With the word OM we say, "I agree," and fulfill desires. With OM we recite, we give direction, we sing aloud the honor of that Word, the key to the three kinds of knowledge.
- Chandogya Upanishad
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They go to many a refuge, To mountains, forests, Parks, trees, & shrines: People threatened with danger. That's not the secure refuge, Not the supreme refuge, That's not the refuge, Having gone to which You gain release From all suffering & stress.
- Dhammapada, 14, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
Knowledge has two wings. Conjecture is one wing. Conjecture alone is lacking and cuts short the flight. The one-winged bird continues to struggle, hoping to reach the nest somehow with one wing. And then wisdom shows his shining face. Delivered from conjecture, the bird now spreads both wings (and soars once again).
- Rumi
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[I]t's never too late. You can't screw up so badly that God cant find something worth building in the wreckage, that life cant assert its return when it is time.
- Barbara Crafton
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Words are the shell, meditation the kernel. Words are the body of the prayer, and meditation its spirit.
- Bahya, Hobot HaLebabot, 1040
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