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If you choose to meditate on it, please remember that the quotations published are NOT offered as examples of eternal verities but merely as 'Food for Thought', and it is for you to judge for yourself whether and to what extent the words used accurately reflect your own beliefs and convictions. |
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... the dances of Man, though not now consciously used in this way, still show him to be a microcosm in which all that is without him is within him.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Man is slowly drawing together two diametrically opposed orders of awareness. On the one hand, his egotism takes him to a dark spiritual death, and on the other hand the same self-awareness bending back upon itself introduces a new dimension — a new life.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
He who finds not love finds nothing.
Chilean Proverb
Life is a going out to the 'other' and this going out in interest and care is its positive content. Fear paralyses the flow and turns us back upon ourselves. Such self-defence is the negation of personal life.
John Macmurray, 1891-1976
Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not take it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.
Earl of Chesterfield, 1694-1773
It is hard, indeed, to feel humble, to know respect and honour, to get rid of all attachments, to keep pure in thought and deed, and to become wise.
Buddha, BCE 568-488
Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of the sharp goad.
Swami Sivananda, 1887-1963
Movement, the most simple of gifts, redeems his whole situation — it reconciles his freedom and his captivity. Subject to the laws of gravity a man can actually move his body where he wills. He is neither fire nor stone. He is both.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Both strings and cords have to be pulled into a state of tension to be effectual, and it is strings, we must remember, that gave the impetus for harmony, and harmony that gave the final pull on the strings of order and tipped Man completely out of eternity into time.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind;
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616?
...the defences we build around our precious lives only serve to isolate us from all that we really want.
John Macmurray, 1891-1976
Let the great book of the world be your principal study.
Earl of Chesterfield, 1694-1773
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and freezes in cold weather; even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.
Leonardo Da Vinci, 1482-1519
Humility, that low, sweet root
Thomas Moore, 1779-1852
The creative process is an ensphering of fire: a spherical Universe contains rotations of an infinitude of spherical fire bodies, each rotating within its own system, each system rotating within a greater system, and so on; all rotating within the sphere of the Universe — one great turn.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
The idea of growth or development is held in the ancient symbol of the rose (hence the word rosin), and the idea of something squeezed out is held in the actual substance exuded by the tree as it grows. We must remember that the rosin is what actually permits grip between bow and string. Grip by spirit on substance is a true relationship — is true reality.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616?
There is no fear more potent than the fear of fear, which is the fear of isolation.
John Macmurray, 1891-1976
Learn that the present hour alone is man's.
Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784
Absence of occupation is not a rest;
William Cowper, 1731-1800
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
Hector Berlioz, 1803-1869
The Word is that ordering force behind creation — and order ... implies rhythm.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Substance pulls down, spirit pulls up. This tug of war is the root of all development: without it, the living world would not have evolved out of the amoebic slime to a high level of complexity.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
Welsh proverb
The more we defend ourselves against life the more we feel isolated from life and the more deadly becomes our fear.
John Macmurray, 1891-1976.
Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.
Swami Sivananda, 1887-1963
Life is a short day; but it is a working day. Activity may lead to evil, but inactivity cannot lead to good.
Hannah More, 1745-1833
In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams and the stars of midnight.
Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941
... in the Logoic sense of the word, truth is the relation of all parts to one another.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Male and female together result in creation. It is these two poles that cause reality to be apparently divided; especially when the material world arises, the created centres of life seem deceptively separate.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake, 1757-1827
A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound.
From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds,
Or treads with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark.
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.