Enlightening quotes. Post here.

[SoulSail]

"Light, when it splits the dark, is entirely unconcerned about the nature of dark. It pays no regard to how dense it is, or how long it has been in place. Light never pauses." ~ Adapted from Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

[Pneumismatic]

Trinity: I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you've been doing... why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You're looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did.
Neo: What is the Matrix?
Trinity: The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.

The Matrix (1999)

[Pneumismatic]

"Transmutemini in vivos lapides philosophicos!" (Transform yourselves into living philosophical stones!) - Gerhard Dorn

[Pneumismatic]

"Know Thyself" - Plato

[Pneumismatic]

"Since it is a subjective state whose reality cannot be validated by any external criterion, any further attempt to describe and explain it is doomed to failure, for only those who have had this experience are in a position to understand and attest its reality. "Happiness," for example, is such a noteworthy reality that there is nobody who does not long for it, and yet there is not a single objective criterion which would prove beyond all doubt that this condition necessarily exists. As so often with the most important things, we have to make do with a subjective judgment." - Carl Jung

[ButterflyWoman]

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I see and experience this more and more. And the more I see and experience it, the less I have to say. I trust that what I do say will reach whomever it's meant to reach (assuming I'm saying anything useful at all, that is).

[SoulSail]

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I see and experience this more and more. And the more I see and experience it, the less I have to say. I trust that what I do say will reach whomever it's meant to reach (assuming I'm saying anything useful at all, that is).

I'll be printing that one for my awareness journal.

Funny, I almost dug this thread up a few days ago. I'll add a few more:


"We cannot fully delay embracing the moment. To do so maintains the divisions within the mind, the division between the mind and the body, and the division between the organism and its environment. All divisions are attempts to keep us from the truth of what is right here. When this is understood by the sincere practitioner, there can be no more hesitation, no more postponement, and no more pulling back and waiting for a more opportune time. It is literally now or never"

"The most important understanding for a lay Buddhist is the immediate availability of awakening. Awakening need not arrive after a long, protracted practice history unless we believe that this is necessary. We deliberately delay our readiness because we are divided about what we really want."

~ Rodney Smith



"For one who clings, motion exists;
But for one who clings not, there is no motion.
Where no motion is, there is stillness.
Where stillness is, there is no craving.
Where no craving is,
There is neither coming or going.
Where neither coming or going is,
There is neither arising or passing away.
Where neither arising nor passing away is,
There is neither this world, nor a world beyond,
Nor a state between.
This, verily, is the end of suffering."

~ The Buddha


Soul

[Saul]

"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao,
The name that can be named is not the eternal Name,
The Nameless is the source of Heaven and Earth;
The named is the Mother of the Ten Thousand Things.
Desireless, one may behold the mystery;
Desiring, one may see the manifestations.
Though one in origin,
They emerge with distinct names.
Both are mysteries -
Depth within depth -
The threshold of all secrets"

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

[dreaming90]

The universe is sacred.
You cannot improve it.
If you try to change it, you will ruin it.
If you try to hold it, you will lose it.


-- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

[SoulSail]

"
Desireless, one may behold the mystery;
Desiring, one may see the manifestations."

Yes.