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Treasures Found in The Hunt~

Posted on Feb 1st, 2006 by A Truth Seeker : A Truth Seeker A Truth Seeker

When art is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens and he opens the ways for better understanding.

Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it, shows that there are still more pages possible.

The world would stagnate without him, and the world would be beautiful with him; for he is interesting to himself and he is interesting to others.

He does not have to be a painter or a sculptor to be an artist. He can work in any medium. He simply has to find the gain in the work itself, not outside it.

~Robert Henri, The Art Spirit
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A Truth Seeker : A Truth Seeker
about 1 hour later
A Truth Seeker said

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist.

— Henry Miller


A Truth Seeker : A Truth Seeker
about 21 hours later
A Truth Seeker said

Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.

…After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, or have been revealed by brilliant scholars, or have been written in fine books and embellished in fine language with finer covers, man, - all man - is still confronted by the Great Mystery.

~Chief Luther Standing Bear - Oglala Sioux

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How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong look like right.

~Black Hawk  -Sauk

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You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.

~Cochise (“Like Ironweed”) - Chiricahua Chief


A Truth Seeker : A Truth Seeker
5 days later
A Truth Seeker said

“Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.

For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining;
and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.”
 
~Kahlil Gibran


“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?”
~Kahlil Gibran

thanks Flex22  ;-)

A Truth Seeker : A Truth Seeker
5 days later
A Truth Seeker said

Some words about TRUTH from the Pathwork Guide:

“Nothing can ever stop the Plan of Salvation from coming to its fulfillment. It is only a question of time – and from our view the difference of time, called forth by the free will of man, is rather unsubstantial. It is calculated into the overall Plan of Salvation that man is bound to create negative circumstances by his limited view. But the very result of this limited view – the negative circumstances – are most instrumental in waking man to the truth. Sometimes he cannot wake up and even wish for truth, unless he has gone through the hardship he himself created by his ignorance or distortion of truth. In order to be happy, you have first to be in truth. But you cannot be in truth unless you know you are not, and then desire to search for it. This knowledge that you are not in truth, and the consequent desire to search for it, cannot come to man unless he is left to taste the result of his ignorance. The same applies to the individual. All this is taken into consideration in the Plan of Salvation.

The fear that damage can come to you by the wrongdoing of others is a basic misunderstanding of life. Yes, passing disadvantages can come to you. That is true, but even these must have a corresponding element within yourself. Otherwise, you could not even be affected superficially. As far as your spiritual nature is concerned (and this includes the overall Plan of Salvation), nothing can ever happen to you. The personal knowledge and experience of this truth is bound to come to you as you enter upon this path. We shall deal with this question more conclusively in the near future.”  The Guide by Eva Pierrakos from Pathwork Lecture #59

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I found this excerpt today and I’m wondering if anyone is familiar with the “The Guide” or Pathwork lectures…I’m most curious as to who the “we” are.  I’ve got some theories and assumptions, but I’d like to confirm them and gain some varying perspectives…

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