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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

No greater happiness than this

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If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

Kitaro Nishida

Are you looking for the Holy One?

Are you looking for the Holy One?
I am in the next seat.
My shoulder is against yours.

Kabir

The seat of enlightenment

Do not build up your views upon your senses and thoughts; but at the same time do not seek the mind away from your senses and thoughts, do not try to grasp reality by rejecting your senses and thoughts. When you are neither attached or detached from them, then you enjoy perfect unobstructed freedom, then you have the seat of enlightenment.

Huang-Po Hsi-Yuan

Where does your question come from?

Said the monk: “All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars –  where do they come from?”

Said the master: “Where does your question come from?”

Anthony de Mello