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Words Of Wisdom {Page Twenty Seven}
If you don't relate to nature then you dont relate with man. Fields, forests, rivers, trees, all wonders and beauty of earth, this is Nature. If we dont relate at all with this then we will never relate to each other. ~Krishnamurti~
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ~Albert Pike~
Knowledge is a wide river and there's many ways to cross it. It is necessary to choose respected mentors, not to parrot them but to absorb what you can and use what they teach as stepping stones.�~Lisa Haynes~
There is in the body a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body and mind. Discover that current and stay with it.
~Nisargadatta Maharaj~
What is called the reality-nature of mind is neither born nor destroyed. There are distinctions among all phenomena only based on false thoughts. The forms of objects do not exist separately apart from the mind's thoughts. Therefore, from the beginning, all things are detached from the forms of language, detached from the forms of names, and detached from the forms of mental objects: they are just the One Mind. Hence the name True Thusness. ~Records of the Lanka~
To live with the Infinite, you must be a fool. A fool who does good with simple sincerity and disregard for worldly opinion. Learn from this world we live in: The world is a fool -- only that it is a mindless, stupid fool. You be a fool who reaches beyond the mind. ~Tzvi Freeman~
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss~
Seeing the evolution of events, Keep to the source. Fixing the attention internally, Understand calamity and fortune In the context of unity. Sit unconscious of doing anything, Walk unconscious of going anywhere. ~Lao tzu~
You must accept the fact that you are worthy to occupy space, worthy to feel loved, and worthy of attention from the angels. ~Terry Lynn Taylor~
You guard a spiritual thing: it isn't something you could make, and it isn't something you can describe. In this ground of ours, there is no Buddha, no nirvana, and no path to practice, no doctrine to actualize. The way is not within existence or nonexistence. What method would one then practice? This abundant light, wherever you are, in every situation, is itself the great way. ~Tan-hsia~
Home is oneness, home is my original nature. It is right here, simply in what is. There is nowhere else I have to go, and nothing else I have to become. ~Tony Parsons~
The mind is like a clear mirror. At all times we must strive to polish it, and must not let the dust collect. ~Huineng~
Every person is an instrument of the universal law. Never once think yourself not so. By practice you will assuredly have direct experience of it. ~Dogen~
By meditation, they achieve the ultimate reality, which is unthinkable, unmanifest; the one of endless forms, the ever-auspicious, the peaceful, the immortal, the origin of the creator, the one without a beginning, a middle and an end; the only one, the non-dual, the all-pervading, the consciousness, the bliss, the formless, the wonderful. ~Kaivalya Upanishad~
Those who are known As Real People Are united in essence With the Way, So they have endowments yet Appear to have none; They are full yet Appear to be empty They govern the inside, Not the outside. Clear and pure, utterly plain, They do not contrive Artificialities but return To simplicity. ~Lao tzu~
Be all you can be. Everyone has his own strength and unique qualities. Why care about other people's respect or disdain? If one lives according to other's values, one is guaranteed to die in one's own dissatisfaction. ~Heart Sutra~
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. ~Epictetus~
To realize your true nature, you must wait for the right moment and the right conditions. When the time comes, you are awakened as if from a dream. You understand that what you have found is your own and doesn't come from anywhere outside. ~Buddhist Sutra~
Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired these, they are already stricken in years. If you hanker after worldly fame and practice not the Way, your labors are wrongfully applied and your energy is wasted. It is like burning a stick of incense. However much its pleasing odor is admired, the fire that consumes is steadily burning up the stick. ~Sutra of Forty Two Chapters~
Why do you look at me? Look at your own self. Why do you listen to me? Listen to your own self. Why do you believe in what I say? Do not believe in me or any other teacher, rather trust in your own inner voice. This is your guide, this is your teacher. Your teacher is within not without. Know yourself, not me! ~Peace Pilgrim~
The only decision you need to make is to open yourself and allow yourself to feel from your very core what is useful for your growth. You will not make a mistake. ~Beth Johnson~
The challenge for the 21 century is the Silent Revolution of the Heart. It is not a revolution within an organization or a land in the traditional sense with violence, madness and blood shed. It is a revolution in human consciousness. ~Giten~
Holding his stick, he points directly to a person, Yet, originally without form, this portrait is not true, His form cannot be seen as form, His benevolence is merely his natural benevolence. If, all of a sudden, you can understand this law, Then your spirit can roam beyond this world. ~Mokuan~
The surest sign of spiritual progress is a total lack of concern about progress. There is an utter absence of anxiety about anything like liberation and a sort of hollowness in one's being, a kind of looseness and involuntary surrender to whatever might happen. ~Balsekar~
There are four bases of sympathy: charity, kind speech, doing a good turn, and treating all alike. ~Buddha~
To study Zen you must penetrate through the barrier of the ancestral teachers. To learn the Path you must come to the end of the road of mind. When the road of mind is cut off, the whole body appears. It's like a person drinking water: she knows for herself whether it's cool or warm. When you reach this stage, do not ask just anyone about it: you must join a real Zen teacher and show her how your mind is working. ~T'aego~
What can we learn from the cycle of the moon, how she ever waxes and wanes and waxes again? That a time of smallness is a time to become great; And a time of greatness is the time to become small. For in smallness lies the power to receive and in receiving lies the power to become great. And greatness endures only through its power to be small. ~Tzvi Freeman~
What's the difference between a life of comfort and security and a life of risk and total insecurity? One is just being like everyone else. The other is a great thrill, and furthers something unknown and unlimited that's ever-present. And that's what living the spiritual life is. ~Andrew Cohen~
Despair is a cheap excuse for avoiding one's purpose in life. And a sense of purpose is the best way to avoid despair. ~Tzvi Freeman~
Overcome your uncertainties And free yourself From dwelling on sorrow. If you delight in existence, You will become a guide To those who need you, Revealing the path to many. ~Sutta Nipata~
When suddenly awakened, although you are the same as Buddha, the energy of many lifetimes of habits is deep seated. Though the wind stops, the waves still billow; though noumenon is manifest, thoughts still invade. How can we neglect subsequent cultivation because of a single awakening? ~Master Chinul~
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise men; seek what they sought. ~Basho~
Meditation is not some kind of excitement, but attention and observation on our daily activities. ~Nahsti~
There is nothing that can be attained, no form that can be sought. Even good things are dispensed with, so birth and death must be left far behind. ~Records of the Lanka~
Self-interest and self-concern are the focal points of the false. Your daily life vibrates between desire and fear. Watch it intently and you will see how the mind assumes innumerable names and shapes, like a river
foaming between the boulders. Trace every action to its selfish motive and look at the motive intently till it dissolves. Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen and you need not look for truth; truth will find you. ~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj~
The buddhas and ancestral teachers transmitted mind by mind. In this transmission, teacher and disciple were both supremely enlightened. Both had penetrated through to liberation, and so they acted like two mirrors reflecting each other. This is not something that words and images can capture. ~Yuanwu~
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others? ~Dolores Huerta~
The most important thing I have learned is trust. Trust in the knowledge that I do have the ability to make choices and trust that living in the moment will take me through my decision cycle quite naturally. ~Lynda Standley Richardson~
Be interested in yourself beyond all experience, be with yourself, love yourself; the ultimate security is found only in self-knowledge. Be honest with yourself and nothing will betray you. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj~
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain. ~Kahlil Gibran~
An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. ~Sir John Templeton~
Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe. ~Lao Tzu~
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. ~Dag Hammarskjold~
To learn to meditate is the biggest gift you can give to yourself in this life. Indeed, only meditation will allow you to discover your true nature and find balance and roots to live well. Meditation is the way that leads towards awakening. ~Sogyal Rinpoche~
Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy. ~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj~
Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long. In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world. ~Vince Poscente~
The highest truth cannot be put into words. Therefore the greatest teacher has nothing to say.� He simply gives himself in service, and never worries. ~Hua Hu Ching~
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. ~Dag Hammarskjold~
The vagaries of life Though painful, Teach us Not to cling To this fleeting world. ~Ikkyu~
All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others. ~Danny Thomas~
In doing good, avoid fame. In doing bad, avoid disgrace. Pursue a middle course as your principle. ~Chuang Tzu~
The state of Self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and always have been. ~Sri Ramana Maharshi~
No use fretting over gold, beauty or fame; Nurturing these, how can we calm Our fluttering heart? Non attachment brings deep truth, And a truthful nature brings immortality. Empty your heart, Sit quietly on a mat. In meditation we become one with All; Tao billows like the vapors In a mountain valley, And its supernatural power wafts into our soul. ~Loy Ching-Yuen
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create. ~Leonard I. Sweet~
When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves, we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order. When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized. ~Shunryu Suzuki~
To realize your true nature, you must wait for the right moment and the right conditions. When the time comes, you are awakened as if from a dream. You understand that what you have found is your own and doesn't come from anywhere outside. ~Buddhist Sutra~
It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings. ~Buddha~
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. ~Erastus Wiman~
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. ~Basil~
Subhuti, does it occur to you that I believe that through me living beings are led to liberation? Never think that way, Subhuti. Why? Because there is no separate being to lead to liberation. If I were to think there was, I would be caught in the notion of a self or person or a life span. Subhuti, what I call a self is essentially not a self in the way that an ordinary person thinks of it. But neither do I think of anyone as an ordinary person. However, knowing the essence, I can use the name, ordinary person. ~Diamond Sutra~
"Someone once asked me what is the hardest part about creating what you want? My reply was 'Learning to stop figuring out how you will get what you want."
"If you try to figure out how you will get what you want you will limit yourself to what your ego or conditioned mind can do. The key to creating what you want is to turn your desire or your goal over to your subconscious which is connected to the Universal Mind or Universal Subconscious and let it bring the goal to you and you to your goal.: ~Dr. Robert Anthony~
Therefore, Ananda, be as a lamp unto yourselves, be as a refuge to yourselves. Take no external refuge. Hold fast to the Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the Truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone besides yourselves. ~The Buddha~
What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man. Under every stone and leaf, that which is eternal exists. ~J. Krishnamurti~
The world presents itself according to the viewpoint of each person. Whatever kind of person one is, one will see that kind of world; whatever kind of mindset one has, one will derive that kind of conclusion. ~Fo Yin~
Explanations are fine for practical matters, but out of place for beauty, love and simple presence. Just let it be. Enjoy the mystery instead of solving the riddle. ~Leo Hartong~
It is a great misfortune for those Engaged in learning to take the Sayings of the sages as mere Verbal exercises. ~Xue Xuan
The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination. ~John Schaar~
You cannot describe it or draw it, You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which To put the Original Face; It will not disappear even When the universe is destroyed. ~Mumon
You should find freedom by means of both examination and investigation. Don't brag. Don't be comsumed by jealousy. Don't act capriciously. Don't expect thanks. ~Atisha~
It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly. Things, people, or conditions that you thought you needed for your happiness now come to you with no struggle or effort on your part, and you are free to enjoy and appreciate them - while they last. All those things, of course, will still pass away, cycles will come and go, but with dependency gone there is no fear of loss anymore. Life flows with ease. ~Eckhart Tolle~
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama~
If you do a thing willingly you do it from yourself-that is, you do it consciously; and everything that is done consciously is saved for you-it belongs to you. What you do unwillingly simply because you are told to do it is worse than useless. ~Maurice Nicoll~
Appreciate your learning process, for it is of equal value to have realized there is a need for change as for the change itself. ~Beth Johnson~
People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you'll know exactly what to do. ~Michelle Ventor~
The goal is the way itself. Enjoy this moment. Eternity right here. ~Nashti~
One should not pursue that which is not necessary in one's life, otherwise one will have to pay a price. One who knows how to preserve happiness will not burden himself unnecessarily. ~Yan Hui~
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