Religious Thought 118



Finding freedom in this life, The seeker takes nothing to heart, Neither duty nor desire. He has nothing to do But to live out his life. The master lives beyond the boundaries of desire. Delusion or the world, Meditation on the truth, Liberation itself-- What are they to him?
- Ashtavakra Gita 18: 13-14
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He knows his former lives. He sees heavens and states of woe, has attained the ending of birth, is a sage who has mastered full-knowing, his mastery totally mastered: he's what I call a brahmin.
- Dhammapada 423, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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The Merciful is kind to those who are merciful. If you show compassion to your fellow creatures in this world, then those in heaven shall be compassionate toward you.
- Hadith The Prophet Muhammad (SAW), as narrated by Abd'Allah bin Amr
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Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life?
- Matthew 6:26-27
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Man was created so that he might lift up the heavens.
- Mendel of Kotzk
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