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January 18, 2021
UNIVERSE WITHIN
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“You’ve always had the power to go back to Kansas” — Glinda
“Oh Dear! That’s too wonderful to be true!” — Dorothy
“Now those magic slippers will take you home in two seconds. Just close your eyes and think to yourself, ‘There’s no place like home’.” — Glinda
“Then why didn’t you tell her before”? — The Scarecrow
“Because she wouldn’t have believed me. She had to learn it for herself.”– Glinda
“If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard, because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with.” — Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz”
Like Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ we are creatures of our own design. We live in universes created by our own agreements and imagination. We are inside the Physical Universe looking out to find the origin of our being. We long for a place we feel certain must exist; a place where there is no trouble. We wait for wizards and witches to show us the way home. Yet we fear to close our eyes and click our heels to see the Universe Within.
Our journey home begins at the source of the rainbow; shining light upon our own eternal, ethereal selves.”
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— Excerpt from THE OZ FACTORS, by Lawrence R. Spencer
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HAPPY
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January 17, 2021
MEDITATIONS OF MARCUS AURELIUS
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Marcus Aurelius (Latin: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus; 26 April 121 – 17 March 180 AD), called the Philosopher, was Roman emperor from 161 to 180. He was the last of the rulers traditionally known as the Five Good Emperors. He is also seen as the last emperor of the Pax Romana, an age of relative peace and stability for the Empire. Marcus’ personal philosophical writings, often called Meditations, are a significant source of the modern understanding of ancient Stoic philosophy.
Here are a few quotations from Meditations —
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
“The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
“You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can’t control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
“Do not be wise in words – be wise in deeds.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
“What we do in life ripples in eternity.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
“A person’s life is dyed with the color of his imagination.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
“Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
“Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning and weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
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TRUTH SEEN
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Just when I think I’ve seen “the truth” I realize there are a lot more “truths” to be seen and understood.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARROGANCE
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If you think you are the “center of the universe” because you speak the English language, it’s time to get real….. Most the VAST majority of the nearly 8 billion people on Earth speak a language you cannot understand, and that you are probably too arrogant, too stupid, or too lazy to learn. I know I am…..
“This interesting info-graph shows which languages are spoken the most around the world. Any language which has at least 50 million first language speakers made the list, and this comprises 23 of the 7, 120 known languages around the world. Of the 7.2 billion people on the planet, 6.3 billion were included in the study, making it incredibly comprehensive. 4.1 billion of the people studied, represented by the entirety of the circle, speak 1 of the 23 as their native tongue. You can zoom into the graph as it further breaks down these numbers by the amount of people that speak a given language according to country.
It’s an interesting thing to ponder. So many of us speak different languages, have different cultural traditions and perceive our world in a different manner from one another, but at the end of the day we all belong to one human race. Why is it that we continue to focus on on the differences between us, instead of highlighting the many similarities we all share. Our differences exist for us to share them with each other, all races on this planet bring something very unique and fascinating to the whole, we are all pieces of this one giant puzzle and it doesn’t come together until we all work together.”
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January 16, 2021
SIGNS
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SENTIENT
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January 15, 2021
UNITY AND DUALITY
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Rabindranath Thakur, anglicised to Tagore ( 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region’s literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse”, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; his seemingly mesmeric personality, flowing hair, and otherworldly dress earned him a prophet-like reputation in the West. His “elegant prose and magical poetry” remain largely unknown outside Bengal. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in introducing the best of Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of modern India.
