Personal Reflections - Mantras, Sayings & Poems

Reflections For Meditation
Mantras, Quotes & Poems

Listed below are some of my favorite poems, sayings, and mantras that I have found to harbor wisdom. Perhaps you will find them something to meditate upon as well.

He who has discovered the World has found the Body, but he who has found the Body is Superior to the World.
... Jesus Christ (Gnostic Scriptures, Gospel of Thomas)

I really enjoy talking to atheists because they don't blame God for anything.
... Ron Scott

Is someone else safe walking the path of your mind?
... Lenore Scott

The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man.
... William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
... Federico Fellini

Christian prayer is not an adult letter to Santa Claus.
... Bishop John Shelby Spong

The study is that there is no study. The way is that there is nothing to be a way. Since there is nothing to study, there is no clinging. Since there is nothing to be a way, there is no following.
... Shu-Chung

I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions, that they exist only in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
... Alan Watts

Do not try to predefine understanding, and do not make a principle out of non-understanding.
... Ying-An

The singular is not particular, it is universal.
... Miguel De Unamundo

Only so much do I know, as I have lived.
... Ralph Wldo Emerson

Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
... John Cage

All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know the ocean merges into the drop.
... Kabir

The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.
... Meister Eckhart

If you lost God, who moved?
... Author Unknown

If you cannot see god in all, you cannot see god at all.
... Yogi Bhajan

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
... Richard Whately

Trust only movement. Life happens at a level of events not of words. Trust movement.
... Alfred Adler

If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.
... John Cage

The pure nature of mind - emptiness, lucidity and intelligence without limit - has always been inside us.
... Kalu Rinpoche

Understanding illusion within enlightenment is like the moon lighting a thousand peaks. Wishing for enlightenment from within illusion is like clouds dotting the endless sky.
... P'U-AN

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
... Hermann Hesse

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
... Frank Kafka

We are what we think. All that arises with our thought. With our thoughts, we make our world.
... The Buddha

Existence begins in every instant.
... Friedrich Nietzsche

The sound of the stream, after all, is without present, without past.
... Ching An

The forces which move the cosmos are no different from those which move the human soul.
... Lama Anagarika Govinda

"Who is there?" asks God. "It is I." "Go away," God says. Later ... "Who is there?" asks God. "It is thou." "Enter," replied God.
... Western Mondo

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple: The philosophy is kindness.
... The Dali Lama

The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances
exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.
... Rainer Maria Rilke

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.
... Alan Watts

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
... Simone Weil

Traveler, there is no path. You make your path as you travel.
... Antonio Machado

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.
... Yamada Roshi

I learn by going where I have to go.
... Theodore Roethke

I saw my Lord with the eye of the Heart. I said, "Who are you?" He answer, "You." .
... Al-Hallaj

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
... Antonio Porchia

We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
... Indira Gandhi

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
... Plato

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