Just as a flame blown out by the wind
Goes to rest and cannot be defined,
So the wise person, freed from name and form
Goes to rest beyond all reckoning.
The Buddha, Sutta Nipāta 4.6
The Buddha often used the image of a flame going out – not destroyed, but freed from conditions. Likewise, the liberated mind is not annihilated but beyond all definitions.
Ajahn Amaro, The Island
Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark.
That’s where the most important things come from,
where you yourself came from, and where you will go.
Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker
Our self talk matters. “I can’t” frequently means “I have never learned another way.”
Through the first years of life, we organize our entire system in a direction which will forever after guide us in that direction. We end up being restricted, we don’t do music, we don’t do other things.
What is most important, we find ourselves capable of doing only those things that we already know.
Moshe Feldenkrais
It is not in calm weather
that one sees the skill of the pilot,
but in a storm.
Epictetus, Discourses 1.24.6
There are two rules on the spiritual path:
Begin.
Continue
Sufi Saying
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