Quotes

“The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth”
— Rumi
I know that I know nothing
— Socrates
For those who realize that everything is from God, everything is the same.
— Rumi
one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
— Holy Bible, Ephesians 4:6
Everywhere are His hands and feet, eyes, heads, and faces. His ears too are in all places, for He pervades everything in the universe.
— Bhagavad Gita, 13:14
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
— Chief Seattle, Duwamish
So then, the relationship of self to “other” is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as “other” than yourself.
— Alan Watts
A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.
— Albert Einstein
My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant total amazement.
— John Patrick Shanley
I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.
— Leonardo da Vinci
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”

”In meditation, go deep in the heart
— Lao Tzu
26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
— Galatians 3:26-29
Let go of today as it becomes yesterday. Move into tomorrow as it becomes today. Eternally present. All is well.
— Nameless
The purpose of life is to be happy and have fun.
— Michael, Age 9
When we die all that happens is we shed the illusion of the fear body and we identify with our body of Love which is pure Self. Duality ceases.
— Nameless
There is only thinking. There is no thinker without thought. The thinker was “born” and the thinker will “die”. Before the thinker was “born” there was only a fearless state of wonder.
— Nameless
Life is being done as me
— Nameless
I never dreamt with my own two hands that I could touch the sky
— Seymour Bernstein
Most of the world is either asleep or dead.
— Thomas Merton
In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples.
— Luke 14:33
Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one’s commitment.
— Nelson Mandela
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
— Anonymous
You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There’s never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you.
— Fred Rogers
Sin is not a distance, it is a turn of our gaze in the wrong direction.
— Simmone Weil
Should your friend do you wrong then say “I forgive you for what you did to me, but that you did it to yourself how could I forgive that?
— Neitzche
To Allah belong the east and the west: so whichever way you turn, there is the face of Allah! Allah is indeed all-bounteous, all-knowing.
— Quran, 2:115 Khalidi
The Tao is both named and nameless. As nameless, it is the origin of all things; as named, it is the Mother of 10,000 things.
— Tao Te Ching, 1:2
but you don’t have to take my word for it
— Levar Burton
Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
— John 10:34
In an Insane World, it is the Sane who are called crazy.
— Lumalee
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
— 1 Corinthians 15:52
Don’t believe a goddamn thing anybody says but don’t be foolish enough to disbelieve it either. All you have to do is experiment with it; does it work or doesn’t work? If it works, you keep it, otherwise rubbish it, what’s the problem?
— Sadhguru
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
— Malcolm X
If there is fear without, it is due to fear within
If there if Love without, it is due to Love within
Fear within is simply an illusion caused by a perceived threat within
Love within is steadfast and ceaseless
Fear is a contradiction to Love
There is only Love or fear and one of them is an illusion
— Nameless
Love holds no grievances
— ACIM Lesson 68
Motivated by a Love of music and possessed of a clear understanding of the reasons for practicing you can establish so deep an accord between your musical self and your personal self that eventually music and life will interact in a never-ending cycle of fulfillment.
— Seymour Bernstein