#saraha

"My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now." Byron Katie

"The act of resisting something is the act of granting it life... the more you resist, the more you make it real - whatever it is you are resisting." Neale Donald Walsh

"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly." G. K. Chesterton  

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself." Erich Fromm

"There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life." Ram Dass

"The only limit to our realisation of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." Franklin D. Roosevelt

"A quiet conscience makes one strong." Anne Frank

"A psychologically healthy person can, in fact, be defined as someone whose desires actually produce happiness." Deepak Chopra

"Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body." Saraha

"Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind." Marianne Williamson

There is nowhere the knowledge of Buddha does not reach. Why? There is not a single sentient being who is not fully endowed with the knowledge of Buddha; it is just that because of deluded notions, erroneous thinking, and attachments, they are unable to realize it. If they would get rid of deluded notions, then universal knowledge, spontaneous knowledge, and unobstructed knowledge would become manifest. It is as if there were a great scripture, equal in extent to a billion world universe, in which were written all the things of the universe---there are written the things of the iron peripheral mountains, to an extent equal to those mountains; there are written the things on the land, to an extent equal to the land; there are written the things in the million-world galaxies, to an extent equal to the galaxies; there are written the things in the thousand-world systems, to an extent equal to the thousand-world systems; there are written the things in the continents, to an extent equal to the continents, and so on; the things of the oceans, the polar mountains, the abodes of earth and sky, the celestial abodes in the sky of the desire realm, the abodes in the form realm, the abodes in the formless realm, are each written down to an equivalent extent. Though this scripture is equal in measure to the billion-world universe, yet it entirely rests in a single atom; and as this is so of one atom, it is also true of all atoms. Then suppose someone with clear and comprehensive knowledge, who has fully developed the celestial eye, sees these scriptures inside atoms, not benefiting sentient beings in the least, and, with this thought, ---‘I should, by energetic power, break open those atoms and release those scriptures so they can benefit all sentient beings’---then employs appropriate means to break open those atoms and release the great scriptures, to enable all sentient beings to benefit greatly. Similarly, the knowledge of Buddha, infinite and unobstructed, universally able to benefit all, is fully inherent in the bodies of sentient beings; but the ignorant, because of clinging to deluded notions, do not know of it, are not aware of it, and so do not benefit from it. Then the Buddha, with the unimpeded, pure, clear eye of knowledge observes all sentient beings in the cosmos and says, ‘How strange---how is that these sentient beings have the knowledge of Buddha but in their folly and confusion do not know it or perceive it? I should teach them the way of the sages and cause them to forever shed deluded notions and attachments, so they can see in their own bodies the vast knowledge of buddhas, no different from the buddhas.’ Then Buddha teaches them to practice the way of sages, so they get rid of deluded notions, after which they realize the infinite knowledge of Buddha and aid and comfort living beings. This is the tenth characteristic of the mind of Buddha; great bodhisattvas should know it thus.

Avatamsaka Sutra - Flower Ornament Scripture – 1002, 1003