...I'm like a man awakening from all the dreams that were ever dreamed in all the nights of the world. It is like the one Christ awakening in all the separate selves that were ever separate and isolated and alone in the all the lands of the Earth. It is like all minds coming back together into awareness from all the distractions, cross-purposes and confusions into the unity of love.

- Thomas Merton

The mind sees with the eyes and sees the waking reality.

But the mind also sees and perceives without the eyes, although the reason is hardly aware of this perception.

The mind lives in more than one dimension.

We have a choice whether or not to believe the voices we hear in our own minds.

- Miguel Ruiz

Only a man who is wide-traveled and has wandered far can know something about how other men think.

Such a man is wise.

- Hávamál

... looking means that you already have something in mind for your eye to find;

… seeing is being open and being receptive to what comes to the eye;

your vision total and not targeted.

- Thomas Merton

…faith always leads us to joy.

-Pope Francis

More than ever, people want to see love in action through humble works.

- Mother Teresa

You see a tiny sliver in your friend's eye, while not noticing the plank in your own!

When you have cleared your own eye, then you can see clear to your friend’s.

- Jesus

The soul's integrity is the one and only thing that matters.

… no sacrifice can be too great to ensure the integrity of one’s soul.

Anything, anything, that stands in the way of that, must be given up.

- Emmett Fox

<The offering to God> may be as subtle as knowledge or meditation: In any case, it requires a measure of self-sacrifice.

- Krishna

Freedom:

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without care, nor your nights without a care or grief,

But rather, when these things girdle your life, and yet you rise above them, naked and unbound.

- Khalil Gibran

I am proud of my breaking - my bending of bones - for it led me to mountains with strength at their peaks.

-Raquel Franco

For nothing satisfies some appetites

but wild plants ease my hunger

Free of untoward desires, all things bring me pleasure.

Tattered robes, warm frozen bones.

I wander with deer for companions.

I sing to myself like a crazy man

and children sing along.

-Ryõkan

A Mouse and a Frog

A mouse in a frog meet every morning on the riverbank.

They sit in a nook of the ground and talk…

To watch and listen to these two is to understand how,

as it's written, sometimes when two beings come together,

Christ becomes visible.

Bitterness doesn't have a chance with

these two.

Lovers pray constantly

Once a day, once a week, five times an hour

is not enough.

Fish like we are in need an ocean around us.

- Rumi

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