Knowledge in books remains in books.
-Sanskrit Proverb
I remember taking this book with me
to read among the flowers
and realize that another year has passed.
-Yang Wan-li
Every day, priests minutely examine the Law
And endlessly chant complicated sutras.
Before doing that, though, they should learn
How to read the love letters sent by the wind
and rain, and snow and moon.
-Ikkyu Sojun
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books.
Truth is lived, not taught.
-Hermann Hesse
Don't read books...
It's so much better
to close your eyes, sit in your study
lower the curtains, sweep the floor,
burn incense,
take a walk when you feel energetic,
and when you're tired go to sleep.
-Yang Wan-li
Merely reading or reciting holy scriptures,
All pundits have come to grief;
Without a true Master
And without the Surat Shabd practice,
No one has ever crossed
The dread ocean of this world.
-Dayal Singh
If one read the nine, the eighteen,
The four and then the six,
He would lose the essence of Truth;
Unless the soul merges with the Shabd,
He is a mere parrot,
However much he may be learning.
-Tulsi
Who can know the Real?
Who can know his or her own true Self?
Only those who have experienced it.
Information, intellectual movements of the mind
that circle around the inner heart cave,
have no conception of what they are missing.
Will the thought of milk ever quench one's thirst?
-John A. Grimes
Spiritual teachings destroy ignorance,
and therefore remove darkness,
but they cannot throw light on the inner Self,
for the Self is Light.
-Brahmananda
If one reads for years, month upon month;
If one reads for a lifetime, breath upon breath;
Nanak, only one thing is of value -
All else is vain indulgence, urged on by ego.
-Nanak
Reading volume after volume,
Men tire themselves to death,
But not one becomes a real scholar;
Who learns the small word 'love'
It truly learned.
-Kabir
The soul in its ecstatic estate grasps in an instant
more truth than can be arrived at by many months, or even years,
of painstaking thought and study.
-St. Teresa of Avila
When you read a single page from
the silent book of your heart,
you will laugh at all this chattering,
all this pretentious learning.
-Abu-Said Abil-Kheir
Then you'll remember your life
as a book of candles,
each page read by the light of its own burning.
-Li-Young Lee
Truth is lived, not taught.
-Hermann Hesse
Don't read books...
It's so much better
to close your eyes, sit in your study
lower the curtains, sweep the floor,
burn incense,
take a walk when you feel energetic,
and when you're tired go to sleep.
-Yang Wan-li
Merely reading or reciting holy scriptures,
All pundits have come to grief;
Without a true Master
And without the Surat Shabd practice,
No one has ever crossed
The dread ocean of this world.
-Dayal Singh
If one read the nine, the eighteen,
The four and then the six,
He would lose the essence of Truth;
Unless the soul merges with the Shabd,
He is a mere parrot,
However much he may be learning.
-Tulsi
Who can know the Real?
Who can know his or her own true Self?
Only those who have experienced it.
Information, intellectual movements of the mind
that circle around the inner heart cave,
have no conception of what they are missing.
Will the thought of milk ever quench one's thirst?
-John A. Grimes
Spiritual teachings destroy ignorance,
and therefore remove darkness,
but they cannot throw light on the inner Self,
for the Self is Light.
-Brahmananda
If one reads for years, month upon month;
If one reads for a lifetime, breath upon breath;
Nanak, only one thing is of value -
All else is vain indulgence, urged on by ego.
-Nanak
Reading volume after volume,
Men tire themselves to death,
But not one becomes a real scholar;
Who learns the small word 'love'
It truly learned.
-Kabir
The soul in its ecstatic estate grasps in an instant
more truth than can be arrived at by many months, or even years,
of painstaking thought and study.
-St. Teresa of Avila
When you read a single page from
the silent book of your heart,
you will laugh at all this chattering,
all this pretentious learning.
-Abu-Said Abil-Kheir
Then you'll remember your life
as a book of candles,
each page read by the light of its own burning.
-Li-Young Lee
You had better burn your books in mind and heart,
but not the books in black and white.
-Zen Master
but not the books in black and white.
-Zen Master
Under the trees, among the rocks, a thatched hut;
verse and sacred commentaries lives there together.
I'll burn the books I carry in my bag,
but how can I forget the verses written in my gut?
-Ikkyu
Once one knows the truth of the Supreme,
study of the scriptures becomes unnecessary
because there is nothing more to be gained.
-Ramana Maharshi
The book in which all mysteries lie is man himself;
for he himself is the book of the being of all beings,
seeing that he is the similitude of God.
-Jacob Boehme
Once one knows the truth of the Supreme,
study of the scriptures becomes unnecessary
because there is nothing more to be gained.
-Ramana Maharshi
The book in which all mysteries lie is man himself;
for he himself is the book of the being of all beings,
seeing that he is the similitude of God.
-Jacob Boehme
