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“We can rejoice that our world does have many bodhisattvas who can be found on every path of return, sowing seeds of faith, resolve, and confidence. Kwan Yin, for example, always finds ways to be with those who are suffering. She fears nothing, and uses whatever means are appropriate to the circumstance. She takes on whatever form is needed— monk, politician, merchant, scholar, woman, child, god, or demon. Can we listen deeply like Kwan Yin? Using every form and means possible in the spirit of Kwan Yin, we will bring help to our world.”
― Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966
― Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966
“To fight on "the path of God" has been characterized as "medieval" fanaticism; conversely, it has been characterized as a most sacred cause to fight for "patriotic" and "nationalistic" ideals and for other myths that in our contemporary era have eventually been unmasked and shown to be the instruments of irrational, materialistic, and destructive forces... Soldiers went to the front to experience war as something else, namely, as a crisis that all too often did not turn out to be an authentic and heroic transfiguration of the personality, but rather the regression of the individual to a plane of savage instincts, "reflexes," and reactions that retain very little of the human”
― Revolt Against the Modern World
― Revolt Against the Modern World
“We had no idea that sounds existed beyond the range of human hearing until we developed instruments to detect, measure, and create them. Until comparatively recently, those who claimed they could hear what others could not were considered insane or persecuted as witches and sorcerers. We were able to perceive the electromagnetic spectrum only in terms of heat and light until the last century. We are still unaware of the capacity of the human brain, an electrochemical organism, in terms of transmission and reception of electromagnetic radiation. With this gap unbridged, it is easy to understand why modern science has not begun to consider the ability of the human mind to penetrate an area where no serious theory has been promulgated.”
― Journeys Out of the Body: The Classic Work on Out-of-Body Experience
― Journeys Out of the Body: The Classic Work on Out-of-Body Experience
“When an organism appears to be acting against its own genetic interests, we may safely assume that it has probably fallen under the control of some other entity, typically a parasite, which has hijacked the host and is directing its activities toward different ends.”
― American Pravda Series
― American Pravda Series
“Now,the very idea of this warfare is dramatically unfolded when we
come to the Fravartis of human beings. In the prelude to the
millenniums of the period of mixture, Ohrmazd offered them
the choice from which their entire destiny originates: they
could either live in the celestial world sheltered from the ravages
of Ahriman, or else descend to earth there to be incarnated
in material bodies and struggle against the counterpowers
of Ahriman in the material world. Their answer to
this proposal was the yes which gives their name its full meaning,
most significantly for our purpose: those who have chosen. In
practice the fravarti incarnated in the terrestrial world finally
became identified in religious representations purely and simply
with the soul.”
― The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism
come to the Fravartis of human beings. In the prelude to the
millenniums of the period of mixture, Ohrmazd offered them
the choice from which their entire destiny originates: they
could either live in the celestial world sheltered from the ravages
of Ahriman, or else descend to earth there to be incarnated
in material bodies and struggle against the counterpowers
of Ahriman in the material world. Their answer to
this proposal was the yes which gives their name its full meaning,
most significantly for our purpose: those who have chosen. In
practice the fravarti incarnated in the terrestrial world finally
became identified in religious representations purely and simply
with the soul.”
― The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism
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