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A Series of Quotes from the Bhagavad Gita: #2 Awakened Sages and Wisdom
In this excerpt, Krishna refrences some crazy Hindu beliefs about rebirth (whooops, that’s not very pc is it? – yes, I went there), and more importantly discusses the freedom that comes from being...
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A Series of Quotes from the Bhagavad Gita: #3 Meditation
Here Krisha encourages Arjuna to seek “the Self” (read Brahman or God) through meditation. The world without leads ultimately to restlessness and dissatisfaction. But those who practice meditation...
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A Series of Quotes from the Bhagavad Gita: #5 Two Paths
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,or stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates...
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A Series of Quotes from The Cloud of Unknowing: Contemplative Work of the Spirit
The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymously written 14th Century mystical text. Standing in the line of St. John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila, Meister Eckhart, and drawing on Dionysius the Areopagite,...
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A Series of Quotes from The Cloud of Unknowing: A Cloud of Forgetting
In Chapter 5, Anonymous counsels that “during contemplative prayer, all created things and their works must be buried beneath the cloud of forgetting.” If you wish to enter into this cloud, to be at...
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A Series of Quotes from The Cloud of Unknowing: Using One Word
In Chapter 7, Anonymous gives practical advice on how avoid distracting thoughts during contemplative prayer… It is inevitable that ideas will arise in your mind and try to distract you in a thousand...
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A Series of Quotes from the Cloud of Unknowing: Sin Destroyed and Goodness...
In Chapter 12, Anonymous tells his novice “That in contemplation sin is destroyed and every kind of goodness is nourished”: And so to stand firmly and avoid pitfalls, keep to the path you are on. Let...
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So Many Skins
“A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don’t know ourselves. Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox’s or...
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A Series of Quotes from The Cloud of Unknowing: Moderation
“Now if you ask me what sort of moderation you should observe in the contemplative work, I will tell you: none at all. In everything else, such as eating, drinking, and sleeping, moderation is the...
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Totally conscious, and apropos of nothing, you come to see me. Is someone here? I ask. The moon. The full moon is inside your house. My friends and I go running out into the street. I’m in here, comes...
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The Minimum Working Hypothesis
“Research into sense-experience – motivated and guided by a working hypothesis; leading, through logical inference to the formulation of an explanatory theory; and resulting in appropriate...
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