真髄と格言
Selig sind, die reines Herzens sind; denn sie werden Gott schauen.
--Matthäus 5:8
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Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
宇宙のすべては自分の中にある。すべてのことは自身に頼んでください。
--ルーミー（訳：シン）
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Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret,
and in exchange gain the Ocean.
Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor,
and in the arms of the Sea be secure.
--ルーミー
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I cannot choose the best.
The best chooses me.
--Tagore
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When you perceive without interpretation, you can then sense what it is that is perceiving.
--トール
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
--J. Krishnamurti
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Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. You are that awareness, disguised as a person.
--トール
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The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or a blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.
--トール
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The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no isolated things or events. Underneath the surface appearance, all things are interconnected, are part of the totality of the cosmos that has brought about the form that this moment takes.
--トール
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I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.
--トール
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Jede Erscheinung auf Erden ist ein Gleichnis, und jedes Gleichnis ist ein offnes Tor, durch welches die Seele, wenn sie bereit ist, in das Innere der Welt zu gehen vermag, wo du und ich und Tag und Nacht alle eines sind. Jedem Menschen tritt hier und dort in seinem Leben das geöffnete Tor in den Weg, jeden fliegt irgendeinmal der Gedanke an, daß alles Sichtbare ein Gleichnis sei und daß hinter dem Gleichnis der Geist und das ewige Leben wohne. Wenige freilich gehen durch das Tor und geben den schönen Schein dahin für die geahnte Wirklichkeit des Inneren.
--ヘッセ
Leopold von Ranke 1795-1886
An die Wahrheit der geistigen Welt glauben: das ist Religion.
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Die Dinge der Welt gehen langsam. Ginge die Entwicklung zu rasch, so würde das Individuum gar keinen Raum haben, zu leben. Die Geschichte ist ihrer Natur nach universell. Die glücklichen Zeiten der Menschheit sind die leeren Blätter im Buch der Geschichte.
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Denn nur einen Moment in der Geschichte bildet ein einzelnes Leben.
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One Dream
In his splendid essay called "On an Apparent Intention in the Fate of the Individual," Schopenhauer points out that when you reach an advanced age and look back over your lifetime, it can seem to have had a consistent order and plan, as though composed by some novelist. Events that when they occurred had seemed accidental and of little moment turn out to have been indispensable factors in the composition of a consistent plot. So who composed that plot? Schopenhauer suggests that just as your dreams are composed by an aspect of yourself of which your consciousness is unaware, so, too, your whole life is composed by the will within you. And just as people whom you will have met apparently by mere chance became leading agents in the structuring of your life, so, too, will you have served unknowingly as an agent, giving meaning to the lives of others. The whole thing gears together like one big symphony, with everything unconsciously structuring everything else. And Schopenhauer concludes that it is as though our lives were the features of the one great dream of a single dreamer in which all the dream characters dream, too; so that everything links to everything else, moved by the one will to life which is the universal will in nature.
--Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Giver and Plunderer
Si notre cœur était assez large pour aimer la vie dans son détail, nous verrions que tous les instants sont à la fois des donateurs et des spoliateurs et qu'une nouveauté jeune ou tragique, toujours soudaine, ne cesse d'illustrer la discontinuité essentielle du temps.
--Bachelard, L'intuition de l'instant
If our heart were large enough to love life in all its detail, we would see that every instant is at once a giver and a plunderer, and that a young or tragic novelty, always sudden, never ceases to illustrate the essential discontinuity of time.
--Bachelard, L'intuition de l'instant
The Order of Things
This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all the familiar landmarks of my thought—our thought that bears the stamp of our age and our geography—breaking up all the ordered surfaces and all the planes with which we are accustomed to tame the wild profusion of existing things, and continuing long afterwards to disturb and threaten with collapse our age-old distinction between the Same and the Other. This passage quotes a ‘certain Chinese encyclopaedia’ in which it is written that ‘animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the Emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) suckling pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (l) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies’. In the wonderment of this taxonomy, the thing we apprehend in one great leap, the thing that, by means of the fable, is demonstrated as the exotic charm of another system of thought, is the limitation of our own, the stark impossibility of thinking that.”
--Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Les mots et les choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines, 1966)
A Moving Image of Eternity
[the Demiurge] began to think of making a moving image of eternity: at the same time as he brought order to the universe, he would make an eternal image, moving according to number, of eternity remaining in unity. This, of course, is what we call "time."
--Plato, Timaeus 37d
The moment is not properly an atom of time but an atom of eternity. It is the first reflection of eternity in time, its first attempt, as it were, at stopping time.
--Kierkegaard
If our heart were large enough to love life in all its detail, we would see that every instant is at once a giver and a plunderer.
--Gaston Bachelard
Einstein's Last Regret
Einstein was asked toward the end of his life if he had any regrets.
He answered: "I wish I had read more of the mystics earlier in my life."
