2024 (#120) : I Ching , Gospel of Luke , Paramhansa Yogananda , Genesis / Bereshit , Book of Job , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Nietzsche , Roland Barthes , Derrida , Gospel of John , Book of Ezekiel

  dredging a channel to eliminate the overflow of a river

— I Ching

To show the mercy promised

—– Luke

  I went to his home the next morning and unearthed a marked timetable

—-  Paramhansa Yogananda 

making a resolution

—- I Ching

  the irresistibility of his divine magnetism

—-    Paramhansa Yogananda 

the birds, however, he did not cut in half.

—- Genesis/Bereshit

casting aside hesitation   

—-I Ching

   All the movements of his slight body were marked by a restful deliberation.

—–    Paramhansa Yogananda 

and the birds in the air — they will tell you

—- Job

  . It is time for the righteous to eliminate the inferior forces and their influences through an act of resolution.

—I Ching

You can observe the observation, but not the observer. You know you are the ultimate observer by direct insight, not by a logical process based on observation.

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj 

  Ever gentle and loving, he was firmly established in the infinite consciousness

—-   Paramhansa Yogananda 

 influences are blending together and growing stronger   

—-I Ching

speak to the earth — it will teach you —

—- Job

  His eyes sparkled and danced with the joy of the Divine.

—–   Paramhansa Yogananda 

  It is a resolution to eliminate something.

—-I Ching

  peering through the inner telescopic orb into a sphere of eternal bliss

—-   Paramhansa Yogananda 

Strong and joyous. Eliminate with harmony. 

—I Ching

a continual ascent as on stairs and at
the same time a sense of resting on clouds

—- Nietzsche

  Occasionally his gaze would focus on a student in need of help; healing words poured then like an avalanche of light

—–   Paramhansa Yogananda 

Favorable to have somewhere to go. After the firms grow, the elimination will be ended 

—-    I Ching

  all writing is itself this special voice, consisting of several indiscernible voices, and that literature is precisely the invention of this voice, to which we cannot assign a specific origin

—- Roland Barthes

  An indescribable peace blossomed within me

—-   Paramhansa Yogananda 

  The superior person bestows his wealth upon those below And considers not his own merits  

—-I Ching

To divide and particularise is in the mind’s very nature. There is no harm in dividing. But separation goes against fact. Things and people are different, but they are not separate. Nature is one, reality is one. There is no opposition.

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

   from a lotus of infinity

—-   Paramhansa Yogananda 

hospitality is, must be, owes itself to be, inconceivable and incomprehensible …”

—- Derrida

  He obtains the central path

—-  I Ching

I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.

—- John

  a living temple of God whose secret doors were open to all disciples through devotion  

—-  Paramhansa Yogananda 

  eliminate the dark forces

—I Ching

Owing to the nature of animal consciousness.
the world of which we can become conscious is only a surface and sign-world, a world that is made common and meaner


—- Nietzsche

  Foam of words and spray of thoughts gushed from the fountain of his omniscience.

—-   Paramhansa Yogananda 

. It is better to rely on both courage and resourcefulness.   

—-I Ching

  “‘I will undergo those states, and presently tell you what I perceive.’

—-   Paramhansa Yogananda 

I understand that the place I am now occupying will not be left out of the exhibit or withdrawn from the scene.

—- Derrida

  there is no reason to fear

—-I Ching

to give light to those who sit in darkness

—- Luke

  ‘Please expound the holy stanzas as the meaning occurs to you.’

—-   Paramhansa Yogananda 

able to mold his firmness with gentleness and temper his strength with wisdom 

—-I Ching

Nor do I intend to withhold even that which I shall call, to save time, an autobiographical demonstration, although I must ask you to shift its sense a little and to listen to it with another ear.

—- Derrida

   ‘Win conviction of God’s presence

—-   Paramhansa Yogananda 

He pursues the middle course. 

—–    I Ching

Your borders are in the heart of the seas

—- Ezekiel

  the omnipotent God, hidden in all men, became visibly incarnated in the flesh

—-   Paramhansa Yogananda 

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