Religious Thought

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A good man does not sell his beast to a cruel person.
- Medieval Sefer Hasidim

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But O how wonderful! I am the unbounded deep In whom all living things Naturally arise, Rush against each other playfully, And then subside.

- Ashtavakra Gita 2:25

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Hostilities aren't stilled through hostility, regardless. Hostilities are stilled through non-hostility: this, an unending truth.

- Dhammapada, 1, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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There is a key for everything, and the key to Paradise is to love the poor.
- Hadith The Prophet Muhammad (SAW), as reported by Ibn Umar

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The one who returns from a distance is greater than the one who was always close. What matters is not so much where you stand, but with what force you are moving in which direction.

- Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the Lubavitcher Rebbe

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The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.

- Thomas Carlyle

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The Self looks like the world. But this is just an illusion. The Self is everywhere. One. Still. Free. Perfect. The witness of all things, Awareness Without action, clinging or desire.

- Ashtavakra Gita 1:12

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[aspundir]

His attachments, his homes, can't be found. Through knowing he is unperplexed, has attained the plunge into deathlessness: he's what I call a brahmin. He has gone beyond attachment here for both merit & evil— sorrowless, dustless, & pure: he's what I call a brahmin.

- Dhammapada 411-412, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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[aspundir]

There is a key for everything, and the key to Paradise is to love the poor.

- Hadith The Prophet Muhammad (SAW), as reported by Ibn Umar

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[aspundir]

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise-- then you will discover the fullness of your life.

- Brother David Steindl-Rast

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