Saud Omar

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If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well.”... I believe our angels and devils are connected ... Our angels and devils aren’t just connected, they’re twins.

Michael Patton

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[Students] enter the practice [Meditation] expecting instantaneous cosmic revelation, complete with angelic choirs. What they usually get is a more efficient way to take out the trash and better ways to deal with Uncle Herman. They are needlessly disappointed. The trash solution comes first. The voices of archangels take a bit longer.

Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English

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If you want to win the war for attention, don’t try to say “no” to the trivial distractions you find on the information smorgasbord; try to say “yes” to the subject that arouses a terrifying longing, and let the terrifying longing crowd out everything else

David Brooks

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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory

“A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth-that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which a man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of human is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for the brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when a man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way-an honorable way-in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment. For the first time in my life I was able to understand the meaning of the words,"The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.”

―Victor Frankl, Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning

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It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odd—uncanny and highly improbable. G. K. Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at a gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don’t.

Alan Watts

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Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you’re being right now

Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1 

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Use two hands to carry one thing instead of one hand to carry two things.

Zen Proverb (From Improv Wisdom, by Patricia Madson)

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Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you’re being right now.

Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1

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Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child according to some idealistic pattern

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Complete the projects you begin, fulfill the commitments you have made, live up to your promises - then both your subconscious and conscious selves can have success, which leads to a feeling of fulfillment, worthiness, and oneness.

John-Roger

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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart

Socrates

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What happens if you know, beyond any shadow of doubt, that there is nothing you can do to be better?

Well it’s kind of a relief, isn’t it?

Seeing that there isn’t really anything we can do to improve ourselves or to improve the world, if we realize that that is so, it gives us a breather, in the course of which we may simply watch what is going on, watch what happens.

Nobody ever does this you know. Therefore it sounds terribly simple. Sounds so simple that it almost looks as if it isn’t worth doing.

But have you ever just watched, watched what’s happening? And watch what you are doing by way of reaction to it. Just watch it happen.

And don’t be in a hurry to think you know what it is. You think this is the material world. Well that somebody’s philosophical idea. Or maybe you think it’s spiritual. That too is somebody’s philosophical idea. This real world is not spiritual, it is not material, the real world is simply TSH!

So could we look at things in that way? Without as it were, fixing labels and names and gradations and judgements on everything, but watch what happens. Watch what we do.

Now you see, if you do that, you do at least give yourself a chance. And it may be that when you are in this way, freed from busy bodiness, and being out to improve everything, that your own nature will begin to take care of itself, because you’re not getting in the way of yourself all the time.

You will begin to find out that the great things that you do are really happening.

- Alan Watts

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I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet)

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What is the message of all the great religions? Nearer, nearer to you than your hands, nearer than your feet, nearer than your breathing is the origin of the world. Who you really, really, really are is not a product of the world, it is the origin of the world.

Douglas Harding

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Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice.

Charles Bukowski

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Hardest of all is to practice the Way at home, second in the crowd, and third in the pagoda.

A line from a Vietnamese folk song

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العلم الذي لا ينقذك من نفسك الجهل خير منه

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