Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Updated Quotes

"If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place."
- Lao Tzu

"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it." 
- John Lennon

"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call "God", is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus,  Mohammad, Buddha, and the rest said was right. It's just that the scriptures and translations have gone wrong."
- John Lennon

“God dwells within you as you” - Yoga, Part of Hinduism

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings, and all beings in his own self." - Siddhārtha Gautama

“On that day, you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you." - Jesus the Nazarene

“Is it not written in your law, Ye are gods?" - Jesus the Nazarene

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."
- Siddhārtha Gautama

“Neither shall they say, lo here! or, lo there! For, behold, the kingdom of Heaven is within you”. - Luke 17:21

"Know ThySelf and Thou Shalt Know All"
- Baron Eugene Fersen

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, no one but ourselves can free our minds!"
- Bob Marley 

“By understanding the self, all this Universe is known”. - Upanishads, part of Hinduism

"There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself."
- Herman Hesse

"When Albert Einstein published his theory of relativity in 1905 he shook the very foundations of science. Without going into complex detail, his theory of relativity is in fact so complex that most of the world's top physicists still cannot fully grasp the implications of his theory today. What Albert Einstein essentially proved was everything is energy. Previously, physicists believed that everything was made up of two separate elements, matter and energy. This, had it been true would mean that the human mind was separate from the human body. With his theory, Einstein turned this idea of separateness on its head. E = mc2, in fact, proved that everything is energy and therefore there is no dualistic world, everything in the Universe is connected."

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- William Morrow

"Each culture, each religion, and each philosophy has part of the truth; none has it all." ~ Rabbi Irwin Kula

"When I came to the west, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality."
~ Sogyal Rinpoche

"If you see the world from space, there are no demarcation lines, not even a hint of nationalism and ideology is present. Staring at the world today, what we see as the bloody history of human beings and the demands of their religion, it is not present here. It's a tiny spec, only a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent non aggressiveness. This is called the mastery of men." ~ Lao Tzu

"Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth."
- Edmund Burke

"The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy." 
- Florence Scovel Shinn

"To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation." 
- Paulo Coelho

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it..
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.

But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
- Siddhārtha Gautama

"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."
- Mark Twain

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."
- Siddhārtha Gautama

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking."
- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
- Albert Einstein

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” ~ Lao Tzu

"The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves."
Yoko Ono

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
- William Shakespeare

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” - Carl Gustav Jung

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are many who are living far below their possibilities
because they are continually handing over their
individuality to others.
Do you want to be a power in the world?
Then be yourself.
Be true to the highest within your soul
and then allow yourself to be governed
by no customs or conventionalities or arbitrary
man-made rules that are not founded on principle.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
- Albert Einstein

The majority is not always right. Conventional Wisdom is not always wise

"The highest education is that which does not merely gives us information, but makes our life in harmony with all existence."
- Rabindranath Tagore

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves"
- Abraham Lincoln

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
- John Lennon 

"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
So I am still aspiring to be an astral projector.. I have been making many changes. I am a vegetarian and plan on going Vegan soon.. I am 17 and I have am currently working on my ability to concentrate and deep physical relaxation. I have been reading books not on AP, but in general, spiritual growth. I am focusing on spiritual growth and I have been meditating in the morning and at night. I still have to work on my concentration though because I still need to be able to have a single-pointedness focus when I am physically relaxed in a chair.

The obstacle I have to face the most is getting little sleep. Since I am a high school student and athlete, on some days, I am only able to get 4-5 hours of sleep and it definitely makes it hard to meditate when you're tired.

You can add my spirituality profile on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001647819371

Great Books for Spiritual Growth:

Our Ultimate Reality by Adrian P. Cooper
http://www.ourultimatereality.com
Science of Being in 7 and 27 Lessons by Eugene Fersen
http://www.scienceofbeing27lessons.com
http://www.scienceofbeing.com (official)
http://www.scienceofbeing.net