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To learn to accept what lies in between

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“My former master taught me to accept birth and death.”
“Then what have you come to me for?” asked the master.
“To learn to accept what lies in between.”

Anthony de Mello

The universe is constructed from love

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Learning to see love and to express that love is the purpose of living this life. What’s real has love at its heart; the universe is constructed from love, and that love is very much tied to our power of attention and imagination.

Fred Alan Wolf

Those who can forgive

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If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.
If you want to see the brave, look for those who can forgive.

From the Bhagavad Gita

The fundamental delusion of humanity

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

Yasutani Roshi

In this very breath

In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

Peter Matthiesen

Life is what happens to you

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

John Lennon

The true value of a human being

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

Albert Einstein

Who is it?

Search back into your own vision – think back to the mind that thinks.
Who is it?

Wu-Men

The duck has religion

He sits down in it.
He reposes in the immediate as if it were infinity – which it is.
That is religion, and the duck has it.
How about you?

Donald C. Babcock