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Date: Wed Aug 20, 2003 7:10 am
Subject: A Way into the Heart om_namah_shi...

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LEST IT FIND A WAY INTO MY HEART…

I understood the Gita teaching of non-possession to mean that those
who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having
control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his
own.

- Ghandi, `Ghandi the Man'

A volunteer priest who once helped the sisters in Calcutta said of
the poor: `They are the ones who have nothing to prove or to protect—
no posing, no posturing before people, or before God.
When all you've got is all you've got, all that's left is to be
yourself and you can only receive. And that, in a sense, is why the
poor are blessed, because they know what really matters.

- Mother Teresa, 'A Simple Path'

When I have any money, I get rid of it as quickly as possible, lest
it find away into my heart.

- John Wesley, founder of the Methodist movement

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The dream world contains all the relevantfeatures of the "actual"
world. But the continued appearance of a thing is not proof of its
reality, regardless of whether it appears to the dreaming mind or the
waking senses. Only with the dissolution of all appearance does one
awaken to the ultimate Reality of the Self.

- Ramesh S. Balsekar

"A Net of Jewels"
Ramesh S. Balsekar
Advaita Press, 1966

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The sage does not accumulate for himself.

The more he uses for others, the more he has himself.

The more he gives to others, the more he possesses of his own.

The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.

The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

- Tao Te Ching

One who would serve will not waste a thought upon his own comforts,
which he leaves to be attended to or neglected by his Master on
high. He will not, therefore, encumber himself with everything that
comes his way; he will take only what he strictly needs and leave the
rest. He will be calm, free from anger and unruffled in mind even if
he finds himself inconvenienced. His service, like virtue, is it own
reward, and he will rest content with it.

- Ghandi, `Ghandi the Man'

One who serves and seeks no recompense finds union with the Lord.

Such a servant alone takes the Master's guidance, says Nanak, As on
him is divine grace.

- Sikh Adi Granth

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The further one goes, the more difficulties there are; one finds
greater faults in oneself as one advances along the spiritual
path. It is not because the number of faults has increased, but the
sense has become so keen that one regards differently faults which
formerly one would not have noticed.

It is like a musician: the more he advances and the better he plays,
the more faults he notices. He who does not notice his faults is in
reality becoming worse. There is no end to one's faults. To think
of them makes one humble.

-Hazrat Inayat Khan

Mastery Through Accomplishment
Omega Press, 1978

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When sacred scripture, the liturgy and the sacraments open my heart
to release the prayer within, then the prayer of all creation -
especially the prayer of the most abandoned - finds its way into the
heart of God.

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