Haidakhan Babaji teacher in northern India
Courage and alertness
Source: The Teachings of Babaji, 29 October 1983.
“When heaven joins the battle against you, who could stand?”
— Stephen R. Lawhead, book Hood
Source: Hood
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Context: I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great, spectacularly prolific writer and scientist, Dr. Isaac Asimov in that essentially functionless capacity. At an A. H. A. memorial service for my predecessor I said, "Isaac is up in Heaven now." That was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists. It rolled them in the aisles. Mirth! Several minutes had to pass before something resembling solemnity could be restored.
I made that joke, of course, before my first near-death experience — the accidental one.
So when my own time comes to join the choir invisible or whatever, God forbid, I hope someone will say, "He's up in Heaven now." Who really knows? I could have dreamed all this.
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The Mencius
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“Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.”
Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969) founder of aikido
The Art of Peace (1992)
Context: One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
“Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
"Strike Against War", speech in Carnegie Hall (5 January 1916) http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/helenstrike.html <br class="br">Context: Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.
“Who in life’s battle firm doth stand
Shall bear hope’s tender blossoms
Into the silent land!”
Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis (1762–1834) Swiss poet, author, politician and officer
The Silent Land, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).