Quote of the Week 338 - The Proper Teaching

The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you’ve always known.

-- Frank Herbert

Quote of the Week 337 - I Am an Empty Shell

I am an empty shell.

Therefore, I am full.

--Steven J. Gold

Quote of the Week 336 - Magic

The world is its own magic.

--Shunryu Suzuki

Quote of the Week 335 - Perfect Doctrine/Dogma

[Student:]

If only it were possible to find understanding. If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can be explained as development and progress and can also be seen as nothing but decadence and meaninglessness. Isn’t there any truth? Is there no real and valid doctrine?

[Master:]

There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of  yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

-- Hermann Hesse, Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game)

New Audio Link - My Spiritual Practice, Presentation at Vedanta Center of Atlanta, 10/04/15

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My Spiritual Practice

Quote of the Week 334 - Religion

Religion. It’s given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

--Jon Stewart

Quote of the Week 333 - The Lens in the Beam

You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does…

You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.

--Dag Hammarskjöld

Quote of the Week 332 - Joy Despite the Facts

I love being with those who have a joyful heart even though they have considered the facts.

-- Jack Kornfield, quoted in Shambhala Sun magazine, March 2015 Issue

Quote of the Week 332 - Joy Despite the Facts

I love being with those who have a joyful heart even though they have considered the facts.

-- Jack Kornfield, quoted in Shambhala Sun magazine, March 2015 Issue

Quote of the Week 331 - One's Lost Self

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self.

-- Brendan Francis