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“Apart from those things you identify as your life-duties, all other decisions can be made just by asking yourself the question, ‘Will it lead toward more seriousness or toward better play?’ As a child you knew which answer you were looking for. . . .”—General Theosophy
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“Aspirants of the past had to dig through a mountain of ignorance to find a few scraps of useful knowledge; aspirants of the present have to dig through a mountain of knowledge to find a few scraps of useful knowledge.” —General Theosophy
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"The whole point of Theosophy is to insult and denigrate death by NOT immediately throwing away intuitions which cast doubt on its finality."—General Theosophy
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Captain Theosophy (Part One: Meeting Your Personal Genie/Genius) by Richard Ihle
"There's a man in the funny papers we all know. . . ."
Some people started to call me "Captain Theosophy.". . .
Initially, this was almost certainly because it was the title of an article I had written for the old THE AMERICAN THEOSOPHIST magazine. In those days I guess I did sometimes seem sort of like a cartoonish superhero—not only because of my…
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[10-20-18 Just an informal email exchanged with an old friend who had encountered some negative personal information about the Eastern teacher Swami Rama.]
Hi, Jeff—Windstorm day in my locale today.
Thus, I probably should add to the gale:
Thank you for your thoughts on Swami Rama. Good and maybe not-so-good in everyone as usual, I suppose. Perhaps there is even the chance that, despite considerable devotee-testimony to the contrary, Swami might have…
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Thought of the day on: Mental parallax
Perceptions vary from person to person based upon past experiences and assimilated knowledge, coloured by the texture of our mind. A prejudiced mind will see things quite differently as compared to a free flowing, unfettered spirit.
Suspending judgment altogether however seems to be a far fetched notion, since our memory automatically recalls stored information it considers applicable to the…
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“Theosophy, as ‘personal religion,’ begins with the realization that no one, past or present, can know more about fundamentally unknowable subjects than you yourself.”—General Theosophy
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"Seek the sage who knows life well enough not to bother signing his or her name to whatever he or she knows."—General Theosophy
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"Modern science might convince you that you are a biochemical machine; Theosophy, that you are in the machine."—General Theosophy
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“It is often easier to weather the storm than the storm warning.”—General Theosophy
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“An accident is often just a lower state of mindfulness trying to wake up a higher one.”—General Theosophy
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“Youth is the search for your own exceptional attributes; old age is the search for your own possible exceptions to the rule.”—General Theosophy
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“Old age can only exist if you blame it for something.”—General Theosophy
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“If you have detailed beliefs rather than just intuitive inklings about transcendental subjects like karma and reincarnation, you may have traded religion for philosophy.”—General Theosophy
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“The first step in meditation is to stop taking steps.”—General Theosophy
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