DECEMBER WHISPERS FROM THE OTHER SIDE

December 1

When religions compromise with the state . . . .”I prefer to call them not ‘religions’ but ‘creeds’. A creed gives expression to a definite collective belief, whereas the word religion expresses a subjective relationship to certain metaphysical, extramundane factors. A creed is a confession of faith intended chiefly for the world at large and is thus an intra-mundane affair, while the meaning and purpose of religion lie in the relationship of the individual to God (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) or to the path of salvation and liberation (Buddhism).” C. G. Jung in The Undiscovered Self

December 2

Everything that is not suffered to the end and finally concluded,

reoccurs, and the same sorrows are undergone.

Hesse”s Siddhartha

December 3

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness,

will appear tomorrow as an essential link

in the complete chain of man.

The Voice of the Master Kahlil Gibran

December 4

and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty 2Cor. 3:17

December 5

I am never alone, I am never alone for where I am God is

and where God is I AM.

December 6

Either God is or he isn’t

my choice is that He is and I am not turning to Him to do anything

that He is not doing.

I am resting in the Is-ness of God

and realizing that God’s grace and mercy

suffices in all things.

December 7

It is only the weak who are cruel.

Gentleness can only be expected of the strong.

Leo Rosten

December 8

Wisdom is not communicable.

The wisdom a wise man tries to communicate

always sounds foolish.

Hesse’s Siddhartha

December 9

I am here

God is here

December 10

I’m not yet advanced enough to be placed among the beginners.

Ashleigh Brilliant

December 11

The Christ spirit, or Logos, lives what it speaks

but it does no document its words.

December 12

Melchizedek (Melchisedec), Jesus and Ghandi left no written documentation of their teachings. Their disciples and followers, who in every case may have distorted what was said, made Writings. Their acts describe their soul. As Jesus sent his answer to John, “Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them.”

December 13

The sun will shine after every storm;

there is a solution for every problem,

and the soul’s highest duty is to be of good cheer.

Emerson

December 14

Is there a God? I shun the old debate.

If there is none, still will I strive with Fate

With such high courage, spite of every ban,

That you will know the Godlike is in man.

anonymous

December 15

There is no man so good, who,

were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws,

would not deserve hanging tem times in his life.

Montaigne (1533-1592)

December 16

Cowards die many times before their deaths;

the valiant never taste of death but once.

Shakespeare

December 17

I have been driven many times to my knees

by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.

My own wisdom, and that of all about me,

seemed insufficient for the day.

Abraham Lincoln

December 18

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal.

Hon. John J. Ingalls

December 19

Certain thoughts are prayers.

There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body,

the soul is on its knees.

Victor Hugo

December 20

He who will not reason is a bigot;

he who cannot, is a fool;

he who dares not, is a slave.

Byron

December 21

Your manners will depend very much upon the quality

of what you frequently think on;

for the soul is as it were tinged with the color and complexion of thought.

Marcus Aurelius (121-180)

December 22

No civilization is complete which does not include

the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures

within the sphere of charity and mercy.

Queen Victoria

December 23

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger

than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

Emerson (1803-1802)

December 24

I am a citizen of the world. I see a brighter spiritual era in which there shall be no England, no France, no Germany, no America, but one family, the human race; one law, peace; one need, harmony; one means, labor; one taskmaster, God. Helen Keller

December 25

In religion, I put God above dogma. If I were sure that this grave statement would be heard and understood seriously, I would say that I am of all religions, I believe in the God of all men, I believe in the love of all hearts, I believe in the truth of all souls. Victor Hugo

December 26

The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars,

nor it’s great scholars great men.

Holmes

December 27

Consider that this day ne’er dawns again. –Dante

December 28

The world is a comedy to those who think,

a tragedy to those who feel.

Horace Walpole

December 29

The most terrible of lies is not that which is uttered but that which is lived.

W. G. Clarke

December 30

We are all prompted by the same motives,

all deceived by the same fallacies,

all animated by hope,

obstructed by danger and entangled by the same desire. Samuel Johnson

December 31

In the primeval Northland two noble moose, leaders of their herds, met in mortal combat; Today their locked antlers lie bleaching on the plains,

mute evidence of the futility of antagonism and strife.

anonymous