Spiritual Quotes

Nelson Mandela Quote

2011-10-23T14:18:00.000-07:00

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

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2008-06-07T12:56:00.000-07:00

Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre International hosted hate crimes conference

2008-06-04 Over 100 law enforcement and government officials, clergy and educators attended an interfaith conference in May at the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre International in Hollywood to address the growing problem of Internet hate crime and to see how they can work together to improve Internet safety and security.

A panel of leading experts shared their insights, professional experience and concern over how the Internet and advanced cell phones are used to perpetrate civil rights abuses, hate crimes, terrorism, fraud, identity theft, sex slavery, terrorism and pedophilia.

Internet technologists explained how the Internet is structured and used as the base for attack and as shelter to maintain anonymity, while millions of users are vulnerable at any given moment when logged on. Even big business and governments constantly battle with intruders attempting "break in" to steal money, assets, or valuable information.

Bishop Ted Frazier, President of the Faith-Based Coalition of the San Francisco Bay Area and guest speaker, stated, "I am shocked and dismayed at the types, severity and volume of crime and intolerance found online. This information is too valuable to sit on. We have to go state-wide with this, get every clergy council involved, become united, teach our communities these things."

The roster of notable speakers included Deputy Chief LAPD Michael Downing, who spoke about the encroachment of hate crime and terrorism on the Internet. Brad Dacus, the President of the Pacific Justice Institute posed and answered the question: Is religious freedom on thin ice? While he noted with considerable accuracy that religious institutions are under attack online, he also articulated the need for solidarity amongst all faiths to pull through and that conferences such as these are one of the mechanisms to do so. He punched home the principle that "a crime against one religion is a crime against all religions" so all religions should stand together against hate and intolerance.

Detective Chris Keeling of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Dept Gang & Hate Crimes Investigation Unit gave an in-depth view into how kids access far more information on the Internet than their parents or teachers would approve of, and how these secrets are masked, leaving the door open to danger from on-line predators.

Information technology specialists Mr. Andrew Duggan, President & CEO of Dynamic Energy Capital Inc, Mr. Ryan Sherstobitoff of Panda Security and Mr. Bob Lotter the CEO of eAgency, each articulated the risks and dangers inherent in the digital communications revolution, exploited by online criminal hackers, pedophiles, the 12-billion dollar sex slave industry and modern terrorist cells operating via secret networks, and they gave suggestions for solutions to these crimes.

In closing, four prominent clergy took the podium to express the power of solidarity when faiths join together as a cohesive whole. Dr. Edward Nasioki of the World Missionary Fellowship, Ms. Shazia Kamal of the Muslim Public Affairs Council and Bishop Ted Frazier of the Faith-Based Coalition of the San Francisco Bay area each articulated in their own special way the importance of a spiritual resolution to these evils. And the conference was closed by the indomitable Rev. Cecil (Chip) L. Murray, who offered a fitting prayer of strength, hope and love. Rev. Murray expressed what most attendees felt--that the conference gave "a superb lift to the faith-based community" and that much was accomplished.

Mr. Bob Adams, Vice President of the Church of Scientology International , which co-sponsored the event, said, "I am really pleased with the outcome, the enthusiastic response to the lessons provided by these experts. The Interfaith community came together in harmony and learned something that we can apply immediately to improve this vital problem."

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Scientology Truth
Scientology Children
Good news

Spiritual Quote

2008-03-03T01:42:00.000-08:00

"Toleration isn't much. But it is the first step towards curiosity, interest, study, understanding, appreciating and finally valuing diversity. If we can get everyone on the first step of tolerance, at least we won't be killing each other

-Anonymous

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Religious Tolerance

Spiritual Quote

2008-01-28T13:26:00.000-08:00

Amma

Many people feel that they don't require anybody else's help or support to be happy. Since their happiness is not dependent on others, they do not harbour any thoughts about other people's happiness

Spiritual Quotes

2007-09-23T10:11:00.000-07:00

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
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Interesting stuff

Quote

2007-09-19T15:32:00.001-07:00

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

-Pablo Casals

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Scientology
What is Scientology?
L. Ron Hubbard

Quote - Ernest Holmes

2007-09-13T10:59:00.001-07:00

Never limit your view of life by any past experience.

Thomas Jefferson

2007-09-12T10:20:00.000-07:00

“Well aware…that Almighty God hath created the mind free…all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments…tend only to begat habits of hypocrisy and meaness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone.”

Religious Freedom

L. Ron Hubbard

2007-06-22T09:07:00.000-07:00

spiritual quote by L. Ron Hubbard

“To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. [But] in the knowledge I have developed there must lie the answers to that riddle, to that enigma, to that problem - the human soul - for under my hands and others, was seen the best in man rehabilitated. I discovered that a human being is not his body and demonstrated that through Scientology an individual can attain certainty of his identity apart from that of the body. We cannot deal in the realm of the human soul and ignore the fact.”

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human rights
L. Ron Hubbard

Jessica Hatchigan

2006-10-28T13:50:00.000-07:00

There's an important difference between giving up and letting go.

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Scientology
What is Scientology?
L. Ron Hubbard

Spiritual Quote

2006-09-17T06:27:00.000-07:00

Oswald Chambers

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

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Jane's Blog
Young Volunteer
Scientology Links

L. Ron Hubbard

2006-09-16T13:26:00.000-07:00

Scientology Founder

Your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe.

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Towards Peace
What is Scientology?
Children's Rights

2006-08-26T15:29:00.000-07:00

Want a Human Rights PSA on your site? Click here!

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Scientology
What is Scientology?
L. Ron Hubbard

Spiritual Quote - Martin Luther King

2006-07-19T13:37:00.000-07:00

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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Scientology
Scientology Celebrity Centre
L. Ron Hubbard

James Allen

2006-07-11T04:48:00.000-07:00

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

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Scientology
What is Scientology?
Scirntology Handbook

Religious Freedom in Russia

2006-07-09T08:18:00.000-07:00

Religious Freedom in Russia

by Leisa Goodman, of the Church of Scientology

Ms. Goodman spoke to Congress about the issues facing religions in the world today. Without freedom to practice one's religion, what do we have?

This was a fascinating and important speech. You can read it at:

Religous Freedom and Scientology

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Scientology
What is Scientology?
L. Ron Hubbard
Scientology Groups

Spiritual Quote

2006-07-08T21:34:00.000-07:00

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Charlotte Bronte

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Scientology
What is Scientology?
L. Ron Hubbard

Spiritual Quote

2006-05-12T09:51:00.000-07:00

Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.

The Talmud

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Scientology
What is Scientology?
L. Ron Hubbard

Buddha

2006-05-12T07:48:00.000-07:00

“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”

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Buddhism & Islam
Family Advice - Volunteer Ministers
L. Ron Hubbard

Scientology

2006-05-06T14:20:00.000-07:00

We of the church believe:

That all men of whatever race, color, or creed were created with equal rights;

That all men have inalienable rights to their own religious practices and their performance;

That all men have inalienable rights to their own lives;

That all men have inalienable rights to their sanity;

That all men have inalienable rights to their own defense;

That all men have inalienable rights to conceive, choose, assist or support their own organizations, churches and governments;

That all men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others;

That all men have inalienable rights to the creation of their own kind;

That the souls of men have the rights of men;

That the study of the mind and the healing of mentally caused ills should not be alienated from religion or condoned in non-religious fields;

And that no agency less than God has the power to suspend or set aside these rights, overtly or covertly.

And we of the Church believe:

That man is basically good;

That he is seeking to survive;

That his survival depends upon himself and upon his fellows and his attainment of brotherhood with the universe.

And we of the Church believe that the laws of God forbid man:

To destroy his own kind;

To destroy the sanity of another;

To destroy or enslave another's soul;

To destroy or reduce the survival of one's companions or one's group.

And we of the Church believe that the spirit can be saved and that the spirit alone may save or heal the body.

L. Ron Hubbard

2006-04-25T10:47:00.001-07:00

The more serious you take the game, the less chance there is of winning.

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Scientology
World Institute of Scientology Enterprises
Scientology founder, L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard

2006-04-25T10:47:00.000-07:00

The more serious you take the bgame, the less chance there is of winning.

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Scientology
World Institute of Scientology Enterprises
Scientology founder, L. Ron Hubbard

The Search for Freedom

2006-04-21T17:24:00.000-07:00

The search for freedom is either the retreat from past failures to communicate or the effort to attain new communication. To that degree then, the search for freedom is a sick or well impulse.

-L. Ron Hubbard

2006-04-20T08:28:00.000-07:00

L. Ron Hubbard

A man without an abiding faith is, by observation alone, more of a thing than a man.

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Scientology
What is Scientology Silent Birth?
L. Ron Hubbard

Albert Einstein

2006-04-16T11:36:00.000-07:00

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

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Training and the Arts

L. Ron Hubbard

2006-04-05T11:48:00.000-07:00

Affection can no more spoil a child than the sun can be put out by a bucket of gasoline.

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Scientology
Scientology Silent Birth

2005-12-16T05:27:00.000-08:00

Saint Augustine

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

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Scientology Religion
What is Scientology?
Scientology Volunteer Ministers

Robert Browning

2005-12-11T14:48:00.000-08:00

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

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Church of Scientology

2005-12-07T11:05:00.000-08:00

Volunteers are needed in Boston:

Boston Volunteer Ministers

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Scientology
What is Scientology?
L. Ron Hubbard

Scientology Volunteer Ministers

2005-09-21T19:04:00.000-07:00

GUARDIAN ANGEL GETS ANGEL OF HER OWN

On October 30, a month to the day after she saved a woman’s life in a car accident on a Highway 212 at Mud Butte, Lorrie Lee Olson of Mound City received a small package in the mail. Inside was a letter from the woman’s family and a Black Hills gold guardian angel pin.

The family of the woman wrote: “Nothing can repay you for all that you [did] for our sister on September 30th. You, in fact, were Shelly’s guardian angel that day. We are so grateful to you. May God bless you.”

The Shelly in the letter—Michelle Laurenz, 39, of Eagle Butte—is known as a guardian angel in her own right. A registered nurse at the Manor nursing home in Gettysburg, she often works 36-hour shifts caring for the elderly. She has been known to sit all night with a dying patient and their family to help them through the end of a life. Just two weeks earlier, Laurenz had said goodbye to her own mother after nursing her through her final days.

On the afternoon of September 30, Shelly Laurenz was driving from her sister Tammy’s home in Gettysburg to her sister Jan’s home in Rapid City. On a lonesome stretch of Highway 212 her car and a semitrailer collided, the car spun into a ditch and despite seat belts and activated airbags, Laurenz’ body was slammed against the steering wheel and knocked unconscious.

That same afternoon, Lorrie Lee Olson, 47, was on her way to Black Hawk on Highway 212, making mental notes of needed preparations for the upcoming busy hunting season at her Calico’s Steakhouse and Lodge on Highway 83 in Mound City. As she crested the hill at Mud Butte, Olson slammed on her brakes when she saw the semitrailer straddling both lanes at a diagonal in front of the only building in sight, the post office. At first she thought the truck was stalled; then she noticed the cab was smashed on the passenger side.

As she pulled into the post office, a man and a woman ran out of the building, crossed the highway and disappeared into the ditch. It was only then that Olson realized that the truck had collided with a car and that the car was in that ditch. Olson and her dog, Daisy, hurried to the scene. The driver of the truck was in shock, muttering into a cell phone. The woman from the post office was agitated and nearly hysterical—"I don’t dare move her. I’m afraid to touch her. Her face ... What should I do? I called the ambulance and they are coming, but I don’t know from where or when. What should I do? Are you trained?”

Olson answered quietly but firmly, “I can help” and approached the car. The driver’s door and front of the car were smashed inward. The passenger door was wide open and the horn was blowing. There were no passengers, only the driver hunched over the center console, her face covered with blood and moaning slightly with each labored breath.

The woman from the post office started to speak, but Olson turned and put her finger to her lips to silence her. Olson had learned in her training as a Scientology Volunteer Minister, a program started 25 years ago by Dianetics and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, that silence around an injured or unconscious person is vital. The unconscious, or “reactive mind,” records every sound, smell and other perception, and the words said around an unconscious person can increase the trauma and lengthen time of recovery.

So while the woman from the post office went off to tend to the truck driver and direct traffic, Olson went to work immediately to help the unconscious accident victim. She first turned the rearview mirror aside so the woman, should she awake, would not see the deep gash and her own blood-covered face. It was later found that she also had suffered broken ribs, a broken collarbone and a collapsed left lung.

Olson gently put her hand on the woman’s back just below her neck to provide support in case she awoke and threw back her head. Because of the labored breathing and other serious injuries, Olson knew she could not move the victim’s body, so she once again relied on her Volunteer Minister training to assist the injured person to reposition her own body.

Scientology Volunteer Ministers specialize in providing “assists,” simple and powerful procedures that draw on the strength of the spiritual being—the person himself or herself as distinct from the body—to heal the body, in combination with medical treatment, when it is ill or injured. Olson used one of 130 different assists, this one the “unconscious person assist.” She told Laurenz to “sit that body in that seat,” repeating it many times and acknowledging the unconscious woman each time. In a short while, Laurenz began to respond. Olson continued, and after a few minutes Laurenz sat up and positioned herself in Olson’s arms for support.

Olson continued the assist. The facial wound stopped bleeding and Olson was relieved to see that it was only on the left side of the face and below the eye. No other external bleeding was visible. The victim opened her right eye. Olson smiled at her and assured her that she was doing very well in keeping herself going.

Laurenz’ breathing was still extremely labored and irregular. Olson encouraged her, telling her repeatedly to keep her body breathing. At one point Laurenz pointed to her check and her chest, letting Olson know where her injuries were and that she could not move her jaw to speak.

Olson repeatedly assured her that an ambulance was coming and that she was doing well—very well—and that she should just keep the body breathing. Laurenz laid her head back on Olson’s arm. Although her breathing was still very labored, it was now steady.

For nearly 45 minutes, Olson and Laurenz worked together to keep Laurenz breathing. “Even though she was unconscious much of the time, I sensed incredible determination and intention from this woman to keep herself alive,” said Olson. “Together we accomplished that. I provided reassurance and directions and she did the rest. There is no limit to what the human spirit can achieve.”

The Highway Patrol arrived and sent Olson’s report on Laurenz’ condition to the ambulance that was on the way from Newell 35 miles away.

A registered nurse from North Dakota offered help. She reached through the window of the car to take the pulse of the injured woman and then followed Olson’s lead in simply remaining calm and quiet and reassuring.

As the minutes ticked on, others stopped to offer help. Olson quietly told each passerby that they were doing fine and all they needed was the ambulance.

From time to time, Laurenz awoke from her unconscious state, confused and frightened. Olson smiled, touched her uninjured cheek to reassure her that she was not alone, and reminded her to just keep the body breathing.

The ground ambulance arrived, followed shortly by an air ambulance. Laurenz was carefully removed from Olson’s arms and airlifted 80 miles to the hospital in Rapid City where she arrived in stable condition despite her serious injuries.

Olson then went to check on the woman from the post office, who pointed out to Olson that she was covered with blood and washed it off for her. She also gave water to a thirsty Daisy, the dog who had stood by quietly while her owner gave the life-saving assist to Laurenz.

Both the nurse and the woman from the post office, an emergency medical technician, wanted to know how Olson knew exactly what to do. “I told them I was a Volunteer Minister and that I was trained to keep people calm and alive after accidents and disasters,” said Olson.

Both women praised Olson for her rapid and skilled action. “You were so calm, you made us calm. You are very well-trained,” the RN told her.

For Olson, her work was not over. She went to see the driver of the truck and found he was severely shaken by the accident. She gave him a “locational,” another assist learned in Scientology Volunteer Minister training. By repeatedly directing his attention to various objects—a tree, his truck, the dog—one at a time, Olson reoriented the man to his immediate environment and brought him out of the trauma and shock of the accident. The trucker’s mother, witnessing the results of the assists given to Laurenz and her son, called Olson “one of God’s angels.”

Olson completed her journey to Black Hawk that day and then returned to life in Mound City, where she lives with her husband, George Seibel, a retired rancher, and operates Calico’s. She has kept up with Shelly Laurenz’ recovery through Laurenz’ sisters, Jan and Tammy. An RN in the hospital where Shelly remained in intensive care for 23 days, Jan told Olson that Shelly kept angrily pulling out the breathing tube as if to say she did not need it. Perhaps Shelly was making it known that she had already proved at the scene of the accident that she could breathe on her own.

Finally, Jan suggested to the doctors that they take her sister off the respirator. When it was removed October 21, Shelly’s recovery took a sharp upswing. She was moved from intensive care to rehab and will soon be released to her sister’s home in Rapid City. After several weeks of recuperation she will go home to Gettysburg. Laurenz is expected to recover fully and may be able to return to work in two to three months.

Olson has not talked much about her part in the story until now. “When I received the guardian angel pin from Shelly’s family, I decided I wanted to tell people that there is so much every one of us can do for others, in small and large ways. I had Scientology Volunteer Minister training so I knew exactly what to do. Because of that I was fortunate to have the opportunity to assist someone who has helped so many others. I encourage everyone to learn these procedures. The ability to save a life is priceless.”

On November 3, Olson received a phone call from Shelly Laurentz, their first contact since the accident. In a small whisper, which is all she can muster currently, Laurentz said, “I heard you saved my life. Thanks.” Lorrie Lee Olson cried tears of joy.

“Shelly’s sisters say they are bringing Shelly to see me when she is up and about,” says Olson. “They won’t tell me when—they say it will be a surprise.”

Lorrie Lee Olson can be reached at calicos@valleytel.net or (605) 955-3535. Information on how to learn assists such as those given by Olson is available at volunteerminister.org or by calling 1-800-HELP-4YU.

Please help Volunteer Ministers

2005-09-12T18:02:00.000-07:00

From: Scientology Volunteer Ministers:

Thousands of Volunteers Are Needed NOW
You Can Help!

With hundreds of thousands in the Gulf Coast states of the U.S. homeless or without electricity from hurricane Katrina, Scientology Volunteer Ministers are being dispatched to the area to help with the emergency relief effort. If you are a trained Volunteer Minister, your help is urgently needed to contribute to the cleanup.

People are needed to provide assists, and a friendly hand. Come now and bring others with you, trained or not, Scientologists or not.

If you are not a trained Volunteer Minister contact us and we will train you in hours and get you involved with our relief efforts.

Experienced Volunteer Ministers from the Churches of Scientology of New York, Tampa and other cities around the United States have been organizing teams of volunteers to assist in the relief operation and they will train any persons willing to help.

Contact the Scientology Volunteer Minister Coordinator at 1-800 HELP 4-YU (1-800-435-7498) or e-mail us at vm@volunteerministers.org

Or contact the Scientology Disaster Response Team directly in Baton Rouge:

Church of Scientology Mission of Baton Rouge
9432 Common Street
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70809
Tel: 225-928-7804
E-mail: batonrouge@scientology.net

Scientology Technology and Children

2005-07-12T17:02:00.000-07:00

Churches of Scientology believe that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, applied broadly, will reduce human rights violations across the world and will also help defuse the anger that causes racial and religious conflicts. But for any human rights charter to be effective it requires understanding and application.

Therefore, Scientologists work to bring about a greater awareness of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and encourage its practice. Churches of Scientology have for many years made human rights education a priority and so they helped to establish Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI), whose members have traveled the world teaching youth about human rights.

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Scientology Children

Tom Cruise, on Scientology

2005-07-04T20:42:00.000-07:00

...I think also you look at Scientology it is the fastest growing religion. It’s helped so many people. I know it, because I use it and I am a Scientologist. And it’s extraordinary, is what it is.

Katie Couric interviews Scientologist, Tom Cruise

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Scientology Volunteer Ministers
What is Scientology?
L. Ron Hubbard

Albert Einstein

2005-06-20T15:15:00.000-07:00

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Scientology: Theology and Practice of a Contemporary Religion.

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Scientology
What is Scientology?
L. Ron Hubbard

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Nick James discusses anti-drug work Read about Nick James, who is an anti-drug activist teenager.

Scientology and the Human Spirit

2005-06-04T19:36:00.000-07:00

Read about the Rehabilitation of the Human Spirit in Scientology.

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Current Scene - Good News!
What is Scientology?
L. Ron Hubbard

Kevin Taylor

2005-06-02T06:05:00.000-07:00

To the wind, these words...

To the wind, these words
To the sea, my soul
To the sky, all hope
To the earth, this bone

To you, my love,
And our children, joy

To the moral, vision
Darkness, rhythm

And to my enemies,
Who have always praised me loudest,
Fullness, nothing more.

You can read more of Kevin Taylor's poetry at:

Kevin Taylor

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Scientology
What is Scientology?
L. Ron Hubbard

Jon von Gunten

2005-06-01T19:57:00.000-07:00

Today's submission is a little different. Jon von Gunten discusses "Mr. Fix-it", a ghostly mechanic:

Mr. Fix-It first manifested himself after my over-zealous son totally disassembled the pedal-brake assembly on his old bike. Once apart, they seem to comprise a hundred little metal rings that must be reassmbled just so. He gave up in frustration. The project sat for days.
Saturday morning my son came bursting in to thank me for fixing his bike. I paused. It had not been I. I suspected my girlfriend had paid a bike shop to fix it. She swore it was not she. I asked neighbors on both sides if they had anything to do with the event. Had they seen anybody? No, and no.

But the bike was sitting in the garage, neatly put together, with its foot brake assembled and working like a Swiss watch -- and no one was responsible. We named "no one" Mr. Fix-it and thought no more about it.

About a year later, I found I had thoroughly twisted up the tape inside an audio cassette. I was able to separate the halves of its shell and get inside, but found it had an intricate and convoluted tape path. My fingers were too big to manage the fussy job, so I left my project on a counter and went to fetch a tweezers. I got sidetracked on some diversion for about ten minutes.

As I sat down to finish -- my tweezers at the ready -- my mouth dropped. The tape had been neatly threaded through all the posts and turns in the cassette. All I had to do was rejoin the two halves of the shell. Was it one of my kids, my girlfriend. I think not. I was alone in the house.

Except, of course, for Mr. Fix-It.

Saturday morning my son came bursting in to thank me for fixing his bike. I paused. It had not been I. I suspected my girlfriend had paid a bike shop to fix it. She swore it was not she. I asked neighbors on both sides if they had anything to do with the event. Had they seen anybody? No, and no.

But the bike was sitting in the garage, neatly put together, with its foot brake assembled and working like a Swiss watch -- and no one was responsible. We named "no one" Mr. Fix-it and thought no more about it.

About a year later, I found I had thoroughly twisted up the tape inside an audio cassette. I was able to separate the halves of its shell and get inside, but found it had an intricate and convoluted tape path. My fingers were too big to manage the fussy job, so I left my project on a counter and went to fetch a tweezers. I got sidetracked on some diversion for about ten minutes.

As I sat down to finish -- my tweezers at the ready -- my mouth dropped. The tape had been neatly threaded through all the posts and turns in the cassette. All I had to do was rejoin the two halves of the shell. Was it one of my kids, my girlfriend? I think not. I was alone in the house.

Except, of course, for Mr. Fix-It.

Jon von Gunten discusses Mr. Fix-It
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Scientology
What is Scientology?
L. Ron Hubbard

Victor Hugo

2005-05-13T06:14:00.000-07:00

To love another person is to see the face of God

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Marriage Advice
Scientology
What is Scientology?
L. Ron Hubbard

Tsunami Relief

2005-03-01T12:19:00.000-08:00

No quote today, just a reminder that help is still needed:

Tsunami Relief

Religions of the World

2005-02-16T19:59:00.000-08:00

A great resource for information about world religions:

Cedarnet

Safer Planet

2005-02-16T18:49:00.000-08:00

For those who are interested in a Safer Planet.

Spiritual Quote - Bruce Chatwin

2005-01-01T08:43:00.000-08:00

Spiritual Quote

“Psychiatrists, politicians, tyrants are forever assuring us that the wandering life is an aberrant form of behavior; a neurosis; a form of unfulfilled sexual longing; a sickness which, in the interests of civilization, must be suppressed.

Nazi propaganda claimed that gypsies and Jews – peoples with wandering in their genes – could find no place in a stable Reich.

Yet, in the East, they still preserve the once universal concept: that wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”

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Scientology
What is Scientology?
L. Ron Hubbard
Human Rights News

Quote - William Davenant

2004-12-26T19:36:00.000-08:00

Quote

What one cannot, another can.

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Scientology
What is Scientology?
Personal Satisfaction

Mother Theresa

2004-11-26T19:02:00.000-08:00

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by 'I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.' Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a home of bricks - but homeless because of rejection.

Link for today:
Jon von Gunten

Buddha

2004-11-13T09:09:00.000-08:00

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

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Raise Responsible Child
What is Scientology?
L. Ron Hubbard

I Ching

2004-11-12T09:08:00.000-08:00

At the outset, the man does not comprehend the nature of prevailing forces nor does he perceive them as a connected whole. This superficial view is acceptable for the masses, but the superior man should know better."

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Confucius

2004-11-11T09:05:00.000-08:00

"To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice."

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L. Ron Hubbard

2004-09-14T07:58:00.000-07:00

Love the truth. This is human illumination,

Become the truth. This is divine illumination.

You are the truth. This is the Supreme illumination.

Sri Chinmoy
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What is Scientology?
L. Ron Hubbard
Homeschooling

2004-09-13T07:50:00.000-07:00

As fragrance abides in the flower,
As the reflection is within the mirror,
So doth thy Lord abide within thee,
Why search Him without?

Guru Nanak
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L. Ron Hubbard
Anxiety

2004-09-13T07:49:00.000-07:00

We return to the light through the heart.

Kwan Yin
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Saint Augustine

2004-09-12T10:46:00.000-07:00

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

2004-09-11T10:49:00.000-07:00

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

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Literacy

Mother Theresa

2004-09-10T10:43:00.000-07:00

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

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Mother Theresa

2004-09-10T10:39:00.000-07:00

God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it.

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Scientology Handbook
Gentle Birth

William Winter

2004-09-09T10:31:00.001-07:00

As much of heaven is visible as we have eyes to see.

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Scientology Volunteer Ministers
L. Ron Hubbard
Raising Responsible Child

John Donne

2004-09-09T10:31:00.000-07:00

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.

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L. Ron Hubbard
Awards for Children who Create a Better World

Pope John Paul

2004-09-06T10:27:00.000-07:00

The only way to peace is forgiveness.

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Scientology Children - Scientology Families

St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe.

2004-09-05T10:25:00.000-07:00

No one in the world can alter truth. All we can do is seek it and live it.

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Mother Theresa

2004-09-04T10:23:00.000-07:00

Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christlike, for His heart was meek and always thought of others.

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Young Volunteer

D. Patrick Miller

2004-09-03T11:31:00.000-07:00

Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church setting."

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Happy Marriage

Henri J. M. Nouwen

2004-09-01T11:33:00.000-07:00

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.

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Get off Drugs

Maya Angelou

2004-08-30T11:37:00.000-07:00

Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.

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Scientology Children

Mary Baker Eddy

2004-08-28T11:30:00.000-07:00

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.

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Dag Hammerskjold

2004-08-27T10:45:00.000-07:00

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

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Denis Waitley

2004-08-26T10:41:00.000-07:00

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

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Parenting Quotes

Aldous Huxley

2004-08-24T11:27:00.000-07:00

The path of spirituality is a knife-edge between abysses.

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Albert Schwietzer

2004-08-23T11:39:00.000-07:00

Ethical existence is the highest manifestation of spirituality.

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Love

Galileo Galilei

2004-08-16T06:25:00.000-07:00

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

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Thomas I. Emerson

2004-08-14T15:58:00.000-07:00

The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.

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Family Advice

John Lubbock

2004-08-12T10:51:00.000-07:00

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more thanwe can ever learn from books.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

2004-08-07T10:32:00.000-07:00

Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.

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How to Raise Responsible Children

Ronald Reagan

2004-08-04T21:15:00.000-07:00

It is not my intention to do away with government. It is, rather, to make it work -- work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. It is no coincidence that our present troubles parallel and are proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in our lives that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government. ... We shall reflect the compassion that is so much a part of your makeup. How can we love our country and not love our countrymen, and loving them, not reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they are sick, and provide opportunities to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just in theory? ... We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each Inauguration Day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer.

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Harold J. Laski

2004-08-03T22:19:00.000-07:00

No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.

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Marriage Counseling

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

2004-08-02T11:27:00.000-07:00

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

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Joseph Campbell

2004-08-01T11:25:00.000-07:00

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

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2004-07-31T10:55:00.000-07:00

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.
Elbert Hubbard

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Albert Einstein

2004-07-30T18:12:00.000-07:00

To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot. But I am persuaded that such behavior on the part of the representatives of religion would not only be unworthy but also fatal. For a doctrine which is able to maintain itself not in clear light, but only in the dark, will of necessity lose its effect on mankind, with incalculable harm to human progress.
Albert Einstein

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FAQS - Books and Tapes on Scientology
L. Ron Hubbard

2004-07-30T18:11:00.000-07:00

I know of but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Scientology in the United Kingdom

2004-07-29T13:12:00.000-07:00

The only way to peace is forgiveness. -Pope John Paul

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Scientology Groups

2004-07-28T08:07:00.000-07:00

Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christlike, for His heart was meek and always thought of others. - Mother Teresa

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Scientology: Italian

2004-07-27T07:45:00.000-07:00

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier.

Be the living expression of God's kindness. -Mother Theresa

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Scientology: Religious Tolerance

2004-07-18T10:04:00.000-07:00

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
~ Randolph S. Bourne

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Questions about Marriage

2004-07-16T11:50:00.000-07:00

Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours."

Al-Ghazzali; in Llewellyan Vaughan-Lee: Travelling the Path of Love" Inverness, CA: Godlen Sufi Center, 1995, p. 109

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Education Quotes
L. Ron Hubbard

2004-07-14T10:11:00.000-07:00

Each must discover his own way in life,
and that way lies in his heart.
Let him delve deeply into the depths of his being;
his true centre is not far from there.

-N. Sri Ram

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L. Ron Hubbard

2004-07-13T21:21:00.000-07:00

It is human to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. -Anatole France
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L. Ron Hubbard

2004-07-12T12:52:00.000-07:00

Being Kind Not in some great deed of heroism; not in some great speech or act that may be pointed to with pride-but rather in the little kindnesses from day to day. - Edgar Cayce

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2004-07-07T07:36:00.000-07:00

Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is
mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

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Scientology Children
L. Ron Hubbard

2004-07-06T20:38:00.000-07:00

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.

Richard Back Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
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Scientology Philosophy
My Life as Mom Kat

2004-07-05T15:20:00.000-07:00

Voltaire, "It is no more absurd to believe one has
lived twice than once."

Voltaire
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What is Scientology?
Volunteer Ministers

2004-07-03T18:08:00.000-07:00

"Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition."

-- Edmund Burke (Irish-born British politician, orator and writer, 1729-1797)
Second Speech on Conciliation with America, The Thirteen Resolutions; March 22,
1775.

2004-07-02T09:13:00.000-07:00

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

- Richard Bach from Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah