The Inspirational Quotes Thread

[michael craig]

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."
— Rumi

[michael craig]

It takes a long time to understand nothing

[michael craig]

You are lost the instant you know what the result will be."
—John Gris

[Josh Smith]

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. . .And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love....

1 Corinthians 13: 4-13


- The Apostle Paul

[michael craig]

How terrible to watch a man who has the Incomprehensible within his grasp, doesn’t know what to do, and sits down playing with a toy called God."
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[michael craig]

Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky."

[michael craig]

When the student is ready, the Master appears

[michael craig]

There is no beginning to practice or end to enlightenment, and there is no beginning to enlightenment or end to practice

[michael craig]

learn by going where I have to go."
—Theodore Roethke

[michael craig]

Do not think, do not imagine, do not analyze. Do not meditate, do not reflect. Abide in the natural state."
—The Six Rules Of Tilopa