A Poem By Kahlil Gibran

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on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 05:54

 

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, 'Speak to us of Children.'

And he said:

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts.

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

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Angela

The struggle of the opposites:

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on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 02:10

 

The mind poses a real problem for spiritual progress. It’s always active, chattering away on its own accord without the consent of the owner. It’s easy to think that we know what we think about at a given moment but in fact we almost never pay the due attention. Some experts estimate that one can have up to sixty thousand thoughts a day, that’s just an estimate, that doesn’t account for the thoughts hidden in the deeper levels of the subconscious.

By being aware for a moment and observing ones own thoughts it becomes evident that the thoughts doesn’t really have a center of gravity, its

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Knowledge through direct experience

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on Sat, 04/14/2012 - 17:41

Any true spiritual knowledge comes from experience. Life is full of theories and beliefs that lead to very little understanding of true spirituality. With direct spiritual experience you can see for yourself what the meaning is behind life, and why this all exists.

It is easy to fall in beliefs and just continue on with life in a "normal way", repeating the same events, struggling with inner states and just feel that its normal and one can't change, or that one could change but for what and to what extend.

In ancient civilizations that were much more advanced in a spiritual sense than

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Near Death Experience

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on Sat, 04/14/2012 - 16:57

Death and Anubis

My grandfather had an experience similar to that of a near death experience and told his account of what happened to anyone that would listen.

This is a translation of what my grandmother wrote about his account of what happened while in a coma.

My grandfather fell sick of a lung disease and lost consciousness for three days before he got taken up in hospital. He was in a critical state, with one lung already collapsed and the other badly infected. He also had a blood clot in his heart, which worsened his condition.

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