rapid, easy progress, which at the same time means ever widening
expansion and clarity
---- I Ching
Bye and bye comes the Great Awakening, and we find that this life is really a great dream. . . . Then we are embraced in obliterating Unity. There is perfect adaptation to whatever may happen—and so we complete our allotted span
— Chuang-tzu
If you despair, stand up and gaze ahead before nature’s diversity of forms. Whoever has ears to hear should hear.
—– The Gospel of Mary
your eyes are capable of seeing forms and colors, isn’t it wonderful?
—- Thich Nhat Hanh
a closer intimacy
---- I Ching
from mathematics to particulars
divided as the dew,
floating mists, to be rained down and
regathered into a river that flows and encircles
—- William Carlos Williams
An enlightened ruler and an obedient servant— this is the condition on which great progress depends
---- I Ching
The magnificent palace will be the scene of your initiation
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
To esteem is to create
—- Nietzsche
Like the bright hair uplifted from the head
—- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The sun rises over the earth:
The image of PROGRESS.
Thus the superior man himself
Brightens his bright virtue
---- I Ching
The serpent is an equivalent of the fish.
—- Jung
. Enlightenment means the total acceptance and understanding that I do not exist as an independent doer, that everything happens by God’s Will
—- Ramesh Balsekar
The light of the sun rises over the earth is by nature clear
---- I Ching
The consensus of opinion interpreted the Redeemer equally as a fish and a serpent
—- Jung
go out and look at leaves, flowers, children, and clouds, and be happy.
—- Thich Nhat Hanh
The higher the sun rises, the more it emerges from the dark mists, spreading the pristine purity of its rays over an ever widening area
---- I Ching
he is a fish because he rose from the unknown depths, and a serpent because he came mysteriously out of the darkness
—- Jung
to advance, to promote, or to proceed
—- I Ching
a paean of welcome
—-Paramhansa Yogananda
the sun is rising over the Earth, an image of progress
—- I Ching
In this squiggle
game I make some kind of an impulsive line-drawing and
invite the child whom I am interviewing to turn it into
something, and then he makes a squiggle for me to turn
into something in my turn.
—- Winnicott
upon the earth, two plants are flourishing and blooming upward with the yang energy from the sun, glowing like the flame of a fire
—- I Ching
Of the horizon to the zenith’s height
—– Percy Bysshe Shelley
not only an act of proceeding but also the radiance of the energy
—- I Ching
Insatiably your soul strives for treasures and gems, because your virtue is insatiable in wanting to give.
—- Nietzsche
The bright is appearing over the earth. — The submissive is clinging to the brilliant. The gentle is proceeding and moving upward
—- I Ching
have a good perception of the oak tree in order to see its Buddha nature, its function as a teacher.
—- Thich Nhat Hanh
. Consciousness does not get into the body. The body is part of the manifestation, created by Consciousness.
—- Ramesh Balsekar
into a spacious reception hall
—Paramhansa Yogananda
Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre
—– Percy Bysshe Shelley
The superior person cultivates his virtues
And hightens them by himself
—- I Ching
whatever happens, is part of the functioning of Totality, or God’s Will
—- Ramesh Balsekar
one’s motivation should be pure
—- I Ching
To acknowledge and respect consists in
letting every thinker’s thought come to us as something in
each case unique, never to be repeated, inexhaustible–and
being shaken to the depths by what is unthought in his
thought.
—- Heidegger
transcending is always letting go of our views and knowledge in order to transcend.
—- Thich Nhat Hanh
Proceeding should be stable, gradual, and steady
—- I Ching
Come to me, for my yoke is easy and my mastery gentle, and you will find rest for yourselves.
——- Gospel of Thomas
Advancing, a securely established lord presents many horses, and grants audience three times in a day .
—– I Ching
The odor of incense and of roses wafted through the air; dim lamps shed a multicolored glow.
—-Paramhansa Yogananda
And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave’s intenser day
—– Percy Bysshe Shelley
using understanding to practice receptivity, according with the time and according with truth, illumination grows day by day ; therefore it is called advance .
—- I Ching
Creativity becomes more visible when adults try to be more attentive to the cognitive processes of children than to the results they achieve in various fields of doing and understanding.
—- Malaguzzi
being sincere and clear-minded
—– I Ching
prepare for a reentry into society.
—- Thich Nhat Hanh
The false ‘I’ will disappear and the real ‘I’ will be realized.
—– Sri Ramana Maharshi
A vibrant joy pervaded the atmosphere
—-Paramhansa Yogananda
When the mind is empty, it is observant and careful, not being fooled by desire for things ; within black there is white—spiritual illumination comes of itself.
—- I Ching
When you make two into one, you will become human children. When you say, “Mountain, move,” the mountain will move.
—– Gospel of Thomas
spiritual illumination comes of itself.The original nature of innate knowledge and capacity in people is bright and lucid; its quality is fundamentally illumined .
—– I Ching
The sea-blooms and the oozy woods which wear
The sapless foliage of the ocean
—– Percy Bysshe Shelley
a few ejaculations of wonderment
—Paramhansa Yogananda
The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind
—– Percy Bysshe Shelley
“advance the fire,” this is a matter of promoting restoration of illumination
—– I Ching
When the bridegroom leaves the wedding chamber, then let the people fast and pray.
—- Gospel of Thomas
there is no such thing as an individual
—– Thich Nhat Hanh
The work of fostering illumination cannot be done without obedience, which means according with the time and according with truth .
—- I Ching
He is not knowable by perception, turned inward or outward, nor by both combined. He is neither that which is known, nor that which is not known, nor is He the sum of all that might be known. He cannot be seen, grasped, bargained with. He is undefinable, unthinkable, indescribable.
—– Mandukya Upanishad
what heaven bestows on humans is good, and people who submit to heaven, obey heaven, and accord with heaven are good too . When heaven and humanity act in concert, there is spontaneous truthfulness and illumination; that illumination grows daily, from subtle to evident, gradually advancing to a realm of lofty understanding and far-reaching vision .
—— I Ching
the mystery of its origin.
—Paramhansa Yogananda
The hour of the horse is noon, which is in the province of the image of the light of fire ; multitude is what is produced by the earth, so it is in the province of the image of receptivity of earth. “A day” is the light of day ; illumination is above . Granting audience three times is the receptivity o f earth; receptivity is below.
—- I Ching
Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it.
—- Mark
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