Your mind is nirvana. ~Bodhidharma Jesus was once asked when the kingdom of God would come. The kingdom of God, Jesus replied, is not something people will be able to see and point to. Then came these striking words: “Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.” ~Luke 17:21 From this interior plane of life, he is saying, we will gain all that is needful. ~Matthew 6:33 I entered into the innermost part of myself....I entered and I saw with my soul’s eye (such as it was) an unchangeable light shining above this eye of my soul and above my mind. . . . He who knows truth knows that light, and he who knows that light knows eternity. Love knows it. O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! ~St. Augustine (354–430 • Algeria) My soul at once becomes recollected and I enter the state of quiet or that of rapture, so that I can use none of my faculties and senses. . . . Everything is stilled, and the soul is left in a state of great quiet and deep satisfaction. ~St. Teresa of Avila (1515–1582 • Spain) The utter simplicity and obviousness of the infused light which contemplation pours into our soul suddenly awakens us to a new level of awareness. We enter a region which we had never even suspected, and yet it is this new world which seems familiar and obvious. The old world of our senses is now the one that seems to us strange, remote and unbelievable. . . . A door opens in the center of our being and we seem to fall through it into immense depths which, although they are infinite, are all accessible to us; all eternity seems to have become ours in this one placid and breathless contact. . . . You feel as if you were at last fully born. ~Thomas Merton (1915–1969 • United States) Henry David Thoreau – “We become like a still lake of purest crystal” Alfred, Lord Tennyson – “A state of transcendent wonder” Helen Keller – “I feel the flame of eternity in my soul” Laozi – “His mind becomes as vast and immeasurable as the night sky” Walt Whitman – “The luminousness of real vision” Ralph Waldo Emerson – “Within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty”
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