Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
Cheerful, for freest action form’d under the laws divine
---Walt Whitman
They are matriarchal ancestors
— Eric Neumann
the right way of
conducting oneself. Heaven, the father, is above, and the lake, the youngest daughter, is below.
----I Ching
a globe like ours, resting
On a pedestal of vacuum, a ping-pong ball
Secure on its jet of water
---- John Ashbery
the heart opens only to the human chant of being.
---Paramhansa Yogananda
“Because your heart was responsive”
----Kings
treading
upon something
---I Ching
That which returns is the constant affirmation, the “yes, yes”. That which signs here is in the form of a return
---- Derrida
We strolled to the inviting sunshine at the entrance,
--- Paramhansa Yogananda
It is a selective return without negativity, or which reduces negativity through affirmation, through alliance or marriage (hymen)
--- Derrida
The small and cheerful treads upon the large and
strong
---I Ching
Owing to the nature of animal consciousness.
the world of which we can become conscious is only a surface and sign-world
--- Nietzsche
ineradicable patterns of spiritual living
----Paramhansa Yogananda
From the fruit of their lips people enjoy good things
—Proverbs / Mashal
behaves with decorum
---I Ching
The sounds of your greeting
—- Luke
I sighed with relief and doubled my pace
----Paramhansa Yogananda
We shall have more to say of the yawning depths from which the magic incantation rises up, and of the twilight state of consciousness.
---- Eric Neumann
Pleasant manners succeed
---I Ching
For now it will suffice to mention the connection between the fertility of the womb, death, sexuality, and magic in the numinous image
—- Eric Neumann
the youth rejoined me
----Paramhansa Yogananda
beyond learning, beyond everything, better than anything; living, unliving. ‘It is the undying blazing Spirit, that seed of all seeds, wherein lay hidden the world and all its creatures
---- Mundaka Upanishad
if inner worth forms the
criterion of external rank, people acquiesce and order reigns in society
---I Ching
I entered the house and was ushered into a commodious parlor
----Paramhansa Yogananda
Atman is realized with mruta manas [dead mind], that is, mind devoid of thoughts and turned inward. Then the mind sees its own source and becomes that [the Self].
--- Sri Ramana Maharshi
The situation is one in which we are still not bound by any obligations of
social intercourse. If our conduct is simple, we remain free of them We can
quietly follow our predilections as long as we are content and make not
demands on people.
---I Ching
He can give the natural perfume of any flower
----Paramhansa Yogananda
If he can be content with simplicity,
he can make progress without blame.
---I Ching
make a person's skin exude delightful fragrance
----Paramhansa Yogananda
a man who is good at his
work is content to behave simply
---I Ching
Would you like some perfume?"
----Paramhansa Yogananda
When he attains his goal, he does something worth
while
---I Ching
"To experience the miraculous way of enjoying perfumes."
----Paramhansa Yogananda
Since he is content and does not challenge
fate, he remains free of entanglements.
---I Ching
My own purpose is to demonstrate the power of God
----Paramhansa Yogananda
.It is not as the subject perceiving an object.When the room is dark a lamp is necessary to illumine and eyes to cognise objects. But when the sun has risen there is no need of a lamp to see objects.
---- Sri Ramana Maharshi
Caution and circumspection
Lead ultimately to good fortune
---I Ching
manifest some of His infinite creative variety
----Paramhansa Yogananda
The cosmic mind, being not limited by the ego, has nothing separate from itself and is therefore only aware. This is what the Bible means by ‘I am that I am’
--- Sri Ramana Maharshi
one is sure of ultimate success,
which consists in achieving one's purpose, that is, in overcoming danger by
going forward
---I Ching
I silently placed the astrally scented blossom under her
nostrils.
----Paramhansa Yogananda
That which you need comes from yourself, namely the meaning of the event. The meaning of events is not their particular meaning. This meaning exists in learned books. Events have no meaning.
The meaning of events is the way of salvation that you create.
---- Jung
Look to your conduct and weigh the favorable signs.
When everything is fulfilled, supreme good fortune comes.
---I Ching
subtle life forces or finer-than-atomic energies intelligently charged
with the five distinctive sensory idea-substances.
---Paramhansa Yogananda
The work is ended. If we want to know whether good fortune will follow, we
must look back upon our conduct and its consequences.
---I Ching
we arrived at the right house
---- Paramhansa Yogananda
The impure mind which functions as thinking and forgetting, alone is samsara, which is the cycle of birth and death. The real ‘I’ in which the activity of thinking and forgetting has perished, alone is the pure liberation. It is devoid of pramada [forgetfulness of Self] which is the cause of birth and death.
---- Sri Ramana Maharshi
who dwells in righteousness among his fellow men, who buys and sells, yet is never for
a single instant forgetful of God
---- I Ching
thankful to be invited into the parlor
---Paramhansa Yogananda
No one knows himself. It is only by the
consequences of his actions, by the fruit of his labors, that a man can judge
what he is to expect.
----I Ching
Then I had a second vision: I saw a merry garden, in which forms walked clad in white silk, all covered in colored light, some reddish, the others blueish and greenish.
---- Jung
A hint of dovelike and tigerlike qualities
----Paramhansa Yogananda
‘Shining, yet hidden, Spirit lives in the cavern. Everything that sways, breathes, opens, closes, lives in Spirit
---- Mundaka Upanishad
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