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God is in me

God is in me or else is not at all.

– Wallace Stevens

A little man within

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What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

– Ludwig Wittgenstein

Never mind

What is mind?
No matter.

What is matter?
Never mind.

– Bertrand Russel

The appropriate place

Lovely snowflakes!
Each one falls in the appropriate place.

– Zen saying

The highest mystical teaching

The Self is hidden in the hearts of all, as butter lies hidden in cream.
Realize the Self in the depths of meditation;
The Lord of  Love, supreme reality, who is the goal of all knowledge.

This is the highest mystical teaching.

– From the Shveteshvatara Upanishad

One with this world

Sacred One,

Teach us love, compassion and honor
That we may heal the earth and heal each other.

My words are tied in one with the great mountains, with the great rocks, with the great trees.
In one with my body and my heart.
Do you all help me with supernatural power?

And you day, and you night.
All of you see me, One with the world!

– From a Yokuts prayer

I am in your midst

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I, God, am in your midst.
Whoever knows me can never fall.
Not in the heights,
nor in the depths,
nor in the breadths.
For I am love, which the vast expanses of evil can never still.

– Hildegard of Bingen

What is the question?

Just before she died, Gertrude Stein asked: “What is the answer?”
No answer came.

She laughed and said: “In that case, what is the question?”
Then she died.

Whatever your eye sees

You are not your body; you are the eye.
When you see the spirit, you are free of the body.
A human being is an eye – the rest is just flesh and bones.
Whatever your eye sees, you are that.

Rumi