"As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you." (Morihei Ueshiba, "The Art of Peace", 1991)
"The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances." (Atisha)
"The root of compassion is compassion for oneself." (Pema Chodron)
"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness." (Chuang Tzu)
"Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots." (Rumi)
"With love you don’t bargain. There, the choice is not yours. Love is a mirror, it reflects only your essence, if you have the courage to look in its face." (Rumi)
"Your knowledge should improve your heart and purge your ego." (Imam Al-Ghazali)
"When the heart is at peace for and against are forgotten." (Chuang Tzu)
"Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity." (Pema Chodron)
"[...] you cannot go on ‘explaining away’ forever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on ‘seeing through’ things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to ‘see through’ first principles. If you see through everything then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To ‘see through’ all things is the same as not to see." (Clive S Lewis, "The Abolition of Man", 1943)
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