2025: Index M

Machado, Antonio

"The deepest words

of the wise man teach us

the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows

or the sound of the water when it is flowing."  (03/15/2024)

 

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)

"There is nothing to do.  Just be.  Do nothing.  Be.  No climbing mountains and sitting in caves.  i do not even say "be yourself," since you do not know yourself.  Just be."  (10/03/2022)

Maharshi, Bhagavan Sri Ramana

"Just as a person would dive in order to get something that had fallen into the water, so one should dive into oneself, with a keen, one-pointed mind, controlling speech and breath, and find the place whence the "I" originates."  (11/15/2022)

"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."

"If one reaches the point where understanding fails, this is not a tragedy; it is simply a reminder to stop thinking and start looking.  Perhaps there is nothing to figure out after all; perhaps we only need to wake up."  (11/14/2022)

"Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us, and see the beauty in ordinary things."  (09/14/2022)

"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)

"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer." (01/10/2024)

"When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash -- at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness," the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance."  (12/14/2022) (03/29/2024)

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

Miller, Henry

"Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.  What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.  Every moment is a golden one for [the person] who has the vision to recognize it."  (01/15/2024) 

"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)

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to ourselves."  (03/24/2024)

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)