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Two girls discover
the secret of Life
in a sudden line of
poetry.

I who don't know the
secret wrote
the line. They
told me

(Through a Third person)
they had found it
but not what it was
not even

what line it was. No doubt
by now, more than a week
later, they had forgotten
the secret,

the line, the name of
the poem. I love them
for finding what
I can't find,

and for Loving me
for the line I wrote,
and for forgetting it
so that

a thousand times, till death
finds them, they may
discover it again, in other
lines

in other
happenings. And for
wanting to know it,
for

assuming there is
such  a secret, yes,
for That
Most of All.

Denise Levertov
 
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Thus the Master is available to all people
and doesn't reject anyone.
He is ready to use all situations
and doesn't waste anything.
This is called embodying the light.
What is a good man but a bad man's teacher?
What is a bad man but a good man's job?
If you don't understand this, you will get lost,
however intelligent you are.
It is the great secret.

Lao Tzu
Source: Tao Te Ching Journal
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We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Speak or act with an impure mind
And trouble will forllow you
As the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.

We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Speak or act with a pure mind
And happiness will follow you
As your shadow, unbreakable.

How can a troubled mind
Understand the way?

Your worst enemy cannot harm you
As much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

But once mastered,
No one can help you as much,
Not even your father or your mother.

Dhammapada The Buddha
Source: Kornfield- The Teachings of the Buddha
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All evolutionary creature life is beset by certain inevitabilities. Consider the following:

1. Is courage - strength of character - desirable? Then must man be reared in an environment which necessitates grappling with hardships and reacting to disappointments.
2. Is altruism - service of one's fellows - desirable? Then must life experience provide for encountering situations of social inequality.
3. Is hope - the grandeur of trust - desirable? Then human existence must constantly be confronted with insecurities and recurrent uncertainties.
4. Is faith - the supreme assertion of human thought - desirable? Then must the mind of man find itself in that troublesome predicament where it ever nows less than it can believe.
5. Is the love of truth and the willingness to go wherever it leads desirable? Then must man grow up in a world where error is present and falsehood always possible.
6. Is idealism - the approaching concept of the divine - desirable? Then must man struggle in an environment of relative goodness and beauty, surroundings stimulative of the irrepressible reach for better things.
7. Is loyalty - devotion to highest duty - desirable? Then must man carry on amid the possibilities of betrayal and desertion. The valor of devotion to duty consists in the implied danger of default.
8. Is unselfishness - the spirit of self-forgetfulness - desirable? Then must mortal man live face to face with the incessant clamoring of an inescapable self for recognition and honor. Man could not dynamically choose the divine life if there were no self-life to forsake. Man could never lay saving hold on righteousness if there were no potential evil to exalt and differentiate the good by contrast.
9. Is pleasure - the satisfaction of happiness - desirable? Then must man live in a world where the alternate of pain and the likelihood of suffering are ever-present experiential possibilities.

Divine Councelor
Source: The Urantia Book, Page: 51
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If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Muhammad Ali (1942 - )
Source: somewhere in the ethers...
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Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,
and dismiss whatever insults your own soul... 
It is also not consistent with the reality of the soul to admit that there is anything
in the known universe more divine than men and women.
The master knows that he is unspeakably great and that all are unspeakably great. 
There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two,
dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place.
A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man,
and every man shall be his own priest.

Walt Whitman : American poet & journalist
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Source: Leaves of Grass preface, 1855
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