Mythosophy

You are a castaway on a deserted island and after much struggle have stabilized into an existence with sufficient shelter, water, food, and garments. If you also had the luxury of seven books that have influenced you and you would read again, which seven would you choose? Here are my seven. Plato’s Dialogues, Bible (both early and later testaments), India’s Upanishads, Buddha’s…

Omar Khayyam, composed 1120 A.D., translated 1859 by Edward FitzGerald …rubaiyat means “quatrains”… Here is the second quatrain: ‘Before the phantom of False morning died,Methought a Voice within the Tavern cried,“When all the Temple is prepared within,Why nods the drowsy Worshipper outside?”‘ It’s the dawn of a new day. The opportunity for spiritual illumination is ever present. The moment…

”A mirror has a clean light that reflects everything as it is. It symbolizes the stainless mind of the kami, and at the same time is regarded as a sacred symbolic embodiment of the fidelity of the worshipper towards the kami.“ – Sokyo One Note: In Shintoism, “Kami“ are the spirits or deities behind natural objects, natural forces such as wind or rain, and can also be some renowned ancestors.…

The Soul is inborn, innate, and indestructible. It has no agreement with earthly measurements and It transcends time, space, and causation. The Soul is your key to unlocking Peace and Renewal in the spiritual here and now. It is your legacy; a priceless inheritance.

“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.” –Buddha

“Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, ‘Thy will be done.’ We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.” Swami Vivekananda “If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.” Ramakrishna –Total Consciousness is the movement from one state of consciousness…

From the Geneva Bible, 1587, un-redacted english prose: The Ten Commandments “1Then God spake all these wordes, saying, 2I am the Lorde thy God, which haue brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3Thou shalt haue none other Gods before me. 4Thou shalt make thee no grauen image, neither any similitude of things that are in heauen aboue, neither that are in the earth…

All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one. –Ramakrishna

“When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.” –Confucius  

I arrived home late last night; leaving S.F. early Tuesday. I’ve missed seeing you every Friday and our spiritual discussions. One of the principles I mentioned a couple of years ago was spiritual detachment.     It’s fine to love those closest to us in an attached way, but we love all others in a detached way because we recognize that each Soul is divinely inspired and free; imbued with…

”…God is love, and when we love, we live in God.“ 1John 4:16 (paraphrase)

”Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.“ –Lao Tzu

”Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.” —Bayazid Al-Bistami

Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part. —Bodhidharma

Saying 18: “Manifest truer versions of yourself” It is the case that our being is a flow of consciousness. As in a stream we float through perceptions, feelings, thoughts, moods and dispositions. We experience and express states of consciousness. While we experience events, we also act upon our states of consciousness. You are, also, the cause of your life’s events. Life is a mirror. When we…

The website Classical Wisdom (classicalwisdom.substack.com) recently posed the question “What’s the purpose of education?” This letter is my response. Please note that telos is the Greek word for usefulness, purpose, end or goal; summum bonum is Latin for highest or greatest good: ’Dear Ms. Anya Leonard, Regarding Classical Wisdom’s topic:  “What’s the Role of Education?“ This response deals…

Saying 17: “The unexpected always happens.” It certainly seems so. This statement cannot be completely true; sometimes the expected does occur. Then, is Saying 17 devoid of truth? I would say on the big, life altering events it is far more true than not. The way life can deeply shake us, we may come to justifiably believe that indeed the unexpected always occurs. As we experience the events…