III Quotes

Most of the world’s religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and so on. Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.

Lao Tzu (c.604 – 531 B.C.)

Source: The Hua Hu Ching, (16)

 

The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit – not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)

Source: Walden

 

 

Treat everyone you meet like God in drag

Ram Dass (1931 – Present)