2024: Index M

 Maezumi, Taizan

"We do not see that our life right here, right now, is nirvana.  Maybe we think that nirvana is a place where there are no problems, no more delusions.  Maybe we think nirvana is something very beautiful, something unattainable.  We always think nirvana is something very different from our own life."

Maharaj, Sri Nisargadatta

"Abiding in your own being is holy company."  (06/23/2022)

"It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates."  (05/10/2022) 

"Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy."  (12/10/2023)

Maharshi, Bhagavan Sri Ramana

"Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world." (01/12/2022)

"Your true nature is that of infinite spirit.  The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind."  (07/12/2022)

Mansfield, Katherine

"I think of you often.  Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it's too dark to write or to do anything but wait for the stars.  A time to love.  One feels half disembodied, sitting like a shadow at the door of one's being while the dark tide rises.  Then comes the moon, marvelously serene, and small stars, very merry for some reason of their own.  It is so easy to forget, in a worldly life, to attend to those miracles."

Maslow, Abraham

"The great lesson from the true mystics, from the Zen monks, from the Humanistic and Transpersonal psychologists, is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own back yard.  This lesson can be easily lost.  To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous."

Matisse, Henri 

"We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe."  (01/03/2022)

The Matrix

"I can only show you the door.  You're the one that has to walk through it."  (01/28/2023)

Maugham, William Somerset

 "Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it."

Meher Baba

"The finding of God is the coming to one's own self."  (04/02/2022)

Mencius

"The great man is one who never loses his child's heart."

Merton, Thomas

"A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.  No man can serve two masters.  Your life is shaped by the end you live for.  You are made in the image of what you desire."

"One of the elders said: Either fly as far as you can from men, or else, laughing at the world and the men who are in it, make yourself a fool in many things."  (08/29/2022)

"Our real journey in life is interior:  It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an even greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts."  (06/21/2022)

"The spiritual life is, then, first of all a matter of keeping awake."  (11/20/2023)

"Zen explains nothing.  It just sees.  Sees what?  Not an Absolute Object but Absolute Seeing."  (01/13/2022)

Miller, Henry

"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."  (04/28/2022)

Montaigne, Michel de - A00051

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself."  (11/29/2023)

Mooji

"Actually, being what you are is the simplest. What is difficult is to stop being what you are not." (02/08/2022)

"Life does not worry about life.  Only mind does that."  (06/24/2022)

Muir, John

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."  (03/11/2023)

Myss, Caroline 

"Just let go.  Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness."  (08/30/2023)