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26taurus
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posted December 02, 2007 12:14 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

- Plato

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26taurus
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Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. - Chinese proverb

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26taurus
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posted December 02, 2007 12:15 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. - Groucho Marx

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26taurus
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posted December 02, 2007 12:17 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. Our birth is nothing but our death begun.

- Bishop Hall

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26taurus
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posted December 02, 2007 12:18 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.

- Kahlil Gibran

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26taurus
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posted December 02, 2007 12:18 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

- Seneca

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26taurus
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posted December 02, 2007 12:30 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth.

- Ralph Parlette

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26taurus
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posted December 02, 2007 12:30 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us,
our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come from
God, who is our home.

- William Wordsworth

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26taurus
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posted December 02, 2007 12:31 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
From our birthday, until we die,
Is but the winking of an eye.

- William Butler Yeats

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26taurus
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posted December 02, 2007 12:32 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.

- Christina Georgina Rossetti

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26taurus
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posted December 02, 2007 12:33 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.

- Plato

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26taurus
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posted December 02, 2007 12:33 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
May you live all the days of your life. - Jonathan Swift

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26taurus
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posted December 02, 2007 12:41 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
One day you will look back and laugh at yourself.

You’ll say, “ I can’t believe I was so asleep!

How did I ever forget the truth?

How ridiculous to believe that sadness and sickness

Are anything other than bad dreams.”

- Rumi

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26taurus
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posted December 02, 2007 12:43 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
A stone I died and rose again a plant;
A plant I died and rose an animal;
I died an animal and was born a man.
Why should I fear? What have I lost by death?


- J.Rumi

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26taurus
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posted December 02, 2007 12:47 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I was Nothing

When my mind was cleansed of impurities,
like a mirror of its dust and dirt,
I recognized the Self in me:
When I saw Him dwelling in me,
I realized that He was the Everything
and I was nothing.

Lalla

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26taurus
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posted December 02, 2007 12:50 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Sri Aurobindo Poetry

"Death's grip can break our bodies, not our souls;
If death take him, I too know how to die.
Let Fate do with me what she will or can;
I am stronger than death and greater than my fate;
My love shall outlast the world, doom falls from me
Helpless against my immortality."


- From Savitri
Book VI: The Book of Fate Canto I

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26taurus
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posted December 02, 2007 12:53 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Life And Death


Life, death, - death, life; the words have led for ages
Our thought and consciousness and firmly seemed
Two opposites; but now long-hidden pages
Are opened, liberating truths undreamed.
Life only is, or death is life disguised, -
Life a short death until by Life we are surprised.


Reference: # 14 in "Les poèmes de Sri Aurobindo" (bilingual edition)
also in "Collected Poems and Plays, vol 1" - 141

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26taurus
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posted December 02, 2007 12:54 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Soul In The Ignorance

Soul in the Ignorance, wake from its stupor.
Flake of the world-fire, spark of Divinity,
Lift up thy mind and thy heart into glory.
Sun in the darkness, recover thy lustre.

One, universal, ensphering creation,
Wheeling no more with inconscient Nature,
Feel thyself God-born, know thyself deathless.
Timeless return to thy immortal existence.

By: Sri Aurobindo

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26taurus
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posted December 02, 2007 01:06 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The Holy Longing


poem by Johann W. Von Goethe

Tell a wise person, or else keep silent,
because the mass man will mock it right away.
I praise what is truly alive,
what longs to be burned to death.

In the calm water of the love-nights,
where you were begotten, where you have begotten,
a strange feeling comes over you,
when you see the silent candle burning.

Now you are no longer caught in the obsession with darkness,
and a desire for higher love-making sweeps you upward.

Distance does not make you falter.
Now, arriving in magic, flying,
and finally, insane for the light,
you are the butterfly and you are gone.
And so long as you haven't experienced this: to die and so to grow,
you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth.

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posted December 02, 2007 01:09 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for NosiS     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"You don't stop laughing when you grow old; you grow old when you stop
laughing." Unknown

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26taurus
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posted December 02, 2007 01:14 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for NosiS     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That Groucho Marx quote is ingenious!

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. "
Garson Kanin

"The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage. " Unknown

"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. "
Charles Schultz

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26taurus
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posted December 02, 2007 01:23 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Good ones, NosiS!
(got to run for a bit )

“The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.”

Winston Churchill

“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.”

Elvis Presley

“The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie”

Ann Landers

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Pumpkin Peace
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posted March 06, 2008 06:56 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Know the flame within the heart
Its purifying fire transforms the self
Its clear light unites us with the source....
...and
When all the knots of the heart are unloosened,
then even here, in this human birth,
the mortal becomes immortal.
This is the whole teaching of the scriptures.

(Kathopanishad II, 3 15)

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26taurus
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posted March 06, 2008 09:05 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
keep reading the Upanishads to
see exactly what is meant
by mortal and immortal.....

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