Jalaluddin Rumi

"There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes"

Jalaluddin Rumi

J. Krishnamurti

"Clarity can exist only when there is freedom to observe, when one is capable of looking, observing, watching. That is only possible when there is complete, total freedom, otherwise there is always distortion in our observation."

 J. Krishnamurti

Sutta Nipata

"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride. "

- Sutta Nipata

The Sutta Nipata ("The Sutta Collection"), the fifth book of the Khuddaka Nikaya, consists of 71 short suttas divided into five vaggas (chapters). Some scholars believe that this sutra collection describes the oldest of all Buddhist practices.

Buddha

"Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law."

Buddha

Wei Wu Wei - Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon.

"It is not for us to search but to remain still, to achieve Immobility not Action."

Wei Wu Wei - Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon.

AKA Terence James Stannus Gray (14 September 1895 – 5 January 1986). 20th century Taoist philosopher and writer. He is better known by the pen name Wei Wu Wei. (Wu wei, a Taoist term which translates as action that is non-action)

Buddha

"Whosoever has heard the law of virtue and vice is as one who has eyes and carries a lamp, seeing everything and will become completely wise."

Buddha

Helena Pretrorova Blavastsky - "The voice of silence".

"Let they soul lend its ear to every cry of pain…let each human tear drop on thy heart and there remain,…until the pain that caused it is removed"

Helena Pretrorova Blavastsky - "The voice of silence".

Will Parfitt - The Qabalah

"Any aspect of our being and our energy that we exclude from awareness becomes part of our shadow...The more shadow we have, the more we are excluding...the more it restricts our free movement. Conversely, the more material from this 'shadow bag' we can dredge out, face, deal with, and integrate into our conscious being, the lighter the bag becomes and the more energy we have available to fulfil our life functions..." 

Will Parfitt - The Qabalah

Will Parfitt - The Qabalah

Grounding: "All work starts in Malkuth and ends there." Failing to realize this means "building a castle on the sands of the Abyss.

Will Parfitt - The Qabalah.

Malkuth is the Hebrew name for the Kingdom i.e. The Earth.

Will Parfitt - The Qabalah

"To heal something or someone is to 'make it whole' as indicated by the common root of the words 'heal' and 'whole"

Will Parfitt - The Qabalah

Edward Hoffman

"The crucial notion is that through calming the whirl of thoughts that is our ordinary mind, we open a door that leads to an exalted awareness of the wonder of the entire cosmos." 

Edward Hoffman

Edward Hoffman is the author of numerous books on Judaism, Kabbalah, and psychology.

David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

"We are taken amidst deep waters not to drown us, but to cleanse us." 

David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

 "If you seek to understand the whole universe, you will understand nothing at all...but seek to understand yourself, and you will come to understand the whole universe."

 David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

The "...true test of knowledge is not what we know how to do, but rather how we act when we don't know what to do."

David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

C G Jung - On Silence

"...it often takes me many weeks of silence to recover from the futility of words." 

C G Jung

"There is great power in silence" 

Druid motto

David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

 "Truly, religion changes little in essence from age to age, for all the gods are but one God."

 David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

Aristotle

 "When we try to reach the Infinite and the Divine by means of mere abstract terms or images, are we even now no better than children trying to place a ladder against the sky."

Aristotle

C G Jung - 'Seven Sermons for the dead'

"Even as it is useless to think about infinity, so it is useless to worship the number of Gods - least of all is it any use to worship the First God, the effective fullness and the highest good. Through our prayer we cannot take anything away from it because the effective emptiness swallows everything." 

Jung 'Seven Sermons for the dead'

David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

"Spiritual power comes from living life in a sacred manner...'To discipline the body is to feed the spirit...'" 

David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

"All music or natural melody is but a faint and unbroken echo of the creative name." 

David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

Albert Einstein

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of lide, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the centre of true religiousness." 

Albert Einstein

Carlos Castenada - The Teachings of Don Juan

"The path to knowledge is a forced one. ~In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us."

Carlos Castenada - The Teachings of Don Juan

The Gorchan of Maeldrew

"Each atom an evolving life, each blade of grass a potential Soul."

"The Gorchan of Maeldrew"

XXI Stanza of Merlin

"Within the perfect symmetry of a circle, is held the essential nature of the universe. Strive to learn from it...to reflect that order." 

'XXI Stanza of Merlin'

Carl Jung - 'Mysterium Coniunctionis'

Archetypes are "A residual sea of Symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images on which to found their religions"

These symbols come from man himself.

Carl Jung -  'Mysterium Coniunctionis'

Druid Motto

"Y Gwir Yn Erbyn Byd" (Welsh).       

"The Truth Against the World".         

Druid Motto

David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

"...When the student is ready the teacher  will appear."

David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

Druidic Triad:

"Mastery of the Self, Mastery of the World, Master of the Unknown". Spiritual instructions.

David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

Druidic Triad:

"To be aware of all things, to endure all things, to be removed from all things". 
Virtues of Wisdom

David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

Druidic Triad:

"To Know, To Dare, To Keep Silent" - Keys of Druidic mastery.

David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

Druidic Triad:

"See All, Study All, Suffer All"

David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

"The Doctrine of Constructive Imbalance:...From the point of greatest imbalance, Comes the point of Greatest Stability".

David Monroe - 21 Lessons of Merlin

Philip Wexler - Mystical Society

“Mysticism becomes the experiential foundation of a new society.”

Philip Wexler - Mystical Society

Philip Wexler - Mystical Society

“The new society is mystical because it is about the quest for direct experience of the transcendental…The new society is mystical because it arises on the ground of a social process of demediation – the wiping away of cultural and social infrastructures…”

Philip Wexler - Mystical Society

Philip Wexler - Mystical Society

“…I see in mysticism a sublimated de-repression…”

Philip Wexler - Mystical Society

Philip Wexler - Mystical Society

“The mystical state is the opposing alternative to the experience of alienation. Against the disorientation, decathexis and desensitization.  That I suggest characterize modernity and post-modernity, the emerging form of life in a mystical society is characterised by unification rather than dispersion; holistic rationality rather than functional specialization; release of historically pent up emotion rather than cool instrumental calculation…"

  Philip Wexler - Mystical Society

El-Ghazali

"You posses only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck." 

El-Ghazali

El-Ghazali was an influential Philosopher and Sufi. Ghazali has sometimes been referred to by historians as the single most influential Muslim after the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Omar Khayyám

"The secret must be kept from all non-people:

The mystery must be hidden from all idiots.

See what you do to people -

The Eye has to be hidden from all men."

Omar Khayyám

Omar Khayyám was a Persian polymath: philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He also wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, mineralogy, music, climatology and theology.

The Holy Qur’an - Ar-Ra'd " The Thunder" (13):11

“…Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.”

The Holy Qur’an Sura: Ar-Ra'd " The Thunder" (13):11

Sahih International Translation

El-Ghazali

"People oppose things because they are ignorant of them."

El-Ghazali

El-Ghazali was an influential Philosopher and Sufi. Ghazali has sometimes been referred to by historians as the single most influential Muslim after the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

El-Ghazali

"To the sick man, sweet water tastes bitter in the mouth"

El-Ghazali

This quote could be considered his motto.

El-Ghazali was an influential Philosopher and Sufi. Ghazali has sometimes been referred to by historians as the single most influential Muslim after the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Farid Ud-Din Attar - The Conference of the Birds.

"A man was always complaining about the bitterness of poverty, so Ibrahim Adham said to him: 'My son, perhaps you have not paid for your poverty?' 

The man replied: 'What you say is nonsense, how can one buy poverty?'

'I at least' said Adham 'have chosen it voluntarily and I have brought it at the price of the kingdom of the world."

Farid Ud-Din Attar - The Conference of the Birds.

Farid Ud-Din Attar was one of the earliest Sufi poets of Persia. Attar's best known work is called Mantiq-ut-Tair, or the 'Conference of the Birds'

Farid Ud-Din Attar - The Conference of the Birds.

"A young pupil…had a small hoard of gold pieces…they [pupil and shaikh] came to a dark valley, at the entrance of which were two roads. The pupil began to be afraid…'Which road ought we to take?' The shaikh replied 'Get rid of that which makes you afraid, then either road will be good. The devil fears him who is indifferent to money…" The Pir and his companion.

Farid Ud-Din Attar - The Conference of the Birds.

Farid Ud-Din Attar was one of the earliest Sufi poets of Persia. Attar's best known work is called Mantiq-ut-Tair, or the 'Conference of the Birds'

Farid Ud-Din Attar - The Conference of the Birds.

"…I have not the strength to undertake this journey…I shall lay down and die at the first stage…But isn't it better to sacrifice one's life in pursuit of this desire [the spiritual path] than to be identified with a business?" Speech of the 2^nd Bird.

 

Farid Ud-Din Attar - The Conference of the Birds.

Farid Ud-Din Attar was one of the earliest Sufi poets of Persia. Attar's best known work is called Mantiq-ut-Tair, or the 'Conference of the Birds'

Farid Ud-Din Attar - The Conference of the Birds

"The way is unknown, and no one has the steadfastness to seek it, though thousands of creatures spend their lives in longing ".

Farid Ud-Din Attar - The Conference of the Birds.

Farid Ud-Din Attar was one of the earliest Sufi poets of Persia. Attar's best known work is called Mantiq-ut-Tair, or the 'Conference of the Birds'

Hitopadesha - On Anger

"The mind of a sage, even when angered, is never perturbed. Can a man heat the waters of the sea with a lighted straw?"

Hitopadesha.

Hitopadesha is a collection of Sanskrit fables in prose and verse written  as an exposition on statecraft.

Omar Khayyam

"In cell and cloister, in monastery and synagogue,

Here one fears hell, another dreams of paradise.

But he who knows the true secrets of his God

Has planted no such seeds in his heart."

Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyám was a Persian polymath: philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He also wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, mineralogy, music, climatology and theology.

The Holy Qur’an - "The Spoils of War" Sura: (8):23

“Indeed, the worst of living creatures in the sight of Allah are the deaf and dumb who do not use reason.”

The Holy Qur’an  - Sura: Al-Anfaal "The Spoils of War" (8):23

Sahih International Translation

Bankei

“In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That’s all.” 

Bankei

Bankei is a well-known Rinzai Zen Buddhist master.