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"His Majesty couldn't grant us a greater favor

than to give us a life that would be an

imitation of the life his beloved Son lived.

Thus I hold for certain that these favors are

meant to fortify our weakness, that we may

be able to imitate him in his great sufferings."

Saint Teresa of Avila

"He who disobeys [the Principle of Nature] violates virtue.

He who destroys humanity is a robber. He who promotes

evil lacks [moral] capacity. But he who puts his moral

nature into practice and brings his physical existence into

complete fulfillment can match [Heaven and Earth]."

Chang Tsai

“Said by God: Think all the world as nothing and prefer My

service before all things, for you cannot have your mind fixed

on Me and at the same time delight in transitory pleasure."

Thomas a Kempis

"There is no action, Either present, future, or past, Which has

been performed or enjoyed by me. This I know, without any

doubt."

Avadhuta Gita

"In the original substance of the mind there is no

distinction of good and evil. When the will becomes

active, however, such distinction exists. The faculty of

innate knowledge is to know good and evil. The

investigation of things is to do good and to remove evil."

Wang Yangming

"You are the supreme Brahman, infinite, yet

hidden in the hearts of all creatures. You

pervade everything."

Upanishads

"All beings are the owners of their deeds (kamma, Skr:

karma), the heirs of their deeds: their deeds are the womb

from which they sprang, with their deeds they are bound

up, their deeds are their refuge. Whatever deeds they do-

good or evil-of such they will be the heirs."

Buddha Sakyamuni

"Those "devout" souls who knew that no one can be

really devout in relation to God, if he is not devout

toward His creation, and that the love of God is unreal,

unless it is crowned with love for one's fellow men."

Martin Buber

"For God to be perceived by the soul, she must be

blind. Therefore, he (Saint Paul) says, "He saw the

Nothing” from whose light all lights come, from whose

essence all essence comes."

Meister Eckhart

"Who knows his soul knows his Lord."

Rumi

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