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Two kinds of people

There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don’t.

– Robert Benchley

All is the Self

What exists in truth is the Self alone. The world, the individual soul and God are appearances in it.
Like silver in mother-of-pearl, these three appear at the same time and disappear at the same time.

The Self is that where there is absolutely no ‘I-thought’.
That is called ‘Stillness’.

The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God;
all is Siva, the Self.

– Ramana Maharshi

Returning to the root

Things flourish, then each returns to its root.

Returning to the root is called stillness:
Stillness is called return to life,
return to life is called the constant;
knowing the constant is called enlightenment.

– Lao Tzu

The core of God

To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself.

This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life.

– Meister Eckhart

The beginning of wisdom

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting;
By doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

– Pierre Abelard

Unanswerable question

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

– Oliver Wendell Holmes

God is in me

God is in me or else is not at all.

– Wallace Stevens

A little man within

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What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

– Ludwig Wittgenstein

Never mind

What is mind?
No matter.

What is matter?
Never mind.

– Bertrand Russel