"The wound is the place where the Light enters you"
Request: A quote from one of Rumi's poems.
Quotes
"The only way you can conquer me is through love, and there I am gladly conquered"
Attributed to Lord Krishna, the quote explains how supplication works.
“If there is a God, I ask him for help”
Request: Doc’s last words before enlightenment. [This is the context for the calibration].
the mind is an endless phantasmagoria
Calibration of concept by David R. Hawkins in “Realizing the Root of Consciousness: Meditative and Contemplative Techniques” June 2002 DVD, Disc 1.
"form is emptiness and emptiness is form"
Request: Most important phrase from Heart Sutra.
"better safe than sorry"
"it's wiser to be cautious and careful than to be hasty or rash and so do something you may later regret" -- Google dictionary.
"The seer is also part of the mirage" - Maharaj
"[T]he entire manifestation is of the nature of a dream, or a mirage, but you interpret the rest of the manifestation as being a mirage and won't let go of the seer of the phenomenon. The seer is also part of the mirage." - Prior to Consciousness, pg. 114. Priority request.
“whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, you should stop and reflect”
Attributed to Mark Twain.
"God helps those who help themselves"
Not from The Bible nor from Benjamin Franklin. Regardless of its source, It is evidently a rationalization of the ego...
"We're all just walking each other home"
Quote by Ram Dass.
"we are all sinners"
Compare: "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God."
"I am my own worst enemy"
Realizing the ego is the source of suffering and self-defeating behavior.
“Faith without works is dead”
Request: A common saying in Alcoholics Anonymous.
“Every day is judgement day”
An intellectual understanding of karma and its immediacy, though not an equivalent expression for absolute cosmic justice, which is not subject to time periods, i.e. days.
all answers to "why" are inherently wrong
“We have already seen that there is in fact no 'why' about anything, and in fact you cannot answer any 'why' and still be in reality" -- I: Reality & Subjectivity.