Lesser Hippias

Plato-awaken

It seems impossible to separate by any exact line the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious. The only external evidence to them which is of much value is that of Aristotle; for the Alexandrian catalogues of a century later include manifest forgeries.

Gorgias – Plato

by Plato, Translated by Benjamin Jowett: In several of the dialogues of Plato, doubts have arisen among his interpreters as to which of the various subjects discussed in them is the main thesis.

Critias – Plato

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by Plato, Translated by Benjamin Jowett: The Critias is a fragment which breaks off in the middle of a sentence. 

Daya Mata Love, Serve

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by Daya Mata: When I was meditating recently, such a powerful inspiration came into my consciousness. You see, I don’t like to make things complicated; 

Teachings of Sri Sarada Devi

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Compiled by a Monk of the Ramakrishna Order: Sri Sarada Devi (1853-1920) is affectionately called “Holy Mother” by millions of people around the world.

Trust In Life

Pir Vilayat Khan-awaken

by Henry Corbin: My dear Pir Vilayat Khan! If you had written a large opus about Sufism, its teachings, practices and history, and asked me to write an introduction, 

Fear, Courage & Awakening

Pir Vilayat Khan-awaken

by Mary Nurrie Sterns: Essential to our investigation of fear, courage, and the unknown is an exploration of spiritual awakening. 

Protecting Oneself from Undesirable Impressions

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by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan:You wish to call a halt to the stress and disarray of the rat race in which you are inevitably embroiled. You feel over stressed by vying with the Jones and wish to protect yourself from the ego trips of would-be friends.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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by Professor Walter J. Veith, PhD: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) was a French Jesuit priest and scientist. He studied and practiced paleontology, theology, and philosophy.

Prayer of Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin-awaken

by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.

A Globe, Clothing Itself with a Brain

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin-awaken

by Jennifer Cobb Kreisberg: An obscure Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, set down the philosophical framework for planetary, Net-based consciousness 50 years ago.

The Sage Pantanjali

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by B.K.S. Iyengar: Patanjali, undoubtedly the greatest expounder of Yoga, lived sometime between 500 and 200 B.C. The life of Patanjali is an enigma to modern historians, and almost nothing is known about this great Master who epitomizes Yoga.

Pantanjali Yoga

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by Vikepashahabhuvah: Patanjali is regarded as a divine incarnation of the serpent Anantha, who is revered as the ‘supporter of the whole universe’. He is the Adhisesha of Lord Mahavishnu.

Osho on Patanjali Yoga – Yoga is pure Science

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Osho: Yoga is not a religion-remember that. Yoga is not Hindu, it is not Mohammedan. Yoga is a pure science just like mathematics, physics or chemistry. Physics is not Christian physics is not Buddhist. If Christians have discovered the laws of physics, then too physics is not Christian.

Death, Birth, Love, and Sex

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P.D. Ouspensky:  The enigma of death is connected with the enigma of birth, the enigma of disappearance with the enigma of appearance. 

Osho on P.D. Ouspensky’s Tertium Organum

P.D. Ospensky-awaken

by Osho – Second is P.D. Ouspensky’s TERTIUM ORGANUM. It is a miracle that he wrote it before he had even heard of Gurdjieff. He wrote it before he knew what he was writing.

Why Mother Teresa Still Matters

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by David Van Biema, TIME Magazine: How do secular people remember a saint? As Mother Teresa‘s birthday on August 26th

What Made Mother Teresa So Special Pt I

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by Father Brian Kolodiejchuk: How was a frail little woman able to become one of the most outstanding figures of the 20th century, dedicating herself to the “poorest of the poor”?

Milton Hyland Erickson, 1901–1980

Milton Hyland Erickson-awaken

by Gregg E. Gorton, M.D.:Milton Hyland Erickson is long considered the father of modern clinical hypnosis, is best appreciated today as a psychotherapy innovator.