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  • If we divide into two camps--even into violent and the nonviolent--and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace. We will always blame and condemn those we feel are responsible fo…

  • If misfortune befalls you, it is the consequence of your own actions. Yet God forgives much. On this earth you can not escape God; and there is no one apart from God who can protect or help you.-Qur'an, Ash-Shura, …

  • Remember the clear light, the pure clear white light from which everything in the universe comes, to which everything in the universe returns; the original nature of your own mind. The natural state of the universe…

  • The errors of sages are regarded as willful sins; the sins of the ignorant are accounted as unwitting errors.Judah b. Ilai, Talmud: Baba MetziaSo I take it this is where the idea of "knowing better" comes in...

  • As rivers flow into the ocean but cannot make the vast ocean overflow, so flow the streams of the sense-world into the sea of peace that is the sage. But this is not so with the desirer of desires.-Bhagavad Gita 2:…

  • It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadow…

  • Mind cannot see itself-Subject and object cannot be dual; Therefore, to see the mindYou must look and probe with the eye of wisdom.When probed and examined analyticallyWith such analytic investigationThe mind is li…

  • A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them se…

  • Justice demands that we seek and find the stranger, the broken, the prisoner, and comfort them and offer them our help. Here lies the holy compassion of God.-Mechtild of Magdeburghumm... We must not, in trying to…

  • Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river.The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river.Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea.-Mathnawi [IV, 2062-2063]wow! now, this speaks to me... You …

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