The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. —Yeats

 

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Could I ask you to explain the music of heaven for me?

Sounding the ten thousand things differently, so each becomes itself according to itself alone, who could make such music? 


—Chuang Tzu (369-286 BCE)

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We cannot, for example, draw a line around the eyes that is not necessarily arbitrary. There is no point at which the eyes begin or end, either in time or in space or conceptually. The eye bone is connected to the face bone, and the face bone is connected to the head bone, and the head bone is connected to the neck bone, and so it goes down to the toe bone, the floor bone, the earth bone, the worm bone, the dreaming butterfly bone. 

Thus, what we call our eyes are so many bubbles in a sea of foam. This is not only true of our eyes but of our other powers of sensation as well, including the mind.

—Red Pine :: The Heart Sutra

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Within this earthen vessel are bowers and groves, 

and within it is the Creator:

Within this vessel are the seven oceans, 

and the unnumbered stars.

The touchstone and the jewel-appraiser are within;

And within this vessel the Eternal soundeth, 

and the spring wells up.

Kabir says: “Listen to me, my Friend!

My Beloved Lord is within."

—Kabir

 

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