Baba Ram Dass see Dass, Baba Ram
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Bacon, Francis - A00005
"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake."
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"Wonder is the basis of worship." (05/25/2025)
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Bailey, Darryl
"If we sit quietly, making no effort, life expresses itself clearly; it simply happens on its own. There's nothing else to get. The great truth is obvious. The heart beats; the breath comes and goes." (10/24/2024)
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Baker, Nicholson - A00017
""Carpe diem" doesn't mean seize the day -- it means something gentler and more sensible. "Carpe diem" means pluck the day .... What Horace had in mind was that you should gently pull on the day's stem, as if it were, say a wildflower or an olive, holding it with all the practiced care of your thumb and the side of your finger. ... Pick the day, harvest the day, reap the day, mow the day, forage the day. Don't freaking grab the day in your fist like a burger at a fairground and take a big chomping bite out of it." (04/22/2022) (05/16/2023)
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Bancroft, Anne
"Haiku is a particularly Zen form of poetry; for Zen detests egoism in the form of calculated effects or self-glorification of any sort. The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present." (08/04/2025)
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Barlow, John Perry - A00089
"I'd complain about being bored and she'd say, "Anyone who's bored isn't paying close enough attention." (Barlow quoting his mother) (09/21/2022)
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Barrington, Elizabeth
"Meditate and do and you shall know." (11/19/2025)
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Basho, Matsuo - A00030
"All who have achieved real excellence in any art possess one thing in common, that is, a mind to obey nature, to be one with nature, throughout the four seasons of the year." (08/25/2023)
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"Clouds come from time to time
"And bring a chance to rest
"From looking at the moon" (10/01/2025)
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"Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves." (09/18/2022)
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"Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of all creation -- mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity -- and enjoy the falling blossoms and scattering leaves." (09/05/2025)
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"To have nothing in mind is noble. To have no skill and no knowledge is supreme. No abiding, no hermitage, comes next." (07/23/2024)
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"Whiter than the stones
"Of the Stony Mountain,
"The autumn wind!" (10/16/2025)
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"Year after year
"the monkey's mask
"reveals the monkey" (01/07/2025)
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Bassui
"However much you try through logical reasoning and definition to know original face before your birth or your original home, you are doomed to failure. Even if you search the core of your being, becoming full of questioning, you don't find anything that you could call a personal mind or essence. Yet when someone calls your name, something in you bears and responds. Find out who it is! Find out now!" (08/21/2025)
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"You should know that the voices of frogs and worms, the sound of wind and raindrops, all speak the wonderful language of the Dharma, and that birds in flight, swimming fish, floating clouds all turn the Dharma Wheel." (09/12/2025)
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Batchelor, Martine - A00087
"Meditation helps us break free of habitual patterns and unleash the original and creative power of thought." (08/07/2022)
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Baughman, Michael - A00013
"Many men fish all their lives without realizing it is not the fish they are after." (04/12/2023)
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Beck, Charlotte Joko - A00014
"Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that. But to talk about it is of little use. The practice has to be done by each individual. There is no substitute. We can read about it until we are a thousand years old and it won't do a thing for us. We all have to practice, and we have to practice with all of our might for the rest of our lives." (04/06/2023)
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Every moment in life is absolute in itself. That's all there is. There is nothing other than this present moment; there is no past, no future; there is nothing but this. So when we don't pay attention to each little this, we miss the whole thing. And the contents of this can be anything. This can be straightening out sitting mats, chopping an onion, visiting one we don't want to visit. It doesn't matter what the contents of the moment are; each moment is absolute. That's all there is, and all there ever will be." (04/14/2025)
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"Forget controlling our breath. We won't entirely forget, of course, but it's useless to control the breath. Instead, just experience it, which is very different. We're not trying to make the breath long, slow, and even, as many books suggest. Instead, what we want is to let the breath be the boss, so that the breath is breathing us." (09/08/2024)
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"Joy is being willing for things to be as they are." (04/20/2024)
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"There is only one teacher. What is that teacher? Life itself." (03/23/2025)
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"We all have to practice, and we have to practice with all of our might for the rest of our lives." (06/24/2024)
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"We enter a discipline like Zen practice so that we can learn to live in a sane way." (05/04/2024)
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Beckett, Samuel
"Nothing is more real than nothing." (03/20/2025)
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Bellow, Saul
"When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift." (03/20/2024)
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Benedict of Nursia (Saint Benedict) - A00011
"Listen carefully to the master's instructions and attend to them with the ear of your heart." [Prologue to the Rule of Saint Benedict] (01/22/2023)
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Berenson, Bernard
"It was a morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with fragrance. The temperature was like a caress. I remember -- I need not recall -- that I climbed up a tree stump and felt suddenly immersed in It-ness. I did not call it by that name. I had no need for words. It and I were one." (07/02/2025)
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Bernhardt, Sarah - A00006
"Life begets life. Energy begets energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."
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Bhagavad Gita
"When a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were his own, he has attained the highest state of spiritual union." (04/05/2022)
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Bistami, Bayazid al- - A00088
"Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God." (05/19/2025)
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"This thing we can tell of can never be found by seeking, yet only seekers find it." (10/19/2025)
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"The thing we tell of can never be found by seeking, yet only seekers find it." (08/26/2022)
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Blackstone, Judith
"Spiritual maturity is, above all else, a process of becoming real." (04/02/2024)
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Blyth, Reginald Horace - A00076
"A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment in which we see into the life of things." (09/30/2025)
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"He taught me all that I don't know." [Blyth on D. T. Suzuki] (06/30/2022)
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"The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend to such things. ... When we are grasping the inexpressible meaning of these things, this is life, this is living." (05/25/2024)
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"Zen itself is beyond the contrivance of form and no-form, of contrivance and no-contrivance, of "square" and "beat." The real task is to achieve union with life, for only in this way is life transformed from a formality to a reality." (04/30/2022)
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"Zen passes through all our definitions and remains Zen as before." (11/20/2025)
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Bodhisattvas (Vow of the Bodhisattvas)
"Living beings are numberless; I vow to serve until all are liberated.
"Ignorance and grasping is boundless; I vow to transform and uproot it all." (05/14/2025)
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Bohr, Niels - A00077
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." (04/19/2022)
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Borenstein, Jeffrey
"Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond." (January 2025)
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Borges, Jorge Luis - A00082
"Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment -- the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all who he is." (05/13/2022)
Botton, Alain de - A00007
"Awe is everywhere, we just don't always perceive it."
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Bowen, Elizabeth
"No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye." (12/21/2025)
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Bowman, Tim - A00092
"Buddhism is not a religion or a philosophy, but really a way of life ... a way to reduce your suffering (dukkha) by correcting your thinking and how you see or view things." (10/12/2022)
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Brach, Tara - A00018
"Attention is the most basic form of love. By paying attention we let ourselves be touched by life, and our hearts naturally become more open and engaged." (07/20/2024)
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"I take refuge in awareness; I take refuge in truth; I take refuge in love." (01/01/2024)
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"Imperfection is not our personal problem -- it is a natural part of existing." (04/12/2024)
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"Mindfulness is the intentional process of paying attention, without judgment, to the unfolding of moment-by-moment experience." (03/23/2024)
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"Spiritual awakening is the process of recognizing our essential goodness, our natural wisdom and compassion." (06/19/2024)
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"The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle." (12/06/2024)
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"There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying Yes to our entire imperfect and messy life. With even a glimmer of that possibility, joy rushes in." (04/22/2023) (08/27/2024)
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"Whatever you most care about, let this tenderness of heart energize your meditation. The sincerity of your longing will carry you home." (07/04/2022)
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Bradbury, Ray
"Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it." (08/13/2024)
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"The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn is you're the same fool." (05/07/2025)
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Branson, Richard - A00008
"Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop."
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Brezsny, Rob
"Every act of genius, Carl Jung said, is an act contra naturam: against nature. Indeed, every effort to achieve psychological integration and union with the divine requires a knack for working against the grain. The 18th-century mystic Jacob Boehme recommended the same technique. The great secret to becoming enlightened, he said, is "to walk in all things contrary to the world." (09/11/2024)
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Brown, Brene - A00085
"Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are." (07/01/2022)
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"Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty." (03/09/2024)
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"Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning, and purpose to our lives." (11/12/2024)
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett - A00060
"Earth's crammed with heaven,
"And every common bush afire with God." (12/12/2023) (09/10/2024)
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Browning, Robert
"We find great things are made of little things,
"And little things go lessening till at last
"Comes God behind them." (04/28/2024)
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Brunton, Paul
"The world is our school for spiritual discovery." (12/20/2025)
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"I have often been asked what I thought was the secret of Buddha's smile. It is -- it can only be -- that he smiles at himself for searching all those years for what he already possessed." (05/21/2025)
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Buber, Martin
"To begin with oneself, not to end with oneself;
"To start from oneself, but not to aim at oneself;
"To comprehend oneself, but not to be preoccupied with oneself." (07/ 31/2024)
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Buddha, The - A00009
"A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise."
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"Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold to the truth within yourself, as to the only truth." (06/03/2023) (12/08/2025)
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"Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it or because it is traditional, or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- in that doctrine believe and cling to and take it as your guide." (06/07/2023)
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"I do not call a man a Brahman because of his birth or of his mother. He is supercilious in his mode of address and he is wealthy: But the poor man who is free from attachments, him I call indeed a Brahman." (09/27/2022)
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"Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame." (10/18/2022)
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"Nirvana is this moment seen directly. There is nowhere else than here. The only gate is now. The only doorway is your own body and mind. There's nowhere to go. There's nothing else to be. There's no destination. It's not something to aim for in the afterlife. It's simply the quality of this moment." (02/01/2022)
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"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
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Buddhist Chant - A00009
"All things in this world are impermanent. They have the nature to rise and pass away. To be in harmony with this truth brings true happiness."
Buddhist Saying - A00009
"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck." [Tibetan Buddhist Saying] (01/05/2023)
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“When confusion ceases, tranquility comes; when tranquility comes, wisdom appears; and when wisdom appears, reality is seen.” (02/09/2025)
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Buddhist Teaching
"If you say, "I am empty" the "I am" is there, and the "I" cannot be empty." (06/20/2024)
Bunem of Przysucha (Rabbi Bunem of Przysucha)
"Do not deceive anybody" -- not even yourself! (Rabbi Bunem commenting on Leviticus 25:17) (02/03/2024)
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Burroughs, John - A00083
"The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is, "Look under foot." You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world." (05/02/2022) (11/22/2024)
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Burton, Richard Francis
"Indeed, he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know." (06/15/2025)
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Buson
"Only after the peony
had scattered and fallen
did it stand there in its glory" (05/27/2024)
Byron, George Gordon (Lord Byron) - A00078
"And yet 't is very puzzling on the brink
"Of what is call'd Eternity to stare,
"And know no more of what is here, than
"there ..." (04/29/2022)
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