Religious Thought 147

Behold the man who shields his family from all suffering. Has not his body become a willing vessel for affliction. Without good men to hold it up, The family house will fall when misfortune descends.

- Tirukkural 103: 1029-1030

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To disregard oneself, this is the best dharma. This is the best service to Buddha's religion. Practicing meditation for life is the best gift. To those sentient beings without protection.

- "Hundred Thousand Songs: Selections From Milarepa, Poet-Saint of Tibet"

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There is no dervish in the world; and if there be a dervish, that dervish is really non-existent. In essence he exists, but his attributes are non-existent within God's.

- Rumi
- Mathnawi [III, 3669-3670]

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Live in such a way that those who know you but don't know God will come to know God because they know you.

- Unknown?

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The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.

- Baal Shem Tov

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