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God Notes Archives
2015
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God Note #650. 2015/01/04.
Abbot Pambo questioned
Abbot Anthony saying: What ought I to do? And the elder replied: Have no
confidence in your own virtuousness. Do not worry about a thing once it has
been done. Control your tongue and your belly.
Thomas Merton, The
Wisdom of the Desert, P.25.
More on Desert Fathers
can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Fathers
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God Note #651. 2015/01/11.
If
you can't see God in All, You can't see God at All.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi, as quoted in Kundalini Yoga : The Flow of Eternal Power
(1998) by Shakti Pawha Kaur Khalsa; also in Education
as Transformation : Religious Pluralism, Spirituality, and a New Vision for
Higher Education in America (2000) by Victor H. Kazanjian
and Peter L. Laurence
More on Guru Harbhajan Singh can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbhajan_Singh_Khalsa
More on Maghi can be found at: Maghi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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God Note #652. 2015/01/18.
Theologies and symbols and creeds, though
inevitable, are transient and become obsolescent, while the Life of God sweeps
on through the souls of men in continued revelation and creative newness. To
that divine Life we must cling. In that Current we must bathe. In that abiding
yet energizing Center we are all made one, behind and despite the surface
differences of our forms and cultures. For the heart of the religious life is
in commitment and worship, not in reflection and theory.
Kelly, Thomas R. A Testament
of Devotion. P. 38. Submitted
to L-Center Discussion Group by Gary Horn.
More on Thomas Kelly can
be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Raymond_Kelly_(Quaker_mystic)
More on Week of Prayer
for Christian Unity
can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week_of_Prayer_for_Christian_Unity
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God Note #653. 2015/01/25.
An approach to God which
is unable to see other religions reaching towards the infinite is a very
fearful and weak faith. (...) One does not surrender integrity and authenticity
by meeting on separate occasions with one's neighbour and sharing prayers and
goals which reach towards the One God. God responds to the genuine quest within
all human beings who prove by their actions that they believe in the vision of
the Divine Kingdom which is open to all in the course of time.
Rabbi Dr Albert Friedlander, interview for The Times, 18.12.1991 Quoted after: Potter Jean, Braybrooke Marcus (Eds.) (1997). All in Good Faith. A Resource Book for
Multi-faith Prayer. The World Congress of Faiths, Oxford, UK.
More on Albert
Friedlander can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Friedlander
More on World Interfaith
Harmony Week can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Interfaith_Harmony_Week
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God Note #654. 2015/02/01.
I, the highest and fiery power, have kindled
every living spark and I have breathed out nothing that can die (...). I flame
above the beauty of the fields, I shine in the waters;
in the sun, the moon and the stars (...). All living things take radiance from
me; and I am the life which remains the same through eternity, having neither
beginning nor end (...).
(God through revelation to) St. Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), quoted after: Novak Philip, The World's
Wisdom, P.266.
More on Hildegard von Bingen can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen
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God Note #655. 2015/02/08.
Every word of every tongue is Love telling a
story to her own ears.
Every thought in every mind, She whispers a secret to
her own Self.
Every vision in every eye, She shows her beauty to her
own sight.
Every smile on every face, She reveals her own joy for
herself to enjoy.
Love courses through everything,
No, Love is everything.
How can you say, there is no love, when nothing but Love exists?
All that you see has appeared because of Love.
All shines from Love,
All pulses with Love,
All flows from Love -
No, once again, all is Love!
Fakhruddin 'Iraqi (1213-1289), a Persian Sufi, quoted
after: Novak, Philip. The World's Wisdom, P.329.
More on Fakhruddin 'Iraqi can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakhr-al-Din_Iraqi
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God Note #656. 2015/02/15.
A devotee who can call on God while living a
householder's life is a hero indeed. (...) He is blessed indeed who prays to Me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find Me, overcoming a great obstacle - pushing away, as it were,
a huge block of stone weighting a ton. Such a man is a real hero. (...) Live in
the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes
it off.
Ramakrishna, quoted in: Harvey, Andrew (Ed). (2001). Teachings of the Hindu Mystics, P.101.
More on Ramakrishna can
be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramakrishna
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God Note #657. 2015/02/22.
All these sufferings are man-made and it is
within man’s power to put an end to them. God helps by facing man with the
results of his actions and demanding that the balance should be restored. Karma
is the law that works for righteousness; it is the healing hand of God.
Sri Maharaj Nisargadatta. (2005). I am That. P.24.
More on Sri Nisargadatta can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisargadatta_Maharaj
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God Note #658. 2015/03/01.
Being an incomplete female,
the male spends his life attempting to complete himself, become female. He
attempts to do this by constantly seeking out, fraternizing with and trying to
live through and fuse with the female and by claiming as his own all female
characteristics - emotional strength and independence, forcefulness, dynamism,
decisiveness, coolness, objectivity, assertiveness, courage, integrity,
vitality, intensity, depth of character, grooviness,
etc. - and projecting onto women all male traits - vanity, frivolity,
triviality, weakness, etc. It should be said, though, that the male has one
glaring area of superiority over the female - public relations. He has done a
brilliant job of convincing millions of women that men are women and women are
men.
Valerie Solanas
– Scum Manifesto (1967). (This not so serious note was) Retrieved from: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Valerie_Solanas
on 1 March 2015.
More on Valerie Solanas can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Solanas
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God Note #659. 2015/03/08.
The light which is in
everything is Chine, O Lord of light.
From its brilliancy everything is illuminated;
By the Guru's teaching the light becometh manifest.
What pleaseth Thee is the real worship.
O God, my mind is fascinated with Thy lotus feet as the bumble-bee with the
flower; night and day I thirst for them.
Give the water of Thy favour to the Sarang (bird) Nanak, so that he may dwell in Thy Name.
Ascribed to Guru Nanak
(1469-1539). Retrieved
from: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nanak on 8
March 2015.
More on Guru
Nanak can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Nanak
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God Note #660. 2015/03/15.
Voices
came to trouble his dreams—Irish voices calling him back: “We pray you, holy
youth, come to us and walk among us once more!”
Attributed
to St. Patrick. Retrieved
from http://www.saintinnocent.ca/saint-patrick-orthodox-missionary-irish-people
on 15 March 2015.
More on St.
Patrick can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick
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God Note #661. 2015/03/22.
Refuse all thoughts except one: the thought ‘I
am.’ The mind will rebel in the beginning, but with patience and perseverance
it will yield and keep quiet. Once you are quiet, things will begin to happen
spontaneously and quite naturally, without any interference on your part. (…)
Just live your life as it comes, but alertly, watchfully, allowing everything
to happen as it happens, doing the natural things the natural way, suffering,
rejoicing-as life brings.
Nisargadatta, “I am That.” P.18-9.
More on Shri Nisargadatta
can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisargadatta_Maharaj
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God Note #662. 2015/03/29.
Without having clarity of mind, a mere desire to
see God is just like groping in the dark. I found out that the human mind has
its boundaries and can visualize only according to its limited resources. No
human being can possibly explain what God is, or
conceive of God mentally.
Swami Rama (2001). Living with
the Himalayan Masters, P.64.
More on Swami Rama
can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Rama
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God Note #663. 2015/04/04.
(…) “Jesus, remember me when you come into your
Kingdom.”
Luke 23:42
More on the Gospel of
Luke can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Luke
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God Note #664. 2015/04/12.
And what is death? It is the change in the
living process of a particular body. Integration ends and disintegration sets
in. (…) In death only the body dies. Life does not,
consciousness does not, reality does not. And the life
is never so alive as after death.
Sri Maharaj Nisargadatta. (2005). I am That. P.12.
More on Sri Nisargadatta can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisargadatta_Maharaj
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God Note #665. 2015/04/19.
It
is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own
country, but rather for him who loveth the whole
world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
Ascribed to Baha’u’llah. Retrieved
from: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27u%27ll%C3%A1h
on 19 April 2015.
More on Earth Day
can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day
More on Baha’u’llah can
be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27u%27ll%C3%A1h
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God Note #666. 2015/04/26.
Media
people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians,
mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good
and the bad, not just the appearance.
Dalai
Lama.
News conference in Vancouver, B.C. as quoted in The Globe and Mail. (8 September 2006).
Today,
we are truly a global family. What happens in one part of the world may affect
us all.
This, of course, is not only true of the negative things that happen, but is
equally valid for the positive developments. We not only know what happens
elsewhere, thanks to the extraordinary modern communications technology. We are
also directly affected by events that occur far away.
Dalai
Lama.
Nobel lecture (11 December 1989). Retrieved from: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama
on 26 April 2015.
More on Dalai Lama
can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Dalai_Lama
More on World Press
Freedom Day can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Press_Freedom_Day
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God Note #667. 2015/05/03.
While the war was still in
progress, I was visited by a sudden feeling of the cruel and unnecessary
character of the contest. It seemed to me a return to barbarism, the issue
having been one which might easily have been settled without bloodshed. The
question forced itself upon me, "Why do not the mothers of mankind
interfere in these matters, to prevent the waste of that human life of which
they alone bear and know the cost?" (…) The august dignity of motherhood
and its terrible responsibilities now appeared to me in a new aspect, and I
could think of no better way of expressing my sense of these than that of
sending forth an appeal to womanhood throughout the world, which I then and
there composed.
Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)
on the Franco-Prussian
War as
the inspiration for her "Mother's Day Proclamation" of 1870 calling
for mothers to arise as a social force against war in general, retrieved from: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Julia_Ward_Howe#Mother.27s_Day_Proclamation_.281870.29 on 3 May 2015.
More on Julia Ward Howe can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Ward_Howe
More on Mother’s Day can
be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day
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God Note #668. 2015/05/10.
The
god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson, in Journals (1867). Retrieved
from: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Victory on
10 May 2015.
More on Ralph Waldo Emerson can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson
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God Note #669. 2015/05/18.
A king is a king, not
because he is rich and powerful, not because he is a successful politician, not
because he belongs to a particular creed or to a national group. He is King
because he is born. And in choosing to leave the selection of their head of
state to this most common denominator in the world- the accident of birth-
Canadians implicitly proclaim their faith in human equality; their hope for the
triumph of nature over political manoeuvre, over
social and financial interest; for the victory of the human person.
Jacques Monet, in "The
Canadian Monarchy" in The West and the Nation :
Essays in Honour of W. L. Morton (1976), edited
by Ramsay Cook, and Carl Berger. p. 324. Retrieved from: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Monarchy
on 18 May 2015.
More on Victoria Day can
be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Day See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_monarchy_in_Canada
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God Note #670. 2015/05/24.
The soul secured in her
existence, smiles
At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years,
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amidst the war of elements,
The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds.
Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act V, scene i.
Retrieved from: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Immortality on 24 May 2015.
More on Joseph Addison
(1672-1719) can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Addison
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God Note #671. 2015/06/07.
(...) Those who live in this world, which is a
field for work, lose a great deal if they don't work, don't progress, remain
idle. In every atom of this earth, Brahman is all-pervasive. Therefore, knowing
this, if one tries to work day and night in this world, they find God easily.
Haidakhan Babaji. Teachings of Babaji, 1982-03-25.
More on Haidakhan Babaji
(1970-1984) can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidakhan_Babaji
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God Note #672. 2015/06/13.
Kupala Night, also known as Ivan Kupala Day
(is) The celebration related to the summer solstice
when nights are the shortest and includes a number of Slavic rituals. Many of
the rites (…) are connected with the role of water in fertility and ritual
purification.
On Kupala
day, young people jump over the flames of bonfires in a ritual test of bravery
and faith. The failure of a couple in love to complete the jump while holding
hands is a sign of their destined separation.
Girls may float wreaths of
flowers (often lit with candles) on rivers, and would attempt to gain foresight
into their relationship fortunes from the flow patterns of the flowers on the
river. Men may attempt to capture the wreaths, in the hope of capturing the
interest of the woman who floated the wreath.
There is an ancient Kupala belief that the eve of Ivan Kupala
is the only time of the year when ferns bloom. Prosperity, luck, discernment
and power would befall on whoever finds a fern flower. Therefore, on that
night, village folk would roam through the forests in search of magical
herbs and especially the elusive fern flower.
Traditionally, unmarried
women, signified by the garlands on their hair, are the first to enter the
forest. They are followed by young men. Therefore, the quest to find herbs and
the fern flower may lead to the blooming of relationships between pairs
of men and women within the forest.
It is to be noted, however,
that ferns are not angiosperms (flowering plants), and instead reproduce by
spores; they cannot flower.
Retrieved
from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kupala_Night on 14 June 2015.
More on Summer Solstice
and related celebrations can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_solstice
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God Note #673. 2015/08/09.
(…) There is no question of failure, neither in
the short run nor in the long. It is like traveling a long and arduous road in
an unknown country. Of all the innumerable steps there is only the last which
brings you to your destination. Yet you will not consider all the previous
steps as failures. Each brought you nearer to your goal, even when you had to
turn back to by-pass an obstacle. In reality each step brings you to your goal,
because to be always on the move, learning, discovering, unfolding, is your
eternal destiny. Living is life’s only purpose. (…)
Nisargadatta Maharaj. “I Am That.”
P.112.
More on Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisargadatta_Maharaj
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God Note #674. 2015/08/16.
"...our humanity takes precedence, as an
existential and irreversible fact, over any willed commitment. When one
comes into existence as a human being, then prior to every other obligation is
the obligation to be what one is: a human being. Any form of
perfectionism that tries to take us beyond our human reality or to put us
outside it (to make us gods) will only cheat us of our own humanity. That
is the temptation of any absolute belief, whether Christian, Marxist, or other:
it may seem to entice us to go beyond our human condition, to be "as
gods," and to use our supposed infallibility to destroy other
people. In other words, our commitments are good insofar as they help us
to fulfill our primary vocation: to be men. If they make us less human,
then there is something wrong somewhere. The commitments themselves have
gone wrong."
Thomas Merton, in an
interview in Motive magazine, 1967. Submitted to Merton-L Discussion Group by Gary
Horn.
More on Thomas Merton
can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Merton
More on
“Humanitarianism” can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanitarianism
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God Note #675. 2015/08/23.
However
painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really
frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving
home.
(…) Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give
birth to ourselves.
Robert
N. Bellah (1985). Habits of the
Heart, pt. 1, ch.
3. Retrieved from: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_N._Bellah
on 23 August 2015.
More on Robert N. Bellah can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Neelly_Bellah
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God Note #676. 2015/08/30.
Next to God, we are
indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth having.
Christian Nestell Bovee (1820-1904), Thoughts,
Feelings, and Fancies (1857), p. 308.
More on Christian Nestell Bovee can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Nestell_Bovee
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God Note #677. 2015/09/07.
Learn to talk less and work more. This is the
field of spiritual practice. Karma is the highest way of perfection. It is a
great thing to take a human body. Whoever comes to the earth must do work.
(...) All who have taken birth must work to be successful.
Haidakhan Babaji. Teachings of Babaji, 6 April 1982.
More on Haidakhan Babaji
can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidakhan_Babaji
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God Note #678. 2015/09/13.
There remains, however,
something more in the Jewish tradition, so gloriously revealed in certain of
the psalms; namely a kind of drunken joy and surprise at the beauty and
incomprehensible sublimity of this world, of which
man can attain but a faint intimation. It is the feeling from which genuine
research draws its intellectual strength, but which also seems to manifest
itself in the song of birds (...).
Albert Einstein, The
Sanctification of Life, quoted after: Novak Philip, The World's Wisdom, P.218.
More on Albert Einstein
can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
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God Note #679. 2015/09/20.
If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and
summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year
when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone.
Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect
on what's come before.
Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure (Thanksgiving, 1992). Retrieved from: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fall on 20 September
2015.
More on equinox can be
found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox
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God Note #680. 2015/09/27.
(…) To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or
that. Just be. Let your true nature
emerge. (…).
Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj. “I am That.” P.259.
More on Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisargadatta_Maharaj
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God Note #681. 2015/10/04.
I began to feel that myself
plus the bicycle equalled myself plus the world, upon
whose spinning wheel we must all earn to ride, or fall into the sluiceways of
oblivion and despair. That which made me succeed with the bicycle was precisely
what had gained me a measure of success in life -- it was the hardihood of
spirit that led me to begin, the persistence of will that held me to my task,
and the patience that was willing to begin again when the last stroke had
failed. And so I found high moral uses in the bicycle and can commend it as a
teacher without pulpit or creed. She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the
bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
Frances E. Willard, How
I Learned To Ride The Bicycle (1895) Retrieved
from: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cycling on 4 October 2015.
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God Note #682. 2015/10/12.
Courage is the
capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the
willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental
dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.
Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself (1953), p. 192.
Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off.
Build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury, Brown Daily Herald (March 24, 1995).
More on Rollo May can be
found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollo_May
More on Ray Bradbury can
be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury
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God Note #683. 2015/10/18.
The blessing it is
to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's
most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible
comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but
pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain
that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and
then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life (1859). Retrieved from: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Friendship on 18
October 2015.
More on Dinah Craik can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinah_Craik
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God Note #684. 2015/10/25.
(…) Lincoln also understood that
after such a decision, a democracy should seek peace through a new unity. For a democracy can
keep alive only if the settlement of old difficulties clears the ground and
transfers energies to face new responsibilities. Never can it have as much ability and
purpose as it needs in that striving; the end of battle does not end the
infinity of those needs. That is why Lincoln—commander of a people as well as
of an army—asked that his battle end "with malice toward none, with charity
for all."
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin
D. Roosevelt: "Address at the Dedication of the Memorial on the Gettysburg
Battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.," July 3, 1938. Online
by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woollsey. Retrieved from: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Democracy on 25 October 2015.
More on Franklin D. Roosevelt can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt
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God Note #685. 2015/11/01.
Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a
great lesson: you cannot die.
Paramahansa Yogananda, Man's Eternal Quest, P.106.
More on Paramahansa Yogananda can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramahansa_Yogananda
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God Note #686. 2015/11/08.
Each separate being in the universe returns to
the common source. Returning to the source is serenity. If you don't realize
the source, you stumble in confusion and sorrow. When you realize where you
come from, you naturally become tolerant, disinterested, amused, kind-hearted as a grandmother, dignified as a king. Immersed
in the wonder of the Tao, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when
the death comes, you are ready.
Tao Te Ching 16,
quoted after Novak Philip, The World's Wisdom, P.150.
More on Tao Te Ching can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching
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God Note #687. 2015/11/15.
(...) And say, "I believe in all the
scriptures revealed by God, and I am commanded to treat you amicably, God is
our Lord and your Lord; we have our deeds and you have your deeds. There is no
argument between us and you. God will gather us together; to Him is the
ultimate destiny."
Quran 42:15
More on the International Day for Tolerance can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_for_Tolerance
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God Note #688. 2015/11/22.
Of a woman are we conceived,
Of a woman are we
born,
To a woman are we betrothed and married,
It is a woman who keeps the race going,
Another companion is sought when the life-partner dies,
Through a woman are established social ties.
Why should we consider woman cursed and condemned,
When from woman are born leaders and rulers.
From woman alone is born a woman,
Without woman there can be no human birth.
Without woman, O Nanak, only the True One exists.
(…)
Raag Aasaa Mehal
1, p. 473; in Aad Guru Granth
Sahib (1983 edition by Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee);
also in Guru Nanak and His Times (1971) by Anil Chandra Banerjee, p. 78
Retrieved from: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nanak on 22 November 2015
More on violence against women can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_for_the_Elimination_of_Violence_against_Women
More on Guru Nanak can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Nanak
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God Note #689. 2015/11/29.
To meet the fountain of the life of truth I run, for I weary of a
life of vanity and emptiness. To see the face of my King is mine only aim; I
will fear none but Him, nor set up any other to be feared. Would that it were
mine to see Him in a dream! I would sleep an everlasting sleep and never wake.
Would that I might behold His face within my heart! Mine eyes would never ask
to look beyond.
Jehudah Halevi, a Jewish mystic of the XII-th century, quoted after: Miriam Bokser
Caravella, The Holy Name. P.259.
More on Jehudah Halevi can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Halevi
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God Note #690. 2015/12/06.
You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for
it is at home there, though you are not.
Henry David Thoreau, letter to Harrison Blake (November 16,
1857). Retrieved from: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mountains
on 6 December 2015.
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God Note #691. 2015/12/13.
We are accused of terrorism
If we dare to write about the remains of a homeland
That is scattered in
pieces and in decay
In decadence and disarray
About a homeland that is searching for a place
And about a nation that no longer has a face
About a homeland that has nothing left of its great ancient verse
But that of wailing and eulogy (…)
Nizar-Qabbani,
(1923-1998), a Syrian poet. Retrieved from: http://allpoetry.com/Nizar-Qabbani on 13 December 2015.
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God Note #692. 2015/12/20.
The grate had been removed from the wide
overwhelming fireplace, to make way for a fire of wood, in the midst of which was an enormous log
glowing and blazing, and sending forth a vast volume of light and heat; this I understood was the Yule-log, which the Squire was particular in having brought in and
illumined on a Christmas eve, according to ancient custom.
Washington Irving in: Thomas Hughes, Charles Waterton Tom Brown's school-days, by an old boy [T. Hughes. Wanderings in South
America, by C. Waterton. Old
Christmas, from the Sketch book of W. Irving. Bracebridge hall, by W. Irving],
1882, p. 13. Retrieved from: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christmas_Eve on 20 December 2015.
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