There is only one religion though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw |
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Your are the nucleus and the universe you live in is your expansion.
Swami Rama |
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What lies behind us
and what lies before us
are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
John 10:34 |
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Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.
Matthew 5:48 |
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Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths.
Muhammad Ali |
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The most ancient language in the world is the language of love.
Selflessness is the singular expression of love.
Love all and exclude none, that is the key to enlightenment.
Swami Rama |
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Interior research is fundementally different from the research conducted in the external world. In the external world, the researcher finds subjects for his experiments,but in interior research, the researcher must become the subject himself. The task is enormously difficult, for the interior researcher must assume the attitude, "I am a researcher, I am a laboratory, and I am a subject". To have the conviction that one can successfully pursue this approach one must first gather sufficient information by studying the scriptures and visiting those teachers who really practice.
Swami Rama |
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The Bible can be approached as a projective test. If you assume that the psychology of God, the Perennial Psychology, is one of infinite, unconditional, selfless love then your goal as a student on a path of spiritual development is to evolve from an ego oriented psychology to the Perennial Psychology of Love. With this goal in mind you can now approach interpreting the Bible, or any scripture, as a means of seeing where you are on your path and also as a help in your spiritual development. If you do so your understanding of scripture will undergo changes parallelling your spiritual development. When you become one with the source of divine inspiration you will for the first time completly apprehend the meaning of scriptures but you will no longer need them.
Richard Valinsky |
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In 1973, I had a dream inspired through my involvement in serving my country as a Marine in Viet Nam. This Dream was that we have to come together as a people, that nobody has the right to conquer anybody else because they look, talk, think, or act different or because they appear weaker than us.... We are as strong and as weak as each link that makes up the sacred hoop.... WE, in the present, must make every effort to pray for peace, healing, and reconciliation of all people, mother earth, and all sacred traditions. NOW is the time for active prayer.
Exerpt from a 1992 press release issued by Chief Luciano Perz, Purepecha Indian, Spiritual Keeper of traditional Native American sacred ways |
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We Do Not See Things As They Are;
We See Things As We Are
Excerpt from the Talmud |
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I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being we desire contentment. I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well being. Cultivating a close, warm-hearted feeling for others, automatically puts the mind at ease. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develope inner peace.
Dalai Lama - Excerpt from "The Art Of Happiness", 1998 |
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The great sages do not identify themselves with any particular religion or creed. They are above all such distinctions. They belong to the whole of humanity.
Swami Rama, "Living With The Himalayan Masters" p305 |
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The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment.
J Krishnamurti |
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Human relationships could be truly joyous; they could create a great and complete happiness, if two human beings really understood and accepted each other, and learned to follow the spiritual path together. All the great religions repeat one message; that God is the principal of equality, love, peace and happiness, within and without, which is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. If that is true, then who are you and from where did you come? You live in that love and peace; you have come from that. So that love, peace and happiness are within you too.
Swami Rama, |
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Man must build his culture about the complete human personality - - -. Whatever nourishes the personality, humanizes it, deepens its field of action is good; whatever limits it or thwarts it, whatever sends it back into tribal patterns and limits its capacity for human cooperation and communion must be counted as bad
Lewis Mumford |
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He drew a circle to keep me out,
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout,
But love and I had the wit to win,
We drew a circle that took him in.
Edwin Markham |
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There is only one highest reality and many teachers
All humans and life arise from the same one source
All countries, religions and institutions arise from that
There are many books of wisdom from many ages
Thinking there is only one way comes from ignorance
Coercive conversion is violence against other people
The goal of life is found within not in institutions
Wisdom, joy and freedom come from inner stillness
Love all as we are all waves of one ocean
Swami Jnanashvara |
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I say that religion isn't about believing things. It is ethical alchemy. It is about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness
Karen Armstrong |
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