Religious Thought 099



Liberation cannot be achieved except through perceiving the identity of the individual spirit with the Universal Spirit. Atman and Brahman are identical. Their essence is pure Consciousness.
- Sankara
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Whose minds are well-developed in the factors of self-awakening, who delight in non-clinging, relinquishing grasping-- resplendent, their effluents ended: they, in the world, are Unbound.
- Dhammapada, 6, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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When God fills an adept with the desire to comprehend His essence, knowledge becomes vision, vision revelation, revelation contemplation, and contemplation existence in God. Words are hushed to silence, life becomes death, explanations come to an end, signs are effaced, and disputes are cleared up.
- Junayd, in "Rabi'a the Mystic"
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The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.
- M. Scott Peck
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Dream is the incomplete form of prophecy.
- Hanina ben Isaac, Genesis Rabbah
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