Robert Lanza M.D.

 Philosophers maintain that the future is similarly nothing more than a mental construct, an anticipation, a grouping of thoughts. Because thinking itself occurs strictly in the “now”—where is time?

Does time exist on its own, apart from human concepts that are no more than conveniences for our formulas or for the description of motion and events? In this way, simple logic alone casts doubt on whether there exists anything outside of an “eternal now” that includes the human mind’s tendency to think and daydream. Physicists, for their part, find that all working models for reality—from Newton’s laws and Einstein’s field equations through quantum mechanics—have no need for time. They are all time-symmetrical.

– Kabir

 The Jewel (Soul) Lost in the Mud

The jewel is lost in the mud, and all are seeking for it; Some look for it in the east, and some in the west; some in the water and some amongst stones. But the servant Kabir has appraised it at its true value, and has wrapped it with care in the mantle of his heart.

Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha

 

In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change

A COUPLE OF SHORT SAYINGS...

 Within your own house dwells the treasure of joy, so why do you go begging from door to door?

— Sufi saying One does not throw away gold because the bag that holds it is dirty. — Nichiren

Vivekananda

 "Every soul is destined to be perfect, and every being, in the end, will attain to that state. Whatever we are now is the result of whatever we have been or thought in the past; and whatever we shall be in the future will be the result of what we do or think now."

HERMANN HESSE

 I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

— Hermann H.

Mother Teresa

 Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

RUMI

 WHEN YOU DO THINGS FROM YOUR SOUL, YOU FEEL A RIVER RUNNING IN YOU, A JOY

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

 Until you are ready to give your life and body for the sake of others in reality, which is not the case at present, you can at least do it mentally. As your mind grows used to altruistic love and compassion, your words and actions will naturally reflect that attitude.

The Sacred Wisdom of the Vedas

Veda means "That which makes you know". The vedas were recorded in ancient times by pure seers who had attained the ultimate self realization. They "saw" these truths in their quiet states of highest intuition which is why they are called seers. The vedas had no one source or author but arose from the records of many ancient sages who recorded them as the science of attaining enlightenment. The one single object that the vedas have in view is to make man divine. They lead him from the animal stage where he completely identifies with the body and suffers hunger, thirst and desires of various kinds to the stage where he recognizes that his human state is far greater than the animal. From there the vedas awaken in the seeker the intelligence and discrimination that must be used to sublimate the passions and emotions to the level of divinity. After attaining the Divine state, the seeker experiences only eternal bliss.