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Book cover for Buddhist Sutras: The Ultimate Collected Works of 10 Famous Sutras (With Active Table of Contents)
Form is emptiness, and emptiness indeed is form. Emptiness is not different from form, form is not different from emptiness. What is form that is emptiness, what is emptiness that is form. Thus perception, name, conception, and knowledge ...more
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Edwin Arnold
“Fearlessness, singleness of soul, the will
Always to strive for wisdom; opened hand
And governed appetites; and piety,
And love of lonely study; humbleness,
Uprightness, heed to injure nought which lives,
Truthfulness, slowness unto wrath, a mind
That lightly letteth go what others prize;
And equanimity, and charity
Which spieth no man's faults; and tenderness
Towards all that suffer; a contented heart,
Fluttered by no desires; a bearing mild,
Modest, and grave, with manhood nobly mixed,
With patience, fortitude, and purity;
An unrevengeful spirit, never given
To rate itself too high;--such be the signs,
O Indian Prince! of him whose feet are set
On that fair path which leads to heavenly birth!
Deceitfulness, and arrogance, and pride,
Quickness to anger, harsh and evil speech,
And ignorance, to its own darkness blind,--
These be the signs, My Prince! of him whose birth
Is fated for the regions of the vile.”
Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna guides Arjuna on dharma, warrior duty, and the yogic paths of bhakti, jnana, karma, and moksha in the Mahabharata

Edward Gorey
“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
Edward Gorey

Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Octavio Paz
“When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings”
Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings

Bertrand Russell
“Love is wise,
Hatred is foolish”
Bertrand Russell

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