Quotations
Sometimes we feel moved to speak or write wise words.
Often we believe them to be original.
There is nothing new under the sun, however, or beyond it,
or in any other dimension of reality.
Everything that ever was, is and ever will be, just 'IS',
in the eternal now.
When wisdom manifests in our individual, physical
consciousness, it is nice to be able to share it
around, so here are a few quotations relevant to ,
this site.... and to my way of thinking!
They all relate to life in general, some specifically concern dying and life
after death
Once
the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never
go back.From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing
which will never again let you linger in the lowlands of
complacency and partial fulfilment. The eternal makes
you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of
danger hold you back from striving towards the summit of
fulfilment."
-
John O'Donohue, Bantam Press, 1997
Some
questioned the Buddha asking, "Are you a God"?
"No", he replied.
"Are you an angel then?", they asked.
"No", he replied again.
"What are you then?", they asked.
"I am awake", he replied.
"Nothing real
can be threatened;
nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the Peace of God"
- A Course in Miracles
Astrological sign of CANCER, 5th April 2001
"If you have a computer, hooked up to the Internet,
you have access to the biggest library in the world.
There's not a question you can't answer provided
you are willing to look for it carefully and patiently.
You think that's neat? Try this. Within every human
heart is a permanent, broadband link to the universe.
Look within, openly and sincerely, and you'll always
find the solution to any problem... or, at least, an
idea that will lead you to such a solution. Technology
is smart but nature is smarter. Today, just download a
little wisdom from the wonderful well within."
-Jonathan Cainer
I love you my brothers and sisters,
wherever you are.
Whether you kneel in your church
worship in your Synagogue
or pray in your mosque...
I love you whoever you are,
you and I are all children of one faith,
for the diverse paths of religion
are the fingers of the living hand
of one Supreme Being,
a hand extended to all.
- Kahlil Gibran
"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers
connect us with our fellow men; and along these fibers
as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and
they come back as effects."
Herman Melville
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but
usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or round
it, and carry on."
- Winston S. Churchill
"Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between
'That doesn't make sense' and 'I don't understand.'"
- From Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
"Take a look around, then, and see that none of the
uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean
the people who believe in nothing but what they can
grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that
action or generation or anything invisible can have
real existence."
- Plato "Theaetetus"
"As humans, we tend to define reality by what we can
perceive. This perception not only includes all the
normal human perceptions, but also the extensions of
those perceptions through the instruments we have built
like the microscope and the telescope. Everything inside
our cone of perception we accept as real, and everything
outside that cone isn't real. If we can't perceive it,
then it doesn't exist. Every time we build a new instrument
we increase our cone of perception, and more things are
perceived and therefore become real."
- Barbara Brennan - Hands of Light
"Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt.
Give the world your best anyway."
-- Meditations From A Simple Path -- by Mother Teresa
"If you ever think you're too small to be effective --
you've never been in bed with a mosquito."
- Anita Roddick
"In the depth of winter I finally learned that
within me there lay an invincible summer."
- Albert Camus 1913
"Learning is movement from moment to moment."
- J. Krishnamurti
"Fill the cup of happiness for others, and there will
be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim."
- Rose Pastor Stokes
"When we try to pick out something by itself, we find it
hitched to everything else in the universe"
- John Muir
"Perhaps imagination is a faculty of perception."
- Unknown
"An it harm none, do what you will."
- Wiccan Rede
"Most people actually crave love, as we tend to
resist the very thing we crave the most. We resist love
because we have to open our hearts to receive it.
This openness or vulnerability we need to cultivate in
order to receive, threatens the protective wall that
ego has built. The clutching neediness which results when,
we block love's flow, only acts to push it further away.
Because of the terrible sense of separation that results,
we then tend to put up even more blocks to protect
our vulnerability, and our neediness increases once
again."
- Paula Horan, Abundance Through Reiki
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not
possible."
- Frank Zappa
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine
what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last
you create what you will."
- George Bernard Shaw
"I believe that the within and without are intimately
connected, and that it is our ego that gets in the
way and tells us we are separate from everything else."
- Dietmar Stoll
"Creative energy is the essence of all healing... We
physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the
physician within."
- Dr. Albert Schweitzer
"Miracles are only things that happen under laws we
don't yet understand."
- Virginia Samdahl
"You are always your own best guru, your own best
teacher, the answers are always inside you."
- Sai Baba
"Where love is, great changes and healing take place."
- Mari Hall - Reiki Master
"Reiki is not in the mind; it is in the heart.
Feeling it is always the greatest teacher."
- Mari Hall - Reiki Master
"After we can truly love ourselves, we are able to
love others without any prejudices."
- Mari Hall - Reiki Master
"Your mind is a truly powerful tool: it creates your
reality in every moment. You are as well as you think
you are capable of being."
"All truth goes through three stages. First it is ,
ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally it
is accepted as self-evident."
- Schopenhauer
"For us believing physicists the distinction between past,
present, and future is only an illusion, even if a
stubborn one."
- Albert Einstein
"A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire
within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some
ailment in the spiritual part"
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Nature is the cure of illness. Leave thy drugs in
the chemist's pot if thou can't heal the patient with
food." - Hippocrates
"The whole universe is one mathematical and symponic
expression, made up of finite representations of the
infinite."
- F. L. Kunz
"Life and healing is not all light, love, and
happiness. It sometimes requires change, sometimes
darkness, and sometimes suffering. This is the nature of
life. Life is difficult. To not accept this fact is
to deny the potential for more."
- Jan Olimpo
"Time is too slow for those who wait.
Time is too long for those who grieve.
Time is too short for those who laugh.
But for those who love, time is eternity."
-David Laflamme
"I exist as I am - that is enough; If no other in
the world be aware, I sit content."
-
Walt Whitman - Song of Myself
"We cannot be all things to all people. The harder
lesson to learn is that we cannot be all things to
ourselves. Sometimes who we think we are is different
from who we are actually meant to be."
- Unknown
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where
there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations in
life that no man can sincerely try to help another
without helping himself."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The cure of the part should not be attempted without
treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to
cure the body without the soul and, if the head and
body are to be healthy you must begin by curing the
mind."
- Plato
"Know that the outward form passes away,
But the world of reality remains for ever.
How long will you play at loving the shape of the
jug?
Leave the jug; go, seek the water!"
..Unknown
"What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious
that our imaginations and our feelings do not suffice
to form even an approximate conception of it."
- Carl Jung
"Health and healing has nothing to do with the body.
Real health is inner peace."
- Dr. Diane Cirincione
" My cancer has metastasized to the bones. The
doctors have said its incurable - which says death
to me. The weird thing about knowing I am sick is that
I know in the heart of me there is wellness. And
that's the paradox - in the midst of my illness
I am getting well. And that even death cannot take
away."
- Rev.Colin Campbell, Episcopal Priest, from the
video "Experiencing the Soul"
"Soul is eternal: its language is metaphor, which
belongs in this moment and in the timeless,
spaceless moment."
- Marion Woodman - Jungian Analyst
"Researching prebirth experinces has had a profound
personal effect on my wife and me in that we more
fully appreciate that our adopted daughter, who
suffers from fetal alcohol effect, and our mentally
handicapped daughter - are both very special children
of the Divine. We now know that their spirit souls are
untouched by these disabilities. Both these girls
have unique missions to fulfill and special lessons
to teach us on Earth."
- Dr Harold Widdison Professor of Medical Sociology
"Death is no more than a passing from one room to
another. But there's a difference for me, you know.
Because in that other room, I'll be able to see."
- Helen Keller
"I truly believe that there will be a time when we'll
be able to pick up some phone-like instrument and
perhaps dial a number such as 1-800 Heaven, and reach
loved ones who have died."
- Anne Puryear Gestalt Therapist
"Eddison and I are convinced that in the fields of
psychic research will yet be discovered certain facts
that will prove of greater significance to the
thinking of the human race than all the
inventions we have ever made in the field of
electricity."
- Dr. Miller Hutchinson, Thomas Eddison's assistant.
(At the time they had already been collaborating on an
attempt to invent a device that could communmicate with
deceased people.)
"By "essence", I mean that part of our nature we
recognize as the god in hiding, the source quality or
soul quality that links us to our highest becoming
that transcends time and space,life and death."
- Dr. Jean Houston
"Personally, I can tell you in all openness and
honesty, I have absolutely no fear of death. From my
near-death research and my personal experiences
death is, in my judgement, simply a transition into
another kind of reality."
- Dr Raymond Moody MD PhD Psychiatrist
"None of this was really new to my spirit. It was ,
a recalling of what I've always known - how we com
up from Earth to heaven,how we select our parents,
how we select our life situations, how we are here
on Earth to learn to love."
- Betty J. Eadie
"Whenever I close my eyes, I can see Light, white Light,
which I believe is coming from God. I trust that
this Light is part of the power of God, and I will
experience this Light even,more fully after my
death."
- Dr Janina Starceswski, a physician and hospice
patient very near to physical death, from the video
Experiencing the Soul.
"Once we begin to really understand that we are not
from Here, we are from There, that we all choose to
come Here and were chosen to come Here, that we were
somebody and something long before we came Here, only
then do we comprehend that we are not poor,
pitiful, stupid human beings. We are all great,
awesome, powerful and mighty spiritual beings!
What then really becomes important is realising
the true purpose of our lives."
- Dannion Brinkley
"And after your death, when most of you for the
first time realise what life here is all about, you
will begin to see that your life here is almost nothing
but the sum total of every choice you have made during
every moment of your life. Your thoughts, which you are
responsible for are as real as your deeds.
You will begin to realise that every word and every
deed affects your life and also touches thousands of lives."
- Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"A spirit and a vision are, not, as the modern
philosophy supposes,a cloudy vapour, or a nothing,
they are organized and minutely articulated beyond all
that the mortal and perishing nature can
- William Blake artist and poet 1757-1827
"In the painting "Universal Mind Lattice" which was
based on a mystical visionary experience, I was part
of one vast luminescent,transparent lattice system of
love energy. It was as if the veil of supposed "reality"
had been stripped from the material world to
expose the bedrock reality, the scaffolding of spirit.
I understood it as the intricate interconnectedness
of the one and the many on a level of awareness that
was infinite and eternal. This was the ethical
known to be part of us. I knew death need not be feared
because we would eventually return to the profound
bliss of this realm."
- Alex Grey from "Sacred Mirrors: the visionary
art of Alex Grey"
"Thine own consciousness, shining, void and inseparable,
from the Great Body of Radiance, hath no birth, ,
nor death, and is the Immutable Boundless Light.
- Padmasambhava, in The Tibetan Book of the Dead
"The consciousness of man has an "extended nature" that
enables him to surpass the ordinary bounds of space
and time - suggesting that there is a more ephemeral ,
informational aspect to the material world."
- Dr. Edgar D. Mitchell; Astronaut who walked on
the moon.
"Dying can be used as a profound vehicle for awakening
of consciousness because as we make our transition
to other dimensions at the time of death, the door
between dimensions seems to be more open. This
doesn't mean that the door to these other dimensions
is closed at other times, just that at the time of
death there is a natural shift to non-ordinary
expanded states of consciousness. "
- Ramm Dass PhD
"Those who know that they do not know (and do not
care to know) are ignorant: Pray for them.
Those who do not know that they know are asleep:
Wake them.
,
Those who know that they do not know are children:
Teach them.
Those who know that they know (and truly know), are
realized beings: Follow them."
- Sufi saying.
"As one person put it, "Death is just a change of lifestyles"
- an opportunity to see the cause of suffering, our
clinging, and to discover the surrender that opens
the way to our essential wholeness. Death puts life
in perspective. A great gift which, if received in love
and wisdom allows the clinging mind to dissolve so that
nothing remains but truth. And we become just the
light entering the light."
- Steven Levine
"In 1975 I had a very deep spiritual awakening where
my body-awareness completely dissolved as I merged
into an effulgent, shimmering golden-white light. This
white light was similar in luminescence to the white
light I experienced in a previous near-death experience.
This profound spiritual awakening showed me from
direct experience that there was no death for the
Self. The body could die, but the Self was eternal, and
it would go from one phase to another phase,unfazed.
After this, in meditation, I would regularly go down
the same inner pathway and merge in the same white
light on a daily basis. So in essence, I consciously
died every single day. Over a period of time, I
completely lost my fear of death. This is what I call
Divine behaviour modification. To this day, I feel
very comfortable merging into the Light and, in a
sense, dying regularly."
- Dr. Gabriel Cousens, Psychiatrist -from the video
Experiencing the Soul
"One of the things we want to do is to make peace with
ourselves, no matter where we are and what is going on,
and to know that death is not a failure. It is one of
the experiences that we have in life. And as I have
said many times, when we go, it is our time. And I do
think we make an agreement with our souls as to when we
will leave."
- Louise L Hay
"The challenge of the next millenium will be to
develop an adequate scientific understanding of
consciousness itself.... Although there are limitations
in our scientific knowledge of consciousness at this
present time, the door is always open to directly
experiencing this universal consciousness for ourselves."
- Dr Amit Goswami PhD Professor of Physics
"There is hard evidence from over a thousand scientific
experiments that supports the view that there is
something more than the materialistic model of he
universe. This is important for every person to know,
especially scientists"
- Dr Charles Tart Professor of Psychology
"Do you remember how electrical currents and "unseen
waves" were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still
in its infancy."
- Albert Einstein
"In the future, I believe that the implications of near
death experience research- and the message of hope
embedded in the NDE itself - will be widely accepted
by our society... not only will people continue to undergo
NDEs but more importantly more people will be pursuing
near-deathlike experiences through meditation and other
spiritual practices. More of us will then come to know
that it is only our ego; decision about what is real
that keeps us from experiencing the Light in this
very moment, for the Light is the essence of what we
ourselves are. Our challenge is to realize this and
act on it before we die."
- Dr. Kenneth Ring PhD Professor Emeritus of Psychology,
University of Connecticut
"I have been blind since shortly after my birth due
to too much oxygen in the incubator destroying my
optic nerves. I had a clinical death experience in
which I was able to see! I went sailing up through
the roof of the hospital and then I saw lights out on
the street and the building and everything like that.
And I was, in essence, cavorting through the air, and
really enjoying the liberty that I felt because I
had never been able to get around like that before."
- Vicki Umipeg From the video, Experiencing the soul
"At the time of death, or during a near death
experience, it may very well be that the soul
transitions from the material world - which operates
at speed less than the speed of light - to a world
that operates faster than light speed, the so called
super-luminal spiritual world. In that transfer, a
tunnelling effect may take place in much the same way
that it appears to take place in what
astrophysicists call a 'black hole'."
- Dr Fred Alan Wolf PhD in Theoretical Physics
"One great scientist, Sir Isaac Newton, came to the
following conclusion about the limitations of
science. He once said, "I can take my telescope and
look millions of miles into space, but I can
put it aside, go into my room, close the door, get down
on my knees in earnest prayer, and see more of heaven ,
and get closer to God than I can assisted by all the
telescopes and material agencies on Earth." This
profound statement still holds true today. Since
Newton's time, no scientist has been able to develop
any instrument for communicating with the Creator
that is equal to the power of going within through
prayer and meditation. As Newton said, prayer took
him further than his scientific tools. He was
referring to a process of inverting one's attention
to look and isten to what is within. That looking
and listening to the inner world is another name for
meditation."
- Sant Rajinder Singh
"The argument as it goes is: if a conscious subject can
separate from the body before death, it may be able
to maintain that separation after - and thus
survive - death."
- Dr. Michael Grosso Professor of philosophy and humanities
"Most scientists would claim that there is no
satisfactory scientific evidence to support the
hypothesis of the continuation of personhood
through the transition called death..... it is
essential to recognise that science in its present
form is not in a position to deny the
possibility."
- Dr Willis Harman PhD
Namaste ..........
"Namasté (nuh-mahs'-tay) : I honour the place in you in
which
the entire universe dwells. I honour the love, the truth, the
light and the peace in you. When you are in that place in you
and I am in that place in me, we are one "
