Our original nature is pure
as long as it is free from false thought.
-Hui Neng
as long as it is free from false thought.
-Hui Neng
To purify the soul is to hinder her from inclining towards lower things,
or from representing their images to herself;
it means annihilating the things from which she is thus separated,
so that she is no longer choked.
-Plotinus
When your body, speech and mind are purified,
we say a Buddha has appeared in the world.
When these three become impure,
we say a Buddha has been extinguished.
-Hui Hai
The pure heart is the end of all religion
and the beginning of all divinity.
-James Allen
and the beginning of all divinity.
-James Allen
The pure have left behind fragrance and color.
-Djalal ad-Din Rumi
-Djalal ad-Din Rumi
Purity of heart can leave a fine example
for a hundred generations.
-Hong Zicheng
