February 2012
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“Simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the...”
– Carl Gustav Jung, “Psychotherapists or the Clergy,” In The Collected Works of C. G. Jung. (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.). Vol 11, pp. 339-41, paras. 519, 520, 523. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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“If you discover a very thick and deep shadow, be sure that there is, somewhere...”
– Mirra Alfassa, later Mirra Morisset and Mirra Richard (February 21, 1878 - November 17, 1973), also known as The Mother, was the spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo
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looking within
“I would see D.T. Suzuki from time to time. He later came to see me at Todtmoos. It was in 1954 and I had just received a telegram from the Protestant Academy of Munich asking me to do a conference on oriental wisdom. I took advantage of his presence to ask him: “Master, could you tell me in a few words what oriental wisdom is?”
He smiled and said: “Western knowledge looks outside, Eastern ...
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Crashingly Beautiful: Leonard Cohen on Meditation →
…You run through your top ten erotic fantasies, ambition fantasies, revenge fantasies, global ratification fantasies. You run through them all until you bore yourself to death, basically, and the faculty that produces opinions and snap judgments and unrealistic scenarios for your own prominence, after you run through them for a number of years, they cease to have charge. They bore themselves...
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“One cannot begin to face the real difficulties of the life of prayer and...”
– Thomas Merton, The Climate of Monastic Prayer, Cistercian Publications, 1981
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“There is within us–in even the blithest, most light hearted among us—a...”
– Huston Smith, Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief (New York, N.Y.: Harper Collins, 2001), p.28
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Poetry Reading this Friday, February 3rd, Orchard...
”Poetry is knowledge, salvation, power, abadonment. An operation capable of changing the world, poetic activity is revolutionary by nature; a spiritual exercise; it is a means of interior liberation. Poetry reveals this world, it creates another.”
—Octavio Paz
What are you up to this Friday around 8pm? Consider coming to the Parabola poetry reading at Orchard House Cafe in...
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“Love lays siege to each being and seeks to discover an opening, a path leading...”
– Lev Gillet, The Burning Bush, (Springfield IL: Templegate, 1976), pp. 12-13.
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