- Wait Without Hope, T.S. Eliot
- A Course in Miracles Excerpts
- Presaging, Rainier Marie Rilke
- Richard Moss
- Dune, Frank Herbert
- Stillness Speaks, Eckhart Tolle
- The Way of Grace, Miranda Macpherson
- Pavamana Mantra, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
- Yea-saying, Friedrich Nietzsche
Wait Without Hope, T.S. Eliot
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.
A Course in Miracles Excerpts
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
- Introduction
Seek not outside yourself...it is given to you to know the truth, and not to seek for it outside yourself...
The search implies you are not whole within and fear to look upon your devastation, but prefer to seek outside yourself for what you are...
God dwells within, and your completion lies in Him.
- 29.VII.
Perfect love casts out fear.
- 1.6.5.4
Know first that this is fear. Fear arises from a lack of love.
- 2.6.7.5
Let me know this brother as I know myself.
- 5 - Introduction, 3.8
Behold the Son of God and look upon His purity and be still.
- 13.10.11.10
The truth is true...everything beside it is not there.
- 14.2.3.3
He leadeth me and knows the way, which I know not.
- 14.3.19.2
I who am host to God am worthy of Him.
He who established His dwelling place in me created it as He would have it be.
It is not needful that I make it ready for Him,
but only that I do not interfere with His Plan
to restore to me my own awareness of my readiness,
which is eternal.
I need add nothing to His Plan,
but to receive Good, I must be willing not to
substitute my own in place of it.
-18.4.5.9
I do not know the thing I am, and therefore do not know what I am doing, where I am, or how to look upon the world or on myself.
-31.5.17.7
Presaging, Rainier Marie Rilke
I am like a flag unfurled in space, I scent the oncoming winds and must bend with them, While the things beneath are not yet stirring, While doors close gently and there is silence in the chimneys And the windows do not yet tremble and the dust is still heavy— Then I feel the storm and am vibrant like the sea And expand and withdraw into myself And thrust myself forth and am alone in the great storm.
Richard Moss
The greatest gift we can give to each other is the quality of our attention.
Dune, Frank Herbert
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Bless the Maker and His Water. Bless the coming and going of Him, May His passing cleanse the world. May He keep the world for his people.
Stillness Speaks, Eckhart Tolle
“I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.”
The Way of Grace, Miranda Macpherson
Be nothing, do nothing, get nothing, become nothing, seek for nothing, relinquish nothing, be as you are, rest in God.
Pavamana Mantra, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Om Asato Ma Sadgamay Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya Mrtyor Ma Amrtam Gamaya Translation Lead me from the unreal to the real Lead me from darkness to light Lead me from death to immortality
Yea-saying, Friedrich Nietzsche
“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.”
Suppose that we said yes to a single moment, then we have not only said yes to ourselves, but to the whole of existence. For nothing stands alone, either in ourselves or in things; and if our soul did but once vibrate and resound with a chord of happiness, then all of eternity was necessary to bring forth this one occurrence—and in this single moment when we said yes, all of eternity was embraced, redeemed, justified and affirmed.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
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