tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375918605392646377.post6695456433991840662..comments2013-06-16T03:03:55.538-06:00Comments on Pearls of Inner Significance: Detachment from material thingsJustin Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16381819354802760963noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375918605392646377.post-45888700785466733802012-06-24T14:44:42.811-06:002012-06-24T14:44:42.811-06:00Not a faith based quote but still a good one.
&qu...Not a faith based quote but still a good one.<br /><br />"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."<br /><br />-Henry David ThoreauAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375918605392646377.post-91588143178105899032009-11-10T09:23:17.769-07:002009-11-10T09:23:17.769-07:00While searching for a quote for my newest topic to...While searching for a quote for my newest topic today, I ran across this quote from the Bible that fit perfectly in this thread. So here it is...<br /><br />"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him."<br /><br /> (King James Bible, 1 John)<br /><br />This is what I am hoping my friends from different faiths can help me do - find quotes that relate to the different thoughts.Justin Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381819354802760963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375918605392646377.post-76122741617316072312009-10-28T09:58:49.482-06:002009-10-28T09:58:49.482-06:00I had to add something. ;-) There weren't an...I had to add something. ;-) There weren't any comments on this post and detachment is currently one of my favorite topics.Justin Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381819354802760963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375918605392646377.post-5119109326479110542009-10-28T09:57:31.026-06:002009-10-28T09:57:31.026-06:00I love this quote from the Hindu teachings. Anyon...I love this quote from the Hindu teachings. Anyone? Anyone?<br /><br />"Humbleness, truthfulness, and harmlessness,<br />Patience and honour, reverence for the wise.<br />Purity, constancy, control of self,<br />Contempt of sense-delights, self-sacrifice,<br />Perception of the certitude of ill<br />In birth, death, age, disease, suffering, and sin;<br />Detachment, lightly holding unto home,<br />Children, and wife, and all that bindeth men;<br />An ever-tranquil heart in fortunes good<br />And fortunes evil, with a will set firm<br />To worship Me- Me only! ceasing not;<br />Loving all solitudes, and shunning noise<br />Of foolish crowds; endeavours resolute<br />To reach perception of the Utmost Soul,<br />And grace to understand what gain it were<br />So to attain,- this is true Wisdom, Prince!<br />And what is otherwise is ignorance!"<br /><br />(Hindu, Bhagavad Gita (Edwin Arnold tr))Justin Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381819354802760963noreply@blogger.com