My Collection of "Spiritual" & "Wisdom" Quotes

[vinc3nc]

I've been saving quotes that I've come across in OneNote for years.

Here they are:
 

When 'here' becomes 'everywhere', and 'now' becomes 'always', then one has succeeded.

The meaning of life is that life has no meaning other than the living of it as a dream over which one has really no control.

Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but, at the peak, we all gaze at the single bright moon.

Time and space are unreal, matter is an illusion, and the world consists of nothing but mind.

I begged God to empty me of myself and replace me with Him; instead, He revealed that it’s been only Him, role-playing as me all along.

All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.

What is God? He is the breath inside the breath.

For millions of years, you have slept. This morning, will you not awaken?

Welcome to the land of nothingness, where nothing is real and what is real is nothing.

The flower does not dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

The whole of time exists at just this moment.

When you slow down, the world slows down with you.

Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!

Death is not extinguishing the light, it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

When you "die" in a dream you wake up "here" and when you die here in this dream you wake up "there".

It's not the flames that makes hell unbearable, it's the absence of love.

Prior to the thought of separateness, there is no separateness.

Death reveals to us that our lives have been one long miscalculation, based on triviality.

Your idea of who you are Is your prison.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

God will steer the boat, but you must row.

I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.

But you mistake The rope for the snake. When you see the rope, The snake vanishes.

This world is my dream, and it speaks myself back to me. I meet myself over there as you, he, she, they, it.

The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.

No matter how great and powerful you are, until you conquer your mind you are a slave.

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

The Master does nothing, yet he leaves nothing undone. The ordinary man is always doing things, yet many more are left to be done.

Man Plans and God Laughs

Just start NOTICING how every single moment is PERFECT.

One cannot see God and yet retain individuality.

Nobody to escape. Nothing to escape. When we're deluded, there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

Drop by drop, it becomes a lake.

Even people that aren't on the spiritual path, Are still on the spiritual path.

The wise man is no longer hoping for something to happen.

When nothing is happening that is when you're really making progress.

The finest speech does not come from the tongue.

Grateful for everything; entitled to nothing.

Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid of standing still.

Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.

Better to bloom late, than to never have bloomed at all.

Law of nature: You only get the extravagant things you’ve always dreamed of once you’re no longer so impressed by them.

If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.

I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

To be All, you must be empty of All.

Fluent in Silence.

There’s something you’re ready to let go of.

He who has created the universe is Himself present in all circumstances and conditions.

The most persistent suffering is addiction to identity.

If you deeply observe, everything is your teacher.

Realize the unreality of the mind, and you will see that nothing is happening.

It was always me versus the world. Until I found it's me versus me.

He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.

Whoever has been led into the cave of timeless life will drop his pen as no words will accurately measure the sublime experience.

On this path, you'll find nothing new, only lose all that isn't you.

Do not speak badly of yourself. For the warrior within hears your words and is lessened by them. 

I can bend the presentation of myself to your likability of my perception of your reality. Or I can just let myself be me.

Pain gives you depth and shape.

A stranger becomes a friend and a friend becomes a stranger.

That which is never ceases to be: that which is not never comes into existence.

Short is the way from need to greed.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

The devil, my good friend, is best sought within.

If you want to reach a large audience, appeal to idiots.

Find satisfaction independent of material trappings.

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.

Climb a mountain. Tell no one.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

One of the greatest spiritual awakenings I had was that no one cares about my spiritual awakenings.

No greater hazard to being alive than being alive.

Silence is not the absence of sound. Silence is the absence of you.

Limit everything to the essential, but do not remove the poetry.

Hell is the place where man finds all his plans realized.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

Deep rivers run quiet.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

To understand the limitation of things, desire them.

There is a time to live and a time to die but never to reject the moment.

The world is won by those who let it go.

Without leaving my house, I know the whole universe.

Approach it and there is no beginning; follow it and there is no end.

Got stress? You're arguing with what is.

The truest sayings are paradoxical.

Wise men don't judge – they seek to understand.

Water which is too pure has no fish.

What you possess, you lose.

Appearance doesn't exist, but it does appear to exist.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

To go beyond yourself, you must first be yourself.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

The end of illusion is the end of you.

The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

Measure experience in exposure to shocks rather than years.

Trade expectation for appreciation, and the world changes instantly.

Criticizing others is easier than coming to know yourself.

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery—drive fast and join the scenery.

Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

If my wealth goes away, it takes with it nothing but itself.

Noise creates illusions. Silence brings the truth.

Beauty is where I am not.

If you have a dead skunk in your house, you won't notice that the milk is going bad.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given it wings.

The master has still one trick more than he teaches.

Everything in this world is magic, except to the magician.

One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going.

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

Ebbing begins when tides are at their highest. When the unbearable is recognized to be bearable, profound transformation occurs.

When I’m old, how much would I be willing to pay to travel back in time and relive the moment that I'm experiencing right now?

And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.

The spiritual path is not fun—better not to begin. If you must begin, then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.

Wu Hsin is not different from you except that he owns fewer things, owns fewer opinions, owns fewer concepts, owns fewer thoughts.

No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.

At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient... only the universe rearranging itself.

You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.

A student asked: “Sir, how is it that you are old, but have the appearance of a child?” The master replied: “It is because I have not been worn down by going against the Way.”

Do not take life's experiences too seriously. Above all, do not let them hurt you, for in reality they are nothing but dream experiences.

To flow is to surrender. To allow is to trust. All this game has been created just for your awakening. So, treat it as such. Love the pain as much as you love the embrace. It is all the same, at the end.

Then he realized: 'All this creation is actually myself; for I have poured it forth from myself.' In that way he became this creation. And verily, he who knows this becomes in this creation a creator.

All the experience of my life has shown me that I can only cope with things when they are present, not before they occur. And that the present always gives me the resources and the energy to deal with them. 

On your very last day, you'd trade everything you have for another sunny day. Just like the one you take for granted today.

Look down at me and you see a fool. Look up at me and you see a god. Look straight at me and you see yourself.

If you are capable of living deeply one moment in your life, you can learn to live the same way all the other moments of your life.

Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?

There's a beautiful balance between having mastery and being a student, and going back and forth between the two.

A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

If you know that fundamentally there is nothing to seek, you have settled your affairs.

Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

Being aware is being aware of one's own mind and the games it plays on itself.

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

Study the prison you have inadvertently built around yourself.

Without desire or fear he enjoys it, as it happens.

When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.

The search for reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard.

Edited 2 hours ago by vinc3nc