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“All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“The mind turned inwards is the Self; turned outwards, it becomes the ego and all the world.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words 'Be still’ ”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realize the Self.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“The enquiry ‘Who am I?’ is the principal means to the removal of all misery and the attainment of the supreme bliss.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“You are already that which you seek.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts. What you realize on the day you laugh is also here and now.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Whatever draws the mind outward is unspiritual and whatever draws the mind inward is spiritual.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“One of two things must be done. Either surrender because you admit your inability and require a higher power to help you, or investigate the cause of misery by going to the source and merging into the Self. Either way you will be free from misery. God never forsakes one who has surrendered.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“The man who prays, the prayer, and the God to whom he prays all have reality only as manifestations of the Self.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“When the mind that is subtle goes out through the brain and the sense-organs, the gross names and forms appear; when it stays in the Heart, the names and forms disappear.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“While God sustains the burden of the world, the spurious ego assumes its burden, grimacing like an image on a tower, seeming to support it. If the traveller in a carriage, which can carry any weight, does not lay his luggage down but carries it painfully on his head, whose is the fault?”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“It is enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being. Do not delude yourself by imagining such a source to be some God outside you. One’s source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“The purpose of all these illustrations is to direct the seeker's mind towards the one Reality underlying them all.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“The whole universe is only mental.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“When the I is divested of the I, only the I remains.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“What the mind has to do is not to suggest a reply, but to remain quiet so that the true reply can arise.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Surrender, and all will be well. Throw all responsibility onto God. Do not bear the burden yourself.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“All that is needed is that you give up your realisation of the not-true as true.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

Unless intellectually known, how to practice it? Learn it intellectually first, then do not stop with that. Practise it.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“When the world appears (to be real), the Self does not appear; and when the Self appears (shines) the world does not appear.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“The world is not outside you.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“In truth, you are pure consciousness. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from pure consciousness.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“The solution to your problem is to see who has it.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“See who is in the subject. The investigation leads you to pure consciousness beyond the subject.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“It is within our competence to think and become bound, or to cease thinking and thus be free.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Whenever a thought arises, enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief,“I am the do-er.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“The man who prays, the prayer, and the God to whom he prays all have reality only as manifestations of the Self.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“Mind your business. Take care of what you came here for. Find the ‘I’ first and you may afterwards speak of other matters.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“If the light of the sun is invisible to the owl it is only the fault of that bird and not of the sun.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“As the activities of the wise man exist only in the eyes of others and not in his own, although he may be accomplishing immense tasks, he really does nothing.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

“The ultimate Truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that need be said. till, it is a wonder that to teach this simple Truth there should come into being so many religions, creeds, methods and disputes among them and so on! Oh the pity! Oh the pity!”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Mystics of the World

"Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language " - Meister Eckhart

 

“The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.”

Baba Hari Dass

 

“The Self is beyond birth, death, gender, class, and religion -- only the body wears those labels.”

Baba Hari Dass

 

“Can intellect aid understanding? It helps in the beginning but cannot give full enlightenment. The mind is the main instrument to gain enlightenment, but enlightenment is only reached when the mind stops.”

Baba Hari Dass

 

“Everything can be a trap. A hermit goes to a cave to get out of all worldly attachments and then gets attached to the cave. If we miss the point, then everything becomes a trap.”

Baba Hari Dass

 

“Human birth is the highest. It is for attaining liberation. If we don't consciously try for liberation, then we are misusing our human birth.”

Baba Hari Dass

 

“A prisoner never stops thinking about getting out of the prison. Life in the world is like sitting in a prison. One who doesn't realize that, doesn't think of getting liberation.”

Baba Hari Dass

 

“All sadhanas[spiritual practices] or methods are for simply tricking the mind. The trick is to not let the mind spread out in a form of thoughts.”

Baba Hari Dass

 

“Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.”

Zhuangzi

 

“Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand.”

Zhuangzi

 

“Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.”

Zhuangzi

 

“To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”

Zhuangzi

 

“The perfect one uses their mind as a mirror it grasps nothing it regrets nothing it receives but does not keep.”

Zhuangzi

 

“The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.”

Zhuangzi

 

“When people do not ignore what they should ignore but ignore what they should not ignore this is known as ignorance.”

Zhuangzi

 

“If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”

Dogen

 

“Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, do not squander your life.”

Dogen

 

“This dew-like life will fade away; avoid involvement in superfluous things.”

Dogen

 

“We practice because we do not yet know who or what we are.”

Dogen

 

“To know yourself is to forget yourself.”

Dogen

 

“One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.”

Dogen

 

“If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.”

Dogen

 

“Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.”

Dogen

 

“No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.”

Dogen

 

“Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it.”

Dogen

 

“When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.”

Dogen

 

“Forgetting oneself is opening oneself.”

Dogen

 

“To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.”

Dogen

 

“Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.”

Longchenpa

 

“When the mind rests open, blank, Utterly without the apprehension of appearing objects, This is the moment of the universal ground.”

Longchenpa

 

“When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”

Buddha

 

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”

Buddha

 

“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.”

Buddha

 

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

Buddha

 

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”

Buddha

 

“The root of suffering is attachment.”

Buddha

 

“Doubt everything. Find your own light.”

Buddha

 

“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”

Buddha

 

“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”

Buddha

 

“Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.”

Buddha

 

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”

Buddha

 

“Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all.”

Buddha

 

A man asked Lord Buddha “I want happiness.” Lord Buddha said – first remove “I” that’s ego. Then remove “Want” that’s desire. See now you are left with only “Happiness””

Buddha

 

“You can only lose what you cling to.”

Buddha

 

“Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.”

Buddha

 

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”

Buddha

 

“You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.”

Buddha

 

“Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.”

Buddha

 

“I am a finger pointing to the moon. Don’t look at me; look at the moon.”

Buddha

 

“Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.”

Buddha

 

“I manifested in a dreamlike way to dreamlike beings and gave a dreamlike Dharma, but in reality I never taught and never actually came.”

Buddha

 

“With our thoughts we make the world.”

Buddha

 

“Our life is a creation of our mind.”

Buddha

 

“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.”

Buddha

 

“You are what observes, not what you observe.”

Buddha

 

“How deeply did you learn to let go?”

Buddha

 

“To know and not to use is not yet to know!”

Buddha

 

“Let your mind become clear like a still forest pool.”

Buddha

 

“Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished.”

Buddha

 

“Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh...”

Saint John of the Cross

 

“The endurance of darkness is the preparation for great light.”

Saint John of the Cross

 

“The soul that is quick to turn to speaking and conversing is slow to turn to God.”

Saint John of the Cross

 

“This perfection consists in voiding and stripping and purifying the soul of every desire.”

Saint John of the Cross

 

“The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off its cares and quiet its appetites, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.”

Saint John of the Cross

 

“An action done entirely and purely for God, with a pure heart, creates a whole kingdom for those who make it.”

Saint John of the Cross

 

“It is best to learn to silence the faculties and to cause them to be still so that God may speak.”

Saint John of the Cross

 

“Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire. Having nothing and possessing all things.”

Saint John of the Cross

 

“Silence is God's first language.”

Saint John of the Cross

 

“Strive to preserve your heart in peace; let no event of this world disturb it.”

Saint John of the Cross

 

“Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.”

Saint John of the Cross

 

“To love God is to be transformed into God.”

Saint John of the Cross

 

“When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.”

Milarepa

 

“Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life...”

Milarepa

 

“Desires achieved increase thirst like salt water.”

Milarepa

 

“Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.”

Milarepa

 

“Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others.”

Milarepa

 

“He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful.”

Milarepa

 

“Take the lowest place, and you shall reach the highest.”

Milarepa

 

“All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death.”

Milarepa

 

“The master observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. He prefers what is within to what is without.”

Lao Tzu

 

“Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.”

Lao Tzu

 

“When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.”

Lao Tzu

 

“To a mind that is still the whole universe surrenders.”

Lao Tzu

 

“Stop thinking, and end your problems.”

Lao Tzu

 

“Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?”

Lao Tzu

 

“By letting go it all gets done.”

Lao Tzu

 

“Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.”

Lao Tzu

 

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”

Lao Tzu

 

“Silence is a source of great strength.”

Lao Tzu

 

“To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”

Lao Tzu

 

“When there is no desire, all things are at peace.”

Lao Tzu

 

“The further one goes, the less one knows.”

Lao Tzu

 

“So the unwanting soul sees what’s hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.”

Lao Tzu

 

“Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness.”

Lao Tzu

 

“Colors blind the eye Sounds deafen the ear. Flavors numb the taste. Thoughts weaken the mind. Desires wither the heart.”

Lao Tzu

 

“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”

Lao Tzu

 

“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”

Rumi

 

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

Rumi

 

“Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?”

Rumi

 

“Be silent, Only the Hand of God Can remove The burdens of your heart.”

Rumi

 

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

Rumi

 

“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”

Rumi

 

“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”

Rumi

 

“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?”

Rumi

 

“Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness.”

Rumi

 

“Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”

Rumi

 

“The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.”

Rumi

 

“I am not this hair. I am not this skin. I am the soul that lives within.”

Rumi

 

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”

Rumi

 

“Don’t be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don’t forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.”

Rumi

 

“I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you, all else melted away.”

Rumi

 

“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”

Rumi

 

“Open your Eyes, for this World is only a Dream.”

Rumi

 

“Doing as others told me, I was Blind. Coming when others called me, I was Lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found Everyone, Myself as well.”

Rumi

 

“All is known in the sacredness of silence.”

Rumi

 

“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”

Rumi

 

““Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise”

Jean Klein

 

“The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace.”

Jean Klein

 

“Nothing that can be known has existence in itself. It depends on a knower. The knower is consciousness.”

Jean Klein

 

“The world exists only when we think about it; creation stories are for children. In reality the world is created every moment.”

Jean Klein

 

“When timeless moments solicit you, accept the invitation. Go deep within it, until you find yourself in your absence.”

Jean Klein

 

“What any desire really aims at, is a state of non-desire. This non-desire is a state in which we demand absolutely nothing. Thus it is a state of extreme abundance, of fullness. This fullness is revealed as being bliss and peace. You now know that you are really seeking nothing else but fullness and absolute peace.”

Jean Klein

 

“Advaita is not a system, a religion or technique. It is not even a philosophy. It is simply the truth.”

Jean Klein

 

“Go deeply into the urge to be silent and not the mental interference of how, where and when. If you follow silence to its source you can be taken by it in a moment.”

Jean Klein

 

“What you are is not a state, it is a waste of time and energy chasing more and more experiences in the hope of coming closer to the non-experience.”

Jean Klein

 

“When you inquire in yourself, all you desire is desirelessness.”

Jean Klein

 

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“God is at home, it’s we who have gone out for a walk.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“The Ultimate and Highest leave taking is leaving God for GOD, leaving your notion of God for an Experience of That which transcends all notions.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“To the quiet mind all things are possible.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“The quieter the mind, the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“God is at his greatest when I am at my least.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“God is bound to act, to pour Himself into thee as soon as He shall find thee ready.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won’t let go of your life: your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away, but they’re not punishing you, they’re freeing your soul.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“There is no need to look for God here or there. He is no farther away than the door of your own heart.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!”

Meister Eckhart

 

“It is not outside us: it is all within.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“We must withdraw, then, from all things, for when God works, he works without an image.”

Meister Eckhart

 

“To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.”

Bodhidharma

 

“The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included. It’s like the root of a tree. All a tree’s fruit and flowers, branches and leaves depend on its root.”

Bodhidharma

 

“When the mortal mind appears, buddhahood disappears. When the mortal mind disappears, buddhahood appears.”

Bodhidharma

 

“If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.”

Bodhidharma

 

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.”

Bodhidharma

 

“If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.”

Bodhidharma

 

“But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.”

Bodhidharma

 

“Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.”

Bodhidharma

 

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”

Hafez

 

“You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.”

Hafez

 

“This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.”

Hafez

 

“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.”

Hafez

 

“Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret.”

Hafez

 

“When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.”

Hafez

 

“Pulling out the chair beneath your mind And watching you fall upon God What else is there for Hafiz to do that is any fun in this world!”

Hafez

 

“Light will someday split you open.”

Hafez

 

“Your separation from God is the hardest work you will ever do.”

Hafez

 

“Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.”

Hafez

 

“We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.”

Hafez

 

“If at last thou attain the desire of thy life, Cast the world aside, yea, abandon it!”

Hafez

 

“I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.”

Kabir

 

“Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.”

Kabir

 

“I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.”

Kabir

 

“Wherever you are is the entry point.”

Kabir

 

“Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don’t do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.”

Kabir

 

“All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.”

Kabir

 

“For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?”

Kabir

 

“Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.”

Kabir

 

“The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.”

Kabir

 

“Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you, and when you’re ready you’ll drink.”

Kabir

 

“Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.”

Kabir

 

“Stand firm in that which you are.”

Kabir

 

“The home is the abiding place; in the home is reality; the home helps to attain Him Who is real. So stay where you are, and all things shall come to you in time.”

Kabir