“Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.” MenChristianIndividualEventsDependsGeniusStonesAbsolutesTreasureCertaintyOutcomesMisfortunesAbyssStepping Stones Author:Honore de Balzac
“As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.” MindStatesKnowingAwarenessReturnAbsolutesSilentStillnessAbyssIdentificationContractions Author:Adyashanti
“It must really be a lonelier journey than anyone could imagine. Cutting through absolute darkness, encountering nothing but the occasional hydrogen atom. Flying blindly into the abyss, believing therein lie the answers to the mysteries of the universe.” BelieveLyingUniverseAnswersDarknessCuttingImagineMysteryJourneyAbsolutesFlyingAtomsAbyssOccasionalHydrogenHydrogen Atom Author:Makoto Shinkai
“Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our true state; this is what makes us incapable of certain knowledge and of absolute ignorance... This is our natural condition, and yet most contrary to our inclination; we burn with desire to find solid ground and an ultimate sure foundation whereon to build a tower reaching to the Infinite. But our whole groundwork cracks, and the earth opens to abysses.” StatesWholeEarthDesireCertainNaturalKnowledgeConditionsIgnoranceUltimateAbsolutesInfiniteFoundationExtremesContraryReachingCracksTowersIncapableAbyssInclinationGroundworkCertain Knowledge Author:Blaise Pascal
“In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside. As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind's compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.” MindStatesKnowingMeditationAwarenessObjectsSourceListeningReturnAbsolutesSilentAriseRelaxFadesAbyssEmphasisContractions Author:Adyashanti