Showing posts with label Words to ponder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Words to ponder. Show all posts

Saturday, March 20, 2010

The great question of all questions...

The great question of all questions
at the present time is this:

Taking for granted that the known
and the knowable are bounded on both
sides by the unknowable and the infinitely unknown,
why struggle for that infinite unknown?

Why shall we not be content with the known?
Why shall we not rest satisfied with eating,
drinking and doing a little good to society?

This idea is in the air.
From the most learned professor
to the prattling baby, we are told
to do good to the world, that is all of religion,
and that it is useless to trouble ourselves about
questions of the beyond.

So much is this the case
that it has become a truism.

But fortunately we must
inquire into the beyond.
This present, this expressed,
is only one part of that unexpressed.

The sense universe is,
as it were, only one portion,
one bit of that infinite spiritual
universe projected into the plane
of sense consciousness.

How can this little bit
of projection be explained,
be understood, without knowing that which is beyond?

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Words to ponder.... isn't it strange?

Words to Ponder - isn't it strange?

Isn't it strange how a 10 dollar note seems
like such a large amount when you donate
it to a church or to a Poor person,
but such a small amount when you go shopping?

Isn't it strange how 2 hours seem so long
when you're at a church or temple,
and how short they seem when you're watching a good movie?

Isn't it strange that you can't find a word
to say when you're praying, but you have no
trouble thinking what to talk about with a friend?

Isn't it strange how difficult and boring
it is to read one chapter of the Bible,
but how easy it is to read 100 pages of a popular novel ?

Isn't it strange how we need to know
about an event for church 2-3 weeks
before the day so we can include it in our agenda,
but we can adjust it for other events in the last minute?

Isn't it strange how difficult it is to learn the facts
about God to share it with others, but how easy it is to learn,
understand, extend and repeat gossip?

Isn't it strange how we believe everything
that magazines and newspapers say, but we
question the words in the Bible?

Isn't it strange that We Hear and Read Holy verses
and teachings and still try to Practise other things ?

Its Strange isn't it ?

Ask yourself.... what we are doing and what we have been doing and what we are going to do????