Quantum Spirit: Living Your Life

Friday, July 11, 2008

Living Your Life

I was re-reading Gina Cerminara’s Many Mansions: The Edgar Cayce Story on Reincarnation a couple of nights ago and found, in startling brevity, her list of the core spiritual truths gleaned from 2,500 readings the famed psychic gave on the universe and man’s relation to it.

God exists.
Every soul is a portion of God.
Life is purposeful.
Life is continuous.
All human life operates under the law of karma/reincarnation.
Love fulfills that law.
The will of man creates his destiny.
The mind of man has formative power.
The answer to all problems is within the self.

Based on these truths, she also summarized Cayce’s instructions on how to live one’s life.

Realize first your relationship to the Creative Forces of the Universe, or God.
Formulate your ideals and purposes in life.
Strive to achieve those ideals.
Be active.
Be patient.
Be joyous.
Leave the results to God.
Do not seek to evade any problem.
Be a channel of good to other persons.

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Quotations to Ponder

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'Thank you,' that would suffice."

~ Meister Eckhart, 14th-century mystic

"Death is not extinguishing the light ~ it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."

~ Rabindranath Tagore

"There shall be signs in the Sun, and in the Moon, and in the Stars."

~ Gospel of Luke, 21:25

"The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes; so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."
~ Gospel of John, 3:8

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."

~ Teilhard de Chardin

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."

~ Albert Einstein

"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away."

~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

~ William James

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens. But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."

~ Helen Keller

"There are only two ways to live your life ~ as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle."

~ Albert Einstein

"He who's not busy being born

Is busy dying."

~ Bob Dylan

"A mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

~ John Milton

17th-century English poet

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."

~ The Dalai Lama

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
~ Albert Einstein

Attributions

I Ching commentaries on my blog are from the classic The I Ching or Book of Changes, translated by Richard Wilhelm with a Forward by Carl Jung, Princeton University Press, 1950. By the way, when selecting entries for my blog, I don't "throw" anything to discover the hexagram - I simply open the book at random and see what's there.

Selections from the Tao Te Ching are from Stephen Mitchell's translation.

Aesop's fables on my blogs are from Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs, Oxford University Press, 2002.

Biblical selections are from The Holy Bible, New King James Version of both the Old and New Testament.