Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Religious Thought 199



The moon is one, but on agitated water it produces many reflections. Similarly ultimate reality is one, yet it appears to be many in a mind agitated by thoughts.
- Maharamayana
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Whose minds are well-developed in the factors of self-awakening, who delight in non-clinging, relinquishing grasping-- resplendent, their effluents ended: they, in the world, are Unbound.
- Dhammapada, 6, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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If you are dependable, honest, virtuous, and content in Allah's will, no harm shall come your way.
- Hadith The Prophet Muhammad (SAW), as reported by AbdAllah bin Amr
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We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
- William Law
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Holiness is the essence of all moral perfection.
- Kaufmann Kohler, "Jewish Theology"
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