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“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“باید مواظب بود.من شبها شعر میخوانم.هنوز ننوشته ام.خواهم نوشت.من نقاشی می کنم.شعر میخوانم و یکتایی را می بینم.و گاه در خانه غذا می پزم و ظرف میشویم و انگشت خودم را می برم.آدم چه دیر می فهمد.من چه دیر فهمیدم که انسان یعنی عجالتا.ایران مادرهای خوب دارد و غذاهای خوشمزه و روشنفکران بد و دشتهای دلپذیر.”
― پریدخت سپهری, هنوز در سفرم...

“And it is because you don't know the end and purpose of things that you think the wicked and the criminal have power and happiness.”
― Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

“Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.”
― Boethius

“Nunc fluens facit tempus,
nunc stans facit aeternitatum.

(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)”
― Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

“But by the same logic as men become just through the possession of justice, or wise through the possession of wisdom, so those who possess divinity necessary become divine. Each happy individual is therefore divine. While only God is so by nature, as many as you like may become so by participation.”
― Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

“Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.”
― Foundation for Inner Peace, A Course in Miracles

“Rest does not come from sleeping but from waking.”
― Foundation for Inner Peace, A Course in Miracles

“Miracles enable you to heal the sick and raise the dead because you made sickness and death yourself, and can therefore abolish both. You are a miracle, capable of creating in the likeness of your Creator. Everything else is your own nightmare, and does not exist. Only the creations of light are real.”
― Foundation for Inner Peace, A Course in Miracles

“If you but knew the meaning of His Love, hope and despair would be impossible.”
― Foundation for Inner Peace, A Course in Miracles

“Only those who have a real and lasting sense of abundance can be truly charitable.”
― Foundation for Inner Peace, A Course in Miracles

“Remember that no one is where he is by accident, and chance plays no part in God’s plan.”
― Foundation for Inner Peace, A Course in Miracles

“Look up and see His Word among the stars, where He has set your Name along with His. Look up and find your certain destiny the world would hide but God would have you see. C-ep.4. Let us wait here in silence, and kneel”
― Foundation for Inner Peace, A Course in Miracles

“Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color--something which exists before all forms and colors appear... No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.”
― Shunryu Suzuki

“Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.”
― Shunryu Suzuki

“enjoy your problems”
― shunryu suzuki

“While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gain
ing ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. Do not think about anything. Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything. Then eventually you will resume your own true nature. That is to say, your own true nature resumes itself.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“Calmness of mind does not mean you should stop your activity. Real calmness should be found in activity itself. We say, "It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“When you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely, like a good bonfire. You should not be a smoky fire. You should burn yourself completely. If you do not burn yourself completely, a trace of yourself will be left in what you do.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity picking up a grain of sand is the same as taking up the whole universe. To save one sentient being is to save all sentient beings. Your efforts of this moment to save one person is the same as the eternal merit of Buddha.”
― Shunryu Suzuki

“We should not hoard knowledge; we should be free from our knowledge.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“Because you are alive, everything is possible.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. ”
― Simone Weil

“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.”
― William James, The Principles of Psychology

“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”
― William James

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
― William James

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
― William James

“To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds,”
― William James