SAYINGS OF THE WISE


Sayings of the Wise

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Situations

"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Small things and Big Things

Its the small deeds of kindness and love that count the most, for the greatest is in the least. No matter where you are, you have the seed of the spirit life in you, use it wisely, but also, use it. No matter how small the deed appears to you, it may change the life of another.


Social Life

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living”

Rudolf Steiner


Solutions

Every puzzle created must have a solution.

 

A Proverb of the Wise


Song of the Elephants

Who is as heavy as we, or as strong?

Ho! but we trample the shambas down!
Saw ye a swath where the trash lay long
And tall trees flat like a harvest mown?
That was the path we shore in haste
Ripping the branch and bough to waste
Like rocks shot loose from a mountain side!
Therefore hear us:

(All together, stamping steadily In time.)

'Twas we who lonely echoes woke
To copy the crash of the trees we broke!
Goad, nor whip, nor wheel, nor yoke
Shall humble the will of the Ivory Folk!

Once we were monarchs from sky to sky,
Many were we and the men were few;
Then we would go to the Place to die—
Elephant tombs that the oldest knew,—
Old as the trees when the prime is past,
Lords unchallenged of vale and plain,
Grazing aloof and alone at last
To lie where the oldest had always lain.
So we sing of it:

'Twas we who lonely echoes woke
To copy the crash of the trees we broke!
Goad, nor whip, nor wheel, nor yoke
Shall govern the strength of the Ivory Folk!

Still we are monarchs! Our strength and weight
Can flatten the huts of the frightened men!
But the glory of smashing is lost of late,
We raid less eagerly now than then,
For pits are staked, and the traps are blind,
The guns be many, the men be more;
We fidget with pickets before and behind,
Who snoozed in the noonday heat of yore.
Yet, hear us sing:

(All together, ears up and trunks extended.)

'Twas we who lonely echoes woke
To copy the crash of the trees we broke!
Goad, nor whip, nor wheel, nor yoke
Have lessened the rage of the Ivory Folk!

Still we are monarchs of field and stream!
None is as strong or as heavy as we!
We scent—we swerve—we come—we scream—
And the men are as mud 'neath tusk and knee!
But we go no more to the Mountain to die,
For the blacks head us off and the guns pursue;
Bleaching our scattered rib-bones do lie,
And the men be many, and we be few.
Nevertheless:

(All together, trunks up-thrown, ears extended, and stamping in slow time with the fore-feet.)

'Twas we who lonely echoes woke
To copy the crash of the trees we broke!
Goad, nor whip, nor wheel, nor yoke
Shall humble the pride of the Ivory Folk!

- Talbot Mundy

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Soul & Body

Once we accept 'bodies' as having a soul then we begin to contemplate re-embodiment. We look for evidence, or signs of this. Everyone and anyone should be able to determine the fact that it is naive to think the material has the intelligence - even though we say for instance that metals have a sort of memory etc, but aside from these, what else deepens our understanding enough to look for the soul in the spirit? And that means the material has some kind of specialization that comes from a source that is continuous, and also, as in fertilization, it can impregnate material substance with dynamic force building power. 

By contemplating in this way we add to our knowledge a foundation upon which to build up our ideas so that we eventually can come to perceive the working of creative spirits. So can we come to believe in such a way that we can begin to predict the workings of invisible powers that do in fact also seek to work with special physical substances, shall we say, proteins or other specialized gases. Invisible though they are, they are the source from which 'bodies' come. 

The densest parts of a man come from the water within the body, and so the densest parts of the world have also come from the finer parts. Now we have a consistent pattern that can speak well of re-embodiment. Our bodies, no mater how material they become, It doesn't start from the beginning with materiality, it start in the finer and end again in the spiritual, and so one can ask? How does the coarse and denser material come into being? How are they there? The answer: they are a a bi-product of the activity that has preceded it. And we can call this activity 'Astrality'.

So we have materiality and astrality, the material and active spirit, and between them, holding a balance so to speak is the aetheric.

Now one can ask this question, how do they work together in me and the world? What is my role in all of this?


Soul Worlds

We look into each other's worlds with as much love as we can so as to know each other and with as much love as we can, so we can know and learn and discover the richness of the world's we represent for each other that are as rich and abundant as the world outside.

Soul-life Wisdom

Soul-life Wisdom is the substance that holds all moments together and harmonizes all thoughts, moods and emotions towards the goals of the life and being nature in each. Wisdom comes and teaches every individual soul what it needs and feeds it by sending rays of pure life-filled light.  He who listens to soul-life wisdom and follows what she teaches will find everlasting life and harmonizing peace.

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Spiritual Development and the Impossible

Where there is will, then we make it happen~but nothing is more impossible than to expect the gods to do for you what you must do for yourself, from your own free will - spiritual development is also the way to know how to love our soul and its manifestation in us. 

It seems impossible to us at first, for the soul sees our physical self as "a bag of tricks" and a waste of good spiritual power - for the soul may chose to work in the spirit too! And so it is the first and last stages of our unfolding is to bring forth that power which is impossible when you understand how it has to work...from the impossible to the manifestation.

Tazo



Spiritual Human Nature

Spiritual Human nature is invisible and unfathomable.  It is time and space beyond time and space. The soul is both the portal and the foundation, the temporal and the eternal. Just as one's soul knows like soul, so the soul in knowing nature confirms itself and seeks further the powers of its own creation. The forming of the I of creation is at the same time the I of destruction. Why? Because this I is ever dying, and loves death in that it becomes again, as it discovers its unfathomable nature.

And so the wise have said, the souls that seek love will find it, the soul that seeks knowledge of itself will find the fields of the soul being nature.



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