Saturday, March 1, 2025

Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)

 “He already understood how to speak the “Om” silently, that word of words, how to speak it silently in his inner being as he inhaled, how to pronounce it silently out of himself as he exhaled, how to do so with his whole soul while his forehead was enveloped by the radiance of the clear-thinking mind. He already understood how to recognize Atman within this inner essence of his that was indestructible and one with the universe.”



Ralph Waldo Emerson

 “Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue… . ”



Hazrat Inayat Khan

 

As one rises above passion, so he begins to know what is love.

One need not fall in love, one must rise through love. Pour out floods of love, yet keeping your garment of detachment from being wet. ... To what does the love of God lead? It leads to that peace and stillness which can be seen in the life of the tree which flowers and bears fruit for others and expects no return.



Ramana Maharishi

 The Lord that seems not to exist He alone exists; we individuals who seem to exist do not exist at all. The experience of this our complete non-being is what is called the highest knowledge.



Jamgon Khentsye Chokyi Lodro

  Manifestation and manifestor are not two - in this state of oneness naturally remain. Live like this and you will not be ashamed at the moment of death, and in this life and others you will go from happiness to happiness - there is no doubt.



Rupert Spira

 Causeless joy, imperturbable peace, love that knows no opposite and freedom at the heart of all experience.... this is your ever-present nature under all circumstances.


- Yuanwu Keqin (1063–1135)

 "Just make your mind clean and free; like space, like a mirror, like the sun in the sky."



The Kena Upanishad

 


Amritabindu Upanishad

  Mind alone is the cause of bondage and liberation for human beings.  The mind attached to sense objects leads to bondage and that which is free of sense objects … sets one free



Hazrat Inayat Khan

 

When the grown-up person is made ready, when he has acquired the attributes of the child, then he creates heaven within himself, he understands. The child with his innocence does not understand, but when a person with understanding develops the childlike loving tendency, the purity of heart of the child with the desire to be friendly to all -- that is the opening of the heart, and it is by that blessing that he can receive all the privileges of human life.