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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: RareTricho] * 1
    #28610941 - 01/05/24 07:45 PM (22 days, 11 hours ago)

The west winds often last too long, but when they calm down nothing ever feels the same. -Jack Johnson


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: CrimjobDiggits] * 1
    #28629450 - 01/21/24 06:23 AM (7 days, 40 minutes ago)

Stephen Mitchell - The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose;
"Mind is everything; mind is nothing. Mind creates time and space, mind contains a billion galaxies, mind lifts a spoon of oatmeal to its mouth at breakfast. Mind is life and death, God and devil, you and I; mind stands at the top of the mountain; mind cries for its mother’s breast. Mind pulls the universe out of a top hat, bows to its own applause, and walks off the stage, grinning."


Kabir;
"The river and its waves are one surf:
where is the difference between
the river and its waves?
When the wave rises, it is the water;
and when it falls,
it is the same water again.
Tell me, Sir, where is the distinction?
Because it has been named as wave,
shall it no longer be considered as water?"


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: spinvis] * 1
    #28629451 - 01/21/24 06:24 AM (7 days, 40 minutes ago)

Padmasambhava (8th Century) - The Book of the Great Liberation;
"Since there is really no duality, separation is unreal. Until duality is transcended and at-one-ment realized, enlightenment cannot be attained. Both samsara and nirvana, an inseparable unity, are your own mind. It is only because of deluded ideas, which you are free to accept or reject, that you wander in the world of samsara. Practice the Dharma, grasp the essence of these teachings, and free yourself from every attachment. 
When you seek your mind in its true state, you will find it quite intelligible, although it cannot be seen. In its true state, mind is naked, immaculate, transparent, empty, timeless, uncreated, unimpeded; not realizable as a separate thing, but as the unity of all things, yet not composed of them; undifferentiated, self-radiant, indivisible, and without qualities.
Your own mind is not separate from other minds; it shines forth, unobscured, for all living beings. 
Your own mind is originally as pure and empty as the sky. To know whether or not this is true, look inside your own mind. 
Without beginning or ending, your original wisdom has been shining forever, like the sun. To know whether or not this is true, look inside your own mind. 
Your original wisdom is as continuous and unstoppable as the current of a mighty river. To know whether or not this is true, look inside your own mind. 
When you realize that all phenomena are as unstable as the air, they lose their power to fascinate and bind you. To know whether or not this is true, look inside your own mind. 
All phenomena are your own ideas, self-conceived in the mind, like reflections in a mirror. To know whether or not this is true, look inside your own mind. 
Arising spontaneously and free as the clouds in the sky, all phenomena fade away by themselves. To know whether or not this is true, look inside your own mind. 
Again and again, look inside your own mind. When you look outward into the emptiness of space, you will find no place where the mind is shining. When you look into your own mind in search of the radiance, you will find nothing that shines. 
This self-originated clear light is eternal and unborn. How strange and marvelous! 
Since it is unborn, it cannot die. How strange and marvelous! 
Although it is absolute reality, there is no one to perceive it. How strange and marvelous! 
Although it wanders in samsara, it is undefiled by evil. How strange and marvelous! 
Although it sees the Buddha, it is unattached to good. How strange and marvelous! 
Although it is possessed by all beings, it is not recognized by them. How strange and marvelous! 
Although the clear light of reality shines inside their own mind, most people look for it outside. How strange and marvelous! 
Since there is nothing to meditate on, there is no meditation. Since there is nowhere you can go astray, there is no going astray. Without meditating, without going astray, look into the true state, where self-awareness, self-knowledge, self-illumination shine re-splendently. This is called the enlightened mind. 
These teachings are immeasurably deep and contain all wisdom. Although they are to be contemplated in a variety of ways, there are no two such things as contemplation and contemplator. When fully contemplated, these teachings merge with the seeker, although when sought the seeker himself cannot be found. There-upon the goal of the seeking is attained, and the end of the search. At this point there is nothing more to be sought, and no need to seek anything. 
Although there are no two such things as knowing and not knowing, there are profound and innumerable forms of meditation; and it is surpassingly excellent in the end to know your own mind. 
Since there are no two such things as meditation and meditator, if, by those who practice or do not practice meditation, the meditator is sought and not found, thereupon the goal of meditation is reached and also the end of meditation itself. 
Since there are no two such things as meditation and object of meditation, there is no need to fall under the sway of ignorance; for as the result of meditation on the original serenity of the mind, the uncreated wisdom instantaneously shines forth. 
Although there is an innumerable variety of profound practices, they do not exist for your mind in its true state; for there are no two such things as existence and non-existence. 
Since there are no two such things as practice and practitioner, if, by those who practice or do not practice, the practitioner of practice is sought and not found, thereupon the goal of practice is reached and also the end of the practice itself. 
The uncreated, self-radiant wisdom of your original mind, actionless, immaculate, transcendent over acceptance and rejection, is itself the perfect practice."


Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin;
"All mystics speak the same language for they come from the same country."


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: spinvis] * 1
    #28629452 - 01/21/24 06:24 AM (7 days, 40 minutes ago)

Ram Dass;
"Prolong not the past
Invite not the future
Do not alter your innate wakefulness
Fear not appearances
There is nothing more than this"


Nicholas of Cusa - The Vision of God;
"In all things is shown the Face of faces, veiled and in a riddle. Howbeit unveiled it is not seen, until, above all faces, a man enter into a certain secret and mystic silence, where there is no knowing or concept of a face. This mist, cloud, darkness or ignorance, into which he that seeketh thy Face entereth, when he goeth beyond all knowledge and concept, is the state below which Thy Face cannot be found, except veiled;
but that very darkness revealeth Thy Face to be there beyond all veils.
Hence I observe how needful it is for me to enter into the darkness and to admit the coincidence of opposites, beyond all grasp of reason, and there to seek the Truth, where Impossibility meeteth us."


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: spinvis] * 1
    #28629453 - 01/21/24 06:24 AM (7 days, 39 minutes ago)

Ramana Maharshi;
“How could you doubt the reality of this ‘I’ which is questioning? This ‘I’ is your ‘normal’ state. What effort, then, would you have to make in order to enter into this normal state?”


Pseudo-Dionysus the Areopagite - On The Mystical Theology;
"The simple, absolute and immutable mysteries of divine Truth are hidden in the super-luminous darkness of that silence which revealeth in secret. For this darkness, though of deepest obscurity, is yet radiantly clear; and, though beyond touch and sight, it more than fills our unseeing minds with splendours of transcendent beauty . . . And we behold that darkness beyond being, concealed under all natural light."


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    #28629454 - 01/21/24 06:25 AM (7 days, 39 minutes ago)

Abū al-Hasan al-Shushtarī - Dîwãn - 292;
"When I went towards my object
and listened to the music
My misery became glory
and my poverty, riches."


The Kena Upanishad;
"The Self is the ear of the ear, the eye of the eye. It is the mind of the mind, the speech of speech, and the life of life. Not clinging to any of the senses, not attached to any thought in the mind, the wise become one with the deathless Self.
Eye cannot see It, tongue cannot utter It, mind cannot grasp It. There is no way to learn or to teach It. It is different from the known, beyond the unknown. In this all the ancient Masters agree.
That which makes the tongue speak but which cannot be spoken by the tongue--that alone is Brahman, not what people worship.
That which makes the mind think but which cannot be thought by the mind--that alone is Brahman, not what people worship.
That which makes the eye see but which cannot be seen by the eye--that alone is Brahman, not what people worship.
That which makes the ear hear but which cannot be heard by the ear--that alone is Brahman, not what people worship.
If you think that you know Brahman, you know very little; all that you can know are ideas and images of Brahman.
I do not know Brahman, nor can I say that I don’t know It. If you understand the meaning of “I neither know nor don’t know,” you understand Brahman.
Those who realize that Brahman cannot be known, truly know; those who claim that they know, know nothing. The ignorant think that Brahman can be grasped by the mind; the wise know It beyond knowledge.
When you see that Brahman acts through you at every moment, in every movement of mind or body, you attain true freedom. When you realize the truth, and cling to nothing in the world, you enter eternal life."


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: spinvis] * 1
    #28629455 - 01/21/24 06:25 AM (7 days, 39 minutes ago)

Gene Roddenberry;
"In a very real sense, we are all aliens on a strange planet. We spend most of our lives reaching out and trying to communicate. If during our whole lifetime, we could reach out and really communicate with just two people, we are indeed very fortunate."


Bede Griffiths - Return to the Centre;
"The ultimate meaning and purpose of life cannot be expressed, cannot properly be thought. It is present everywhere, in everything, yet it always escapes our grasp. It is the 'Ground' of all existence, that from which all things come, to which all things return, but which never appears. It is 'within' all things, 'above' all things, 'beyond' all things, but it cannot be identified with anything. Without it nothing could exist, without it nothing can be known, yet it is itself unknown. It is that by which everything is known, yet which itself remains unknown. It is 'unseen but seeing, unheard but hearing, unperceived but perceixing, unknown but knowing'
. . . We speak of 'God', but this also is only a name for this inexpressible mystery."


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    #28629456 - 01/21/24 06:25 AM (7 days, 38 minutes ago)

Muju - Shaseki-shu (Collection of Stone and Sand) - 37. Publishing the Sutras;
"Tetsugen, a devotee of Zen in Japan, decided to publish the sutras, which at that time were available only in Chinese. The books were to be printed with wood blocks in an edition of seven thousand copies, a tremendous undertaking.

Tetsugen began by traveling and collecting donations for this purpose. A few sympathizers would give him a hundred pieces of gold, but most of the time he received only small coins. He thanked each donor with equal gratitude. After ten years Tetsugen had enough money to begin his task.

It happened that at that time the Uji River overflowed. Famine followed. Tetsugen took the funds he had collected for the books and spent them to save others from starvation. Then he began again his work of collecting.

Several years afterwards an epidemic spread over the country. Tetsugen again gave away what he had collected, to help his people. For a third time he started his work, and after twenty years his wish was fulfilled. The printing blocks which produced the first edition of sutras can be seen today in the Obaku monastery in Kyoto.

The Japanese tell their children that Tetsugen made three sets of sutras, and that the first two invisible sets surpass even the last."


Dudjom Rinpoche;
"No words can describe it
No example can point to it
Samsara does not make it worse
Nirvana does not make it better
It has never been born
It has never ceased
It has never been liberated
It has never been deluded
It has never existed
It has never been nonexistent
It has no limits at all
It does not fall into any kind of category"


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Re: Greatest Spiritual Quotes? [Re: spinvis] * 1
    #28629457 - 01/21/24 06:26 AM (7 days, 38 minutes ago)

Hildegard of Bingen;
"I am the one whose praise echoes on high.
I adorn all the earth.
I am the breeze that nurtures all things green.
I encourage blossoms to flourish with ripening fruits.
I am led by the spirit to feed the purest streams.
I am the rain coming from the dew
that causes the grasses to laugh with the joy of life.
I am the yearning for good."


Muhammad (c. 570–632);
"Whoever knows himself knows God."


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    #28630755 - 01/22/24 08:14 AM (5 days, 22 hours ago)

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

Chogyam Trungpa


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