` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. - Carlyle ` `...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you. Do not rely on your work for...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Patience is one of the principle things in life, although sometimes patience is as bitter, as hard,...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Is there something that you "should" be doing but are not doing? Get up and do it now. Alternatively,...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` That voice which is the origin of every cry and sound: that indeed is the only voice, and the rest are only...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` When a number of people are asleep, each dreams his own dream. Only on awakening the question of many different...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Ram Tzu knows this - You are perfect. Your every defect is perfectly defined. Your every blemish is perfectly placed....
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Personal identity is nothing more than an identification between the mind and the image which it has about...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` The creation of hells is the mind turned outward saying "I am the body." The creation of heavens is the...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` I saw a wise man dying of starvation. Leaves fall in the slightest wind in December. And I saw a wealthy...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` God connected Spirit with a body, in order that the prophet or saint might become a refuge for the whole world. - Rumi ` `...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` The world is not the illusion. It's you who are the illusion. Who you are is the context that the entire...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` I live in a world of realities, while yours is of imaginings. Your world is personal, private, unshareable,...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` The meaning of life is that life has no meaning other than the living of it as a dream over which one has...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Heaven and earth are impartial; They see the ten thousand things as straw dogs. The wise are impartial; ...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Like everything mental, the so-called law of causation contradicts itself. No thing in existence has a...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Divine grace is essential for realization. It leads one to God realisation. But such grace is vouchsafed...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Rare in the world is one who no longer even cares for experience. In him the true understanding has already...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` So you've cut up your hide and stretched it, pegged it down to dry with definite, sharp-pointed desires, but have...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` The role of destiny unfolds itself and actualizes the inevitable. You cannot change the course of events, but you can...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` The further one goes, the more difficulties there are; one finds greater faults in oneself as one advances...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` You are beyond happiness itself. You are that place where the waves of happiness arise from. Find that...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` The knowledge of Truth comes about when dispassion arises in a man after he has learned from personal...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Enlightenment consciously chosen means to relinquish your attachment to past and future and to make the Now...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Vain, boastful talk repels acts of kindness and tears the branch of mercy from the trunk of the tree. Speak...