Fifth Day of Deepavali, 17 November 2012

"'Real' means eternal, and 'unreal' means transient. Whoever has attained discrimination knows that God is the only reality, that all else is unreal" (Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita, Vol. 1, 205).

"This world is a place in which to learn. If you learn the lesson of this world, you can remain in the disposition of Infinity, or love, regardless of events" (Love of the Two-Armed Form, 145).

"It is not that the big bang occurred in space. Without the big bang, there is no space. So where did the so-called "Big Bang" occur?" (Ishta, 139).

"It is erroneous to assume that evolution in the subhuman kingdom is outside the pale of Karmic law" (Sadhana, 483).

"When Amaziah had the kingdom firmly in hand, he struck down the officials who had struck down the king, his father. But their children he did not put to death, according to what is written in the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD commanded: "Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their parents; only for one’s own crimes shall a person be put to death"" (2nd Kings 14:5-6).

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before him" (Ephesians 1:4).

"Harmful beings are everywhere like space itself.
Impossible it is that all should be suppressed.
But let this angry mind alone be overthrown,
And it's as though all foes had been subdued"
(The Way of the Bodhisattva, 63).

6 November, Feast Day of St. Winnoc

"Christian prayer is characterized by the title 'Lord,' whether in the invitation to prayer ('The Lord be with you'), its conclusion ('through Christ our Lord'), or the exclamation full of trust and hope: Maran atha ('Our Lord, come!'), or Marana tha ('Come, Lord!') -- 'Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!'" (Catechism of the Catholic Church 451).

"Stand As Consciousness Itself, Self-Radiant As Love-Bliss, Prior To the body-mind and its relations or 'things'" (Love-Ananda Gita, 157).

5 November, Guy Fawkes Day

"The Heart, or Essence, of the Spiritual Way is Satsang, or the Spiritual Company of the God-Man" (Love of the God-Man, 145).

4 November 2012, 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time

"By hope we desire, and with steadfast trust await from God, eternal life and the graces to merit it" (Catechism of the Catholic Church 1843).

"He rides the white horse, and bears the Truth-shining Sword of Understanding, bearing down all before Him" (Love of the God-Man, 687).

"An important disputed question concerns the authoritative status of church moral teaching. It is commonly accepted that some moral teachings of the Church do have dogmatic status, such as the law of love and the affirmation of the inalienable dignity of the human person. But what about more specific moral teachings like the Church's prohibition of artificial birth control or its just-war teaching?" (By What Authority?, 102).

"Thus, far from being identical to 'sin,' sexual communion is a human right, a humanizing obligation, and a living instrument of our ultimate and pleasurable sacrifice or Translation beyond human psycho-physical structures and human limits of knowledge" (Love of the Two-Armed Form, 82).

"Always Participate In That Sacred Obligation With Great Energy" (Right Life Is Free Participation In Unlimited Radiance, 240).

"I saw that we are, at any moment, always and already free. I knew that I was not lacking anything I needed yet to find, nor had I ever been without such a thing. The problem was the seeking itself, which created and enforced contradiction, conflict, and absence within. Then the idea arose that I am always already free" (The Bodily Location of Happiness, 93-94).

"You should be there at the Fire, throwing in everything to cancel the effectiveness of the dark sign, to exist in Light, and to pass Beyond all limitations. To do that is your business" (Ishta, 149).

"But our true and right and ultimate Diet is in the moment to moment, unobstructed whole bodily Feeling-Communion with the All-Pervading Force of Life -- enacted via the breath cycle" (The Enlightenment of the Whole Body, 290).

"In all action the motive power is selfishness. Everything is hidden by ourselves" (The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Vol. 1, 477).

"Just as it is impossible to cut the sky in two with a knife, when the space-like quality of egolessness is realized, it is no longer possible to make a separation between 'I' and 'other,' and there arises an attitude of wanting to protect others as oneself and of taking them as one's own" (The Way of the Bodhisattva, 183).

"O Madman, crowned with the crescent moon, O Lord Supreme!" (Natchintanai, 169).

"All great ones had their teachers" (Guru Tattva, 13).

2 November All Saints' Day

"It is fair to say, in any event, that through most of the first thousand years of Christianity no one conceived of tradition as something completely separate from Scripture" (By What Authority?, 42).

"Karma is of two kinds -- soon to be fructified and late to be fructified" (The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Vol. 1, 277).

"The entire Way of Truth is immensely difficult and creative. The entire Way is a Sacrifice" (The Enlightenment of the Whole Body, 147).

"The Great Tradition of mankind speaks of many great men and women, many Realizers, and many revered Gods and Goddesses" (Love of the God-Man, 722).