He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.
-Garth Stein
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I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
-Sebastian Horsley
I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me - deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realised only by the wise.
-Gautama Buddha
A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame.
-Dhammapada
Hanuman, the devotee of Rama, said: When I identify myself with the body, O Lord, I am Thy creature, eternally separate from Thee. When I identify myself with the soul, I am a spark of that Divine Fire which Thou art. But when I identify myself with the Atman, I and Thou art one.
-Swami Vivekananda
Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there.
-Francis Thompson
The sincere devotee loves God deeply whether he is non-active and silently meditating on God, or in the midst of a whirl of outer activities.
-A Spiritual Leader
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
