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"How perfect for those of us who need instant results in this fast-food, breakneck-pace world. Who needs years of introspection and self-enlightenment when you can read about it on the train to work?" by SmokeHalo
"In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it." - Albert Einstein (1875-1955) http://www.quoteworld.org/browse.php? thetext=achie v,accomplish&page=5
"It is because we have at the present moment everybody claiming the right of conscience without going through any discipline whatsoever that there is so much untruth being delivered to a bewildered world." - Mohandas K. Ghandi http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai l/-/1557 044686/
http://www.twf.org/News/Y1997/Jihad.html Jihad, the subject of the "documentary," is not even defined. We are not told that jihad has many definitions, that in general it means struggle, and that the highest form of jihad is the struggle against self.
- Thousands - One may conquer a million men in a single battle; However, the greatest and best warrior Conquers himself. Conquest of one's self is the greatest victory of all... - The Dhammapada (The Path of Truth) translated by Ananda Maitreya http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0 938077872
http://bible.gospelcom.net Matthew 15:: King James Version (KJV) 16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding? 17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: 20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
http://www.zoroaster.net/indexe.htm The Basis of Zarathusta's Teachings - Dr. Bahram Varza In Zarathustra's philosophy, everybody has the liberty to choose the right way, out of his/her good reflection and since human wisdom is more related to good reflection, thus the followers of Zoroastrianism should precede by each other to the propagation of science and education. In this manner, Zoroastrianism becomes the forerunner of knowledge and enlightenment.
http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl12.shtml THE TRIUNE BRAIN In order to increase your control over your emotions, it is helpful to understand emotions from the viewpoint of a brain specialist. This will help you to understand the origins of our emotions and why we have them. The advantage of this is the same of any type of self-knowledge: the more you become aware of the mechanical or automatic aspects of yourself, the more you are able to increase your control over them.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power
If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. If you stay in the center and embrace death with your whole heart, you will endure forever. - Lao-tzu , Tao-te ching "The Book of the Way and Its Power" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/006 0812451
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html The Gospel of Thomas 2. Jesus said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. [And after they have reigned they will rest.]"
3. Jesus said, "If your leaders say to you, 'Look, the (Father's) kingdom is in the sky,' the
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"How perfect for those of us who need instant results in this fast-food, breakneck-pace world. Who needs years of introspection and self-enlightenment when you can read about it on the train to work?" by SmokeHalo
:: King James Version (KJV)
"In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it."
- Albert Einstein (1875-1955)
http://www.quoteworld.org/browse.php? thetext=achie v,accomplish&page=5
"It is because we have at the present moment everybody claiming the right of conscience without going through any discipline whatsoever that there is so much untruth being delivered to a bewildered world."
- Mohandas K. Ghandi
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai l/-/1557 044686/
http://www.twf.org/News/Y1997/Jihad.html
Jihad, the subject of the "documentary," is not even defined. We are not told that jihad has many definitions, that in general it means struggle, and that the highest form of jihad is the struggle against self.
- Thousands -
One may conquer a million men in a single battle;
However, the greatest and best warrior
Conquers himself.
Conquest of one's self is the greatest victory of all...
- The Dhammapada (The Path of Truth) translated by Ananda Maitreya
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0 938077872
http://bible.gospelcom.net
Matthew 15
16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
http://www.zoroaster.net/indexe.htm
The Basis of Zarathusta's Teachings - Dr. Bahram Varza
In Zarathustra's philosophy, everybody has the liberty to choose the right way, out of his/her good reflection and since human wisdom is more related to good reflection, thus the followers of Zoroastrianism should precede by each other to the propagation of science and education. In this manner, Zoroastrianism becomes the forerunner of knowledge and enlightenment.
http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl12.shtml
THE TRIUNE BRAIN
In order to increase your control over your emotions, it is helpful to understand emotions from the viewpoint of a brain specialist. This will help you to understand the origins of our emotions and why we have them. The advantage of this is the same of any type of self-knowledge: the more you become aware of the mechanical or automatic aspects of yourself, the more you are able to increase your control over them.
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power
If you realize that you have enough,
you are truly rich.
If you stay in the center
and embrace death with your whole heart,
you will endure forever.
- Lao-tzu , Tao-te ching "The Book of the Way and Its Power"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/006 0812451
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html
The Gospel of Thomas
2. Jesus said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. [And after they have reigned they will rest.]"
3. Jesus said, "If your leaders say to you, 'Look, the (Father's) kingdom is in the sky,' the