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God, Cosmos, the Whole,
call it whatever you like, it is a unfathomable hollow recipient,
full of endless and tireless work.
Lao Tzu

“To study Buddhism is to study ourselves.
To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.”
Eihei Dogen Kigen zenji (道元禅師, Dōgen Zenji) (1200 – 1253)

“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
Albert Einstein

“Irrigators guide the water. Fletchers shape the arrow shaft. Carpenters shape the wood. The Wise control themselves.”
Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha

“We must become the change we want to see in the world”.
Mohandas Gandhi

”You can rejoice of the beauty of the people and things only without the desire and possession. Every real beauty is transitional and attachment to it is a source of secure suffering.”
Dino Olivieri

“Whatever cause suffering can not be called love.”
Dino Olivieri

“We are already what we are trying desperately.
We are everything, except be aware.”
Dino Olivieri

“Past and Future are illusions of the mind.
Wake up and look at what is real and true.
We can live with joy this Everchanging Eternal Present.”
Dino Olivieri

“We suffer not for what happens to us, but we suffer depending how we place ourselves in relation to what happens.”
Dino Olivieri