“Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems.” Walt Whitman SHE HAS JUST FINISHED ENUMERATING for me the many facets…

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You will never achieve spiritual enlightenment. The you that you think of as you is not you. The you that thinks of you as you is not you.…

To meet my thousand thousand faces I roam the world; The dirtiest grass Wears the sunlight of my skin: I stand in this stream, myself, and laugh. Rumi…

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained. I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat…

Long enough have you dream’d contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every…

Seizing my life in your hands, you thrashed it clean on the savage rocks of Eternal Mind. How its colors bled, until they grew white! You smile and…

When the mind is at peace, the world too is at peace. Nothing real, nothing absent. Not holding on to reality, not getting stuck in the void, You…

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes MY MONOLOGUES TEND TO BE a little loose, but they…

Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary, Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain…

Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: a star at dawn, a bauble in a stream; a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, a flickering…

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. Basho

In all ten directions of the universe, there is only one truth. When we see clearly, the great teachings are the same. What can ever be lost? What…

I was dreaming that I was a butterfly fluttering happily. Suddenly, I awoke— Now, I wonder who I am— A man who dreamed he was a butterfly, or…

The battle for truth Is waged upon untruth.

Let us forget the lapse of time; let us forget the conflict of opinions. Let us make our appeal to the infinite, and take up our positions there.…

“This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and revelation as it…

If in hell I could hold one curl of your hair I’d think the saints of heaven in torment. Rumi

My birthplace is placelessness, My sign is to have and give no sign. You say you see my mouth, ears, eyes, nose; they are not mine. I am…

All forces have been steadily employ’d to complete and delight me, Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul. Walt Whitman

“There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part…

Has any one supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it. I…

The great path has no gates, thousands of roads enter it. When you pass through this gateless gate you walk the universe alone. Mumon

“The universe is the unity of all things. If one recognizes his identity with this unity, then the parts of his body mean no more to him than…

Whoever was responsible for the idea of dividing self into lower and higher parts committed a serious crime against humanity. This division has given rise to the notion…

“Concepts can at best only serve to negate one another, as one thorn is used to remove another, and then be thrown away. Words and language deal only…

My daily affairs are quite ordinary; but I’m in total harmony with them. I don’t hold on to anything, don’t reject anything; nowhere an obstacle or conflict. Who…

Selections from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself. Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? Have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read?…

“Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.” The Hua Hu…