It is not those who lack energy or refrain from action, but those who work without expectation of reward who attain the goal of meditation. Theirs is true renunciation. Therefore, Arjuna, you should understand that renunciation and the performance of selfless service are the same. Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.

- Bhagavad Gita 6:1-2

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All beings are by nature Buddha, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddha.

- Hakuin Zenji, "Song of Zazen"

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During prayer I give myself over to the Lord and delight myself in zealous worship. The window of my soul opens wide and the Book of God comes to view To fill my house with grace and light.

- Rumi

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The clothes we wear are what people see. Only God can look on the heart.

- Elisabeth Elliot

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First a person should put his house together, then his town, then the world.

- Rabbi Israel Salanter

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The 'eye in the sky': Breathtaking new pictures of the Helix Nebula, a dying star 650 light years from Earth

Dying star captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
Show's dying stars outer layers unraveling into space

Looking uncannily like a giant eye in the sky, the Helix Nebula has been captured in stunning new detail by a Nasa space telescope.

The breathtaking image shows a dying star is throwing a 'cosmic tantrum'.

It shows the star's dusty outer layers unraveling into space, glowing from the intense ultraviolet radiation being pumped out by the hot stellar core.