"Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return."
- E. M. Forster
Even as a mother protects with her life
Her child, her only child,
So with a boundless heart
Should one cherish all living beings;
Radiating kindness over the entire world
Spreading upwards to the skies,
And downwards to the depths;
Outwards and unbounded,
Freed from hatred and ill-will.
Metta Sutta
“When we have passed beyond enjoyings, then we shall have Bliss. Desire was the helper; Desire is the bar.”
“When we have passed beyond individualising, then we shall be real Persons. Ego was the helper; Ego is the bar.”
“When we have passed beyond humanity, then we shall be the Man. The Animal was the helper; the Animal is the bar.”
Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts and Glimpses
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something if his livelihood depends upon his not understanding it."
- Upton Sinclair
Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly….
The earth is at the same time mother,
She is mother of all that is natural,
mother of all that is human.
She is the mother of all,
for contained in her
are the seeds of all.
The earth of humankind
contains all moistness,
all verdancy,
all germinating power.
It is in so many ways fruitful.
All creation comes from it.”
~ Hildegard of Bingen
“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe' — a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
~ Albert Einstein
A man long absent comes home safe from afar.
His kin, his friends, his companions, delight in his return.
In just the same way, when you’ve done good
& gone from this world
to the world beyond, your good deeds receive you
— as kin, someone dear come home.
The Dhammapada
“When I have been attentive to the creative gifts within me, I have been free to pray and grow as a human being. When I have cooperated in the denial of those gifts, or when I have chosen to set them aside, I have withered. My love of life has suffered. I have stopped praying. I have become small and cynical or I have driven myself to the point of exhaustion and burnout. I have become a compulsive worker trying to make up in my work what I have denied in my most creative self.”
Meister Eckhart
"There is no savior in Buddhism. You have to do it for yourself. No one else will meditate for you." Roshi Jiyu Kennett
"Mindfulness is the observing mind, but it does not stand outside of the object of observation. It goes right into the object and becomes one with it. Because the nature of the observing mind is mindfulness, the observing mind does not lose itself in the object but transforms it by illuminating it, just as the penetrating light of the sun transforms trees and plants. "Mindfulness is the observing mind, but it does not stand outside of the object of observation. It goes right into the object and becomes one with it. Because the nature of the observing mind is mindfulness, the observing mind does not lose itself in the object but transforms it by illuminating it, just as the penetrating light of the sun transforms trees and plants."
"How long will we fill our pockets like children, with dirt and stones? Let the world go. Holding it, we never know ourselves, never are airborne." Rumi
- E. M. Forster
Even as a mother protects with her life
Her child, her only child,
So with a boundless heart
Should one cherish all living beings;
Radiating kindness over the entire world
Spreading upwards to the skies,
And downwards to the depths;
Outwards and unbounded,
Freed from hatred and ill-will.
Metta Sutta
“When we have passed beyond enjoyings, then we shall have Bliss. Desire was the helper; Desire is the bar.”
“When we have passed beyond individualising, then we shall be real Persons. Ego was the helper; Ego is the bar.”
“When we have passed beyond humanity, then we shall be the Man. The Animal was the helper; the Animal is the bar.”
Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts and Glimpses
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something if his livelihood depends upon his not understanding it."
- Upton Sinclair
The earth is at the same time mother,
She is mother of all that is natural,
mother of all that is human.
She is the mother of all,
for contained in her
are the seeds of all.
The earth of humankind
contains all moistness,
all verdancy,
all germinating power.
It is in so many ways fruitful.
All creation comes from it.”
~ Hildegard of Bingen
“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe' — a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
~ Albert Einstein
A man long absent comes home safe from afar.
His kin, his friends, his companions, delight in his return.
In just the same way, when you’ve done good
& gone from this world
to the world beyond, your good deeds receive you
— as kin, someone dear come home.
The Dhammapada
“When I have been attentive to the creative gifts within me, I have been free to pray and grow as a human being. When I have cooperated in the denial of those gifts, or when I have chosen to set them aside, I have withered. My love of life has suffered. I have stopped praying. I have become small and cynical or I have driven myself to the point of exhaustion and burnout. I have become a compulsive worker trying to make up in my work what I have denied in my most creative self.”
Meister Eckhart
"There is no savior in Buddhism. You have to do it for yourself. No one else will meditate for you." Roshi Jiyu Kennett
"Mindfulness is the observing mind, but it does not stand outside of the object of observation. It goes right into the object and becomes one with it. Because the nature of the observing mind is mindfulness, the observing mind does not lose itself in the object but transforms it by illuminating it, just as the penetrating light of the sun transforms trees and plants. "Mindfulness is the observing mind, but it does not stand outside of the object of observation. It goes right into the object and becomes one with it. Because the nature of the observing mind is mindfulness, the observing mind does not lose itself in the object but transforms it by illuminating it, just as the penetrating light of the sun transforms trees and plants."
- Thich Nhat Hanh" Thich Nhat Hanh
"How long will we fill our pockets like children, with dirt and stones? Let the world go. Holding it, we never know ourselves, never are airborne." Rumi
