Zen

Zen is the direct experince of what we might call ultimate reality, or the absolute, yet it is not separate from the ordinary, the relative. This direct experience is our birthright. The practice of zazen – meditation – is a way of realizing the non-dualistic, vibrant, subtle, and internconnected nature of all life. - Unknown

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In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness. - Alan Watts

Desires and expectations are the sources of disappointment. Don’t cling to them. Do your work, walk your way. - Zen saying

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don’t serve them tea. - Shunryu Suzuki

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean. - John J Muth

What was never lost can never be found. - Zen Saying

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. - Shunryu Suzuki-roshi

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. - Robert M. Pirsig

The bird of paradise lands only on the hand that does not grasp. - Zen Proverb

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Lao Tzu

Laozi, also romanized as Lao Tzu was a Chinese philosopher and author of the Tao Te Ching, one of the foundational texts of Taoism. The name, literally meaning 'Old Master', was likely intended to portray an archaic anonymity. A central figure in Chinese culture, Laozi is generally considered the founder of Taoism.

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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. - Lao Tzu

Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings: this is the method of Tao. - Lao-tze

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. - Lao Tzu

When you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything. - Lao Tzu

One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others. - Lao Tzu

No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth. - Lao Tzu

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. - Lao Tzu

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Energy

Our spiritual energy has to go somewhere after we passed from this world. In that sense, we can never really die. That is what Buddhism meant by ‘Life never dies...’

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Science keeps circling a bold idea matter energy and mind may be linked and Quantum thinking is pushing that question into the spotlight today. Atoms build everything we touch yet they behave like waves of possibility. This strange behavior invites deeper questions about what truly sits beneath reality. Many feel curiosity rising again as old ideas gently shift forward now.

Atoms once felt solid and final but physics revealed mostly empty space buzzing with energy. Energy then proved measurable yet oddly intangible. Experiments show observation matters at tiny scales. Some researchers wonder if awareness plays a role not mystical but informational shaping outcomes through interaction and limits of measurement. This idea keeps debate lively across labs and late nights worldwide.

Quantum discussions often spark emotion because they touch meaning not just math. When systems grow large we expect simplicity. Yet certain states refuse that comfort. They stay coherent strange and precise. That persistence hints reality may not flatten with size. Complexity might be fundamental not temporary surprising thinkers across fields and reopening deep questions again about mind matter links today.

For everyday life this does not change breakfast or traffic but it shifts perspective. It invites humility. Science grows by testing limits not declaring final truths. If consciousness relates to energy then responsibility feels shared. Observation participation and care gain weight. Curiosity becomes an ethic guiding how we explore and build futures together with patience and wonder for all minds.

These ideas remain debated and should be held lightly. Science thrives on questions backed by evidence and openness. Quantum research keeps evolving tools and language. Whether consciousness proves central or not the journey expands understanding. Share thoughts listen well and stay curious. The universe rewards careful wonder more than certainty especially when minds meet kindly across cultures and generations ahead.

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The Universe

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to non-existent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centred on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries. - Carl Sagan

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If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. - Nikola Tesla

Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don’t know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me. - Neil deGrasse Tyson

We do not ‘come into’ this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean ‘waves,’ the Universe ‘peoples.’ Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of Nature, a unique action of the total Universe. - Alan Watts

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. - John Muir

Each one of us, not only human beings but every leaf, every weed, exists in the way it does, only because everything else around it does. The individual and the universe are inseparable. - Alan Watts

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence. - Alan Watts

Let the waves of the Universe rise and fall as they will. You have nothing to gain or lose. You are the ocean. - Ashtavakra Gita

You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. - Andrew Boyd

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How To Practice Meditation

In meditation, one returns to one’s breath. So you see your thinking arising and you just let it go. You don’t push it away, you don’t prevent it; you don’t hold it, you return to your breath. Return to your breathing. Then over time, you get to see that your thinking has no substance. Good thinking, bad thinking, has no substance. Then it can’t control you. - Venerable Hyon Gak

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Just go into the room, open the doors and windows, sit in the center of the room and see who comes to visit. You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable. Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come. - Ajahn Chah

Don't think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting walking, standing or lying down. When coming out of sitting, don't think that you're coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures. If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly. You will have a steady awareness within yourself. - Unknown

Above all, it is not necessary that we should have any unexpected, extraordinary experiences in meditation. This can happen, but if it does not, it is not a sign that the meditation period has been useless. Not only at the beginning, but repeatedly, there will be times when we feel a great spiritual dryness and apathy, an aversion, even an inability to meditate. We dare not be balked by such experiences. Above all, we must not allow them to keep us from adhering to our meditation period with great patience and fidelity. It is, therefore, not good for us to take too seriously the many untoward experiences we have with ourselves in meditation. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Truth

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. - Anais Nin

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. - Denis Diderot

Those only who can bear the truth will hear it. - Arthur Helps

Truth, like good medicine, is oftentimes repugnant to our present feelings, but gives vigour afterwards. - Edward Counsel

Truth is the one thing in nature always consistent with itself, and it is the one guide given to us in steering on the ocean of fate. - Arthur Lynch

Gold is gold, no matter how muddied it becomes. The truth always wins out in the end. - Buddhist Quote

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth. - Richard Whately

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. - Thomas Jefferson

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The Mind

All the resources we need are in the mind. Everything is in the mind. That is where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step towards getting it. - Theodore Roosevelt

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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included. - Bodhidharma

Man has amazing potentialities of mind but like treasure hidden in the mountain they are of little use to him until he has cleared away the dense matter that keeps them concealed from himself. - K. Sri Dhammananda

When mind is weak, the situation becomes a problem. When mind is balanced, the situation becomes a challenge. When mind is strong, the situation becomes an opportunity. It’s all mind game. Unknown

The greatest business of a man is to improve his mind. - Wellins Calcott

‘Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. - Michel De Montaigne

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no effect in the exterior world that does not spring from an inner source. There is no motion that does not first occur within the mind. - (Seth) Jan Roberts

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Non-Attachment

Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: a star at dawn, a bubble in a stream; a flash of lightening in a summer cloud, a flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream. - The Budha

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Never have anything to do with likes and dislikes. The absence of what one likes is painful, as is the presence of what one dislikes. Therefore don’t take a liking to anything. To lose what one likes is hard, but there are no bonds for those who have no likes and dislikes. From preference arises sorrow, from preference arises fear, but he who is freed from preference has no sorrow and certainly no fear. - The Buddha

Conditions all go their own natural way. Whether we laugh or cry over them, they just go their own way. And there is no knowledge of science that can prevent this natural course of things. Everything falls apart in the end. - The Buddha

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. - The Buddha

Free yourself from attachment. Know the sweet joy of the way. How joyful to look upon the awakened and to keep company with the wise. How long the road to the man who travels the road with the fool. - Buddha

All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this in wisdom, then one becomes dispassionate towards the painful. - The Buddha

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Religion – The Irony

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. - John Henrik Clarke

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Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion—several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbour as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight. - Mark Twain

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough. - Aldous Huxley

Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions. - Blaise Pascal

Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but – live for it. - Charles Caleb Colton

Good people can do good and bad people can do evil. But for good people to do evil – that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg

Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts? - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ’til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He’s all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can’t handle money! - George Carlin

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God

For anyone who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the assumption of causality, the idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible. Neither the religion of fear nor the social-moral religion can have any hold on him. - Albert Einstein

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If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses? If grace does everything for them, what reason would he have for recompensing them? If he is all-powerful, how offend him, how resist him? If he is reasonable, how can he be angry at the blind, to whom he has given the liberty of being unreasonable? If he is immovable, by what right do we pretend to make him change his decrees? If he is inconceivable, why occupy ourselves with him? If he has spoken, why is the universe not convinced? If the knowledge of a God is the most necessary, why is it not the most evident and the clearest? - Percy Bysshe Shelley

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. - Charles Bukowski

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Spiritual You III

Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place. - Unknown

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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

The doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. - Herman Hesse

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. - J. Krishnamurti

Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful. - Dan Wakefield

Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be. - Joseph Campbell

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. - Albert Schweitzer

When your intent is in accordance with the Universe, things start happening. - Unknown

Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. - Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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The Spiritual You II

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up. - Deepak Chopra

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When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand books of scripture are not enough. When you have realized understanding, even one word is too much. - Fen-yang

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. - Carl Jung

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ultimately, you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. - Unknown

Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear. - Shunryu Suzuki

In the process of letting go, you will lose many things form the past, but you will find yourself. - Deepak Chopra

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow you bliss. - Joseph Campbell

If you don’t go within, you go without. - Neale Donald Walsch

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. - Gibran Khalil 

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The Spiritual You

You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you. - Sarah Ban Breathnach

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You are here because this existence needs you as you are. Otherwise somebody else would have been here and the existence would not have helped you to be here, wouldn’t have created you. You are fulfilling something very essential, something very fundamental as you are!!! - Unknown

You are not a kindergarten student of spirituality, so you must cease to think and speak as if you are a phenomenal object. You are the animating consciousness that provides sentience to the sentient being. You are the pure Awareness. You do not need to be liberated. - Nisargadatta Maharaj

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. - Rumi

Rely entirely on your clarity of thought, purity of motive and integrity of action! - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

If you want wisdom, empty your heart of ignorance. If you want contentment, empty your heart of greed. If you want serenity, empty your heart of ill will. - Buddhist Wisdom

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters, - Amit Ray

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority. - Tom Hopkins

If you turn it over to the universe you will be surprise and dazzled by what is delivered to you. This is where magic and miracles happen. - Joe Vitale

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Zen

The true purpose of Zen is, to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. - Shunryu Suzuki

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Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child. - Takuan

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us. - Rumi

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night. - Jack Kornfield

Your Treasure House is in yourself, it contains all you need. - Hui Hai

Zen is like looking for the spectacles that are sitting on your nose. - Unknown

If you want the easy way, this is desire. If you want the difficult way, this too is desire. Zen is letting go of all of your desires. Then you will find the true way. - Zen master Seung Sahn

The wind howls, but the mountain remains still. - Japanese Proverb

The world is won by those who let it go. - Zen Proverb

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Lao Tzu

Laozi, also romanized as Lao Tzu was a Chinese philosopher and author of the Tao Te Ching, one of the foundational texts of Taoism. The name, literally meaning 'Old Master', was likely intended to portray an archaic anonymity. A central figure in Chinese culture, Laozi is generally considered the founder of Taoism.

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If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your one self-transformation. - Lao Tzu

Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch. - Lao Tzu

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. - Lao Tzu

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. - Lao Tzu

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any. - Lao Tzu

If you have truly attained wholeness, everything will flock to you. - Lao Tzu

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. – Lao Tzu

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Energy, Frequency, Vibration...

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Wi-Fi moves through walls, connects the world, and powers our lives... and no one doubts it.
But when someone speaks about energy, frequency, and vibration, it’s labeled as fantasy.

The truth is simple:
Everything is movement.
Every thought, every emotion, every word carries a charge.
Science measures it.
Ancient wisdom felt it.
Your mood changes a room.
Your presence shifts conversations.
Your silence can speak louder than noise.
This is not mysticism.
This is awareness.

As the Buddha taught:
what you cultivate within, you radiate without.
Change the inner signal, and the outer world begins to respond.
When you realize this, you stop reacting to life…
and start tuning it.

From a Facebook post by ‘Wisdom Awakened’

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Universe

It was as if the universe itself stretched out its finger to touch me. And in touching me, singling me out, it only heightened my awareness of my own insignificance. That was somehow very comforting. When you confront the absolute indifference of magnitudes and vistas so overwhelming, the swollen ego of your own self-important suffering is diminished. - Joan D. Vinge

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Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance. - E. F. Schumacher

I know that much of the structure and plan of the universe is beyond my understanding and not at all similar to anything of our earthly world that I have experienced so far. I marvel at the intellect and attention to detail, the precision manifested by the workings of this great and often unseen force of which we are all a part. - Rosemary Altea

We live in a changing universe, and few things are changing faster than our conception of it. - Timothy Ferris

The basic laws of the Universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation. - Albert Einstein

It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is. - Jorge Luis Borges

In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. - Edward P. Tryon

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs. - Rudolf Arnheim

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Meditation Practise

Meditation is a practice in which an individual train his or her attention and awareness, to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.

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Everyone should take some time off to meditate. We may never achieve the state of ‘awareness’ that monks and mystics reached but still, meditation clears our mind, giving us inner peace and inner calm. Through meditation, we will have a clearer view of the whole picture, of life. This will help us deal better with the realities of/in life.

However, there are a few essential things to be remembered: The first is a relaxed state - no fight, no control, no concentration. The second is watchfulness - witness whatever is going on inside of you. And the third is, don't have any judgment or evaluation about it. Just be a watcher.

Simply put, you just sit silently and witness your mind-process, while keeping your attention on the breath. Nothing needs to be done. Just be a witness, an observer, a watcher, looking at the traffic of the mind - thoughts passing by, desires, memories, dreams, fantasies. Simply stand aloof, cool, with no condemnation, no evaluations. Once you get the knack of it, it is the most simple thing in the world.

A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques any more. You just sit down and you are non-existence itself. - Frederick Lenz

You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you’re too busy; then you should sit for an hour. - Old Zen saying

When the mind is sluggish or depressed and weary, that is no time for cultivation tranquillity and meditation. As well might you hope to make a fire by piling wet grass upon it. - Unknown

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The Truth

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is. Truth is universal. Perception of truth is not.

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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. - John Stuart Mill

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths. - Napoleon Hill

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it. - Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but, in the end, there it is. - Sir Winston Churchill

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. - Lao Tzu

If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind. - Zen Master Seng Tsan

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. - Maurice Maeterlinck

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Minds Are Like...

Your mind is like a garden. Tend it well by filling it with positive, encouraging, and faith-building thoughts throughout the day. Disorder sets in when the garden is not tended to for some time; the same goes for our mind if we neglect it too long. - Unknown

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A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind. - James Allen

As an orchard when manured produces pleasant trees and luscious fruit, so does a cultivated mind produce pure thoughts and noble actions. - William Scott Downey

No mind can run continually and remain effective. Remember, even a paddy field needs a good rest after a harvest in order to produce quality crops in the future. - Unknown

The mind is nothing less than a garden of inestimable value which man should strive to cultivate. - William Scott Downey

Your mind is a magnet. If you think of blessings you attract blessings; and if you think of problems you attract problems. Always cultivate good thoughts and always remain positive and optimistic. - Unknown

Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right. - Stephen Richards

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Compassion

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. - Dalai Lama

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A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal. - Steve Maraboli

Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social necessity for the entire human family. - Duane Elgin

Compassion – that's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps man ahead of them. - D. C. Fontana

Grief for the calamity of another is pity, and arises from the imagination that the like calamity may befall himself; and, therefore, it is called compassion, or in the phrase of the present time a fellow-feeling. - Thomas Hobbbes

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. - Karen Armstrong

Let our compassion express itself in efforts to bring the erring back to sacred principles, and if they persist, let us pity them the more for a blindness so fatal to themselves. - S. E. D. Charnage

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Attachment / Non Attachment

If a man cares not if things are thus and not thus, then provided he has no harsh thoughts, he has indeed found happiness. He has certain security for he has found freedom from grief and care. Truly, he has overcome the world. - Unknown

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One of the best ways to overcome possessive-attachment to loved ones is to reflect on impermanence. Everything changes, nothing lasts. One day death will separate us from the people we love. Separation could occur even before that if one of us is posted overseas or if we quarrel and come to hate each other. The more attached we are the more pain and stress we will suffer at this separation. Therefore it is wise to give up attachment. But that doesn’t mean giving up love! We can love people without being attached to them by living with the awareness of our inevitable separation. We can love and care for them now and at the same time be ready to say goodbye to them when the time comes. - Unknown

If you see things with real insight, then there is no stickiness in your relationship to them. They come – pleasant and unpleasant – you see them and there is no attachment. They come and they pass. Even if the worst kinds of defilement come up, such as greed or anger, there's enough wisdom to see their impermanent nature and allow them to just fade away. If you react to them, however, by liking or disliking, that isn't wisdom. You're only creating more suffering for yourself. - Unknown

Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You'll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy. Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.

It is in the nature of things, however dear they may be to us, that we must separate from them, leave and depart from them. Anything that is born, that is formed and brought into being, contains within itself the qualities naturally associated with its own dissolution.

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Religion

[A cosmic religion] has no dogma other than teaching man that the Universe is rational and that his highest destiny is to ponder it and co-create with its laws.. - Albert Einstein

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Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life. - Naguib Mahfouz

Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything. - Robert Heinlein

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. - Albert Einstein

That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization. - Sam Harris

Religious beliefs prepare a kind of landscape of images, an illusory milieu favourable to every hallucination and every delirium. - Michel Foucault

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise. - James Madison

Actions inspired by fear of future punishment or hope of future reward are entirely selfish and unworthy of religion. - James Platt

An immoral character, glossed with religious pretension, is like a rotten egg with an Easter colouring. - Lewis F. Korns

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God

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. - Gene Roddenberry

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They that worship God merely from fear, Would worship the devil too, if he appear. - Thomas Fuller

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. - Susan B. Anthony

The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get. - Glen Cook

Gods are sensitive things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. - Chapman Cohen

I don't understand worshipping a god who denigrates women and whose 'true believers' feel it's their right to look down on anyone who doesn't think exactly as they do. - P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast

If God truly existed, wouldn’t there be just one religion? - Unknown

Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? - Arthur Clarke

What was God doing before the divine creation? - Stephen Hawking

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is – holy war. - Steve Allen

Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it. - Sinclair Lewis

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Atheism

Atheism is not a religion. One does not convert to Atheism. One simply realises everything they’ve been told about god is bullxxit.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

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I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking. - Carl Sagan

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more. - Ayaan Hirsiali

The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation. - Emma Goldman

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The Spiritual Path

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found – in himself. - Erich Fromm

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No matter how old a person is or how close the get to the door of exit, the calling keeps calling. A person can awaken at any point along the path of life. - Michael Meade

Patience is an essential element of spiritual path. - Unknown

If your path is difficult, it is because of your high calling. - Unknown

The Path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things that you thought you understood and see deeper and deeper truths. - Unknown

The spiritual path is not a solo endeavour. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness. - Tara Brach

There are two rules on the spiritual path. Begin and continue. - Sufi Saying

What is common to all paths that are spiritual is, of course, the Spirit-breath, life energy, that is why all true paths are essentially one path, because there is only one Spirit, one breath, one life, one energy in the universe. It belongs to none of us and all of us. We all share it. Spiritually does not make up otherworldly; it renders us more fully alive. - Matthew Fox

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Zen Sayings

The persurance of Zen is to discover a source of happiness and meaning beyond worldly pursuits and to achieve a state of deep peace and liberation.

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Zen is a double-edged sword, killing words and thoughts, yet at the same time, giving them life. Although beyond human intellect and philosophy, Zen is their root and source. - Masao Abe

Quiet the mind and the soul will speak. - Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavat

Whisper to Trees. Laugh with Flowers. Sing with Birds. And Breathe. - Unknown

Sometimes, simply by sitting, the soul collects wisdom. - Unknown

You wander from room to room hunting for the diamond necklace that is already around your neck! - Rumi

Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate. - Huang Po

I have lived with several Zen masters – all of them cats. - Eckhart Tolle

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Laozi aka Lao Tzu

Laozi, also romanized as Lao Tzu was a Chinese philosopher and author of the Tao Te Ching, one of the foundational texts of Taoism. The name, literally meaning 'Old Master', was likely intended to portray an archaic anonymity. A central figure in Chinese culture, Laozi is generally considered the founder of Taoism.

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Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution. - Lao Tzu

Integral awareness is fluid and adaptable, present in all places and at all times. That is true meditation. The Tao is clear and simple, and it doesn't avoid the world. - Lao Tzu

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window, One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows. - Lao Tzu

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. - Lao Tzu

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. - Lao Tzu

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. - Lao Tzu

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. - Lao Tzu

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream. - Lao Tzu

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