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
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
There is no less holiness at this time – as you are reading this – than there was the day the Red Sea parted or that day in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as Ezekiel was a captive by the River Chabar, when the heavens opened and he saw visions of God.
There is not less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha’s bo tree…
“Each and every day the Divine voice issues from Sinai” says the Talmud. Of eternal fulfillment Tillich said, “If it is not seen in the present, it cannot be seen at all”
Annie Dilliard, For the Time Being
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