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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

Nearest to the gods

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

Socrates

Earth’s crammed with heaven

Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God:
But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The clearest way into the Universe

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

John Muir

The emptiness inside

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We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.

Lao Tzu

Seek what they sought

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

Basho