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• That very seeing does not see Itself at all. How can something that cannot see itself See another?
-Nagarjuna
• A monk asked Shigui, “What is the first principle?”
Shigui said, “What you just asked is the second principle.”
-Zen’s Chinese Heritage
• Silent about virtue and swift to act wrongly, one who does not slander others may still be called good.
More vile than violating virtue and committing crime
is slandering a man, then smiling to his face.
-Tirukkural 19: 181-182
• If a man considers that he is born, he cannot avoid the fear of death. Let him find out if he has been born or if the Self has any birth. He will discover that the Self always exists, that the body that is born resolves itself into thought and that the emergence of thought is the root of all mischief. Find from where thoughts emerge. Then you will be able to abide in the ever-present inmost Self and be free from the idea of birth or the fear of death.
-Ramana Maharshi
• When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
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- Sufi epigram