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MysticMelody
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posted September 27, 2007 05:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MysticMelody     Edit/Delete Message
My Stress, Public Health, and You instructor is also a yoga instructor. She said this Thought For The Day page is her homepage. I checked it for the first time yesterday and this is the page it opened to... she must have put the link up on that day. I'll add the link at the bottom so you can enjoy the Thought Of The Day too, if you are so inclined.

Please add any inspirational material you wish to this thread

Thought for the Day September 18

Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.
– Heinrich Suso


Practically speaking, in order to learn to love, we need a tool for transforming anger into compassion, resentment into sympathy. We need some kind of brake to apply when the mind shifts into high gear under the influence of anger and other negative emotions. The mind is so used to having its own way in almost everything that all it knows is how to race out of control.

How many of you would ever step into your Pontiac or Toyota if you knew the brakes could suddenly fail. I could say, “You have plenty of gas, a big engine, gorgeous upholstery, and radial tires. Why don’t you go ahead?” You would reply, “But I can’t stop the thing!” Amazingly enough, most of us manage to travel through life without knowing how to brake the engine of the mind.

We can all install a simple but effective brake – the mantram. Whenever you feel agitated, annoyed, impolite, or downright angry, keep repeating the mantram. Gradually the mind will race less and less. When the brake is thoroughly road-tested, you will have the equipment to be patient and kind in every situation. You will be ready to face the tests that real love demands.

http://www.easwaran.org/nilgiri.cfm/PageID:918

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"Did you ever get the chance to dance along the light of day?"

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MysticMelody
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posted September 27, 2007 05:58 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MysticMelody     Edit/Delete Message
Here is today's:

Thought for the Day September 27

Know the Self within and go beyond all sorrow.
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad


When all hostility, fear, and insecurity are erased from your mind, the state that remains is pure joy.

That state, hidden at the very center of consciousness, is the Eden to which the long journey of spiritual seeking leads. It is “the peace that passeth all understanding,” that resolves all conflicts, fulfills all desires, and banishes all fear.

The purpose of all valid spiritual disciplines, whatever the religion from which they spring, is to enable us to return to this native state of being – not after death but here and now, in unbroken awareness of the divinity within us and throughout creation. Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language, and the practices they follow lead to the same goal.

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MysticMelody
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posted September 27, 2007 06:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MysticMelody     Edit/Delete Message
Here is tomorrow:

Thought for the Day September 28

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.
– Plotinus


I have heard people claim that mysticism denies the physical world. A good mystic would answer, “We are not belittling Sir Isaac Newton. We don’t deny the Pythagorean theorem. All we are saying is that we have discovered another dimension to life, another realm – changeless, eternal, beyond cause and effect – on which the entire physical universe rests.”

Because our lives are oriented outward, we may doubt the existence of the Self within. I have been telling people about this Self almost daily for more than thirty years, but occasionally I still am asked, “Are you talking about something outside us?” Compared with this Self – whom we call Krishna or Christ, Allah or Adonai or the Divine Mother – my own body is “outside.” Compared with the Self, my own life is not more dear.

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teaselbaby
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posted September 28, 2007 02:38 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for teaselbaby     Edit/Delete Message
Hi Melody.

I read this yesterday, and it touched me:

*edited, because it was someone's weblog post, and I feel a little weird posting it, even with a link.*

(P.S. I've been meaning to come back to respond to another post of yours, but am just popping in for now ~ we have visitors arriving tomorrow. )

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MysticMelody
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posted September 29, 2007 03:32 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MysticMelody     Edit/Delete Message
Thanks anyway teaselbaby
That's ok, I'm an air sign so I don't remember which post you are talking about.
I just remember your great quotes on the quote thread.

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