WISDOM is all around us.
Is anybody here except Allah,
God, Brahman, Tao, Universal Consciousness... ?
If there is only God (all being and non-being) then God is always present and
the only one present.
(An interesting question to ponder.)
The containers may look
different, but when they break the water that spills is the same.
Patience is the lesson I had
given to me from the moment I stepped on the earth; ever since I have tried to
practice it, but there is more to be learnt.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it
does not boast, it is not proud.
1 Corinthians 13
The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love
him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19
A
human being is part of the whole called by us
"universe," a part limited in time and space.
We experience ourselves, our thoughts, and feelings as
something separate from the rest.
A kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting
us to our personal desires and to affection for
a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison
by widening our circle of compassion to embrace
all living creatures and the whole of nature in all
of its beauty...
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking
if humankind is to
survive.
Albert
Einstein
"Until
he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things,
man will not himself find peace."
Albert Schweitzer
"The
world is my country, all mankind are my brethren,
and to do good is my religion."
Thomas Paine
God gives the things of this
earth a certain color and variety and value, causing childish folk to argue over
it.
When a piece of dough is baked in the shape of a camel or lion these children
bite their fingers excitedly in their greed.
Both lion and camel turn to bread in the mouth, but it’s futile to tell this
to children
Rumi, Mathnawi VI, 4717-19
If
you are irritated by every rub,
how
will your mirror be polished?
Rumi, Mathnawi I, 2980
“
When “I” and “You” are absent,
I’ve
no idea if this is a mosque
synagogue,
church, or temple.”
Mahmud Shabistari
Human beings are
soft and supple when alive,
stiff and straight when dead.
The
myraid creatures, the grasses and trees are
soft and fragile when alive,
dry and whithered when dead.
Therefore,
it is said:
The rigid person is a disciple of death;
The soft, supple, and delicate are lovers of life.
An
army that is inflexible will not conquer;
A tree that is inflexible will snap.
The unyielding and mighty shall be brought low;
The soft, supple, and delicate will be set above.
Tao
Te Ching (76)
“
The truly sincere act is the one that is unknown
to any recording angel.
has no demon to oppose it,
and no self to take pride in it.”
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself.
To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of
Peace.
Morihei Ueshiba
"I, You, He, She, We..
In the Garden of Mystical Lovers these are not true distinctions."
Rumi (C. Barks)
TRUE LOVER ~ ATTAR
WAGE
PEACE
