[A]s a Christian, I am free to claim the good, the true, the holy, wherever and whenever I find it.
-Rob Bell
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Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
-Aldous Huxley
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The wise never undertake an enterprise
Which rashly risks existing capital to reach for potential profits.
-Tirukkural 463
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A Sufi was once engaged in prayer, when his cell caught fire. He did not stop praying for one moment. Afterwards, people asked him about this. He replied: ‘The divine fire held my attention, so I could not attend to the fire in my cell.’
-Qushayri, "Risalah"
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Rabbi Elazar would first give a coin to a poor man, and then pray.
- Babylonian Talmud, Bava Bathra 10a
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From craving is born grief,
from craving is born fear.
For one freed from craving
there's no grief
—so how fear?
-Dhammapada 216, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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The big agenda item is God and His glory, not me and my comfort.
-Max Lucado
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
-Thomas Jefferson
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The adorable one who is seated
In the heart rules the breath of life.
Unto him all the senses pay their homage.
When the dweller in the body breaks out
In the freedom from the bonds of flesh, what remains?
For this Self is supreme!
-Katha Upanishad
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If a person closes his eyes to avoid giving [any] charity, it is as if he committed idolatry.
- Babylonian Talmud, Ketubot 68a
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He who seeks happiness should withdraw the arrow; his own lamentations, longings and grief. With the arrow withdrawn, unattached, he would attain to peace of mind; and when all sorrow has been transcended he is sorrow-free and has realized Nibbana.
-Sutta Nipata
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-Max Lucado
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
-Thomas Jefferson
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The adorable one who is seated
In the heart rules the breath of life.
Unto him all the senses pay their homage.
When the dweller in the body breaks out
In the freedom from the bonds of flesh, what remains?
For this Self is supreme!
-Katha Upanishad
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If a person closes his eyes to avoid giving [any] charity, it is as if he committed idolatry.
- Babylonian Talmud, Ketubot 68a
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He who seeks happiness should withdraw the arrow; his own lamentations, longings and grief. With the arrow withdrawn, unattached, he would attain to peace of mind; and when all sorrow has been transcended he is sorrow-free and has realized Nibbana.
-Sutta Nipata
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God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable than an empire can rise without His aid?
-Benjamin Franklin
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
-Yogi Berra
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During prayer I give myself over to the Lord
and delight myself in zealous worship.
The window of my soul opens wide
and the Book of God comes to view
To fill my house with grace and light.
-Rumi, "Mathnawi"
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G-d, Who looks into the heart, on seeing the determination behind these good resolutions, will send His blessing for their realization in the fullest measure - in joy and gladness of heart and affluence, materially and spiritually.
- Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe
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Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
-Matthew 5:8 (Revised Standard Version)
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The ego is like a thin patch of cloud that prevents the sun being seen. If, by the guru's grace, it disperses, then one can see God.
-Ramakrishna
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The world is new to us every morning--this is the Holy One's gift and every person should believe they are reborn each day.
- Baal Shem Tov
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Irrigators guide the water.
Fletchers shape the arrow shaft.
Carpenters shape the wood.
The wise control themselves.
-Dhammapada, 6, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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God actually likes you. He made you, and he’s got a beautiful purpose for your life.
-Luis Palau
***
-Benjamin Franklin
***
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
-Yogi Berra
***
During prayer I give myself over to the Lord
and delight myself in zealous worship.
The window of my soul opens wide
and the Book of God comes to view
To fill my house with grace and light.
-Rumi, "Mathnawi"
***
G-d, Who looks into the heart, on seeing the determination behind these good resolutions, will send His blessing for their realization in the fullest measure - in joy and gladness of heart and affluence, materially and spiritually.
- Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe
***
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
-Matthew 5:8 (Revised Standard Version)
***
The ego is like a thin patch of cloud that prevents the sun being seen. If, by the guru's grace, it disperses, then one can see God.
-Ramakrishna
***
The world is new to us every morning--this is the Holy One's gift and every person should believe they are reborn each day.
- Baal Shem Tov
***
Irrigators guide the water.
Fletchers shape the arrow shaft.
Carpenters shape the wood.
The wise control themselves.
-Dhammapada, 6, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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God actually likes you. He made you, and he’s got a beautiful purpose for your life.
-Luis Palau
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The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.
-M. Scott Peck
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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails
-Pioneer Girls Leaders' Handbook
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The stupid man looks at his body and says, "This is I." The more learned thinks, "This is I" of his personality. But the wise man knows the true Self, saying, "I am the Eternal." He is individual, though without separateness. He has dissolved the "I" in Pure Consciousness.
-Sankara
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If you sanctify yourself a little, you are sanctified much.
- Talmud: Yoma, 39a
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If there were no freedom, beings could never disentangle themselves from the world. But since there is freedom to transcend the world, beings are able to become disentangled.
-Anguttara Nikaya
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-M. Scott Peck
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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails
-Pioneer Girls Leaders' Handbook
***
The stupid man looks at his body and says, "This is I." The more learned thinks, "This is I" of his personality. But the wise man knows the true Self, saying, "I am the Eternal." He is individual, though without separateness. He has dissolved the "I" in Pure Consciousness.
-Sankara
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If you sanctify yourself a little, you are sanctified much.
- Talmud: Yoma, 39a
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If there were no freedom, beings could never disentangle themselves from the world. But since there is freedom to transcend the world, beings are able to become disentangled.
-Anguttara Nikaya
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Charity for God's sake has a hundred signs within the heart--
the good deed, a hundred tokens.
Though in charity riches are consumed,
a hundred lives come to the heart in return.
A sowing of pure seeds in God's earth, and then no income! Impossible.
-Mathnawi [IV, 1757-1759]
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The gospel is like a lion. It doesn't need to be protected, it needs to be turned loose.
-Unknown
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The Lord, who is the supreme magician,
Brings forth out of himself all the scriptures,
Oblations, sacrifices, spiritual disciplines,
The past and present, the whole universe.
Invisible through the magic of maya,
He remains hidden in the hearts of all.
-Shvetashvatara Upanishad
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Each penitent thought is a voice of God.
- Baal Shem Tov
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Half the spiritual life consists in remembering what we are up against and where we are going.
-Ayya Khema, "When the Iron Eagle Flies"
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the good deed, a hundred tokens.
Though in charity riches are consumed,
a hundred lives come to the heart in return.
A sowing of pure seeds in God's earth, and then no income! Impossible.
-Mathnawi [IV, 1757-1759]
***
The gospel is like a lion. It doesn't need to be protected, it needs to be turned loose.
-Unknown
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The Lord, who is the supreme magician,
Brings forth out of himself all the scriptures,
Oblations, sacrifices, spiritual disciplines,
The past and present, the whole universe.
Invisible through the magic of maya,
He remains hidden in the hearts of all.
-Shvetashvatara Upanishad
***
Each penitent thought is a voice of God.
- Baal Shem Tov
***
Half the spiritual life consists in remembering what we are up against and where we are going.
-Ayya Khema, "When the Iron Eagle Flies"
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The moon is one, but on agitated water it produces many reflections. Similarly ultimate reality is one, yet it appears to be many in a mind agitated by thoughts.
-Maharamayana
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A man served God for seventy years and then committed a sin which canceled the merit of his service. Afterwards he gave a loaf of bread to a poor man, so God pardoned his sin and gave him back the merit of his seventy years’ service. His alms are vain who does not know that his need of the reward for giving is greater than the poor man’s need of the gift.
-Muslim Saying
***
Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind.
-Buddha, "The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha"
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-Maharamayana
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A man served God for seventy years and then committed a sin which canceled the merit of his service. Afterwards he gave a loaf of bread to a poor man, so God pardoned his sin and gave him back the merit of his seventy years’ service. His alms are vain who does not know that his need of the reward for giving is greater than the poor man’s need of the gift.
-Muslim Saying
***
Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind.
-Buddha, "The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha"
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What pleasure it is to human beings everywhere
When their children possess knowledge surpassing their own!
When a mother hears her son heralded a good and learned man,
Her joy exceeds that of his joyous birth.
-Tirukkural 7:68-69
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Prayer does half, repentance does all.
- Joshua b. Levi, Leviticus Rabbah
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Here he's tormented
he's tormented hereafter.
In both worlds
the wrong-doer's tormented.
He's tormented at the thought,
'I've done wrong.'
Having gone to a bad destination,
he's tormented
all the more.
Here he delights
he delights hereafter.
In both worlds
the merit-maker delights.
He delights at the thought,
'I've made merit.'
Having gone to a good destination,
he delights
all the more.
-Dhammapada, 17-18, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.
-Joel Osteen
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On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
-Aldous Huxley
When their children possess knowledge surpassing their own!
When a mother hears her son heralded a good and learned man,
Her joy exceeds that of his joyous birth.
-Tirukkural 7:68-69
***
Prayer does half, repentance does all.
- Joshua b. Levi, Leviticus Rabbah
***
Here he's tormented
he's tormented hereafter.
In both worlds
the wrong-doer's tormented.
He's tormented at the thought,
'I've done wrong.'
Having gone to a bad destination,
he's tormented
all the more.
Here he delights
he delights hereafter.
In both worlds
the merit-maker delights.
He delights at the thought,
'I've made merit.'
Having gone to a good destination,
he delights
all the more.
-Dhammapada, 17-18, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
***
It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.
-Joel Osteen
***
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
-Aldous Huxley
The rituals and the sacrifices described
In the Vedas deal with lower knowledge.
The sages ignored these rituals
And went in search of higher knowledge. ...
Such rituals are unsafe rafts for crossing
The sea of samsara, of birth and death.
Doomed to shipwreck are those who try to cross
The sea of samsara on these poor rafts.
Ignorant of their own ignorance, yet wise
In their own esteem, these deluded men
Proud of their vain learning go round and round
Like the blind led by the blind.
-Mundaka Upanishad
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For the sake of one true penitent, the whole world is pardoned.
- Rabbi Meir,
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Happy is one who knows samsara and nirvana are not two.
-Milarepa, "Drinking the Mountain Stream"
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In the Vedas deal with lower knowledge.
The sages ignored these rituals
And went in search of higher knowledge. ...
Such rituals are unsafe rafts for crossing
The sea of samsara, of birth and death.
Doomed to shipwreck are those who try to cross
The sea of samsara on these poor rafts.
Ignorant of their own ignorance, yet wise
In their own esteem, these deluded men
Proud of their vain learning go round and round
Like the blind led by the blind.
-Mundaka Upanishad
***
For the sake of one true penitent, the whole world is pardoned.
- Rabbi Meir,
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Happy is one who knows samsara and nirvana are not two.
-Milarepa, "Drinking the Mountain Stream"
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He who is greatest among you shall be your servant; whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
-Matthew 23:11-12 (Revised Standard Version)
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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-Winston Churchill
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There is only one state. When corrupted and tainted by self-identification, it is known as an individual. When merely tinted by the sense of presence, of animated consciousness, it is the impersonal witnessing. When it remains in its pristine purity, untainted and untinted in primal repose, it is the Absolute.
-Ramesh Balsekar
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True charity remembers not only those in need who ask, but also those who are prevented by some reason from asking.
-Sura 51:19
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To atone is to be at one with God, to sink self into the not-self, to achieve a mystic unity with the source of being, wiping out all error and finding peace in self-submergence.
- Isaac Goldberg, "The Wonder of Words"
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It is essential that you neither despise nor grasp for either the realm of activity or that of quietude, and that you continue your practice assiduously.
Frequently you may feel that you are getting nowhere with practice in the midst of activity, whereas the quietistic approach brings unexpected results. Yet rest assured that those who use the quietistic approach can never hope to enter into meditation in the midst of activity.
-Hakuin, "Zen Master Hakuin"
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Prayer is faith passing into action.
-Richard Cecil
***
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
-Danny Kaye
-Matthew 23:11-12 (Revised Standard Version)
***
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-Winston Churchill
***
There is only one state. When corrupted and tainted by self-identification, it is known as an individual. When merely tinted by the sense of presence, of animated consciousness, it is the impersonal witnessing. When it remains in its pristine purity, untainted and untinted in primal repose, it is the Absolute.
-Ramesh Balsekar
***
True charity remembers not only those in need who ask, but also those who are prevented by some reason from asking.
-Sura 51:19
***
To atone is to be at one with God, to sink self into the not-self, to achieve a mystic unity with the source of being, wiping out all error and finding peace in self-submergence.
- Isaac Goldberg, "The Wonder of Words"
***
It is essential that you neither despise nor grasp for either the realm of activity or that of quietude, and that you continue your practice assiduously.
Frequently you may feel that you are getting nowhere with practice in the midst of activity, whereas the quietistic approach brings unexpected results. Yet rest assured that those who use the quietistic approach can never hope to enter into meditation in the midst of activity.
-Hakuin, "Zen Master Hakuin"
***
Prayer is faith passing into action.
-Richard Cecil
***
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
-Danny Kaye
In form you are the microcosm;
in reality you are the macrocosm.
-Mathnawi [IV, 521]
***
To me the understanding of the glory of God is really the only explanation that makes sense to me of human suffering.
-Max Lucado
***
Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness--these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.
-F.W. Robertson
***
When we are firmly established in nonviolence, all beings around us cease to feel hostility. When we are firmly established in truthfulness, action accomplishes its desired end.
When we are firmly established in integrity, all riches present themselves freely. When we are firmly established in chastity, subtle potency is generated. When we are established in nonattachment, the nature and purpose of existence is understood.
-The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 2: 35-39
***
Each sin is recorded the same day in heaven.
- Apocrypha: Enoch 98.7
***
Enlightenment is a way of saying that all things are seen in their intrinsic empty nature, their Suchness, their ungraspable wonder. Names or words are merely incidental, but that state which sees no division, no duality, is enlightenment.
-Prajnaparamita
in reality you are the macrocosm.
-Mathnawi [IV, 521]
***
To me the understanding of the glory of God is really the only explanation that makes sense to me of human suffering.
-Max Lucado
***
Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness--these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.
-F.W. Robertson
***
When we are firmly established in nonviolence, all beings around us cease to feel hostility. When we are firmly established in truthfulness, action accomplishes its desired end.
When we are firmly established in integrity, all riches present themselves freely. When we are firmly established in chastity, subtle potency is generated. When we are established in nonattachment, the nature and purpose of existence is understood.
-The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 2: 35-39
***
Each sin is recorded the same day in heaven.
- Apocrypha: Enoch 98.7
***
Enlightenment is a way of saying that all things are seen in their intrinsic empty nature, their Suchness, their ungraspable wonder. Names or words are merely incidental, but that state which sees no division, no duality, is enlightenment.
-Prajnaparamita
G is for gratitude. When I'm in gratitude, if I even stop and make a list of the things I'm grateful for, that's a form of prayer. It breaks my trance of misery or self-absorption.
***
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
***
The Self in man and in the sun are one.
Those who understand this see through the world
And go beyond the various sheaths of being
To realize the unity of life.
-Taittiriya Upanishad
***
O ye who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that ye may (learn) self-restraint.
-Qur'an, Al-Baqara, Surah 2:183
***
Repentance means that the sinner forsake his sins, cast them out of his mind, and resolve in his heart to sin no more.
- Maimonides, "Yad: Teshuba," 1180
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If he recites next to nothing
but follows the Dhamma
in line with the Dhamma;
abandoning passion,
aversion, delusion;
alert,
his mind well-released,
not clinging
either here or hereafter:
he has his share in the contemplative life.
-Dhammapada, 20, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
***
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
***
The Self in man and in the sun are one.
Those who understand this see through the world
And go beyond the various sheaths of being
To realize the unity of life.
-Taittiriya Upanishad
***
O ye who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that ye may (learn) self-restraint.
-Qur'an, Al-Baqara, Surah 2:183
***
Repentance means that the sinner forsake his sins, cast them out of his mind, and resolve in his heart to sin no more.
- Maimonides, "Yad: Teshuba," 1180
***
If he recites next to nothing
but follows the Dhamma
in line with the Dhamma;
abandoning passion,
aversion, delusion;
alert,
his mind well-released,
not clinging
either here or hereafter:
he has his share in the contemplative life.
-Dhammapada, 20, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
The intelligent person sees with the heart
the result from the beginning;
the one lacking in knowledge
only discovers it at the end.
-Mathnawi [V, 2570]
***
Pray, and let God worry.
-William Law
***
You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.
-Eva Jessye
***
We also often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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the result from the beginning;
the one lacking in knowledge
only discovers it at the end.
-Mathnawi [V, 2570]
***
Pray, and let God worry.
-William Law
***
You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.
-Eva Jessye
***
We also often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
***
When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy.
-Corrie Ten Boom
***
A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future.
-Frank Underhill
***
The great teacher Prajapati said: “The Self
is pure, free from decay and death, free from
hunger and thirst, and free from sorrow. The
Self desires nothing that is not good, wills
nothing that is not good. Seek and realize the
Self! Those who seek and realize the Self
fulfill all their desires and attain the goal
supreme.”
-Chandogya Upanishad
***
I made peace with all the people in the world, resolving never to wage war on anyone, and I waged war against my self and have never since made peace with it.
-Kharaqani in Attar: Tadhkirat
***
By remembering the insecurity which his or her own people experienced, the Jew should adopt a more generous and understanding attitude towards other peoples whose lives and destinies are still as insecure as the sukkah.
- Rabbi Abraham Dubin
***
The world's end can never be reached
by means of traveling through the world,
Yet without reaching the world's end
there is no release from suffering.
Therefore, truly, the world-knower, the wise one,
gone to the world's end, fulfiller of the holy life,
having known the world's end, at peace,
longs not for this world or another.
-Buddha, "The Connected Discourses of the Buddha"
***
-Corrie Ten Boom
***
A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future.
-Frank Underhill
***
The great teacher Prajapati said: “The Self
is pure, free from decay and death, free from
hunger and thirst, and free from sorrow. The
Self desires nothing that is not good, wills
nothing that is not good. Seek and realize the
Self! Those who seek and realize the Self
fulfill all their desires and attain the goal
supreme.”
-Chandogya Upanishad
***
I made peace with all the people in the world, resolving never to wage war on anyone, and I waged war against my self and have never since made peace with it.
-Kharaqani in Attar: Tadhkirat
***
By remembering the insecurity which his or her own people experienced, the Jew should adopt a more generous and understanding attitude towards other peoples whose lives and destinies are still as insecure as the sukkah.
- Rabbi Abraham Dubin
***
The world's end can never be reached
by means of traveling through the world,
Yet without reaching the world's end
there is no release from suffering.
Therefore, truly, the world-knower, the wise one,
gone to the world's end, fulfiller of the holy life,
having known the world's end, at peace,
longs not for this world or another.
-Buddha, "The Connected Discourses of the Buddha"
***
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Do not treat people with contempt, nor walk insolently on the earth. Allah does not love the arrogant or the self-conceited boaster. Be modest in your bearing and subdue your voice, for the most unpleasant of voices is the braying of the ass.
-Luqman 31:18-19
From "The Bounty of Allah," translated by Aneela Khalid Arshed
-Luqman 31:18-19
From "The Bounty of Allah," translated by Aneela Khalid Arshed
If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God’s courage and his help.
-Max Lucado
***
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
-Grace Murray Hopper
***
The intense desire for God-realization is itself the way to it.
-Sri Anadamayi MM
***
Hasten with your charity, because disaster does not trample it.
-The Prophet Muhammad (SAW), as reported by 'Ali bin Abi Talib
***
The booth is designed to teach us not to put our trust in the size or strength or improvements of a house, nor in the help of any man, even the lord of the land, but in the Creator, for He alone is mighty, His promises alone are sure.
- Isaac Aboab, Menorah HaMaor
***
Monk,
don't
on account of
your precepts & practices,
great erudition,
concentration attainments,
secluded dwelling,
or the thought, 'I touch
the renunciate ease
that run-of-the-mill people
don't know':
ever let yourself get complacent
when the ending of effluents
is still unattained.
-Dhammapada, 19, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
-Max Lucado
***
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
-Grace Murray Hopper
***
The intense desire for God-realization is itself the way to it.
-Sri Anadamayi MM
***
Hasten with your charity, because disaster does not trample it.
-The Prophet Muhammad (SAW), as reported by 'Ali bin Abi Talib
***
The booth is designed to teach us not to put our trust in the size or strength or improvements of a house, nor in the help of any man, even the lord of the land, but in the Creator, for He alone is mighty, His promises alone are sure.
- Isaac Aboab, Menorah HaMaor
***
Monk,
don't
on account of
your precepts & practices,
great erudition,
concentration attainments,
secluded dwelling,
or the thought, 'I touch
the renunciate ease
that run-of-the-mill people
don't know':
ever let yourself get complacent
when the ending of effluents
is still unattained.
-Dhammapada, 19, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
[T]he biggest challenge that any of us will ever have: to really get up in the morning and say, "OK God, what can I do to help somebody else today, how can I be a blessing to somebody else?"
-Joyce Meyer
***
The only people to get even with are those who have helped you.
-Anonymous
***
Laugh when troubles come your way.
There is nothing better to conquer calamity.
A flood of troubles will vanish the moment
The mind of a wise man collects itself to face them.
-Tirukkural 63: 621-622
***
During the High Holidays, we stand before God and pray for life and health and all the blessings that are in God’s power to bestow. During Sukkot, we express to God our profound gratitude for blessings that are already ours.
- Cantor James Gloth
***
The worthies of past ages all sought the truth and did not deceive themselves. They were not like moths throwing themselves into flames, destroying themselves in the process.
-Ta-sui
***
-Joyce Meyer
***
The only people to get even with are those who have helped you.
-Anonymous
***
Laugh when troubles come your way.
There is nothing better to conquer calamity.
A flood of troubles will vanish the moment
The mind of a wise man collects itself to face them.
-Tirukkural 63: 621-622
***
During the High Holidays, we stand before God and pray for life and health and all the blessings that are in God’s power to bestow. During Sukkot, we express to God our profound gratitude for blessings that are already ours.
- Cantor James Gloth
***
The worthies of past ages all sought the truth and did not deceive themselves. They were not like moths throwing themselves into flames, destroying themselves in the process.
-Ta-sui
***
Once a rich merchant, seeing Rabi'a's house falling into disrepair, gave her a thousand pieces of gold and a new house....Immediately she returned the money to the merchant and said, "I fear I will become attached to this house and will no longer be able to occupy myself with the other world. My only desire is to be of service to God."
-Rabi'a, "Rabi'a the Mystic"
***
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
-John 15:12-13 (Revised Standard Version)
***
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
-William James
***
Yet hazardous and slow is the path to the Unrevealed, difficult for physical man to tread. But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from the fragment's cycle of birth and death, for their consciousness has entered into me.
-Bhagavad Gita 12:5-7
***
The sukkah is designed to warn us that a man is not to put his trust in the size or strength or beauty of his house, though it is filled with all precious things...
- Rabbi Isaac Aboab de Fonseca (1605-1693)
***
Those who attain perfect wisdom are forever inspired by the conviction that the infinitely varied forms of this world, in all their relativity, far from being a hindrance and a dangerous distraction to the spiritual path, are really a healing medicine. Why? Because by the very fact that they are interdependent on each other and therefore have no separate self, they express the mystery and the energy of all-embracing love. Not just the illumined wise ones but every single being in the interconnected world is a dweller in the boundless infinity of love.
-Prajnaparmita
***
-Rabi'a, "Rabi'a the Mystic"
***
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
-John 15:12-13 (Revised Standard Version)
***
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
-William James
***
Yet hazardous and slow is the path to the Unrevealed, difficult for physical man to tread. But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from the fragment's cycle of birth and death, for their consciousness has entered into me.
-Bhagavad Gita 12:5-7
***
The sukkah is designed to warn us that a man is not to put his trust in the size or strength or beauty of his house, though it is filled with all precious things...
- Rabbi Isaac Aboab de Fonseca (1605-1693)
***
Those who attain perfect wisdom are forever inspired by the conviction that the infinitely varied forms of this world, in all their relativity, far from being a hindrance and a dangerous distraction to the spiritual path, are really a healing medicine. Why? Because by the very fact that they are interdependent on each other and therefore have no separate self, they express the mystery and the energy of all-embracing love. Not just the illumined wise ones but every single being in the interconnected world is a dweller in the boundless infinity of love.
-Prajnaparmita
***
What is justice? Giving water to trees.
What is injustice? To give water to thorns.
Justice consists in bestowing bounty in its proper place,
not on every root that will absorb water.
-Mathnawi [V, 1089-1090]
***
Absolutely nothing will revitalize a discouraged church faster than rediscovering its purpose.
-Rick Warren
***
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
-Justice Arthur Goldberg
***
You are the clear space of awareness,
Pure and still,
In whom there is no birth,
No activity,
No "I."
You are one and the same.
You cannot change or die.
You are in whatever you see.
You alone.
Just as bracelets and bangles
And dancing anklets
Are all of the same gold.
-Astavakra Gita 15:13-14
***
Sukkot corresponds to Redemption--a time in which we live under the sheltering embrace of God's Presence and enjoy the full bounty of God's blessings.
- Rabbi Lauren Eichler Berkun
***
That's not a strong bond
--so say the enlightened--
the one made of iron, of wood, or of grass.
To be smitten, enthralled,
with jewels & ornaments,
longing for children & wives:
that's the strong bond,
--so say the enlightened--
one that's constraining,
elastic,
hard to untie.
But having cut it, they
--the enlightened--go forth,
free of longing, abandoning
sensual ease.
-Dhammapada, 24, translated by Thainssaro Bhikkhu.
What is injustice? To give water to thorns.
Justice consists in bestowing bounty in its proper place,
not on every root that will absorb water.
-Mathnawi [V, 1089-1090]
***
Absolutely nothing will revitalize a discouraged church faster than rediscovering its purpose.
-Rick Warren
***
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
-Justice Arthur Goldberg
***
You are the clear space of awareness,
Pure and still,
In whom there is no birth,
No activity,
No "I."
You are one and the same.
You cannot change or die.
You are in whatever you see.
You alone.
Just as bracelets and bangles
And dancing anklets
Are all of the same gold.
-Astavakra Gita 15:13-14
***
Sukkot corresponds to Redemption--a time in which we live under the sheltering embrace of God's Presence and enjoy the full bounty of God's blessings.
- Rabbi Lauren Eichler Berkun
***
That's not a strong bond
--so say the enlightened--
the one made of iron, of wood, or of grass.
To be smitten, enthralled,
with jewels & ornaments,
longing for children & wives:
that's the strong bond,
--so say the enlightened--
one that's constraining,
elastic,
hard to untie.
But having cut it, they
--the enlightened--go forth,
free of longing, abandoning
sensual ease.
-Dhammapada, 24, translated by Thainssaro Bhikkhu.
The fire of anger only burns the angry.
-Chinese Proverb (submitted by ccm05)
***
For Jesus...the point of religion is to help us connect with ultimate reality, God.
-Rob Bell
***
The universe is loved not for its own sake, but because the Self lives in it.
The gods are loved not for their own sake, but because the Self lives in it.
Creatures are loved not for their own sake, but because the Self lives in it.
Everything is loved not for its own sake, but because the Self lives in it.
-Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
***
"This book should not be doubted. It is a guide to the righteous, who believe in the unseen mysteries, and are steadfast in prayer; who give generously from what we have given them; who trust what has been revealed to Muhammad and others before him; and who firmly believe in the life to come." The righteous are those who accept the righteous guidance of their Lord; and they will surely triumph.
-Qur'an, Al-Baqara, Surah 2:2-5
***
The rejoicing that a person experiences in performing a commandment and in loving G-d as He commanded is of great importance in worshipping the Lord, and whoever holds himself back from this rejoicing deserves retribution.
- Maimonides, Hilkhot Shofar Sukkah ve-Lulav 8.14-15
***
There are, bhikkhus, two successive Dhamma-teachings of the Tathagata, the Arahant, the Fully Enlightened One. What are the two? 'See evil as evil'--this is the first Dhamma-teaching. 'Having seen evil as evil, be rid of it, be detached from it, be freed from it'--this is the second Dhamma-teaching.
-Itivuttaka
-Chinese Proverb (submitted by ccm05)
***
For Jesus...the point of religion is to help us connect with ultimate reality, God.
-Rob Bell
***
The universe is loved not for its own sake, but because the Self lives in it.
The gods are loved not for their own sake, but because the Self lives in it.
Creatures are loved not for their own sake, but because the Self lives in it.
Everything is loved not for its own sake, but because the Self lives in it.
-Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
***
"This book should not be doubted. It is a guide to the righteous, who believe in the unseen mysteries, and are steadfast in prayer; who give generously from what we have given them; who trust what has been revealed to Muhammad and others before him; and who firmly believe in the life to come." The righteous are those who accept the righteous guidance of their Lord; and they will surely triumph.
-Qur'an, Al-Baqara, Surah 2:2-5
***
The rejoicing that a person experiences in performing a commandment and in loving G-d as He commanded is of great importance in worshipping the Lord, and whoever holds himself back from this rejoicing deserves retribution.
- Maimonides, Hilkhot Shofar Sukkah ve-Lulav 8.14-15
***
There are, bhikkhus, two successive Dhamma-teachings of the Tathagata, the Arahant, the Fully Enlightened One. What are the two? 'See evil as evil'--this is the first Dhamma-teaching. 'Having seen evil as evil, be rid of it, be detached from it, be freed from it'--this is the second Dhamma-teaching.
-Itivuttaka
We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
-William Law
***
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
-Dorothy Nevill
***
Knowledge or ignorance,
Freedom or bondage,
What are they?
What is "I,"
Or "mine,"
Or "this"?
Or the form of the true Self?
I am always one.
What do I care for freedom
In life or in death,
Or for my present karma?
-Ashtavakra Gita 20:3-4
***
O Love, O pure deep love,
be here, be now.
Be all; worlds dissolve
into your stainless endless radiance,
Frail living leaves burn with you
brighter than cold stars:
Make me your servant,
your breath, your core.
-Rumi
***
When people sit in a sukkah, the “shade of faithfulness”-the shekhinah [the feminine divine manifestation]-spreads Her wings over them.
- The Zohar Emor 103b
***
The everyday life of people is like clouds and water, but clouds and water are free while people are not. If they would get to be as free as clouds and water, where would people's compulsive mundane routines arise?
-Dogen, "Rational Zen"
-William Law
***
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
-Dorothy Nevill
***
Knowledge or ignorance,
Freedom or bondage,
What are they?
What is "I,"
Or "mine,"
Or "this"?
Or the form of the true Self?
I am always one.
What do I care for freedom
In life or in death,
Or for my present karma?
-Ashtavakra Gita 20:3-4
***
O Love, O pure deep love,
be here, be now.
Be all; worlds dissolve
into your stainless endless radiance,
Frail living leaves burn with you
brighter than cold stars:
Make me your servant,
your breath, your core.
-Rumi
***
When people sit in a sukkah, the “shade of faithfulness”-the shekhinah [the feminine divine manifestation]-spreads Her wings over them.
- The Zohar Emor 103b
***
The everyday life of people is like clouds and water, but clouds and water are free while people are not. If they would get to be as free as clouds and water, where would people's compulsive mundane routines arise?
-Dogen, "Rational Zen"
Jesus did not come to make God’s love possible, but to make God’s love visible.
-Unknown
***
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
-Janos Arany
***
For a person
forced on by his thinking,
fierce in his passion,
focused on beauty,
craving grows all the more.
He's the one
who tightens the bond.
But one who delights
in the stilling of thinking,
always mindful
cultivating
a focus on the foul:
He's the one
who will make an end,
the one who will cut Mara's bond.
-Dhammapada, 24, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
***
Some only ride on paths, while others rise across trackless deserts. Those who ride on paths, are like those who can see the way to God. Those who ride across trackless deserts, are like those who have lost the way to God. Yet God reveals himself within the souls of both; he is the inner reality of all people.
-Ibn Arabi, “Fusus al-hikam”
***
One should transfer the finest furniture and beds to the sukkah, eat and drink in the sukkah, and study in the sukkah.
- Babylonian Talmud, Sukkot 28b
***
The non-doing of any evil,
the performance of what's skillful,
the cleansing of one's own mind:
this is the teaching
of the Awakened.
-Dhammapada, 13, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
-Unknown
***
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
-Janos Arany
***
For a person
forced on by his thinking,
fierce in his passion,
focused on beauty,
craving grows all the more.
He's the one
who tightens the bond.
But one who delights
in the stilling of thinking,
always mindful
cultivating
a focus on the foul:
He's the one
who will make an end,
the one who will cut Mara's bond.
-Dhammapada, 24, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
***
Some only ride on paths, while others rise across trackless deserts. Those who ride on paths, are like those who can see the way to God. Those who ride across trackless deserts, are like those who have lost the way to God. Yet God reveals himself within the souls of both; he is the inner reality of all people.
-Ibn Arabi, “Fusus al-hikam”
***
One should transfer the finest furniture and beds to the sukkah, eat and drink in the sukkah, and study in the sukkah.
- Babylonian Talmud, Sukkot 28b
***
The non-doing of any evil,
the performance of what's skillful,
the cleansing of one's own mind:
this is the teaching
of the Awakened.
-Dhammapada, 13, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
The reason God wants his glory to be big is because that’s what the world according to the Bible means--a God who has a lifeboat big enough to save us.
-Max Lucado
***
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
-Louisa May Alcott
***
When a person is devoted to something with complete faith, I unify his faith in that. Then, when his faith is completely unified, he gains the object of his devotion. In this way, every desire is fulfilled by me. Those whose understanding is small attain only transient satisfaction: those who worship the gods go to the gods. But my devotees come to me.
-Bhagavad Gita 7: 21-23
***
I saw a man in Paradise for a deed as simple as cutting down a tree that stood in the middle of a road, causing wayfarers much distress.
-The Prophet Muhammad (SAW), as reported by Ibn Umar
***
When we invite the mythic ushpizin, or guests, into our sukkot, Jewish mystical tradition calls upon us not only to invite them in name, but to provide food for poor people in their stead.
- Rabbi Sara Paasche-Orlow
***
The experience of nirvana is beyond the scope of human concepts, including our reified ideas of existence and nonexistence.
-B. Alan Wallace, "Tibetan Buddhism From the Ground Up"
***
-Max Lucado
***
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
-Louisa May Alcott
***
When a person is devoted to something with complete faith, I unify his faith in that. Then, when his faith is completely unified, he gains the object of his devotion. In this way, every desire is fulfilled by me. Those whose understanding is small attain only transient satisfaction: those who worship the gods go to the gods. But my devotees come to me.
-Bhagavad Gita 7: 21-23
***
I saw a man in Paradise for a deed as simple as cutting down a tree that stood in the middle of a road, causing wayfarers much distress.
-The Prophet Muhammad (SAW), as reported by Ibn Umar
***
When we invite the mythic ushpizin, or guests, into our sukkot, Jewish mystical tradition calls upon us not only to invite them in name, but to provide food for poor people in their stead.
- Rabbi Sara Paasche-Orlow
***
The experience of nirvana is beyond the scope of human concepts, including our reified ideas of existence and nonexistence.
-B. Alan Wallace, "Tibetan Buddhism From the Ground Up"
***
Pray for a strong and lively sense of sin; the greater the sense of sin, the less sin.
-Samuel Rutherford
***
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
-John Hay
***
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the eternal religion because it embraces all others.
-Sri Aurobindo
***
Simhat Torah means "the Torah's joy," and implies that it is not enough for a Jew to find joy in the Torah, but the Torah should also find joy in him.
- Jose-Ber of Brisk
Reprinted with permission from 'A Treasury of Jewish Quotations,' edited by Joseph L. Baron, Jason Aronson Inc.
***
The king said: 'Nagasena, he who escapes reindividualization [rebirth], is it by reasoning that he escapes it?'
'Both by reasoning, your Majesty, and by wisdom, and by other good qualities.'
'But are not reasoning and wisdom surely much the same?'
'Certainly not. Reasoning is one thing, wisdom another. Sheep and goats, oxen and buffaloes, camels and asses have reasoning, but wisdom they have not.'
'Well put, Nagasena!'
-Milindapanha 32
***
-Samuel Rutherford
***
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
-John Hay
***
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the eternal religion because it embraces all others.
-Sri Aurobindo
***
Simhat Torah means "the Torah's joy," and implies that it is not enough for a Jew to find joy in the Torah, but the Torah should also find joy in him.
- Jose-Ber of Brisk
Reprinted with permission from 'A Treasury of Jewish Quotations,' edited by Joseph L. Baron, Jason Aronson Inc.
***
The king said: 'Nagasena, he who escapes reindividualization [rebirth], is it by reasoning that he escapes it?'
'Both by reasoning, your Majesty, and by wisdom, and by other good qualities.'
'But are not reasoning and wisdom surely much the same?'
'Certainly not. Reasoning is one thing, wisdom another. Sheep and goats, oxen and buffaloes, camels and asses have reasoning, but wisdom they have not.'
'Well put, Nagasena!'
-Milindapanha 32
***
Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.
-Mark 2:17 (Revised Standard Version)
***
Pray for a good harvest, but keep on plowing.
-Nancy Otto
***
To trust a man who has not been tested and to suspect a man
Who has proven trustworthy lead to endless ills.
-Tirukkural 510
***
Sufficient is our Lord for us. He is the greatest of all helpers; we depend upon Him alone.
-"Munajat E Maqbool"
***
Every glory and wonder, every deep mystery and all beautiful wisdom are hidden in the Torah, sealed up in her treasures.
- Nahmanides, Commentary on Pentateuch
***
The Five Precepts
1. For the purpose of training I vow to refrain from taking life.
2. For the purpose of training I vow to refrain from taking what is not given.
3. For the purpose of training I vow to refrain from sexual misconduct.
4. For the purpose of training I vow to refrain from false speech.
5. For the purpose of training I vow to refrain from intoxicants which lead to carelessness.
-translated by Gil Fronsdal
***
-Mark 2:17 (Revised Standard Version)
***
Pray for a good harvest, but keep on plowing.
-Nancy Otto
***
To trust a man who has not been tested and to suspect a man
Who has proven trustworthy lead to endless ills.
-Tirukkural 510
***
Sufficient is our Lord for us. He is the greatest of all helpers; we depend upon Him alone.
-"Munajat E Maqbool"
***
Every glory and wonder, every deep mystery and all beautiful wisdom are hidden in the Torah, sealed up in her treasures.
- Nahmanides, Commentary on Pentateuch
***
The Five Precepts
1. For the purpose of training I vow to refrain from taking life.
2. For the purpose of training I vow to refrain from taking what is not given.
3. For the purpose of training I vow to refrain from sexual misconduct.
4. For the purpose of training I vow to refrain from false speech.
5. For the purpose of training I vow to refrain from intoxicants which lead to carelessness.
-translated by Gil Fronsdal
***
Be it the world or the space, He is with you. He chastises to make the impure pure. Neglect devotion and be bound by fetters of pain and doubt. Seek freedom, the remedy of all pain. Seek the roots from which sprout leaves and fruit. Water the roots and grow to perfection. And when the fruit blossoms, give it to your friends.
-Rumi, "Mathnawi"
***
Always my salvation was laughter–laughing with friends, with girlfriends, laughing in the dark…it turned out that when hardships came, the sense of humor of my friends, and of my own, saved the day.
-Anne Lamott
***
There is no fire like greed and no crime like hatred. There is no sorrow like being bound to this world; there is no happiness like freedom.
-Dhammapada
***
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
-Muhammad Ali
***
The great teacher Prajapati said: "The Self
is pure, free from decay and death, free from
hunger and thirst, and free from sorrow. The
Self desires nothing that is not good, wills
nothing that is not good. Seek and realize the
Self! Those who seek and realize the Self
fulfill all their desires and attain the goal
supreme."
-Chandogya Upanishad
***
-Rumi, "Mathnawi"
***
Always my salvation was laughter–laughing with friends, with girlfriends, laughing in the dark…it turned out that when hardships came, the sense of humor of my friends, and of my own, saved the day.
-Anne Lamott
***
There is no fire like greed and no crime like hatred. There is no sorrow like being bound to this world; there is no happiness like freedom.
-Dhammapada
***
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
-Muhammad Ali
***
The great teacher Prajapati said: "The Self
is pure, free from decay and death, free from
hunger and thirst, and free from sorrow. The
Self desires nothing that is not good, wills
nothing that is not good. Seek and realize the
Self! Those who seek and realize the Self
fulfill all their desires and attain the goal
supreme."
-Chandogya Upanishad
***
[Miracles] are designed with one goal in mind: to bring glory to God.
-Jodie Berndt, "Celebration of Miracles"
***
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
-Pearl Bailey
***
Thinking
Of what is beyond thinking
Is still thinking.
Whoever fulfills this
fulfills his own nature
And is indeed fulfilled.
-Ashtavakra Gita 12:7-8
***
Sufficient is our Lord for us. He is the greatest of all helpers; we depend upon Him alone.
-"Munajat E Maqbool"
***
One may not rely on a miracle.
- Babylonian Talmud, Pesachim 64b
As cited in "Jewish
***
The image of an extinguished fire carried no connotations of annihilation for the early Buddhists. Rather, the aspects of fire that to them had significance for the mind-fire analogy are these: Fire, when burning, is in a state of agitation, dependence, attachment, and entrapment—both clinging and being stuck to its sustenance. Extinguished, it becomes calm, independent, indeterminate, and unattached: It lets go of its sustenance and is released.
-Thanissaro Bhikkhu, "Mind Like Fire Unbound"
***
-Jodie Berndt, "Celebration of Miracles"
***
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
-Pearl Bailey
***
Thinking
Of what is beyond thinking
Is still thinking.
Whoever fulfills this
fulfills his own nature
And is indeed fulfilled.
-Ashtavakra Gita 12:7-8
***
Sufficient is our Lord for us. He is the greatest of all helpers; we depend upon Him alone.
-"Munajat E Maqbool"
***
One may not rely on a miracle.
- Babylonian Talmud, Pesachim 64b
As cited in "Jewish
***
The image of an extinguished fire carried no connotations of annihilation for the early Buddhists. Rather, the aspects of fire that to them had significance for the mind-fire analogy are these: Fire, when burning, is in a state of agitation, dependence, attachment, and entrapment—both clinging and being stuck to its sustenance. Extinguished, it becomes calm, independent, indeterminate, and unattached: It lets go of its sustenance and is released.
-Thanissaro Bhikkhu, "Mind Like Fire Unbound"
***
Love is not blind, it sees more not less;
But because it sees more it chooses to see less.
-Unknown
***
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
***
When the mind is stilled in dreamless sleep,
It brings rest and repose to the body.
Just as birds fly to the tree for rest,
All things in life find their rest in the Self.
-Prashna Upanishad
***
When your heart is dark as iron,
steadily polish yourself
that the heart may become a mirror,
a beautiful shine reflecting from within.
Although iron is dark and dismal,
polishing clears the darkness away.
-Rumi, "Mathnawi"
***
The brightly shining mind is never absent but is colored by the thoughts and emotions that people put upon it. If you were to see the luminous freedom of this mind, you would cultivate it before any other, keeping it free from all attachments.
-Anguttara Nikaya
***
But because it sees more it chooses to see less.
-Unknown
***
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
***
When the mind is stilled in dreamless sleep,
It brings rest and repose to the body.
Just as birds fly to the tree for rest,
All things in life find their rest in the Self.
-Prashna Upanishad
***
When your heart is dark as iron,
steadily polish yourself
that the heart may become a mirror,
a beautiful shine reflecting from within.
Although iron is dark and dismal,
polishing clears the darkness away.
-Rumi, "Mathnawi"
***
The brightly shining mind is never absent but is colored by the thoughts and emotions that people put upon it. If you were to see the luminous freedom of this mind, you would cultivate it before any other, keeping it free from all attachments.
-Anguttara Nikaya
***
Without love in the heart,
Life is like a sapless tree in a barren desert.
What good is a body perfect in outer ways,
If inwardly it is impaired by lack of love?
With love enshrined in the heart, one lives.
Without it, the body is but bone encased in skin.
-Tirukkural 8:78-80
***
Friendship takes many years to establish; so do not fall out with a friend over a single disagreement.
-Sadi, "Gulistan"
***
They're easy to do--
things of no good
& no use to yourself.
What's truly useful & good
is truly harder than hard to do.
-Dhammapada, 7, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
***
Life is like a sapless tree in a barren desert.
What good is a body perfect in outer ways,
If inwardly it is impaired by lack of love?
With love enshrined in the heart, one lives.
Without it, the body is but bone encased in skin.
-Tirukkural 8:78-80
***
Friendship takes many years to establish; so do not fall out with a friend over a single disagreement.
-Sadi, "Gulistan"
***
They're easy to do--
things of no good
& no use to yourself.
What's truly useful & good
is truly harder than hard to do.
-Dhammapada, 7, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
***
I don’t follow Jesus because I think Christianity is the best religion. I follow Jesus because he leads me into ultimate reality.
***
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
-Anonymous
***
When he is seen within us and without,
He sets right all doubts and dispels the pain
Of wrong actions committed in the past.
-Mundaka Upanishad
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When you see the misfortune of your brother, do not rejoice, for Allah may save him and afflict you with the same misfortune.
-The Prophet Muhammad (SAW), as reported by Wa'silah bin al-Asqa'a
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The Holy One hates him who says one thing in his mouth, and another in his heart.
- Babylonian Talmud, Pesachim 113b
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To study the Buddha is to study oneself. To study oneself is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to be enlightened by the myriad dharmas. To be enlightened by the myriad dharmas is to bring about the dropping away of body and mind of both oneself and others. The traces of enlightenment come to an end, and this traceless enlightenment is continued endlessly.
-Dôgen, "Flowers Fall"
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It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace, and live in peace.
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If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
-Anonymous
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When he is seen within us and without,
He sets right all doubts and dispels the pain
Of wrong actions committed in the past.
-Mundaka Upanishad
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When you see the misfortune of your brother, do not rejoice, for Allah may save him and afflict you with the same misfortune.
-The Prophet Muhammad (SAW), as reported by Wa'silah bin al-Asqa'a
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The Holy One hates him who says one thing in his mouth, and another in his heart.
- Babylonian Talmud, Pesachim 113b
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To study the Buddha is to study oneself. To study oneself is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to be enlightened by the myriad dharmas. To be enlightened by the myriad dharmas is to bring about the dropping away of body and mind of both oneself and others. The traces of enlightenment come to an end, and this traceless enlightenment is continued endlessly.
-Dôgen, "Flowers Fall"
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It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace, and live in peace.
I don't think [heaven is] just a place to have your needs met, though I think all our needs will be met.
-Anne Graham Lotz
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
-Storm Jameson
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You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself—without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat. For yoga is perfect evenness of mind.
-Bhagavad Gita
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Establish worship, give in charity, and obey the messenger that you may find mercy.
-Qur'an, Al-Nour, Surah 24:56
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The purely righteous do not complain about evil, rather they add justice. They do not complain about heresy, rather they add faith. They do not complain about ignorance, rather they add wisdom.
- Rav Abraham Isaac Kook
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The brahman Dona saw the Buddha sitting under a tree and was impressed by his peaceful air of alertness and his good looks. He asked the Buddha:
"Are you a god?"
"No, brahman, I am not a god."
"Then an angel?"
"No, indeed, brahman."
"A spirit, then?"
"No, I am not a spirit."
"Then what are you?"
"I am awake."
-Anguttara Nikaya
-Anne Graham Lotz
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
-Storm Jameson
***
You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself—without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat. For yoga is perfect evenness of mind.
-Bhagavad Gita
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Establish worship, give in charity, and obey the messenger that you may find mercy.
-Qur'an, Al-Nour, Surah 24:56
***
The purely righteous do not complain about evil, rather they add justice. They do not complain about heresy, rather they add faith. They do not complain about ignorance, rather they add wisdom.
- Rav Abraham Isaac Kook
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The brahman Dona saw the Buddha sitting under a tree and was impressed by his peaceful air of alertness and his good looks. He asked the Buddha:
"Are you a god?"
"No, brahman, I am not a god."
"Then an angel?"
"No, indeed, brahman."
"A spirit, then?"
"No, I am not a spirit."
"Then what are you?"
"I am awake."
-Anguttara Nikaya