“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” - Dalai Lama
Post written by Leo Babauta.
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I’m not…
i’ve found that just listening openly to people has provided for the greatest opportunities to make a difference for someone else, learn something for myself, and often generate possibility of some sort that didnt exist prior to the listening. :)
More like he who comes from within, no? After all, Lucifer comes from above, and Ahriman from below….
(Source: jesus-our-everything)
(Source: yogachocolatelove)
“Until we dissolve all dualism within ourselves and in our lives, we will not know the true life of eternal freedom, robust health and infinite happiness.”
(Source: quote-book)
(Source: sabrequire)
In Christian theology the forces of Christ are set against the forces of the devil who represents in one figure all that is evil, and one is exhorted to abjure all that is of the devil. This might lead one to wonder, “How is the knowledge of good and evil bad? Isn’t that what the devil in the Garden of Eden wanted to share with Adam and Eve?”
Steiner divides the devil into two beings, Lucifer and Ahriman, and shows us how neither is bad per se, each provides gifts to human beings that further our evolution, and that it is us who must learn to balance these gifts in our individual lives. His recommendation for a solution to the problem of the devil is to transcend the tendency towards either Luciferic frenzy or Ahrimanic tedium by creating a spirit-filled synthesis of the two in our lives from now on.
hmm…. yin and yang?
Interesting to note that it’s not just Christianity that’s focused on dualism… Notice that almost every major religious symbol incorporates a duality…
Imagine
fantastic.
awwww if only..
(Source: elguindilla)
This tumblog is powered by Tumblr, was designed by Bill Israel, and was customized by me.
