More 20th Century Psalms (August 2011)

Words are used to cover feelings. Only actions explain feelings.

The whole ocean can be tasted in one drop of salt water.

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Frequently, followers of the Spiritual Path reach a joyous feeling of Unity – and then get hung up there. Unless they can come full circle, back to the ordinary life, it will be practically impossible for them to function in this world.

What do people mean when they say “all is one”? Do they act as though all is one?

Very few can speak in the abstract, or from an overall view; it must always be flavored by what is painful to me and what is pleasurable. When you find one who can observe impersonally, you have met a wise creature.

The memory of things future.

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Hearing the sound of tires on the pavement, we reconstruct the passing car. Detecting a distant high-pitched strident sound, we translate it as the dreaded ambulance or fire engine. We live in a world of our own mental constructs. What need of future Hell when so many live in that state right here and now?

Life is Life. There is no “more important” and “less important,” least of all based on size.

“I” and “Mine” are the heavy baggage we carry on our backs. “Yours” brings other creatures into being. Does anyone possess the wind blowing over the water? Does this wind have a place of origin? When the wind has passed, the waves subside.

Contraction and expansion — a time for triumph and a time for great loss. If you miss the opportunity the first time around, it will come round again.

No two live in the same world.

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Our two tasks are to know Who and What we are and to understand Impermanence; without knowing the first, we can never accord with the second.

The teacher can only give what the pupil is ready to receive. You cannot force-feed the Truth.

Child of the sun, nourished by the passing clouds and earth, the tree grows to the sky.

Suffer the leaves to fall (in autumn).