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| "What
is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in
the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that
is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it
is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher" -
Ken Wilber |
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| "From
the first, nothing is" - Buddha |
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| "Sattvic
knowledge sees the one indestructible Being in all beings,
the unity underlying the multiplicity of creation. Rajaistic
knowledge sees all things and creatures as separate and
distinct. Tamasic knowledge, lacking any sense of perspective,
sees one small part and mistakes it for the whole"
- Bhagavad Gita |
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| "God
(al-Haqq) is your mirror, that is the mirror in which
you contemplate your self (nafs, anima), and you, you
are His mirror, that is the mirror in which He contemplates
His divine Names. . . . Here we have a reciprocal relationship
as between two mirrors facing one another and reflecting
the same image back and forth" - Ibn Al-arabi |
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| "If
you begin to understand what you are without trying to
change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation"
- J.Krishnamurthi |
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| "Drink
your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on
which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without
rushing toward the future; Live the actual moment. Only
this moment is life" - Thich Nhat Hahn |
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| "To
deny the reality of things is to miss their reality; to
assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality.
The more you talk and think about it, the further astray
you wander from the truth. Stop talking and thinking and
there is nothing you will not be able to know" -
Sosan (Sengstan) |
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| "A
human being is part of the whole called by us universe,
a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves,
our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the
rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This
delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to
our personal desires and to affection for a few persons
nearest to us" - Einstein |
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| "A
donkey with a load of holy books is still a donkey"
- Sufi Proverb |
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