A Book Lover's Passion and Calmness

Forget time and immerse in one's inner self. 時間を忘れ、内面に浸る。--シン

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