Ananda of Seattle and Lynnwood: Feature Article--Expansive Marriage by J. Donald Walters (Swami Kriyananda) : One of the false expectations with which couples approach marriage is the fond belief that they will forever be all in all to each other. I can't imagine any two people being that to each other - unless, perhaps, they are exceptionally stupid! No one person can ever help you to learn all your lessons in life. No one person can fulfill your every need.
No one, that is, but yourself. For all the fulfillment you have ever sought awaits you within. But that kind of fulfillment is never personal....
Joe Loffredo : Some Thoughts on Meditation : ...To quote a famous Zen master, Yoda (from Star Wars) "There is no try. Do." So don't confuse yourself about it. Don't try to do it, just DO it...
Michael Losier : Law of Attraction Article: How A Creation Box Can Work For You : ...A Creation Box is simply a box or container where you store your highest desires until they have come to you....
John Hogue : The Critical Mass of Enlightenment : ...The mystics say thus: Humankind arrives as billions of seeds filled with hope; in the end, almost all die as manure for others. A sterile grounding in tradition will preserve their hard shells of hope and dreaming from ever being shattered...
Mahatma Guru-Sri Paramahansa Shivaji-Aleister Crowley : Eight Lectures On Yoga : ...If he decides to do, let us say, a quarter of an hour's Asana twice daily, rising to an hour four times daily, and Pranayama in proportion, he has got to stick to this-no cocktail parties, football matches, or funerals of near relations, must be allowed to interfere with the routine. The drill is the thing, the acquisition of the habit of control, much more important than any mere success in the practices themselves. I would rather you wobbled about for your appointed hour than sat still for fifty-nine minutes...
Swami Chidananda : The Best Part of Knowledge : ...what is the difference between a person who does not know and a person who knows? Is there any difference at all? That is the next part of knowledge—when the knowing of the knowledge makes a difference in the person...
Manibhai Desai's BAIF enriches rural India.
Swami Sivananda : Satsanga and Svadhyaya : ...The word 'Satsanga' is the combination of the two words 'Sat' and 'Sanga'. 'Sat' means existence absolute, which is Brahman. 'Sat' is the essential nature of Brahman which is permanent in things that change, which is the only reality that upholds the world of appearance...
Reading Write a recommendation or a reference about someone...
Inspiration : Brad L. Graham : The BradLands: Why I Weblog
I document what I learn from the mistakes of other people. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
I weblog to make Google's pagerank algorithm work better for future users !
SivaSakti.COM - Fundamental Elements on The Master-Disciple Relationship
Touched by God : ...As Ramakrishna tested Narendra in various ways before accepting him as a disciple, so did Narendra test Ramakrishna before he accepted him as a guru...
...The World's Parliament of Religions was one of the most significant events in the history of the world, because this was the first time all great religions of the world assembled on the same platform. On 11 September 1893, in the opening session of the Parliament, Vivekananda reiterated the eternal message of Vedanta: "As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their waters in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take, through different tendencies, various though they may appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee."...
The world will remember September 11 for a different reason now !
(via Mark Pilgrim) Mark Bernstein : A List Apart: 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web
Swami Sivananda : Karmas and Diseases : "...If I have not seen America I have no right to deny the existence of such a country..."