Contemplation (View)
THE GENTLE, WIND
THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH
--- I Ching
We attend with infinite care to an endlessly renewed network of communication … We consider relationships to be the fundamental, energizing strategy of our educational system …
-—- Malaguzzi
I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear
recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses
of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
---- PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA
No thing in existence has a particular cause; the entire universe contributes to the existence of even the smallest thing; nothing could be as it is without the universe being what it is.
---- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
both contemplating and being seen, in the sense
of being an example
--- I Ching
It is by studying the behaviour of these children
and their reactions to each other in this atmosphere of
freedom that the real secret of society is revealed.
— Montessori
Our path took us to the edge of a tranquil field, where the rays of the late afternoon sun were still
crowning the tall ripple of the wild grass. We paused in admiration.
---- PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA
by the grace of God finds the joy of God
---- Bhagavad Gita
A tower of this kind commanded a wide view of the country; at the same
time, when situated on a mountain, it became a landmark that could be seen
for miles around.
---- I Ching
and the heart which abandons itself to the Supreme
Mind finds itself related to all its works, and will travel a
royal road to particular knowledges and powers.
—- Emerson
I will take my wife and ask this master to initiate us in his spiritual path. Will
you guide us to him?'
--- PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA
These schools, therefore, are thought
of as laboratories for psychological research, although
it is not really research, but observation that is carried
out. It is this observation which is important.
—- Montessori
contemplate the
law of heaven above and the ways of the people below
---- I Ching
“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
—- John
To their joy, he initiated your parents in the spiritual practice of Kriya Yoga
---- PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA
Carry on your entertainment, but don’t be under the misapprehension
that you are doing anything.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
CONTEMPLATION. The ablution has been made,
But not yet the offering.
Full of trust they look up to him.
---- I Ching
Children love to learn among themselves, and they learn things that it would never be possible to learn from interactions with an adult.
—-Malaguzzi
Many a morning and evening found Mother and me meditating before an improvised shrine,
offering flowers dipped in fragrant sandalwood paste.
---- PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA
When thy mind, that may be wavering in the contradictions of many scriptures, shall rest unshaken in divine contemplation, then the goal of Yoga is thine.
---- Bhagavad Gita
If piety is sincere and expressive of real faith, the
contemplation of it has a transforming awe-spiring effect on those who
witness it.
---- I Ching
To stimulate life,–leaving it then free to develop, to unfold,–herein lies the first task of the educator
——- Montessori
With frankincense and myrrh as well as our
united devotions, we honored the divinity which had found full expression
---- PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA
Like all primordial mothers, she is, in the mythical paradox, her father’s mother and her son’s daughter; that is to say, she bears the male by whom she is begotten.
-— Eric Neumann
Contemplation of the divine
meaning underlying the workings of the universe gives to the man who is
called upon to influence others the means of producing like effects
---- I Ching
When he brought me there, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like bronze, with a line of flax and a measuring reed in his hand; and he was standing in the gateway.
—- Ezekiel
My life is a succession of events, just like yours. Only I am detached and see the passing show as a passing show.
---- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Make the people sit down.
---- John
His picture had a surpassing influence over my life. As I grew, the thought of the master grew
with me. In meditation I would often see his photographic image emerge from its small frame
and, taking a living form, sit before me.
---- PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA
When something long since passed away comes back again in a changed world, it is new.
—- Jung
“Believe me when I say that I am in God and God is in me”
—- John
apprehend the
mysterious and divine laws of life, and by means of profoundest inner
concentration give expression to these laws in their own persons
---- I Ching
The interaction between children is a very fertile and a very rich relationship. If it is left to ferment without adult interference and without that excessive assistance that we sometimes give, then it’s more advantageous to the child
—- Malaguzzi
I frequently prayed to him in moments of trial or confusion, finding within
me his solacing direction.
---PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA
No step is lost on this path, and no dangers are found. And even a little progress is freedom from fear.
----Bhagavad Gita
a hidden spiritual power emanates from them, influencing and dominating
others without their being aware of how it happens
----I Ching
the question of its origin was immediately the question of its end. Its history is constructed like the ruin of a monument which basically never existed. It is the history of a ruin, the narrative of a memory which produces the event to be told and which will never have been present.
---- Derrida
The Divine Vision still was seen
---- William Blake
"Why come to view my bones and flesh, when I am
ever within range of your kutastha (spiritual sight)?"
---- PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA
I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see how the fields are already white with harvest.
---- John
He who is beyond time – is the un-nameable. A glowing ember moved round and round quickly enough appears as a glowing circle. When the movement ceases, the ember remains. Similarly, the ‘I am’ in movement creates the world. The ‘I am’ at peace becomes the Absolute.
---- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The wind blows over the earth:
The image of CONTEMPLATION.
Thus the kings of old visited the regions of the world,
Contemplated the people,
And gave them instruction.
--- I Ching
I sent you to harvest a crop that you did not work for. Others did the work, and you get the profit from their work.
----John
One sees him in a vision of wonder, and another gives us words of his wonder.
---- Bhagavad Gita
I gazed at his photograph and saw there a blinding light, enveloping my body and the entire
room.
--- PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA
‘We know he is our son’, the parents answered, and we know he was born blind. But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. Ask him.’
---- John
and this openness opens the unity, renders it possible, and forbids it totality. Its openness allows receiving and giving.
---- Derrida
When the wind blows over the earth it goes far and wide, and the grass must
bend to its power
--- I Ching
The wind blows (breathes) where it wills; and though you hear its sound, yet you neither know where it comes from nor where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.
---- John
from within or from behind a light shines through us upon things , and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.—- Emerson
“form of the primeval abyss which brought forth the light,” and whose name means “the father of fathers, the mother of mothers, who hath existed from the beginning and is the creator of the world.”
—- Eric Neumann
I realized that she too had witnessed the luminous blaze
---- PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA
I tell you the truth: before our journey is complete, you will see the heavens standing open while heavenly messengers ascend and descend, swirling around the Son of Man.---- John He who learns in contemplation the holy words of our discourse, the light of his vision is his adoration. This is my truth.
---- Bhagavad Gita
Because the “I Am” principle is there, it is moving all over.
—– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
the power possessed by a superior personality
--- I Ching
On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he had been conceived.
---- Luke
This is the creation of the new, and that redeems me. Salvation is the resolution of the task. The task is to give birth to the old in a new time.
—- Jung
it carries a holy vibration
---- PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA
it is what I have called the translation contract: hymen or marriage contract with the promise to produce a child whose seed will give rise to history and growth.
---- Derrida
They
are fine and delicate facts that have to be examined
with a spiritual microscope, but they are of the utmost
interest since they reveal facts inherent in the very
nature of man.
—- Montessori
Contemplation through the crack of the door.
Furthering for the perseverance of a woman.
--- I Ching
Son of man, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your mind upon all that I shall show you, for you were brought here in order that I might show it to you
—- Ezekiel
Turning around Jesus saw them following and asked, ‘What do you want?’ … ‘What are you looking for?’ … ‘What are you seeking?’ … ‘What are you after?’ … ‘Mah tevakkeshun’ …
----- John
the task, the mission to which one is destined (always by the other), the commitment, the duty, the debt, the responsibility … the bond and the love which seal the marriage between the author of the ‘original’ and his own language.
----- Derrida
His intense joy of God-communion is slightly revealed in
a somewhat enigmatic smile.
---- PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA
Anyone who has seen me has seen God.
—- John
Grace is from God, and works in the depth of the soul whose powers it employs. It is a light which issues forth to do service under the guidance of the Spirit.
—- Meister Eckhart
And just as the cow was both upper and lower, the serpent was also twofold: heavenly and subterranean.
—- Eric Neumann
Through the crack of the door one has a limited outlook; one looks outward
from within. Contemplation is subjectively limited. One tends to relate
everything to oneself and cannot put oneself in another's place and
understand his motives. This is appropriate for a good housewife. It is not
necessary for her to be conversant with the affairs of the world. But for a man
who must take active part in public life, such a narrow, egotistic way of
contemplating things is of course harmful.
---- I Ching
Hospitality — this is a name or an example of deconstruction.---- Derrida
He looked up and said, ‘I see people; they look like trees walking around.’
---- Mark
“Everything is subjective,” you say; but even this is interpretation. The subject is not something given, it is a superadded invention, stuck on to the tail.
---- Nietzsche
he was fully awake
at all times to the spiritual problems of seekers who approached for his bounty
----PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA
But the goddess is not merely the vessel of the Great Round; she is also the dynamic of the life contained in it.
-—- Eric Neumann
We know that a text does not consist of a line of words, releasing a single “theological” meaning (the “message” of the Author-God), but is a space of many dimensions, in which are wedded and contested various kinds of writing, no one of which is original: the text is a tissue of citations, resulting from the thousand sources of culture.
—- Roland Barthes
The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is God, living in me, who is doing his work.
—- John
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