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The only way to raise
yourself up is to raise up others, to raise up your world,
to raise up all of life. Joy comes to you when you give it.
Ralph Marston
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Ghandi
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd
be peace
John Lennon
Where your talent and the needs of the world crosses, your calling lies
Aristotle
Stillness is the language of God
Eckhart Tolle
Remain radiant in the filth of the world
James Joyce
In order to arrive at what you do not know
You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance
In order to possess what you do not possess,
You must go by the way of dispossession.
In order to arrive at what you are not,
You must go through the way in which you are not.
And what you do not know is the only thing you know
And what you own is what you do not own
And where you are is where you are not
T.S. Elliot (1963)
As the darkness of the night,
even were it to last a thousand years,
could not conceal the rising sun,
so countless ages of conflict and suffering
cannot conceal the innate radiance of Mind
Tilopa (988-1069 CE)
Some time when the river is ice, ask me mistakes I have
made.Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others
have come in their slow way into my thought, and some
have tried to help or to hurt. Ask me what difference their
strongest love or hate has made.
I will listen to what you say. You and I can turn and look
at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there,
hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles
away that hold the stilllness exactly before us. What theb
river says, that is what I say
William Stafford
In order that the mind should see light instead of
darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from
this changing world, until it's eye can learn to
contemplate reality and that supreme splendor which
we have called the good. Hence, there may well be an
art whose aim would be to effect this very thing.
Socrates
Go placidly among the noise and haste and remember
what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak the truth quietly and clearly and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant,
they too have their story.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars.
You have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive God to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul
Max Ehrmann