Weekly Gems Quote of the Week Archive |
March/April 2005 |
April 2005: Week of 4/25/05: It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti Week of 4/18/05: Without Brushing My Hair The Closer I get to you, Beloved, The more I can see It is just You and I all alone In this World. I hear A knock at my door, Who else could it be, So I rush without brushing My hair. For too Many nights I have begged for Your Return And what Is the use of vanity At this late hour, at this divine season, That has now come to my folded Knees? If your love letters are true dear God I will surrender myself to Who You keep saying I Am. -Hafiz from 'The Gift' translated by Daniel Ladinsky Week 4/11/05: If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. -Erica Jong Week of 4/4/05: When society does not know what to do about a problem, it invents theories to make it appear that it does know what to do. The appointed crime committee concludes that crime is caused by poverty or drugs or broken homes, which is like saying that illness is caused by sickness. Social problems are caused by human ignorance of spiritual truths, but since few can face this fact in themselves, the problems continue. -Vernon Howard March 2005: Week of 3/28/05: You do not realize your own situation. You are in prison. All you can wish for, if you are a sensible man, is to escape. But how to escape?...If a man is at any time to have a chance of escape, then he must first of all realize that he is in prison. So long as he fails to realize this, so long as he thinks he is free, he has no chance whatsoever. -G. I. Gurdjieff Week of 3/21/05: All great values of life---love, silence, blissfulness, ecstasy, god- liness---make you aware of an immense oneness. There is nobody else other than you; we are all different expressions of one reality, different songs of one singer, different dances of one dancer, different paintings---but the painter is one. -Osho from Creativity - Unleashing the Forces Within Week of 3/14/05: Humankind is being led along an evolving course, through this migration of intelligences, and though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and that will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are. -Rumi from the poem 'The Dream that Must Be Interpreted' Essential Rumi tr. Coleman Barks Week of 3/7/05: The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occured. A whole stream of events issues from the decision. Raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. -W.H. Murray |
