If thou wilt make a man happy
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. – Epicurus
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Like a thief entering an empty house
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
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
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
“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
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