Quotes

[espre]

a mantra with bottomless depth, immovable strength, divine beauty, a protector and a giver of gifts is;
...have faith...give thanks...stay in the present
study it, realize it, when you begin to understand it your moving towards truth no matter which path your on.
( arch if your looking for a tattoo to carry you through life)

[SpiralCycle]

pain may be behind you and uncertainty may be ahead of you but friends are always at your side.

[SpiralCycle]

"you can never become a great sea captain when you sail a calm sea, you must be pushed to explore the depths of your joy, the depths of your sadness,the depths of your frustration, the depths of your generosity and the depth of your empathy."
~dannion brinkley

[Jeia Ra Manuk]

"satan’s reflections are just mirrored images of god." -et

forgot i ever said that... found it a minute ago...

[Rachael5922]

" if the master teaches what is error, the disciple's submission is slavery; if he teaches truth, this submission is ennoblement. " - ancient egyptian proverb

[EcyaC]

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius


We are here to work together like feet, hands, and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower.

Consider what the spirit is: air, and never the same air, but vomited out and gulped in again every instant.

At some point you have to recognize what world it is that you belong to; what power rules it and from what source you spring…

…you are a part of nature, and no one can prevent you from speaking and acting in harmony with it, always.

You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think…

You boarded, you set sail, you’ve made the passage. Time to disembark. If it’s for another life, well, there’s nowhere without gods on that side either. If to nothingness, then you no longer have to put up with pain and pleasure, or go on dancing attendance on this battered crate, your body—so much inferior to that which serves it.
…we carry our fate with us—and it carries us.

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.

…in each case you need to say: “This is due to God.” Or: “This is due to the interweavings and intertwinings of fate...”

…keep the spirit inside you undamaged, as if you might have to give it back at any moment…

…find fulfillment in what you’re doing now, as Nature intended…

In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them.

…welcome with affection what is sent by fate.

People try to get away from it all—to the country, to the beach, to the mountains…which is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like. By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful—more free of interruptions—than your own soul…An instant’s recollection and there it is: complete tranquility.

…things have no hold on the soul. They stand there unmoving, outside it. Disturbance comes only from within—from your own perceptions.

It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.

…every event is the right one. Look closely and you’ll see…As if someone had weighed it out with scales.

To the world: Your harmony is mine. Whatever time you choose is the right time. Not late, not early. To nature: What the turn of your seasons brings me falls like ripe fruit.

All things are born from you, exist in you, return to you.

Something happens to you. Good. It was meant for you by nature, woven into the pattern from the beginning. Life is short…Get what you can from the present—thoughtfully, justly.

Entrust everything willingly to the gods, and then make your way through life—no one’s master and no one’s slave.

…accept whatever happens as necessary…

…everything is born from change…there is nothing nature loves more than to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it.

The world as a living being—one nature, one soul...everything helps produce everything else. Spun and woven together.

Human lives are brief and trivial. Yesterday a blob of semen; tomorrow embalming fluid, ash…pass through this brief life as nature demands…give it up without complaint. Like an olive that ripens and falls. Praising its mother; thanking the tree it grew on.

…be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.

…there is a single harmony. Just as the world forms a single body comprising all bodies, so fate forms a single purpose, comprising all purposes.

“Nature prescribed illness for him.” What happens to each of us is ordered. It furthers our destiny…embrace what happens. It was prescribed for you, and it pertains to you. The thread was spun long ago, by the oldest cause of all…

…the whole is damaged if you cut away anything—anything at all—from its continuity and its coherence.

…celebrate behaving like a human—however imperfectly—and fully embrace the pursuit that you’ve embarked on.

I am made up of substance and what animates it, and neither one can ever stop existing, any more than it began to.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

Things gravitate toward what they were intended for. What things gravitate toward is their goal.

Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone—those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river: the “what” is in constant flux, the “why” has a thousand variations.

The infinity of past and future gapes before us—a chasm whose depths we cannot see.

What is done to me is ordained by nature, what I do by my own.

“To live with the gods.” And to do that is to show them that your soul accepts what is given and does what the spirit requires—the spirit God gave each of us to lead and guide us, a fragment of himself.

[EcyaC]

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius


The world’s intelligence is not selfish. It created lower things for the sake of higher ones, and attuned the higher ones to one another. Look how it subordinates, how it connects, how it assigns each thing what each deserves, and brings the better things into alignment.

Nature is pliable, obedient. And the logos that governs it has no reason to do evil. It knows no evil, does none, and causes harm to nothing. It dictates all beginnings and all endings.

…dying, too, is one of our assignments in life.

Everything is brought about by nature, not by anything beyond it, or within it, or apart from it.

Change and flux constantly remake the world, just as the incessant progression of time remakes eternity.

The elements move upward, downward, in all directions. The motion of virtue is different—deeper. It moves at a steady pace on a road hard to discern, and always forward.

Think how much is going on inside you every second—in your soul, in your body. Why should it astonish you that so much more—everything that happens in that all-embracing unity, the world—is happening at the same time?

Everything derives from it—that universal mind—either as effect or consequence. The lion’s jaws, the poisonous substances, and every beautiful thing--from thorns to mud…are by-products of the good and beautiful. So don’t look at them as alien to what you revere, but focus on the source that all things spring from.

If you’ve seen the present then you’ve seen everything—as it’s been since the beginning, as it will be forever. The same substance, the same form. All of it.

Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of their relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are one.

All of us are working on the same project. Some consciously, with understanding; some without knowing it.

If the gods have made decisions about me and the things that happen to me, then they were good decisions. (It’s hard to picture a god who makes bad ones.)

Whatever happens to you is for the good of the world.

What injures the hive injures the bee.

Nothing can happen to you that is not required by Nature.

What is outside my mind means nothing to it. Absorb that lesson and your feet stand firm.

Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together they compose the world. One world, made up of all things. One divinity, present in them all. Once substance.

I am a single limb of a larger body.

Before long, nature, which controls it all, will alter everything you see and use it as material for something else—over and over again. So that the world is continually renewed.

…a real man should forget about living a certain number of years, and should not cling to life, but leave it up to the gods, accepting, as women say, that ‘no one can escape his fate.’ And turn his attention to how he can best live the life before him…

…watch the courses of the stars as if you revolved with them…keep constantly in mind how the elements alter into one another. Thoughts like this wash off the mud of life below.
To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.

Dig deep; the water—goodness—is down there. And as long as you keep digging, it will keep bubbling up.

Remember: you shouldn’t be surprised that a fig tree produced figs, nor the world what it produces. A good doctor isn’t surprised when his patients have fevers, or a helmsman when the wind blows against him.

What dies doesn’t vanish. It stays here in the world, transformed, dissolved, as parts of the world, and of you. Which are transformed in turn…

Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What’s surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, “I have a purpose,” and the other gods as well. And why were you born? For pleasure? See if that will stand up to questioning.

What is done to me? I accept it—and attribute it to the gods, and that source from which all things together flow.

Have you ever seen a severed hand or foot, or a decapitated head, just lying somewhere far away from the body it belonged to…? That’s what we do to ourselves—or try to—when we rebel against what happens to us…

Give yourself a gift: the present moment.

Nature does not make us endure the unendurable.

[EcyaC]

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out…Don’t demand to know “why such things exist.” Anyone who understands the world will laugh at you, just as a carpenter would if you seemed shocked at finding sawdust in his workshop, or shoemaker at scraps of leather left over from work…nature has no door to sweep things out of. But the wonderful things about its workmanship is how, faced with that limitation, it takes everything within it that seems broken, old and useless, transforms it into itself, and makes new things from it. So that it doesn’t need material from any outside source, or anywhere to dispose of what’s left over. It relies on itself for all its needs: space, material, and labor.

Fear of death is fear of what we may experience.

…”nature” means the nature of what is. And that which is and that which is the case are closely linked, so that nature is synonymous with Truth—the source of all true things.

…if we want to follow nature, to be of one mind with it, we need to share its indifference.

Don’t look down on death, but welcome it. It too is one of the things required by nature. Like youth and old age. Like growth and maturity. Like a new set of teeth, a beard, the first gray hair. Like sex and pregnancy and childbirth. Like all the other physical changes at each stage of life, our dissolution is no different. So this is how a thoughtful person should await death: not with indifference, not with impatience, not with disdain, but simply viewing it as one of the things that happen to us. Now you anticipate the child’s emergence from its mother’s womb; that’s how you should await the hour when your soul will emerge from its compartment.

To do harm is to do yourself harm.

One way or another: atoms or unity. If it’s God, all is well. If it’s arbitrary, don’t imitate it.

Do what nature demands. Get a move on—if you have it in you—and don’t worry whether anyone will give you credit for it.
To decompose is to be recomposed. That’s what nature does. Nature—through whom all things happen as they should, and have happened forever in just the same way, and will continue to, one way or another, endlessly.

Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time. The twining strands of fate wove both of them together: your own existence and the things that happen to you.

To follow the logos in all things is to be relaxed and energetic, joyful and serious at once.

Continual awareness of all time and space, of the size and life span of the things around us. A grape seed in infinite space. A half twist of a corkscrew against eternity.

Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives it…There are things that nature demands.

The soul as a sphere in equilibrium: Not grasping at things beyond it or retreating inward. Not fragmenting outward, not sinking back on itself, but ablaze with light and looking at the truth, without and within.

A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you’re in the same room with him, you know it.

…accept what you’re allotted. Nature intended it for you, and you for it.

God sees all our souls freed from their fleshly containers, stripped clean of their bark, cleansed of the their grime. He grasps with his intelligence alone what was poured and channeled from himself.

It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

…the person who comes to the end of the line has no cause for complaint. The time and stopping point are set by nature—our own nature, in some cases; or nature as a whole, whose parts, shifting and changing, constantly renew the world, and keep it on schedule.

…everything that happens is natural.

…whatever happens has always happened, as always will and is happening at this very moment, everywhere.

…an individual’s mind is God and of God.

…the present is all we have to live in. Or to lose.

The fraction of infinity, of that vast abyss of time, allotted to each of us. Absorbed in an instant into eternity.

How the mind conducts itself. It all depends on that. All the rest is within its power, or beyond its control—corpses and smoke.

[EcyaC]

Some of my favorite Markisms:

"...unconditionally accept all people and conditions, as they are, as being totally in line with the will of the creator and perfect in their becoming."

"All matter and energy is alive and contains in each part of itself the full essence of the creator."

"Making infinity from one -- increasing it's love/wisdom/power, and then calling itself upward and into itself, as successive waves of enlightening life move from oneness out into the mystery and diversity and back to oneness, enriching itself, perhaps to start again in a bigger experiment. This is just another, limited, distorted take on reality; from our perspective, it can only be thus! "

"...all this suffering is ultimately an illusion in the overall sense of things,...this stage of 'ordeal by fire' is necessary to return home, and the whole positive/negative, yin/yang, male/female, light/dark, electron/proton, luke/darth vader thing gives us existence. For without this principle there wouldn't be a universe."

"Good reaches towards lessening of distortion, finding illumination in the sun; evil perhaps unwittingly reaches for increased distortion, and finds infinite intrigue, deception and duplicity in the shadows of moonlight. When these two are eventually reconciled they, with power born of wisdom and experience, set in motion their creative potential to cycle back to one to arrive home with gifts worthy of infinite intelligence."

"There is no 'becoming' in the spiritual sense, as we are already complete and perfect in this present moment."

"Indeed, the gateway to infinity lies in the now."

"To study and learn spiritual concepts and ideas using the mind and/or the ego as a tool is great...it leads you to the realization of the perfection and completeness you have now."

"Contacting your inner divine self is not about trying and practicing for a future contact. It's about realizing you were never separated from it at all..."

"You see others struggling with their earthly burdens, and you are full of a gripping, compassionate desire to have them feel what you have. Perhaps this is a key to understanding true service to others -- it's something you feel you are deeply moved to do, rather than serving because you think it is expected of you."

"...the game is set up so that we do make mistakes and this is a divinely sanctioned mechanism for our evolution."

"All and everyone in existence is the creator allowing itself experience, and thus, it is the will of the creator that all experience be had."

"You and I are the creator, which has purposefully put itself into a position of a veiled forgetfulness, perceiving an illusionary separateness..."

"At the very heart of each of us is a divine spark and the full implication of this is that each of us is divine by heritage by destiny and in present reality."

"...in the smallest part of the smallest sub-atomic particle exists the creator in it's fullness."

"...the entire universe consists of one unified field of consciousness...within this one field of consciousness exists all else..."

"It can be logically inferred that I, therefore, am you, on a different, parallel path of experience, separated only by a different aspect of the creator's experiencing. As there is only one creator, there is in reality only one experience albeit rich in texture!"

"When you look around yourself at the miracle of the cohesiveness and structure of your world, of the great providence of your existence and the things which allow you to exist, consider that the unconditional love of the creator is the primary principle of this intelligent cohesiveness...to move in step with the will of the creator is to allow your heart to open to unconditional love of all in the cosmos. To accept unconditionally all conditions in your world is to begin to transcend the need to be enmeshed in the dramas of the world. To love all others as you would love yourself and those close to you is to live in step with the will of the creator; this is the challenge of 3d living."

[EcyaC]

"The law of one teaches that the experiences of all are of equal benefit to the creator, there are no right or wrong choices, period."

"Here, love may be tempered by wisdom..."

"...a creator must face and experience its creation, as with power comes responsibility. although karma may seem at first to be a mechanism of punishment/reward, it seems better understood as a way for an evolving creator to learn/teach from its own creation."

"Like it or not, we need to evolve from where we are. We are not fallen, we are experience. Experiencing...our ability to perceive and experience this beauty is a testament to how successful we have been in our becoming, so far."

"...there was no cosmic accident to which we are subject. Please allow yourself to transcend the suffering in the world... "

"The more you choose to focus on the positive, the more you will psychically act to alleviate suffering in the world at large!"

"The important thing to remember here is that either way you are where you belong. And for an immortal being like you time is a very subjective thing, anyway. Come what may, it's for the best. "

"The law of one seems to me to teach that the universe is a product of consciousness but holds that, for the individual, proof of this must come from within; as the concept of outer proof is looking through the telescope backwards, as it were."

"When one begins to awaken to the purpose of the 3d sojourn and to the concept of one, they realize that the experience of partaking in this great pageant of learning and becoming this past 75,000 years has been it's own reward, and for it's own sake. The idea is not to think of it as something we need to get out of, at any cost. The densities were set up so that the creator may experience it's creation. We're here, now, as individualized mini-versions of the creator, to be here, now."

"Oneness is a realization that comes from within, an understanding that bypasses proofs or intellectual knowledge..."

"By practicing stepping back from life's issues, and contemplating or meditating on the really quite stupendous fact that we even exist at all and on the idea that no bad things really happen, we can begin to come slowly to a place of less and less emotional involvement with myriad issues."

"Pain is often evidence of some life lesson knocking at your door, patiently waiting for you to choose to see the learning potential. for negative seeming events and conditions are always just that. And getting to know this is where gratitude begins."

"The law of one is, I consider, a complete, unique, and largely undistorted philosophy of spirituality, centering on the revolutionary (for western culture in our times) concept of a single, all-encompassing field of conscious, intelligent energy, of which each of us is not just a part, but indeed the literal allness of this 'god' field. Each individual lifeform is the creator, experiencing a perceived separateness of being -- for reasons ultimately unknown to us at our current state of evolution..."

"As the RA say, 'look for love in the moment.' As we begin to see the creator in all beings and conditions, we are the less likely to be embroiled in issues of difference. We see all as the creator experiencing itself."

"Sometimes, I wonder if the creator, upon regaining the stuff of 8th density, doesn't find the 8th almost as if it were the 1st, learning the ultimate art of dissemination into infinite division, in an unimaginable riot of 100%selflessness/selfishness...starting again. I suspect that the smearing of the creator into infinite parts is the greatest joy imaginable, in our cosmos."

"We're all still living in primate body paradigms and as such we instinctively fear death -- whether it be the pain of death or ceasing to exist. It's almost as if the fear of being no more is at the root of our survival instinct."

"In the law of one there is only one consciousness and each of us embodies the fullness of this one infinite being -- forever, and immortal. Death is nothing more than an illusory issue and amounts to nothing more than an opportunity to partake of universal reality from a different perspective..."