What are some of your favorite verses from Buddhist, Pagan, or Hindu scriptures?
“Those who are wise lament neither for the living nor for the dead. Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor in the future shall any of us cease to be. That which pervades the entire body, know it to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul. For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. It does not die when the body dies. That which dwells in the body can never die. The soul does not feel pain or sorrow; it knows nothing of suffering.” - (Bhagavad Gita chapter 2)
"I am the [Supreme Soul] seated in the hearts of all living beings. I am the beginning, the middle and the end of all beings." - Bhagavad Gita 10.20
"Sarvam khalvidam brahman", "All this (collectively) is Brahman, indeed: what evolves from That, what dissolves in That, what breathes or functions in That ." - (Chandogya Upanishad III.14.1)
"Ekam sadviprah bahudha vadanti", "One Truth the sages know by many names." - Rig Veda 1.164.46
Better a humble house than none.
A man is a master at home.
A pair of goats and a patched roof
Are better than begging. - Hávamál 10
“Thirty spokes share the hub of a wheel;
yet it is its center that makes it useful.
You can mold clay into a vessel;
yet, it is its emptiness that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows from the walls of a house;
but the ultimate use of the house
will depend on that part where nothing exists.
Therefore, something is shaped into what is;
but its usefulness comes from what is not.” Tao Te Ching
