SHADOWS OF THE SACRED: SEEING THROUGH SPIRITUAL ILLUSIONS
Frances Vaughan, Ph.D.
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"Underlying both personal impulses to growth and all creative cultural enterprises is the fundamental impulse that seeks unitive consciousness."
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"By turning to the source of intuitive wisdom that can be found in the depths of the soul, we can discover a universal source of inspiration and renewal."
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"Journeying from the relative toward the Absolute means at once losing the freedom of living in error and gaining freedom from the tyranny of all the psycho-material determinations which imprison and stifle the soul." Seyyed Hossein Nasr, 'Knowledge and the Sacred'
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"Wisdom knows that behind the Many is the One." Ken Wilber, 'Sex, Ecology and Spirituality'
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"Compassion sees the One in the many. Wisdom sees the many as One."
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"There is a love that is like a mighty spring gushing up out of the earth; it keeps flowing forever, and is inexhaustible." Isaac of Nineveh, early Christian mysic
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"As our soul contemplates its Archetype, so that Archetype in turn contemplates the One, which is its Source." Plotinus
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"Love expressed as altruism is found in all cultures, not only in social service and philanthropy, but among parents, teachers, healers, mentors, friends and lovers of all persuasions."
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"The one reality is, for the mystic, an object of love that draws us homeward under the guidance of the heart."
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"Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy." Erich Fromm, 'The Art of Loving'
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"The Eternal Self, or Atman, the seed of divinity within the soul, is birthless and deathless and cannot be destroyed."
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"The sole purpose and goal for human life, the supreme ideal of which all other ideals are simply an expression, is to cultivate love….There is no boundary whatsoever to pure love – it embraces humanity and Divinity equally. In this most intense love, no sense of duality can remain." Ramakrishna
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"Ancient spiritual teachings say that wherever there is other, there is fear."
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"Faith can enable a person to receive divine guidance and continue spiritual practice in the face of all kinds of difficulties. Faith is a key to overcoming fear whenever we feel separate and out of touch with the deeper levels of our own being."
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"There is no freedom from fear in a world of illusion, for the mind always projects the shadow onto something or someone perceived as other."
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"Esoteric wisdom teaches that death is not an end, but a transformation, and that death is followed by rebirth."
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"The soul comes to rest only in its true home, the Source of love."
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"Healing is a process of remembering, of reconnecting with our wholeness." Christina Grof, 'The Thirst for Wholeness'
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"In the psyche nothing is lost; everyone we have known becomes a part of our inner world."
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"Love as a universal experience that illuminates the spiritual path is a source of healing and guidance at every step along the way. By clearing away the blocks to our awareness of love's presence we reawaken to its original blessing."
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"Reflect for a moment on the fact that any personal pain is only a microcosm of the suffering of humanity and life on earth. Everyone is in need of healing. All creatures experiencing birth, impermanence, old age, disease and death, encounter pain in some form….Be aware of your desire to extend love and relieve the suffering of the countless sentient beings in the world."
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"Nothing is excluded from the circle of wholeness."
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"What you are seeking is already hidden in the depths of your own being. 'Tat Tvam asi', thou art that. Love, lover and beloved are one."
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"The great mystics such as Shankara, Plato and Augustine used the term 'archetype' to designate the first subtle forms that appear as the world manifests out of unmanifest Spirit. They are the fundamental patterns upon which all patterns of manifestation are based. The Greek term, 'arche typon', meant original pattern. These subtle, transcendental forms, then, are the first forms of manifestation."
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"It is love that gives worth to being, and the mystical revelation that God is love is the sacred knowledge that can be transformed into wisdom."
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