30 Quotes About Perennial-philosophy

...to be aware of the miracle entailed in every moment of living...

It is true that philosophy is quite aware of the Buddhistic picture of life, of the sorrows and sicknesses which drag him down at times. That is why it makes equanimity a leading item of the inner work upon himself, why it becomes so necessary. But it is also true that moments, moods, and glimpses are also possible when there is uplift, and he can confirm for himself that the human link with the higher power is a very real thing.

The divinity is there, within you; have faith that it is so and entrust yourself to it.

One has to die to the separate self in oder to find the universal Self or God […] as the mystics everywhere have repeatedly told us, it is only in accepting death that real life is found. (A Universe within, p. 79)

As long as human beings are unconscious and dominated by selfish and illusory desires, there is no god who will force us to change. But as the history of revelation on earth testifies, guidance has come to all communities and nations. Through masters, saints and prophets, through sacred texts and oral tradition, humanity has been reminded and warned. Cosmic intelligence has continually been in communication with us; now the burden of responsibility rests on each human heart. (p. 164)

Sit with the masters, drink in their baraka, for their mere presence radiates such light that whoever is with them is penetrated by it through and through.

As Alfred North Whitehead would say, there are processes and events, not things and rules. And the mind is an event within a phenomenal process - nothing less and nothing more than that.

We may summarize the essence of the wisdom our Lord seeks to impart unto us through all His revelations in one word: Unity.

Unborn, never died, ever alive - thus is the Ultimate Reality. Of God. And of the Universal Self. As too, your own.