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“Every place is the center of the world.”

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Black Elk, whose real name was Netsahihoka, was a medicine man of the Omaha Sioux tribe. Born on December 1, 1863, and died on August 19, 1950, Black Elk is known for his profound spiritual insight and contributions to the Sioux culture. more

“Today people live to work rather than work for a living. They have forgotten their true goal in life. Subsequently they have forgotten their dharma. There is no communication between hearts, there is no sharing. Having lost contact with other's hearts, we become totally isolated. But in truth we are not isolated islands, we are links that form one chain.”

People Heart Today Form Lost Goal Communication Unity Forgotten Contact Chains Islands Links Isolated Dharma Life Goal No Communication

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Many people meditate in order that a third eye may open. For that they feel they should close their two physical eyes. They thereby become blind to the world. But the fact is that the third eye will never open. We can never close our eyes to the world in the name of spirituality. Self-realization is the ability to see ourselves in all beings. This is the third eye through which you see, even while your two eyes are open. We should be able to love and serve others, seeing ourselves in them. This is the fulfillment of spiritual practice.”

“Man is not the source of all things, as the subjective idealists would say. Nor is he the passive observer of all things, as the objective idealists would say. The Quality which creates the world emerges as a relationship between man and his experience. He is a participant in the creation of all things. The measure of all things.”

Men World Quality Creation Source All Things Unity Objectives Passive Observers Subjective Participants Idealist

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way.”

Way Kind Reality Form Unity Fixed

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“What is seen now so much more clearly is that although the names keep changing and the bodies keep changing, the larger pattern that holds us all together goes on and on.”

Body Together Names Goes On Unity Patterns

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Good is a noun rather than an adjective.”

Unity Adjectives Nouns

Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

“To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience.”

Ifs Believe Littles Sound Water Quality Air Asking Unity Buddhist Zen Motorcycle Maintenance Zen Buddhist

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

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