2025: Index E

 Eckhart, Meister - A00039

"Be willing to be a beginner every single morning."  (06/04/2023)

"Between God and Me there is no "Between."  (09/25/2022)

"Nothing in the universe resembles God more than silence." (11/05/2022)

Einstein, Albert - A00040

"I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind."  (03/31/2023)

"My understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe did not come out of my rational mind."  (11/07/2022)

"There are two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Eisai, Myoan

"Great is Mind.  Heaven's height is immeasurable, but Mind goes beyond heaven; the earth's depth is also unfathomable, but Mind reaches below the earth.  The light of the sun and moon cannot be outdistanced, yet Mind passes beyond the light of the sun and moon.  The macrocosm is limitless, yet Mind travels outside the macrocosm.  How great is Space! How great the Primal Energy! Still Mind encompasses Space and generates the Primal Energy.  Because of it heaven covers and earth upbears.  Because of it the sun and moon move on, the four seasons come in succession, and all things are generated.  Great indeed is Mind!"  (12/22/2022)

Ekaku, Hakuin - A00054

"All you clever young people --

"No matter what you say,

"If you don't hear the sound of one hand,

"Everything else is rubbish!"  (12/11/2023)

"At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening.  If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully."  (05/31/2022)

"If only you could hear the sound of snow ..."  (03/12/2023)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo - A00041

"Don't tell me to get ready to die.  I know not what shall be.  The only preparation I can make is by fulfilling my present duties.  This is the everlasting life."  (06/13/2023)

"I am the doubter and the doubt, I am the hymn the Brahmin sings."  (10/26/2022)

"It is very hard to be simple enough to be good."

"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it."  (06/04/2022)

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."  (10/02/2022)

"These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.  There is not time for them.  There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence ... But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to forsee the future.  He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time."  (06/22/2023) 

English Proverb

"The shortest answer is doing."  (09/23/2022) 

Epictetus - A00044

"Don't explain your philosophy.  Embody it."  (05/21/2023)

The Essential Mystics

"A human being must be born twice.  Once from his mother and again from his own body and his own existence.  The body is like an egg and the essence of man must become a bird in that effect through the warmth of love, and then he must go beyond his body and fly in the eternal world of the soul." (07/24/2023)

Esslin, Martin - A00079

"The dignity of a man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness."  (04/06/2022)