Just as a flame blown out by the wind
Goes to rest and cannot be defined,
So the wise person, freed from name and form
Goes to rest beyond all reckoning.
The Buddha, Sutta Nipāta 4.6
The Buddha often used the image of a flame going out – not destroyed, but freed from conditions. Likewise, the liberated mind is not annihilated but beyond all definitions.
Ajahn Amaro, The Island
Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark.
That’s where the most important things come from,
where you yourself came from, and where you will go.
Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker
It is not in calm weather
that one sees the skill of the pilot,
but in a storm.
Epictetus, Discourses 1.24.6
There are two rules on the spiritual path:
Begin.
Continue
Sufi Saying
Bread for myself is a material question;
bread for my neighbour is a spiritual question
N.A. Berdyaev, 1874–1948, Russian Christian writer on human dignity and the dangers of oppressive systems, The Fate of Man in the Modern World
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