book of quotes

Lo, I am with you always means when you look for God,

Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that,

Why should I seek? I am the same as

You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, “I have found a truth.”

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows — then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason."

Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye of the unclean.

Form is no other than emptiness,

La vida no es un constante ir para adelante. Es cíclica. Y lo regresivo no siempre es retrógrado; a veces, para sanar, hay que ir hacia atrás en nuestra historia de vida y echar un mando de compasión, perdón y empatía. Disolver, abrazar, fluir.

When you kill a beast say to him in your heart,

The light has its own intelligence. It always moves in the right place at the right time and it does the right thing. It's all orderly. It takes care of everything. It's not important to know details. The real necessary thing is the heart[…] The only thing causing disease is fear. It’s the only thing that can hinder the light. As long as the light is there, there’s no problem.

All action is rest, and all rest is action.

We must bear witness to our feelings, our reactivity, lest we act in unskillful ways, escalating the very suffering we wish to heal.

Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountains and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life. Breathe in and let yourself soar to the ends of the universe; breathe out and bring the cosmos back inside. Next, breathe up all the fecundity and vibrancy of the earth. Finally, blend the breath of heaven and the breath of earth with that of your own, becoming the Breath of Life itself.