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Swami Sarvapriyananda

 The essence of the teaching is that you are the ultimate reality, and if you would know yourself as that, then all your problems would be solved.

Adi Shankaracharya

 Relinquish the ego-sense, which is the cause of all misery and which is the source of all the evil in the world. By the destruction of the ego, the mind becomes tranquil and the Self is realized.

Naropa

A natural knowing that is free of thought.

This self-knowing cannot possibly form thoughts. Without conceptualizing 'a mind,' Since it is not something to be conceived, This original wakefulness, cognizant yet thought-free, Is like the wisdom of the Tathagata. Therefore, it is taught, "Realize that luminous mind Is the mind of original wakefulness, And don't seek an enlightenment separate from that."

LAO TZU

 Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return. Each separate being in the Universe returns to the common source. Returning to the source is serenity.

Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return. Each separate being in the Universe returns to the common source. Returning to the source is serenity.

Christopher Isherwood

A few times in my life I’ve had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. It’s as though it had all just come into existence.

I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.

Henry Miller

Imagination is the voice of daring

If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

 

D.T. Suzuki

The ultimate standpoint of Zen is that… the peace we are seeking so eagerly has been there all the time.

Henry David Thoreau

“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep. To be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”

Atharva Veda Samhita, 7.52.1

Let us have concord with our own people, and concord

with people who are strangers to us. Aßvins, create

between us and the strangers a unity of hearts.