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Within you is enfolded the entire universe.
April 13, 2014 at 7:45 pm
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"Your remedy is within you, but you do not sense it. Your sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it. You presume you are a small entity, but within you is enfolded the entire Universe. You are indeed the Evident Book, by whose alphabet the Hidden becomes Manifest. Therefore you have no need to look beyond yourself. What you seek is within you, if only you reflect " Imam Ali
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RE: Within you is enfolded the entire universe.
April 13, 2014 at 7:46 pm
(April 13, 2014 at 7:45 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: "Your remedy is within you, but you do not sense it. Your sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it. You presume you are a small entity, but within you is enfolded the entire Universe. You are indeed the Evident Book, by whose alphabet the Hidden becomes Manifest. Therefore you have no need to look beyond yourself. What you seek is within you, if only you reflect " Imam Ali
Will be very useful to people with ALS.
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RE: Within you is enfolded the entire universe.
April 13, 2014 at 8:09 pm
(April 13, 2014 at 7:45 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: "Your remedy is within you, but you do not sense it. Your sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it. You presume you are a small entity, but within you is enfolded the entire Universe. You are indeed the Evident Book, by whose alphabet the Hidden becomes Manifest. Therefore you have no need to look beyond yourself. What you seek is within you, if only you reflect " Imam Ali
Quote:Your remedy is within you, but you do not sense it. Your sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it.
Nope! its usually the doctor who prescribes it. Occasionally the girlfriend with her magic hands and lips.
As for the sickness, I'm 100% sure that I'm aware of when I'm sick.
Quote:You presume you are a small entity, but within you is enfolded the entire Universe.
Please elaborate!
Quote:You are indeed the Evident Book, by whose alphabet the Hidden becomes Manifest. Therefore you have no need to look beyond yourself. What you seek is within you, if only you reflect
Said Plato, this is one of the fundamental principles of stoicism. But, if it was true than we wouldn't need experimentation and research which has proved itself an essential remedy to the pitfalls of intuition.
I know I'm leading on with tomfoolery, however that's what you get for leaving the thread open to free interpretation.
PM me if you know where this is from "...knees in the breeze" and don't look it up!!
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RE: Within you is enfolded the entire universe.
April 13, 2014 at 8:11 pm
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Quote:As for the sickness, I'm 100% sure that I'm aware of when I'm sick.
The disease can quietly develop and when symptoms show it's already too late.
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RE: Within you is enfolded the entire universe.
April 13, 2014 at 8:31 pm
(April 13, 2014 at 8:11 pm)tor Wrote: Quote:As for the sickness, I'm 100% sure that I'm aware of when I'm sick.
The disease can quietly develop and when symptoms show it's already too late.
Correct and certainly true, HOWEVER
His quote says "your sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it"
Meaning: your suffering is due to your own actions but you don't know it.
This implies that you're already aware of your "sickness" just not what's causing it.
PM me if you know where this is from "...knees in the breeze" and don't look it up!!
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RE: Within you is enfolded the entire universe.
April 13, 2014 at 8:33 pm
(April 13, 2014 at 8:31 pm)Senshi Wrote: (April 13, 2014 at 8:11 pm)tor Wrote: The disease can quietly develop and when symptoms show it's already too late.
Correct and certainly true, HOWEVER
His quote says "your sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it"
Meaning: your suffering is due to your own actions but you don't know it.
This implies that you're already aware of your "sickness" just not what's causing it.
Yeah Mystical really fucked up here. I don't think people with ALS want to have it.
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RE: Within you is enfolded the entire universe.
April 14, 2014 at 9:08 am
(April 13, 2014 at 7:45 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: "Your remedy is within you, but you do not sense it. Your sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it. You presume you are a small entity, but within you is enfolded the entire Universe. You are indeed the Evident Book, by whose alphabet the Hidden becomes Manifest. Therefore you have no need to look beyond yourself. What you seek is within you, if only you reflect " Imam Ali
Word salad. ![[Image: coffeedrinker.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.acbeddoe.com%2Fphotos%2Fpublic%2Fcoffeedrinker.gif)
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RE: Within you is enfolded the entire universe.
April 14, 2014 at 3:54 pm
“Oh it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk round my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
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RE: Within you is enfolded the entire universe.
April 14, 2014 at 3:59 pm
(April 13, 2014 at 7:45 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: "Your remedy is within you, but you do not sense it. Your sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it. You presume you are a small entity, but within you is enfolded the entire Universe. You are indeed the Evident Book, by whose alphabet the Hidden becomes Manifest. Therefore you have no need to look beyond yourself. What you seek is within you, if only you reflect " Imam Ali
I like it. It reminds us that we can find god the moment we turn inwards. God is in the mirror. Pray to him. He's the only one interested in them.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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RE: Within you is enfolded the entire universe.
April 14, 2014 at 4:03 pm
This explains what he meant when a Muslim guy said to me "Within you is enfolded the entire universe - want to see my spaceship?"
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
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