The woodwind music is "Bhatiyali Dhun" by Shakthidhar. 

The piano music is from the hymn "Holy, Holy Holy."  The words were written by Anglican clergyman R. Heber (1783-1826;
the music was written in 1861 by John Dykes.

This hymn, which Evelyn Underhill was certainly familiar with, was inspired by Isaiah 6:3

"Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;      

The whole earth is full of His glory."

The background music is Greensleeves by Blackmore's Night

Background music is Sextant by Brannon Lane & Ashera.

Energy is eternal delight.

William Blake (1757-1827)

In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

Terry Pratchett

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

 Steven Wright

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We are luminous beings.
We are perceivers.
We are an awareness.
We are not objects.
...The world of objects and solidity is a way of making our passage on earth convenient. It is only a description that was created to help us. We, or rather our reasons, forget that the description is only a description and thus we entrap the totality of ourselves in a vicious circle from which we rarely emerge in a lifetime.

Carlos Castaneda (1925?-1998)

Light expresses itself in billions of different forms to create the material universe. Light is a living being that contains all of the wisdom of the universe and occupies every space. There is no empty space between the stars, just as there is no empty space between the atoms in my body. The space between the stars is filled with light; it only appears empty when there is no object to reflect the light...like a mirror.

don Miguel Ruiz

Toltec theory holds that light is everywhere in the universe and is aware. We are made of light that has crystalized into what we can call matter.

Sheri Rosenthal

Then God said, "Let there be light;" and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good.

Genesis 1:3,4

In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

Ellen DeGeneres

God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.

John 1:5

I see you everywhere, your form is infinite...a mass of light, shining everywhere, with incomparable radiance as of the sun and blazing fire.

Gita XI:16,17

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1802-1883)

Light was an important reality to Jesus. Perhaps we do not fully appreciate His teachings or the great experiences of His life until we see the light. So, what is light? Perhaps light is an every-where present reality which sometimes, as a result of certain conditions, becomes visible to the eyes. Light may well be the one great reality of things, beyond appearances.

Eric Butterworth

All these fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no nearer to the answer to the question, 'What are light quanta?' Nowadays every Tom, Dick and Harry thinks he knows it, but he is mistaken.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Deep within the self is the light of God. It radiates throughout the expanse of his creation. The heart lotus flower blossoms forth and eternal peace is obtained, as one's light merges into the Supreme light.

Sikh Guru Amar Das (1479-1574)

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)

Walk as children of light.

Ephesians 5:8

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Another website you might enjoy is MiguelRuiz.com

To find out more about Graham Trimbrell click here -->Graham Trimbrell

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For a long time we have been accustomed to the compartmentalization of religion and science as if they were two quite different and basically unrelated ways of seeing the world. I do not believe that this state of doublethink can last. It must eventually be replaced by a view of the world which is neither religious nor scientific but simply our view of the world. More exactly, it must become a view of the world in which the reports of science and religion are as concordant as those of the eyes and ears.

The Joyous Cosmology 1962 (from the introduction by Timothy Leary)

"Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

The point is to know, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that "I" and all other "things" now present will vanish, until this knowledge compels you to release them -- to know it now as surely as if you had just fallen off the rim of the Grand Canyon. Indeed, you were kicked off the edge of a precipice when you were born, and it's no help clinging to the rocks falling with you. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable suprise: you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.

The Book

Alan Watts (1915-1973)

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Allan Watts Blues by Van Morrison

Well I'm taking some time with my quiet friend.
Well I'm takin' some time on my own.
Well I'm makin' some plans for my getaway;
There'll be blue skys shining above.
When I'm cloud hidden,
Cloud hidden,
Whereabouts unknown.

I have promised myself that if and when I reach the age of seventy, I shall retire to a mountain slope near the ocean and raise a small garden of herbs...and if the world presses too much in on me, my wife will respond to unwelcome visitors in the words of Chia Tao's poem Searching for the Hermit in Vain:

The masters gone alone
Herb-picking, somewhere on the mount,
Cloud-hidden, whereabouts unknown.

Alan Watts (from Does It Matter?)

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La illaha illa 'lla' Hu (There is no God but God)

Jelaluddin Rumi was born in Afghanistan sometime around 1207; he died in Turkey on December 17, 1273. Rumi was a sufi (a mystical branch of Islam). The sufi's have many different orders, and Rumi founded the Mevlevi Dervish Order (of "Whirling Dervish" fame). He was a poet of timeless wisdom, and immense heart. The quotes in the podcast are from The Essential Rumi -- translated by Coleman Barks.

Spiritual Spice also recommends The Book of Strangers by Ian Dallas; available through www.SUNYPRESS.edu

For more about Glen Vellez go to GlenVelez.com

If you wish to know more about the sufis a good place to start is The Sufi Wind

A SUFI PRAYER:

Beloved Lord; Almighty God!
Through the rays of the sun; through the waves in the air;
through the all-pervading life in space --
purify, and revivify me, and I pray,
heal my body, heart, and soul. Amen

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927)

revivify v. To give new life to.

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Spiritual Spice is designed to help you to open your eyes; sit up, and enjoy the view.

This Podcast's background music is Gymnopedie #1 by Satie.

For more on Emmet Fox please go to emmetfox.net

(rejoice v. To feel joyful or be delighted).

"Without being happy you will not even be able to find Him."

Paramahansa Yogananda

Also check out emmetfox.wwwhubs.com/

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Background music is from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite;
Swan Lake Suite, and Gustav Mahler's No. 8 Veni Creator Spiritus
-- conducted by Leonard Bernstein

It is necessary, taught the Sefat Emet, to seek the new in every moment. The Infinite One, the Force of the Universe, renews all creation in each new second. Every second the creation is being supercharged with the vitality of its is-ness, of its fresh goodness.  Human beings need to permit themselves to be renewed in every moment.... Every moment we should be ready to move to a new place, to a higher level, to seek the new.Avram Davis The Sefat Emet -- Judah Aryeh Leib (1847-1905) -- was a Polish Jewish mystic).

There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.  the Baal Shem Tov (1698-1760) The basic ingredient of all humility is the desire to seek and do God's will. Bill Wilson (1895-1971) If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?   Rabbi Hillel "The Elder". (60 BCE - 9 CE)                          (Rabbi Eugene Borowitz has translated the above Mishnah as: "If I don't stand up for myself, who should? But if I am only self-centered, what good am I?") Entrances to holiness are everywhere. The possibility of ascent is all the time. Even at unlikely times and through unlikely places There is no place on earth without the presence of God. Midrash And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. ...Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. Exodus 3:2,5 Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees, takes off his shoes, The rest sit round it, and pluck blackberries.... Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) Get rid of the distinction between the sacred and the secular. God is present everywhere...it is always the Sabbath Day, and the place whereon you stand is holy ground. Emmet Fox (1886-1951) An interesting site to explore the Hebrew alphabet is: http://inner.org/hebleter/index.htm   To top To bottom

In Tune With the Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine has sold over 2,000,000 copies. It has been in print for over a century.

Some editions of Henry Drummond's spiritual classic The Greatest Thing in the World have been published with a certain sentence omitted. Spiritual Spice offers the expunged sentence below.

 "For it is perfectly certain -- and you will not misunderstand me -- that to enter Heaven a man must take it with him."

 Dr. Henry Drummond (1851-1897)

The deleted sentence occurs in the "analysis of love" section under Good Temper. Spiritual Spice has no opinion regarding Dr. Drummond's statement, but we do believe he would have wished it to be included in any edition of his book. An edition of the book, with the sentence, can be found at the Spiritual Spice Storefront .  An online edition of The Greatest Thing in the World as Dr. Drummond wrote it may be found at henrydrummond.wwwhubs.com/

What is love?

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William James and Dr. Richard Bucke -- awesome. As always, hope you enjoy!

Our normal waking consciousness...is but one of several types of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense -- dancing.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.

We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.

William James (1842-1910)

When I was a youngster...I used to collect insects. Central to this endeavor was the killing jar. You take an empty mayonnaise jar, put lethal carbon tetrachloride on cotton balls, and place them in the bottom of the jar. You then drop the insect -- moth, butterfly, whatnot -- into the jar, and it quickly dies, but without being outwardly disfigured. You then mount it, study it, display it.

Academic religion is the killing jar of Spirit.

Ken Wilber

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