Month: August 2020

Blind Observance of the Law

     Like Jesus centuries before him, the Master warned people about religion because, left to itself, it sanctified the blind observance of the law.  This is how he put it:

     A commanding officer was asking some recruits why walnut was used for the butt of a rifle.

     “Because it has more resistance,” said one man.

     “Wrong!”

     “Because it has more elasticity,” said another.

     “Wrong again!”

     “Perhaps because it has a better shine than other woods,” said a third.

     “Don’t be a fool,” said the C.O.  “Walnut is used because it is laid down in the regulations.”

– Anthony de Mello, More One Minute Nonsense

The Chemistry Within You

     “There are many ways to understand this. One simple way to know this is: today, if you lose your mental peace totally, you will go to a doctor. He will give you a pill. If you take this pill, your system will become peaceful. Maybe this will last just for a few hours, but you become peaceful. This pill is just a little bit of chemicals. These chemicals enter your system and make you peaceful. Or in other words, what you call peace is a certain kind of chemistry within you. Similarly, what you call joy, what you call love, what you call suffering, what you call misery, what you call fear, every human experience that you go through, has a chemical basis within you. Now the spiritual process is just to create the right kind of chemistry, where you are naturally peaceful, naturally joyous. When you are joyous by your own nature, when you don’t have to do anything to be happy, then the very dimension of your life, the very way you perceive and express yourself in the world will change. The very way you experience your life will change.”

― Sadhguru, Encounter the Enlightened: Sadhguru, A Profound Mystic Of Our Times

Source: http://thecalminside.tumblr.com/post/169887936254/there-are-many-ways-to-understand-this-one

Our Inner Vision

     “Each person looks at life through a different vision.  Three men can look at a tree.  One man will see so many board feet of valuable lumber worth so much money.  The second man will see it as so much firewood to be burned to keep his family warm in the winter.  The third man will see it as a masterpiece of God’s creative art, given to man as an expression of God’s love and enduring strength, with a value far beyond its worth in money or firewood.  What we live for determines what we see in life and gives clear focus to our inner vision.”

– Excerpted from Joshua by Joseph Girzone

 

Source: https://lindasuecab.blogspot.com/2016/10/simply-stated.html

Chances Are You Have

     “Anytime you want to criticize someone for something they’ve done, take a long look at your life and see if you haven’t done the same thing at one point or another—chances are you have.”

— Excerpted from The Truth as I See It: A Collection of Spiritual Writings by Adam Soto (p. 61)

 

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Judgment

     Said the self-righteous preacher, “What, in your judgment, is the greatest sin in the world?”

     “That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners,” said the Master.

– Anthony de Mello, One Minute Nonsense

 Source: http://onelifeministries.org/PathOfSpirit/042908_Sinners%20No%20More.asp