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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

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