Inspirational Thoughts

[zney25]

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did god use the internet?

he didn't,but people did,as his instrument...

[akosabni]

The Master once gave an address on the danger of religion,
affirming, among other things, that religious people all too
easily use God to cover up their pettiness and self-seeking.

This provoked a sharp rejoinder in thee form of a book wherein
as many as a hundred religious leaders wrote articles to refute the
Master's words.

The Master smiled when he saw the book. "If what I said was
wrong, one article would have been enough," he said.

Anthony de Mello, S.J.

[akosabni]

"What does your Master teach?" asked a visitor.

"Nothing," said the disciple.

"Then why does he give discourses?"

"He only points the way -- he teaches nothing."

The visitor couldn't make sense out of this, so the disciple made it
clearer: "If the Master were to teach, we would make beliefs out of his
teachings. The Master is not concerned with what we believe -- only with
what we see."

Anthony de Mello, S.J.



Teachers open the door. . . You enter by yourself.

-- Chinese Proverb

[akosabni]

It was the disciple's birthday.

"What do you want for a birthday gift?" said the Master.

"Something that would bring me Enlightenment, " she said.

The Master smiled. "Tell me, my dear," he said, "when you were born, did
you come into the world like a star from the sky or out of it like a leaf
from a tree?"

All day long she pondered that strange question of the Master. Then she
suddenly saw the answer and fell into Enlightenment.

Anthony de Mello, S.J.



The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working
farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and
accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into
pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God seed into God.

--Meister Eckhart

[akosabni]

In order to think outside the box,
one first must know what is inside the box.

Michael Shermer

[akosabni]

Even faith in God is only a stage on the way.
Ultimately, you abandon all, for you come to
something so simple that there are no words
to express it.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

[agoroy]

The purpose of your life is to serve warning to others

[agoroy]

The things you own end up owning you -- Tyler Durden (Fight Club)

one of the best movie ever made

[akosabni]

Life is easy; it’s the people who make it difficult!

Anon

[akosabni]

"Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description. "

"Then how does one speak of God?"

"Through Silence."

"Why, then, do you speak in words?"

At that the Master laughed uproariously He said, "When I speak, you mustn't
listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence."

Anthony de Mello, S.J.



It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

-- Decouvertes