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"The practice of the Sifat-i-Allah (Qualities of God) combine feeling, movement, and recitation of sacred phrases. They may be considered meditations in action. While walking, feel the manifestation of each quality in your own being. The phrases are recited in Arabic (though Hebrew may be used). It is important to know the English meaning of each name.
The positioning of the hands should be carefully regarded, as it is, insofar as possible, in accord with psychic law.
It has been taught that the last shall be first. We may begin with the head; we end with the feet. As one feels the breath go out the feet, this also helps one to overcome fatigue and to feel courage and direction. This also impels the breath to be felt through the whole body. Then the body acts as one. One has a whole body and the whole body is the Divine Temple. This can produce a sense of oneness and this sense of oneness is most important in every school of spiritual development." - S.A.AI.
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| "A man is led into the path on which he desires to go". - The Talmud
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| "To mount to God is to enter into oneself. For he who so mounting and entering goes above and beyond himself, truly mounts up to God. The mind must then raise itself above itself and say, He whom above all I need is above all I know. And so, carried into the darkness of the mind, gathering itself into that all sufficient good, the mind learns to stay at home and with the whole attention cleave and become habitually fixed in the supreme good within.
So do, until you become immutable and arrive at that true life which is God Himself: perpetually, without any vicissitude of space and time reposing in that inward quiet and secret mansion of the Diety." - Albert, Bishop of Ulm
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| "In many ways, this Circle, the Medicine Wheel, can best be understood if you think of it as a mirror in which everything is reflected. "The Universe is the mirror of the People", the old Teachers tell us, "and each person is a Mirror to every other person.
Any idea, person, or object can be a medicine wheel, a Mirror, for man... Our teachers tell us that all things within this Universe Wheel know of their Harmony with every other thing, and know how to "Give-Away" one to the other, except man. Of all the Universe's creatures, it is we alone who do not begin our lives with knowledge of this great Harmony. To do this (learn the harmony) we must learn to seek and to perceive. We must do this to find our place within the Medicine Wheel. To determine this place we must learn to "Give-Away".
The "Vision Quest" or perceiving quest, is the way we must begin this search. We must follow our Vision Quest to discover ourselves, to learn how we perceive of ourselves, and to find our relationship with the world around us."
- Hyemeyohsts Storm
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"In the midst of our being stands the Lord of past and future. The Inner Self is always seated in the heart of man. Let a man draw that Self forth from his body with steadiness. Let him know that Self as the Bright, as the Immortal, yea as the Bright, as the Immortal." - The Upanishads
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| "In samadhi ones chitta (ego, small self) loses its nature, as it were, and shines as the object alone." - Pantajali
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"Even though union with Him is never given as a reward for one's efforts, nevertheless, O heart, strive as much as you can. - Hafez .......... |
