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The only prayer

If the only prayer you ever said in your life was “thank you”,
that would suffice.

– Meister Eckhart

The greatest happiness

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

– William Saroyan

If thou wilt make a man happy

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

– Epicurus

Like a thief entering an empty house

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Like a thief entering an empty house,
bad thoughts cannot in any way harm an empty mind.

– Padmasanbhava

The mystical is…

The mystical is not how the world is,
but that it is.

– Ludwig Wittgenstein

The nothingness shows through

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God made everything out of nothing.
But the nothingness shows through.

– Paul Valéry

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in pure consciousness without objectification; knowing without thinking – merging finitude in infinity.

– Swami Sivananda

As deep as the mind allows

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.

– Japanese proverb

Being neither this nor that

As long as I am this or that, or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. Become pure till you neither are nor have either this or that; then you are omnipresent and, being neither this nor that, are all things.

– Meister Eckhart