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I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

Martin Luther

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Albert Einstein

Right among the people
Coming and going,
I have a place to stay. I shut the gate
Even in the daytime
And feel as though
I had brought
Wo-chou, the great mountain
And had it with me in town.
Never since I was born
Have I liked to argue
And now my mouth is quiet.
Suspended between
Heaven and earth,
The universe is still.

- Muso Soseki (1275-1351)

Beyond the World

This place of wild land
has no boundaries
north south east or west
It is hard to see
even the tree
in the middle of it
Turning your head
you can look beyond
each direction
For the first time
you know that your eyes
have been deceiving you

Muso Soseki

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin

The most profound experience is the one you never have

SecondSon

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Jeremiah 23:16
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.

Jeremiah 23:21
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

Self-denial is not renouncing things, it is denying the self;
and the first lesson of self-denial is humility.

Bowl of Saki, November 8, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
Proverbs 22:4 (over 2500 years ago)

The Great Way is broad,
Neither easy nor difficult.
With narrow views and doubts,
Haste will slow you down.
Attach to it and you lose the measure;
The mind will enter a deviant path.
Let it go and be spontaneous,
Experience no going or staying.

- Seng Ts'an (?-606)

Enter ye in at the strait gate
for wide is the gate
and broad is the way
that leadeth to destruction
and many there be which go in thereat
Because strait is the gate
and narrow is the way
which leadeth unto life
and few there be that find it

Jesus (Alpha and Omega)