the symbol of the single eye, the telescopic gaze of intuition
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
When you realize it, you will never
fall back into delusion;
knowing it, you see all beings
in yourself, and yourself in me.
–— Bhagavad Gita
everything must be taken carefully into consideration in the very beginning
---- I Ching
“The Lord will send an umbrella of clouds; you all shall walk in comfort.”
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
‘I see people; they look like trees walking around.’
—- Mark
To nourish oneself on ancient virtue induces perseverance
---- I Ching
astonished ejaculations from all sides
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
There is free giving and taking;
The giant body relaxed as though beside a stream
–– John Ashbery
The middle ground is the key
—- I Ching
The Lord responds to all and works for all
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
Wisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing;
it benefits those who see the light of day.
For wisdom provides protection,
just as money provides protection.
—-Qoheleth/Ecclesiates
Be sincere and truthful
—–I Ching
His children should ever have implicit faith in the loving-kindness of their Omnipresent Father.
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
As life flows with the
thoughts of the children, we need to be open, we
need to change our ideas; we need to be comfortable
with the restless nature of life.
—- Malaguzzi
inheritance
—- I Ching
a permanent blessing
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
Come, my lover, let us go to the countryside
– Song of Songs/Shīr Hashīrīm
There is also a chance to serve
—- I Ching
a barefoot procession along the streets
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
There is no sense of purpose in my doing anything. Things happen as they happen — not because I make them happen, but it is because I am that they happen. In reality nothing ever happens.
—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
, Fire, symbolizes the time of day from morning till noon
—- I Ching
sweet religious songs
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
Not to say yes or no to reality except maybe occasionally, testing it with a foot, like a good dancer; to always feel kissed with a ray of sunlight and happiness;
–– Nietzsche
the seasons change in the course of the year
-----I Ching
a few musicians played the flute and khol kartal (drums and cymbals).
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
In the downpour distinct noses and adam’s-apples could be determined in a mounting hush of congratulation-
—– John Ashbery
man is
able to adjust himself in advance to the demands of the different times
----I Ching
the courtyard of the hermitage.
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
Speech, eyes, ears, limbs, life, energy, come to my help. These books have Spirit for theme. I shall never deny Spirit, nor Spirit deny me. Let me be in union, communion with Spirit.
—- Kena Upanishad
Enlightened intelligence makes people joyful. Great success comes through justice.
—- I Ching
showered us with marigold blossoms
— Paramhansa Yogananda
We need to be open to what takes place
and able to change our plans and go with what
might grow at that very moment both inside the
child and inside ourselves..
—–Malaguzzi
Heaven and Earth abolish the old and bring about the new, Then the four seasons complete their changes
—- I Ching
The improvised wood-burning brick stoves were smoky
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.
–– Isaiah
The superior person watches the changes of the planets $ And sets the calendar in order, [ Making the time of the seasons clear
—- I Ching
we laughed merrily at our work
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
feel the nerves of youth renew, and desires of an-
cient times
—– William Blake
Revolution takes place not merely to overthrow the old. Its purpose is to establish the new. The new should be better than the old. It is progress, an improvement. Revolution does not happen by accident. There is always a reason.
—- I Ching
A sankirtan (group chanting), accompanied by the harmonium and hand- played Indian drums,
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
God is all. Are you apart from God? Or can the work go on without God? The Self is universal so all actions will go on whether you strain yourself to be engaged in them or not.
—- Sri Ramana Maharshi
music as well as painting and the drama is considered a divine art
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
not toward death but toward a living-on [sur-vie], namely, a trace of which life and death would themselves be but traces and traces of traces, a survival whose possibility in advance comes to disjoin or dis-adjust the identity to itself of the living present as well as of any effectivity.
–– Derrida
. The Divine Dancer Shiva is scripturally represented as having worked out the infinite modes of rhythm in His cosmic dance of universal creation, preservation, and dissolution
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
the dawn of a revolution
—- I Ching
The flowers appear on the earth,
the time of singing has come
—— Song of Songs
Brahma accentuated the time-beat with the clanging cymbals
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
reality is all and nothing, the totality and the exclusion, the fullness and the emptiness, fully consistent, absolutely paradoxical.
—– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
the family of Earth, which is represented by a cow
—– I Ching
Vishnu sounded the holy mridanga or drum
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
Just as the day was breaking, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the disciples did not know it was Jesus.
—– John
the Hindole Raga is heard only at dawn in the spring, to evoke the mood of universal love
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
As rivers lose name and shape in the sea, wise men lose name and shape in God, glittering beyond all distance.
—– Mundaka Upanishad
Deepaka Raga is played during the evening in summer, to arouse compassion
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
God who fulfills his purpose for me
–– Psalms
Megha Raga is a melody for midday in the rainy season, to summon courage
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
The ‘I’-thought will be found to be the root-cause. Go deeper. The ‘I’-thought disappears and there is an infinitely expanded ‘I’-consciousness.
— Sri Ramana Maharshi
Sri Raga is reserved for autumn twilights, to attain pure love
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
we best ensure a child’s healthy growth, whatever these conditions, by supporting and encouraging the child’s own self-initiated learning activities.
—– David Elkind
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