CAMELOT FANTASIES

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.



-----Prince Klemens von Metternich

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.




--------Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.



-------Ben Hecht

From Ramana Maharshi  ...

--All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

--Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.

--If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.

--The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

excellent stuff.


I keep forgetting to make my contributions. I will add some tonight before I hit the sack.




 

this is an awesome thread. I have been enjoying it.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.


-------Victor Hugo