Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat.
My shoulder is against yours.
you will not find me in the stupas, not in Indian shrine rooms, nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals:
not in masses, nor kirtans, not in legs winding around your own neck, nor in eating nothing but vegetables.
When you really look for me, you will see me instantly — you will find me in the tiniest house of time.
tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath

~Kabir
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Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward.

~Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

~Lao Tzu
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If You Meet The Buddha On The Road, Kill Him

~Linji Yixuan
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

~Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self.

~Mahavira
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Mediocrity is gone. Mind is clear of limitation. I seek no state of enlightenment. Neither do I remain where no enlightenment exists. Since I linger in neither condition, eyes cannot see me. If hundreds of birds strew my path with flowers, such praise would be meaningless.

~The Ten Bulls of Zen
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The journey itself is my home.

~Matsuo Bash
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My religion is to live - and die - without regret.

~Milarepa
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All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

~Nagarjuna
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It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

~Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

~Omar Khayyam
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From the beginning, truth is clear. Poised in silence, I observe the forms of integration and disintegration. One who is not attached to "form" need not be "reformed." The water is emerald, the mountain is indigo, and I see that which is creating and that which is destroying.

~The Ten Bulls of Zen
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During the civil wars in feudal Japan, an invading army would quickly sweep into a town and take control. In one particular village, everyone fled just before the army arrived - everyone except the Zen master.

Curious about this old fellow, the general went to the temple to see for himself what kind of man this master was. When he wasn't treated with the deference and submissiveness to which he was accustomed, the general burst into anger.
"You fool," he shouted as he reached for his sword, "don't you realize you are standing before a man who could run you through without blinking an eye!"

But despite the threat, the master seemed unmoved.
"And do you realize," the master replied calmly, "that you are standing before a man who can be run through without blinking an eye?"

~Zen Story
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Inside my gate, a thousand sages do not know me. The beauty of my garden is invisible. Why should one search for the footprints of the patriarchs? I go to the market place with my wine bottle and return home with my staff. I visit the wineshop and the market, and everyone I look upon becomes enlightened.

~The Ten Bulls of Zen
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A distraught man approached the Zen master.
"Please, Master, I feel lost, desperate. I don't know who I am. Please, show me my true self!"
But the teacher just looked away without responding.
The man began to plead and beg, but still the master gave no reply.
Finally giving up in frustration, the man turned to leave.
At that moment the master called out to him by name.
"Yes!" the man said as he spun back around.
"There it is!" exclaimed the master.

~Zen Story
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A path is made by walking on it.

~Zhuangzi
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The only thing that is constant is Change.

~Heraclitus
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The best fighter is never angry.

~Lao Tzu
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If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the sea of delusion.

~Linji Yixuan
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If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him,he will show that when drunk.But if he has hidden anger and arrogance,those appear.

~Rumi
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