tagore 415

"Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance." Kahlil Gibran

"Be with those who mix with God as honey blends with milk, and say, ‘Anything that comes and goes, rises and sets, is not what I love.’ Else you'll be like a caravan fire left to flare itself out beside the road." Jaluludin Rumi

"There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond us all, beyond the heavens, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in our heart." Chandogya Upanishad

"In the ocean where no shore line appears, the swimmer strives in vain." Sheik Muslih-udin Sa'di

The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor:

She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison,"

and he said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

A member of Parliament to Disraeli:

"Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."

"That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "on whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."

"He had delusions of adequacy."

- Walter Kerr

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

- Winston Churchill

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about."

- Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."

- Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."

- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"

- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."

- Moses Hadas

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."

- Abraham Lincoln

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."

- Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."

- Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend.... if you have one." - George Bernard Shaw (to Winston Churchill)

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one."

- Winston Churchill (to George Bernard Shaw)

"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."

- Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."

- John Bright

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."

- Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others."

- Samuel Johnson

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."

- Paul Keating

"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure."

- Jack E. Leonard

"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt."

- Robert Redford

"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge."

- Thomas Brackett Reed

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."

- Charles, Count Talleyrand

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."

- Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"

- Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."

- Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."

- Oscar Wilde

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination."

- Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."

- Billy Wilder

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."

- Groucho Marx

"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure."

- Jack E. Leonard