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Title: ILLUSION COMES AND GOES BUT THE SOUL REMAINS
Source:
Meher Baba site QOTD
URL Source: http://www.avatarmeherbaba.org/erics/today.html
Published: Aug 21, 2006
Author: Kitty Davy
Post Date: 2006-08-21 22:04:11 by Dakmar
Keywords: None
Views: 921
Comments: 45
It is natural to be tired on account of the body. Although the body and mind are two different entities, they are interdependent. When the mind feels tired, the reaction is felt by the body; when the body feels tired, so does the mind. Only the soul is aloof from both. All this feeling is done by the ego. The "I" does not feel content; that means "I am unhappy," "I am in trouble." All this is the ego. Now this limited "I" takes all that is unimportant as important, and vice versa. There is a world of difference between importance and necessity. Bodily needs and comforts are unimportant but necessary. Spirituality, which is important but externally unnecessary, is taken as unimportant. See how unimportant the external is. Quetta was a flourishing town and within five minutes it was destroyed. This is unimportant. If it were of real importance, the Infinite would not have it destroyed. Look at Spain. All that was thought to be of importance was destroyed. All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing — that the soul is eternal.
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#9. To: Dakmar (#0)
Apparently being that close to God results in your getting a bad haircut and a giant honker...
Isn't that Yanni's dad?
"B" is for Bolshevik...'and you ain't seen nothing yet'?
Baba was no Bolshie, but his anti-elitist attitudes would land him in a world of scorn today.
Yep, neither is Ron Jeremy...but the shiksas are made happy along with the shabbos goy. The money's comin'...hook or by crook. (interest-free, of course).
http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20010418 I didn't expect Ireland in the history of this phrase, (of course that's just one theory), but I did suspect a more sinister meaning (just not the one I expected).
But, there's another...I'd say Talmudic... "A nation or people born with intelligence, but refuse to use that intelligence, are meat on the table by Choice and Consent." More of the Mystery Religions....
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#15. To: Elliott Jackalope (#9)
#17. To: jessejane (#15)
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#18. To: Dakmar (#17)
#20. To: Eoghan (#18)
#24. To: Dakmar (#20)
Baba was no Bolshie
#25. To: Eoghan (#24)
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable cites a Mrs. S.C. Hall, who wrote about Ireland in the 1830s and 1840s and believed that the phrase originated in Ireland. She says that when the Norman earl of Pembroke, known as "Strongbow," sailed into Waterford in 1170, he saw a tower on one side of the harbor and a church on the other. He asked their names and was told that it was the "Tower of Hook" and the "Church of Crook." And he said, "We must take the town by Hook and by Crook." A variation on this has a ship's captain using either of the two headlands at Waterford harbor as a guide in bad weather. And then there are those who find the source of the phrase in penmanship exercises that have "hooks and crooks."
#34. To: robin (#25)
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Thanks for taking a look at that Robin, I really hadn't given it a thought...
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