Religious Thought 092



Nachiketa learned from the kind of death The whole discipline of meditation. Freeing himself from all separateness, He won immortality in Brahman. So blessed is everyone who knows the Self! OM shanti shanti shanti
- Katha Upanishad
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Hands restrained, feet restrained speech restrained, supremely restrained-- delighting in what is inward, content, centered, alone: he's what they call a monk. A monk restrained in his speaking, giving counsel unruffled, declaring the message & meaning: sweet is his speech.
- Dhammapada, 25, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide.
- Rumi
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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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As a man must perfect himself as a man, so must a Jew strive to reach perfection as a Jew.
- Zevi Katznellenbogen, letter to his son Gerson, 1845
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