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“The Buddha didn’t set out to found a religion or to convert people to a belief – he simply taught a system of ethics, compassion and loving kindness towards all beings, which aimed to help people wake up to their own enlightened nature. He”
― Dreams of Awakening: Lucid Dreaming and Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep
― Dreams of Awakening: Lucid Dreaming and Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep
“I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black,
While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.
Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw,
And could sculpt like men, then the horses would draw their gods
Like horses, and cattle like cattle; and each they would shape
Bodies of gods in the likeness, each kind, of their own.”
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While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.
Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw,
And could sculpt like men, then the horses would draw their gods
Like horses, and cattle like cattle; and each they would shape
Bodies of gods in the likeness, each kind, of their own.”
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“within Buddhism it is believed that ‘among the three general states of consciousness – waking, sleeping and dreaming – the coarsest state of consciousness, the one with the least potential for spiritual development is, surprisingly, the ordinary waking state’.”
― Dreams of Awakening: Lucid Dreaming and Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep
― Dreams of Awakening: Lucid Dreaming and Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep
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