Thinking makes it so
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. – Shakespeare
Good and evil
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No heaven, no hell
It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion. – Jan Struther
This whole world is your own
I tell you one thing – If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own. – Sri Sarada Devi
What is reality?
What is worship? To realize reality. What is the sacred law? To do no evil. What is reality? Selflessness. – Ansari of Herat
A true learner of the Way
If one is a true learner of the Way, one does not search for the faults of the world, but rather speedily applies oneself to attain genuine insight. If one only can see with perfect clarity, then all is completed. – Rinzai
Overcome any bitterness
Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it…
Enough to disarm all hostility
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should see sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The great way is not difficult
The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When like and dislike are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction however and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. – Seng T’san
I am in your midst
I, God, am in your midst. Whoever knows me can never fall. Not in the heights, nor in the depths, nor in the breadths. For I am love, which the vast expanses of evil can never still. – Hildegard of Bingen
All things work for the good
We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good. – Martin Luther King Jr.
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