SILENCE AND STILLNESS

Om. That is whole, and this also is whole, for only the whole is born out of the whole, And when the whole is taken from the whole, behold the remainder is whole, Om. Peace, peace, peace. This is perfect. Perfect comes from perfect.
Take perfect from perfect, the remainder is perfect. May peace and peace and peace be everywhere.

-The Upnishads

The man who, casting off all desires, lives free from attachment; who is free lives free from egoism and from the feeling that this or that is mine, obtains tranquility. That man attains peace who, abandoning all desires, moves about without attachment and longing, without the sense of ‘I’ and ‘mine;
This is the state of dwelling in god; having attained this, no one is ever deluded. Being established in this knowledge even at the end of life, one attains oneness with the supreme.

-The Bhagvad Gita

Drinking tea, eating rice, I pass my time as it comes, looking down at the stream, looking up at the mountain, How serene and relaxed I feel indeed!’’

-Pao-Tzu Wen-Ch’I

MYSTICISM - 2

During the past thirty years, people from all the civilized countries of the earth have consulted me. I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life that is to say, over thirty-five-there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

It is safe say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given to their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious

Outlook.

-Carl Gustav Jung

Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous…. In the infinite extent of the universe, it is a direction of the heart.

-Rainer Maria Rilke

If want nothing to do with Any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

-Jawaharlal Nehru

If have not come to establish any cult, society or organization; nor even to establish a new religion. The religion that I shall give teaches the knowledge of the one behind the many. The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart that hold s the key to the Mystery of life.

I shall bring about a happy blending of the head and the heart. I shall revitalize all religions and cults, and bring them together like beads on one string.

-Meher Bada

Of die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

-Jorge Luis Borges

Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.

-L.Ronald Hubbbard

irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness- an act of trust in the unknown.

-Alan Watts

All the religions have lied to you…. They say that if you give hare, you will be rewarded in heaven. Neither do they have any evidence of heaven nor do they have any evidence from millions of people who have gone before- just a single letter, a postcard – that yes, what these priests are saying is right.

-Osho SUFFERING

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. Give yourself to it.

-Hermann Hesse

The more the diamond is cut, the brighter it sparkles; and what seems hard dealing, there god has no and in view but to perfect His people.

-Thomas Guthrie

Fell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

-Paulo Coelho

Suffering is a journey which has an and.

-Matthew Fox

Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

-Khalil Gibran

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert it only irritates.

Samuel Johnson
Fesses wept.’’
-The Bible