"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try."
Attributed to Beverly Sills. By request.
Quotes
"The magic you're looking for is in the work you're avoiding"
Request: Not magic as magical... I would assume in the meaning of the beauty and the wonders of life you expect are things that you would access if you go [beyond] your own limits?
"The seer is also part of the mirage" - Maharaj
"[T]he entire manifestation is of the nature of a dream, or a mirage, but you interpret the rest of the manifestation as being a mirage and won't let go of the seer of the phenomenon. The seer is also part of the mirage." - Prior to Consciousness, pg. 114. Priority request.
"The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion"
Request: Quote by Alan Watts.
"God is still writing your story, stop trying to take the pen"
Priority request: Saw this on a T shirt and liked it.
"Let me assure you again that the Buddha dwells not in light..."
From Huangbo on the Transmission of Mind, translated by John Blofeld.
“pain is the background of all [your] pleasures”
Request: Maharaj’ words on page 36 in “I’m That.”
"The less you want, the richer you are"
Priority request: This is a quote attributed to Yanni. It basically just suggests that the issue of lack is created by desire and is an illusion or a projection rather than a reality.
"There are no others"
Ramana Maharshi's answer to the question "How are we supposed to treat others?"
"Right is right even if no one is doing it..."
"Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it" -- St. Augustine.
"The quality of the food influences the mind. The mind feeds on the food consumed."
Request: Quote from Ramana Maharshi. Always stood out for me, doesn't feel right.
"When the thirst for the world disappears, the water of heaven appears"
Trading the payoffs of illusion for the sweetness of Reality.
"Faith without reason leads to superstition..."
"...Reason without faith leads to nihilism and relativism" -- Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Fides et ratio (Faith and Reason). Priority request.
"An assumption, though false, if persisted in, will harden into fact"
Attributed to Neville Goddard. By request.
"May we always arrive at truth in the context of love"
Request: This is a comment that was posted on that database, what does this blessing calibrate at?