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“Love one another." If we took those simple words to heart, we'd already be the Buddhas Jesus wanted us to be.”
― Kathleen Dowling Singh, The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older

“He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.”
― Herman Hesse

“The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.”
― Gautama Buddha

“I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.”
― Herman Hesse, Demian

“True love is born from understanding.”
― The Buddha

“The Buddha taught non-attachment not as a means of escaping reality, but as a means of dealing with the fundamental nature of reality. There simply is nothing to which we can attach ourselves, no matter how hard we try. The idea of behaving without attachment springs from understanding that everything is empty. The self is empty, the desires of the self are empty, and the objects of those desires also are empty. In time, things will change and the conditions that produced our current desires will be gone. Why then, cling to them now? The Buddha taught that our tendency to cling to the illusion of permanence is a fundamental cause of suffering.”
― Hsing Yun, Describing the Indescribable: A Commentary on the Diamond Sutra

“Zen Master Lin Chi once said: "If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. If you meet the Patriarch, kill the Patriarch." For the one who only has devotion, this declaration is terrible; it confuses him completely. But its effect depends on the mentality and capacity of the one who hears. If the man is strong, he truly will have the capacity to liberate himself from all authority, whatever it might be, and to accomplish in himself ultimate truth.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice

“It [mind of absolute reality] is everywhere and nowhere. It’s somewhat like sky—so completely integrated with our existence that we never stop to question its reality or to recognize its qualities.”
― Yongey Mingyur, In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying

“You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.”
― Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf

“Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.”
― Herman Hesse

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
― Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha