“Good and evil is the challenging riddle which life places sphinxlike before very intelligence.”

From The Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

the challenging riddle

maya

 

Illusion works impenetrable,

Weaving webs innumerable;

Her gay pictures never fail,

Crowd each other, veil on veil;

Charmer who will be believed

By man who thirsts to be deceived.

– Emerson

 

awaken your discreet wisdom

Be diligent to rise to higher levels,

Have more and more good friends and loved ones,

Collect flowers of excellence,

Endow yourself with good qualities,

Increase your self-reliance,

Sharpen and enlighten your mind,

Increase experience,

And awaken your discreet wisdom.

– Anonymous

“Patience and timing… everything comes when it must come. A life cannot be rushed, cannot be worked on a schedule as so many people want it to be. We must accept what comes to us at a given time, and not ask for more. But life is endless, so we never die; we were never really born. We just pass through different phases. There is no end. Humans have many dimensions. But time is not as we see time, but rather in lessons that are learned.”

Stated by a Poet Master in Chapter 8 of Brian L. Weiss’ book, Many Lives, Many Masters

everything comes when it must come

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.”

– Henry David Thoreau

there is no other life but this

“… it is only when one has no desire for adoration that one is truly qualified to receive it.”

From The Journey Home by Radhanath Swami

no desire for adoration

“I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.”

– Harry Emerson Fosdick

surrounded by mystery

“The nature of the mind is to interpret non-essentials essential. The mind creates artificial needs, believing it cannot live without them. In this way we carry a great burden of attachments throughout our life. Attachment is itself a great burden on our minds. We may never understand the extent of the burden till we’re free of it. But if we find joy within, we can live a simple life, free of endless complications.”

 

– Radhanath Swami

 

the nature of the mind

Even

 

After

All this time

The sun never says to the earth,

“You owe

Me.”

Look

What happens

With a love like that,

It lights the

Whole

Sky.

– Hafiz

 

a poem by Hafiz

“If a person seems wicked,

do not cast him away.

Awaken him with your words,

elevate him with your deeds,

repay his injury with your kindness.

Do not cast him away;

cast away his wickedness.”

From Dr. Wayne W. Dyer’s book, Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao, 62nd Verse entitled Living in the Treasure-house of the Tao

living in the treasure-house of the Tao