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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