Enlightening Quotes
The Space Within The Heart
The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe. The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun and the moon and the stars. Fire and lightening and winds are there, and all that now is and all that is not.
The Upanishads
A Wave On The Ocean
A wave on the ocean has a beginning and an end, a birth and a death… If a wave only sees its form, with its beginning and end, it will be afraid of birth and death. But if the wave sees that it is water and identifies itself with the water, then it will be emancipated from birth and death. Each wave is born and is going to die, but the water is free from birth and death.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
Natures of your kind…
“Natures of your kind, with strong, delicate senses, the soul-oriented, the dreamers, poets, lovers are always superior to us creatures of the mind. You take your being from your mothers. You live fully; you were endowed with the strength of love, the ability to feel. Whereas we creatures of reason, we don’t live fully; we live in an arid land, even though we often seem to guide and rule you. Yours is the plenitude of life, the sap of the fruit, the garden of passion, the beautiful landscape of art. Your home is the earth; ours is the world of ideas. You are in danger of drowning in the world of the senses; ours is the danger of suffocating in an airless void. You are an artist; I am a thinker. You sleep at your mother’s breast; I wake in the desert. For me the sun shines; for you the moon and the stars. ”
― Hermann Hesse
An Inner Wakefulness
There is an inner wakefulness, that directs the dream and that will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are.
~Rumi
There Is No Path
Walker, There is no path;
The Path is made by walking.
~Unknown
What is dark
What is dark clings to what is light and so enhances the brightness of the latter. A luminous thing giving out light must have within itself something that perseveres; otherwise it will in time burn itself out. Everything that gives light is dependent on something to which it clings, in order that it may continue to shine.
Thus the sun and moon cling to heaven, and grain, grass, and trees cling to the earth. So too the twofold clarity of the dedicated man clings to what is right and thereby can shape the world. Human life on earth is conditioned and unfree, and when man recognizes this limitation and makes himself dependent upon the harmonious and beneficent forces of the cosmos, he achieves success.
~I Ching
Being alive
Being alive is the meaning of life.
~Joseph Campbell
Truth is within ourselves
Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness; and to know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.
~Robert Browning
The simpler the life
The simpler the life the more profound the lessons
~Zen to Zany
When We Understand
When we understand –
we are at the center of the circle,
and there we sit while Yes and No chase each other around the circumference.
~Chuang-Tzu
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