Alternative Web
"The only alternative to prevent the net from
becoming a mere market place is to create alternative websites, sharing
and exchanging one's personal thoughts and insights. There are millions
of spiritual seekers and religious people all over the world. Imagine the
changes and possibilities if all of them would build their own sites! Start
now!".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Amulet's...
"Don't build your spiritual power on things like
amulet's, robes and dressings, ritual objects or other materialized items.
Using them without attachment can be of temporarily help. But entering
the bardo (after-death experience) we are all naked. No amulet at hand
:-).(t).(h).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Anger
"If deeply based in wisdom, even anger is allowed."(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Antidote's
"The antidote's of spirituality are dogma and
feelings of superiority.".(t).(h).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Artificial
"Our artificial man-made 'reality' is seen more
and more as 'natural'. Will what we still call natural once be understood
as artificial?.(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Authority
"Often it's better to stay in the background.
Sometimes it's one's duty to show some spiritual pride. But a spiritual
authority needs neither this nor that. He simply is.".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Beauty
"Touched by beauty we enter the forefields of
enlightenment. Flying higher and higher one may discover that there is
nothing else but beauty. Isn't it a pity that we're not yet ready to keep
it in permanent view!" (h)
- Hans Taeger |
Beauty
"There is beauty everywhere. Just put your heart
into your eyes.".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Body
"Call our physical body a treasure or a prison.
At the end it's just a costume borrowed for a fraction of time. What costume
will karma choose next?" (h)
- Hans Taeger |
Care
"Developing a global awareness and care is great.
Next step should be a galactic or even cosmic awareness and care. From
there it's just a little step to develope a Buddha's mind of awareness
and care.".(t).(h).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Caring
"Caring for others is great. Sometimes not-caring
can also be a kind of care.".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Cause & Effect
"Most people know about cause and effect, but
just few handle this wisely and act accordingly." (l)
- Hans Taeger |
Change
"The most unchangeable truth is change." (l)
- Hans Taeger |
Compassion
"Real compassion does not arise from an over-emotional
gut blocking the brain, but from a clean clear mind melting into the heart."
(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Death
"It helps a lot looking at life from the perspective
of one's certain death. Try to visualize yourself at the hour of death.
Just a couple of minutes each day. It's basic Buddhist beginners practice."
(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Double Truth
"The double truth of feeling totally unimportant
and at the same time of uppermost importance is of great help in mastering
life in it's various aspects.".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Dragons
"Dragons have a certain high ranking popularity
or fascination in the net. This may reflect what's needed and admired most.
Dragons stand for universal power, magical knowledge & wisdom. They
also act as gatekeepers to the treasures of our (collective) sub-consciousness.
What a dawning horizon for a new age!"
(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Emptiness
"Everything is emptiness and illusion. Emptiness
and illusion is everything." (h)
- Hans Taeger |
Encouragement
"Sometimes too much encouragement by others or
towards others can bring creativity and spiritual development to a stand
still.".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Enlightenment
"There are three major dangers which come with
enlightenment: stagnation by bathing in holiness, wrong identifications,
and the surpressing or doubting of the importance of this self-empowerment."
(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Existence
"It's not the 'be or not to be' which is of any
question. It's the 'be and not to be' which has to be digested." (h)
- Hans Taeger |
Experience
"Even a high experience is worth nothing, when
not polished and kept warm." (l)
- Hans Taeger |
Experience
"Wisdom can be encreased by books and teachings.
But lasting wisdom is rooted in mind research and experience.".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Eye Contact
"A tantric unity caused by a short eye-contact
can have a higher effect and potential on one's mind than a long lasting
love affair or partnership.".(t).(h).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Flowering
"Many like to flower. Few allow time for fruiting.
Only wise men wait to offer themselves as seeds for others." (h)
- Hans Taeger |
Galaxy
"From far away our galaxy may have the importance
of a neutrino." (l)
- Hans Taeger |
Giving
"Giving without expectations not just brings
highest joys but finds always a friendly karmic echo." (l)
- Hans Taeger |
Growth
"A good environment for a common spiritual growth
and a lasting friendship is an erotic tension without grasping for fulfillment."
(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Home
"Expanding and experiencing the mind is like
coming home, while the former 'home' becomes more and more unimportant.".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Ignorance
"It may sound paradoxical, but I'm quite sure
that hate and ignorance are the father and mother of enlightenment." (h)
- Hans Taeger |
Illusion
"Time, space, the whole universe - just an illusion!
Often said, philosophically verifiable, even scientifically explainable.
It's the 'just' which makes the honest mind go crazy and the ego go berserk."
(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Imagination
"Imagination arises in between our eyebrows,
not from the intellect." (l)
- Hans Taeger |
Kindness
"Kindness arises by standing apart from oneself
and recognizing all beings as companions on the arduous travel towards
highest perfection." (h)
- Hans Taeger |
Knowing Better
"Don't blow up your ego by getting addicted to
knowing everything better. Even if you do it's often wiser to keep your
mouth shut and give others the chance and time to find things out by themselves.".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Life
"There is nothing like dead matter or empty space.
Everything is full of light, energy, change, spirit and inter-communication."
(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Love
"Avoid this dangerous mix of personal (grasping),
spiritual and selfless love. Most of the time it ends in frustration."
(l)
- Hans Taeger |
Meditation
"No need for special meditation rooms or temples.
You can even meditate by driving a car, having a conversation or working
at the computer." (l)
- Hans Taeger |
Mind
"There is no mind, but various states of mind.
The highest state embraces them all." (h)
- Hans Taeger |
Nothing
"There is absolutely NOTHING, which is not mind-rooted.".(t).(h).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Peace
"To embody peace and serenity is not a romantic
masquerade for sunday afternoons, but the result of a steady and hard mind-work
seven days a week. A possible by-product (- for some an end-product) of
the enlightenment-path." (l)
- Hans Taeger |
Praying
"Praying is a power, but just if used in the
right way: flying on the wings of pure intention." (l)
- Hans Taeger |
Rainbow Nature
"In the daily profanity of life it's really hard
to hold one's vision of the vibrant rainbow nature of everybody's mind."(l)
- Hans Taeger |
Screening
"Use your forehead as your main screen. Not the
monitor. Not the outer world." (h)
- Hans Taeger |
Senses
"The universe didn't give us five precious senses
to waste them for tv or the internet." (l)
- Hans Taeger |
Smile
"Those secret smiles with the heart can be much
more enjoyable than those which show in the face.".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Time
"Time is not money, but a free gift to brighten
up one's karmic career. (Sorry to correct you).".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Transform
"Spiritualty is often connected with a special
sense and attraction for beauty, arts or an aesthetic environment. But
on a higher level the mind in unity with the heart can develop the potential
to transform even the most ugly and dirty looking thing into a firework
of beauty and perfection.".(t).(h).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Travel
"The mind can travel everywhere. Why use the
body to travel somewhere?" (l)
- Hans Taeger |
Visa
"Visa-cards can't buy wisdom!".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Wisdom
"It needs an extreme life or a very still one
to develop heart-generated wisdom." (l)
- Hans Taeger |
Wisdom
"Wisdom is one of the few things one can't buy.
Must be a thorn in the flesh of industry!" (l)
- Hans Taeger |
Words
"Words were invented to describe inner and outer
pictures and feelings which go ahead with them. In using words we all become
magicians, movie directors or sound artists, creating a powerful caleidoscope
of picturesque landscapes and imaginations. Some find this natural. I find
it highly magical and mystical.".(t).(h).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
During
the process of working through thousands of quotes and thereby creeping
into the minds of thousands of people, I found it necessary to write down
some self-grown quotes and thoughts to re-establish my own identity. Even
though ultimate wisdom is universal by definition and independent from
specific cultures, religions or personalities, I enjoyed using my own words,
pictures and biographical background to start this little collection, which
hopefully will grow over the years. I'm obviously not Buddha or Einstein
and I don't want to pretend to be. So I decided just to put down what came
straight from my own mind, heart and experience, having worked in the spiritual
field for more than 3 decades. Wisdom is something which continuously grows
and changes and with some luck becomes more essential with the aging process...
like clouds drifting away to reveal the open sky (which was always there).
So I look forward to seeing this kind of wisdom-diary grow like a patchwork,
checking myself using this mirror. It could easily happen that I either
burst into laughter or smile through my tears when I re-read some of my
ultimate wisdoms from the beginning of the 21st century :-) All people
of wisdom I've met in my life had at least three things in common: a good
sense of humor, a little craziness and some child-like purity. That's already
three good reasons to follow the path the wisdom :-)