"The fish trap exists because of the fish.
Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap.
The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit.
Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare.
Words exist because of their meaning. Once you've got the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?"
-Chuang Tzu
"There is a Light that shines beyond all things on earth,
beyond us all,
beyond the heavens,
beyond the highest heavens.
This is the Light that shines in our hearts."
-CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD
"Love says "I am everything". Wisdom says "I am nothing". Between the two, my life flows.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
"There will come a time when you believe everything is
finished. That will be the beginning."
Spiritual Quotes Spiritual Thoughts By ~Louis L'Amour
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly."
Spiritual Quotes Spiritual Thoughts By ~Richard Bach
“Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”
― Rumi
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice."
Meister Eckhart
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
-Lao Tzu
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
There are two kinds of light-- the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber
"The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say."
Kahlil Gibran
“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
― E.E. Cummings
IF words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart, but if they come from the tongue, they will not pass beyond the ears.
Al-Suhrawardi
"When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills"
(Chinese proverb)
"Truth does not become error just because nobody believes it."
-Gandhi
"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken
belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the
pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain."
Spiritual Quotes Spiritual Thoughts By ~ Kahlil Gibran
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life, is when men are afraid of the Light."
-Plato
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