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We must ourselves be Love

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Love is difficult, because loving is not enough:
We must, like God, ourselves be Love.

Angelus Silesius

I am the supreme reality

Kill me, O my trustworthy friends, for in my being killed is my life.

Love is that you remain standing in front of your Beloved.
When you are deprived of all your attributes,
then His attributes become your qualities.

Between me and You, there’s only me.
Take away the me, so only You remain.

I am the Supreme Reality.

Al-Hallaj

Awakening in this world

A single moment of awakening in this world is eternity in the world to come.
The inner peace of the world to come is living in this world with full attention.
The two are one; flip sides of a coin forever tumbling and never caught.

from Pirke Avot

Part or particle of God

Standing on the bare ground… a mean egotism vanishes.
I become a transparent eyeball;
I am nothing;
I see all;
the currents of the universal being circulate through me;
I am part or particle of God.

Emerson

The fabricator of illusions

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions;
Reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Simone Weil

Unlearn what is untrue

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Antisthenes

Someday you will have been all of these

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

It is now

We are here and it is now.
Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

H.L. Mencken

The whole of life

The whole of life lies in the verb seeing.

Teilhard de Chardin