Selflessness
Because of our quiet
We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather around us, that they may see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer perhaps even fiercer life because of our quiet. – William Butler Yeats
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
The fundamental delusion of humanity
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. – Yasutani Roshi
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
The gift of sainthood
Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else. – Thomas Merton
The prayer of the monk
The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying. – St. Anthony
That is happiness
That is happiness: To be dissolved into something complete and great. – Willa Cather
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