the strong leadership that must come from the head
--- I Ching
‘Life! Creator, Protector, Destroyer! Sun in heavenly circuit! Master of stars!
—- Prashna Upanishad
'The Beloved Mother is taking care of me.'
---- Paramhansa Yogananda
Live your life intelligently, with the interests of your deepest Self always in mind. After all, what do you really want? Not perfection; you are already perfect. What you seek is to express in action what you are. For this you have a body and a mind.
--- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
the symbol of the wind created by fire
----I Ching
Whenever and wherever the restless and unsteady mind wanders, one should bring it back and continually focus it on God.
---- Bhagavad Gita
a pious ejaculation; his experience had obviously moved him beyond
his usual depths
---- Paramhansa Yogananda
The primordial ocean is a uroboric snake encompassing the earth that is born of it
—- Eric Neumann
The perseverance of the woman furthers.
---I Ching
Do not fight with what you take to be obstacles on your way. Just be interested in them, watch them, observe, enquire.
---- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
"You cannot work out your past karma without worldly experiences."
---- Paramhansa Yogananda
the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom
—- Luke
faithfulness to duty
---I Ching
“Son of man, take a stick and write on it”
—- Ezekiel
I felt a tremendous power flowing from his calm
eyes.
---- Paramhansa Yogananda
This revitalization, as we have already seen, must first of all pass by way of the tongue, that is, by way of the exercise of the tongue or language, the treatment of its body, the mouth and the ear …
---- Derrida
“I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. "
--- John
Heat creates energy: this is signified by the wind stirred up by the fire and
issuing forth form it
---I Ching
One buries or burns what is already dead so that life, the living feminine, will be reborn and regenerated from these ashes. The vitalist theme degeneration/regeneration is active and central throughout
----Derrida
the Lord tells me to assure you
----Paramhansa Yogananda
Abhyasa [spiritual practice] consists in withdrawal within the Self/Atman every time you are disturbed by thought. It is not concentration or destruction of the mind but withdrawal into the Self/Atman.
--- Sri Ramana Maharshi
one's words must have power, and
this they can have only if they are based on something real
---I Ching
Great transcendental happiness comes to the yogi whose mind is calm, whose passions are subdued, who is without regret or worry, and who sees everything in connection with God.
---- Bhagavad Gita
I smiled happily at this decisive message.
--- Paramhansa Yogananda
Having approached from everywhere that which is everywhere, whole, he passes into the Whole.
--- Mundaka Upanishad Book 3
As a king he approaches his family.
Fear not.
Good fortune.
----I Ching
When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley. On the other side there was a garden, and he and his disciples went into it.
---- John
My saintly
guide raised his hand in blessing and slowly departed.
---- Paramhansa Yogananda
You go on pilgrimages so that good should happen to you as an individual. But you are not an individual, you are the manifest world. That ‘you are’ means the entire world, whatever manifestation you enjoy is universal.
---- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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