UNIVERSAL WISDOM :- No 1 : for 2011

NOTE: -  NEXT SATSANG MEETING
    Sat 8th January 2011
Friends Meeting House - Wolverhampton
1.30 - 4.30 p.m.


REFLECTIONS FOR THE JOURNEY

The following 'quotes' from the Wisdom Traditions are a continuation of our regular series on Universal Wisdom. They are offered at this time of New Year and will hopefully provide some useful reflections.

New Year is often a time when people make resolutions and research shows that the majority of these are never kept. Perhaps what is needed is NOT RESOLUTIONS but the wisdom to make BETTER CHOICES. Therefore our Wisdom Traditions have so much to offer us as we attempt to make life-giving choices.

The following quotes are based on solid, long-standing virtues of love, hope, faith and charity

'A new commandment I give you : Love one another. As I have loved you , so you must love one another. All will know that you are my disciples if you love one another '

St John's Gospel Chap 13 verses 34-35

'' He never dies nor is He mourned. He is always giving. There is no end to His favour. His only quality that there is none  like Him, neither was there ever nor would there ever be. '

From a poem by  Guru Nanak ( first Sikh Guru )

' True love accepts with perfect resignation, yes, even with joy, whatever comes to it from the hand of the Beloved, for  ' perfect love casts out fear . '

St John of the Cross ( Christian Mystic )

‘In this world I feel joyful because He is the Source of Joy. I am in love with all creation because He is the Creator

SADI ( Sufi Master 13^th century – Islam)

The great compassionate heart ,Is the essence of Buddhahood

( Buddhism Gandavyuha Sutra)

Charity- to be moved at the sight of

The thirsty, the hungry and the miserable

And to offer relief to them out of pity –

Is the spring of virtue

(JainismKundakunda)

To praise man is to praise

The One who made him,

And man’ earthly possessions

Add to God’s mighty praise.

All metre and mystery

Touch on the Lord at last,

The tide thunders ashore

In praise of the High King

 (Celtic 12^th Century Prayer)