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In the darkness and the silence

Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found.

– Nisargadatta Maharaj

A puzzling thing

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I’m looking for the truth”… and so it goes away.
Puzzling.

– Robert M. Pirsig

The place which men avoid

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

– Thoreau

No heaven, no hell

It took me forty years on earth
To reach this sure conclusion:
There is no Heaven but clarity,
No Hell except confusion.

– Jan Struther

I ask only to be used

I do not ask to see,
I do not ask to know,
I ask only to be used.

– Anonymous

The most difficult and the easiest

Surrender is the most difficult thing in the world while you are doing it and the easiest when it is done.

– Bhai Sahib

God is silence

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God is silence and is most easily reached in silence.

– Baha’ ad-din Naqshband

You will reach the spring

Search, no matter what situation you are in.
O thirsty one, search for water constantly.
Finally, the time will come when you will reach the spring.

– Rumi

The richest gem of all

Dwell, O mind, within yourself;
Enter no other’s home.
If you but seek there, you will find
All you are searching for.

God, the true Philosopher’s Stone,
Who answers every prayer,
Lies hidden deep within your heart,
The richest gem of all.

How many pearls and precious stones
Are scattered all about
The outer court that lies before
The chamber of your heart!

– Sri Ramakrishna