The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
– Yasutani Roshi
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 while you’re busy making other plans.
– John Lennon
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
– Albert Einstein
Search back into your own vision – think back to the mind that thinks. Who is it?
– Wu-Men
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
The outer work will never be puny if the inner work is great
– Meister Eckhart
Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else.
– Thomas Merton
Hatred does not cease by hatred; hatred ceases only by love. This is the eternal law.
– The Dhammapada
Knock, and He’ll open the door. Vanish, and He’ll make you shine like the sun.
Fall, and He’ll raise you to the heavens. Become nothing, and He’ll turn you into everything!
– Rumi