More 20th Century Psalms (August 2012)

Ambition and competition, so revered, are responsible for much of the misery of the world. Envy is a natural concomitant.

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Trying is not the way; what comes, comes by Grace. Not trying is foolhardy; who else but you must do it? So what do you do?

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Paul Reps says he feels the equal of every blade of grass. Oh, to be a snowflake, each one completely unique.

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Joy is always there; it only has to be uncovered.

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We cannot picture a beginning or an ending to this inscrutable energy – the Chi (Prana). There is no sense of individuality to it. Perhaps it is only the sense of individuality, that which separates, that dies.

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The one who immerses himself in his present task is wise. To think about the future reward is a waste of energy. What more can you do than do your best – NOW!

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If man should go the way of the dinosaur, the Life Force would not disappear – it would continue to manifest in millions of ways on countless planes of existence. There is only transformation – no creation or destruction. Nothing comes into being; it is simply a transformation. People think the Life Force manifests only in the forms with which they are familiar! What conceit!

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Most people introspect by worrying about individual problems. This is not finding out ‘Who and What you are.’ This Life Force will manifest in strange places, bursting out in isolated plants springing from bare rocks. It is almost absurd in its urge to express, to transform. We move from ‘potential’ to actual – essence to function.

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At the moment before dawn, all things seem possible.

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The meaning of Life is that something is manifesting, and its ‘origin’ is Joy.

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The Jazz musician, like the spiritual teacher, tries to express the inexpressible.

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If one can hear the sound from the hills, he will hear the echo on the wind. One moon shines on all waters; one silence pervades every sound.

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The Zen Master, Chao Chou, being asked what one should say to a traveler carrying nothing, answered: “Tell him to throw it out!” When the asker protested that, carrying nothing, he could throw nothing out, he received the reply: “Then let him carry it out!”

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When you’re early, all the lights seem to be green.