Inspirational life quotes

“When man has become cognisant of God, in the heart and centre of his own being and of the whole universe, then he realises that he is not separate but a part of the whole, and part of God, and God is in him; thus slowly he emerges into the greater consciousness, into the all-ness of life.”

White Eagle

Unborn,

Yet continuing without interruption,

Neither coming nor going, omnipresent,

Supreme Dharma,

Immutable space, beyond definition,

Spontaneously self-liberating,

Perfectly unobstructed state,

Existing from the very beginning,

Self-created, without location,

With nothing negative to reject,

And nothing positive to accept,

Infinite expanse, penetrating everywhere,

Immense and limitless, boundless,

With nothing even to dissolve

Or be liberated from.

Present beyond Space and Time,

Existing from the very beginning,

Immense dimension of inner space,

Radiant clarity like the sun and moon,

Self-perfected,

Indestructible as a Vajra,

Stable as a mountain,

Pure as a lotus,

Strong as a lion,

Incomparable bliss

Beyond all limits;

Illumination,

Equanimity,

Peak of the Dharma,

Light of the universe,

Perfect since the very beginning.

 (from THE UNION OF THE SOLAR AND LUNAR TANTRA,

translated by Namkhai Norbu and John Shane)

"What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of morality and all it's pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine...the man becoming, in that communion, the friend of God, himself immortal;...would that be, a life to disregard?"

Plato

"Indeed we have undertaken the task of showing that the world and the instrumental-thing, space and quantity, and universal time are all pure hypostasized nothingnesses which in no way modify the pure being which is revealed through them. In this sense everything is given, everything is present to me without distance and in its complete reality."

Jean Paul Sartre (Being and Nothingness, p296)

 “So true is it, what I then say, that the Fraction of Life can be increased in value not so much by increasing your Numerator as by lessening your Denominator.  Nay, unless my Algebra deceive me, Unity itself divided by Zero will give Infinity.  ...[So] make thy claim of wages a zero, then, thou hast the world under they feet.”

Thomas Carlyle (Sartor, p144)

“We sit together,

the mountain and I,

until only the mountain remains.”

Li Po

“The ego, deluded by the senses, thinketh ‘I am the Doer’.”

Bhagavad Gita

"The loss of control over thought comes toward the end; first a sinking in upon the moral being, then the last surrender, the irrational cry, revelation..."

Yeats (A Vision, p 268)

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These fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.