Category: Perennial Philosophy
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Without a Teacher
Having awakened to Encompassing Mindfulness, what master can make of you a mere disciple? Let-go seeking after authority: liberate this being, this self! Source: Uploaded by user via Keith Wayne on Pinterest
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Welcoming Generation Y
Some of you probably have noticed that the posts over the last few days have appeared to be the journals of a high school student. That is because they are. It has long been an intention of mine to open up the page for folks from the Millennial generation to…
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Thinking Beyond Yourself
“The time [being 36 yrs old] is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. ― C.G. Jung, Symbols of Transformation
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Part or Particle of God
Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.…
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The Socratic Sign
There comes a time when you notice that a good swathe of your contemporaries are only worth engaging in order to sharpen your rhetorical weapons. To improve your mindful practice, you must turn to those much younger who recover within you the dynamics of faith and to those much older…
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How Brewing Coffee Can Up Cognitive Dexterity « SolsticeSon’s Celebrational Servings
A really nice meditation on the need to change the routine using an everyday example to drive home the notion. Kudos! Start seeing your actions from an outside perspective and questioning why you do what you do. In many cases, there is no reason to the rhyme, and that realization…
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Turn a life around
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” — Leo Buscaglia Source: pbcstyle.blogspot.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest
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Recalling This Beautiful Order
In attempting to philosophize as a way of life, I have often “translated” many terms/concepts into a single notion that would comprehend the nuances of diverse sages across time & cultures. Whether I succeed is another story entirely. A particularly important phrase for me is “This Beautiful Order.” The term…
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A Wide World of Compassion
I contemplate a great deal how the Great Sages & Ancestors all say so many of the same things. Comparative philosophy leads to an open embrace of all peoples. Compassion is a wide road, even if not the easiest one for us to follow. Source: google.com via Katharina on Pinterest Thanks to the Commonzense of St.…
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Healing Injury
“It is not violence that best overcomes hate — nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre Source: socialphy.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest
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Textimony 20130116
Already some profit by your labor, usefulness, & skill. Yet all find reward from your self-mastery. Strive always to elevate this craft: Resolute Mindfulness. Source: fineartamerica.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest
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The Guise of a Miracle
“The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.” — Hannah Arendt Source: albuscav.us via Keith Wayne on Pinterest
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Textimony 20120105
Everywhere we consume & partake, seeking satisfaction. Yet only in abandoning this quest to be full do we ever achieve true abundance. Source: thevelardes.blogspot.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest
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Creating Oneself Endlessly
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” ― Henri Bergson
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Frozen flow
Source: garyschollmeier.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest As always, something eye catching from This Beautiful Order, this Embracing Lifeworld, at Master Schollmeier’s blog.
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Thing – Think – Thank
Mythos – not lie – but narrative Midway between rigid correct fact & yielding flawed fantasy Cipher: zero: empty circle: buddha Word flowing river of rhizomatic elements Three words from this process of speaking Thrown cuttings of the same root Scattered throughout, within, and upon This Mindful Encompassing Blooming three flower path…
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Jumping to Judgment, Shipwrecked by Laughter
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” -Albert Einstein Source: flickr.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest
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