Thread: your favourite spiritual text?

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lovin' it.

Originally posted by ataraxis
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lovin' it.

excellent choice... i find any book which focuses on the interconnectedness of all life to be decidely spiritual

Good thread. Good, good thread.

Sun-Tzu's The Art of War, which is deeply empowering, if somewhat Machiavellian:


So it is said:
"Know thy eneomy,
Know thyself,
And victory
Is never in doubt,
Not in a hundred battles"


Anger
Can turn to
Pleasure;
Spite
Can turn to
Joy;
But a nation destroyed
Cannot be
Put back together again;
A dead man
Cannot be
Brought back to life.

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The bible.

Sure beats toilet paper.

Nah, I would agree with Darwins masterpiece of facts.

Growing up in a Christian environment, you'd expect it to be the Bible. I actually preferred christian books to the Bible because it was too stale and emotionally unexciting piece of work.

Now, I enjoy something along the lines of something new ageish, such as stuff from Paramahansa Yogananda. There's a lesser known American master called Lester Levenson, he has some work, and they're brilliantly simple and work in harmony with common sense...

Ok, Common sense, now that's a good book.

I am going to have to go with the Tao Te Ching. My father made me read it once when I was about 15, but I really liked it.

I also don't know if Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet counts. I hope so, since it is very spiritual..

i was hoping you'd mention kahlil gibran gwen

http://www.columbia.edu/~gm84/gibtable.html <----the full version (minus the breathtaking pictures).

and i can't resist posting my favourite passage.

" On Laws

Then a lawyer said, "But what of our Laws, master?"

And he answered:

You delight in laying down laws,

Yet you delight more in breaking them.

Like children playing by the ocean who build sand-towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter.

But while you build your sand-towers the ocean brings more sand to the shore,

And when you destroy them, the ocean laughs with you.

Verily the ocean laughs always with the innocent.

But what of those to whom life is not an ocean, and man-made laws are not sand-towers,

But to whom life is a rock, and the law a chisel with which they would carve it in their own likeness?

What of the cripple who hates dancers?

What of the ox who loves his yoke and deems the elk and deer of the forest stray and vagrant things?

What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?

And of him who comes early to the wedding-feast, and when over-fed and tired goes his way saying that all feasts are violation and all feasters law-breakers?

What shall I say of these save that they too stand in the sunlight, but with their backs to the sun?

They see only their shadows, and their shadows are their laws.

And what is the sun to them but a caster of shadows?

And what is it to acknowledge the laws but to stoop down and trace their shadows upon the earth?

But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?

You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course?

What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door?

What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains?

And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path?

People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? "

St. Augustine's early work, as well as those of John Scotus Eireugenius.

I also enjoy the Mahabrata and the Qu'uran. Plus, I mean they're not religion to many people today, but who doesn't love old Greek and Roman myth? Or perhaps the Grail works...

Originally posted by wombing
i was hoping you'd mention kahlil gibran gwen * *

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I was suprised when you didn't first . It is indeed a BEAUTIFUL book.