Saturday, May 18, 2013

Religious Thought 235



When your mind has overcome the confusion of duality, you will attain the state of holy indifference to things you hear and things you have heard. When you are unmoved by the confusion of ideas and your mind is completely united in deep samadhi, you will attain the state of perfect yoga.
- Bhagavad Gita 2:52-53
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There are two kinds of happiness. There is that of the uncommitted life of sensual pleasures, and there is that of the committed life, one of going forth to a new consciousness. Of these, the happiness of going forth is greater.
- Anguttara Nikaya
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Stop talking! What a shame you have no familiarity with inner silence! Polish your heart for a day or two: make that mirror your book of contemplation.
- Rumi
- Mathnawi [VI, 1286-1287]
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“And I have other sheep, that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will heed my voice. So there shall be one flock, one shepherd. ”

- John 10:16
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Let the law cut through the mountain.
- Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 6b
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