A Moment of Meditation

[indygal]

While Pam is on "vacation" from the forum, I thought this thread could continue to share some spiritual wisdom proffered through the ages. Many of the quotes will be from a web site called Interspirit: Many Voices/One Truth. Others will be from those I've collected over the years or come across recently. And by all means, add your own!

"Follow the universal principles that are stressed in the scriptures of both East and West. Let your mind dwell on: 'What can I do for others? How can I be honest, truthful, straightforward? How can I be kind? How can I be generous and unselfish?' These are principles that lead us Godward."

-- Sri Daya Mata, disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda, 'The Soul's Need for God' Experiencing the Soul (Eliot Jay Rosen, editor)

[Diane Amberg]

Thanks, I, for one, will enjoy your effort very much.

[indygal]

Two thoughts to share today:

"We can no longer hold our loves at home and project our aggressions elsewhere; for on this spaceship Earth there is no 'elsewhere' any more. And no mythology that continues to speak or to teach of 'elsewheres' and 'outsiders' meets the requirement of this hour."

-- Myths To Live By (Joseph Campbell)

"When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him you will see yourself. As you treat him you will treat yourself. As you think of him you will think of yourself."

-- A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

[indygal]

I know I speak for many when I say I miss Pam and hope she returns to the forum soon.

"'Dear God, please make me an instrument of your peace....' is one of the most famous lines of prayer. And there is good reason for that. We know it speaks to something profoundly practical and real that will, if we allow it to, overcome all the darkness and hatred in the world."

-- Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles (Marianne Williamson)

[indygal]

"If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new."

-- Collected Works (Carl Jung)

[Diane Amberg]

I really like that one.