authors table

R	AUTHOR	SUBJECT	WORKS	DOB	BIRTHPLACE	BCQ#	QUOTE
001	Sri Aurobindo	Integral Yoga, Hinduism, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology	Savitri, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Life Divine, Collected Works	1872-1950	India, West Bengal, Kolkata	106	But still the invisible Magnet drew his soul ~ Savitri, The World-Stair
002	The Mother	Integral Yoga, Occultism, Buddhism	The Mothers Agenda, WOTM, Q+A	1878-1973	France, Paris	cnt	The Divine Consciousness must be our only guide. ~ Words Of The Mother II
003	Sri Ramakrishna	Hinduism, Philosophy, Mysticism	The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna	1836-1886	India, West Bengal		Many are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
004	Ken Wilber	Integral Theory, Philosophy	Sex Ecology Spirituality	1949-	United States, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City	cnt	Growth is hard, regression is easy /// An integral approach acknowledges that all views have a degree of truth. /// The subject of one stage becomes the object of the subject of the next stage.
005	Sri Ramana Maharshi	Hinduism	Who am I?	1879-1950	India, Tamil Nadu		Sorrow makes one think of God. ~ Conscious Immortality /// All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
006	Aleister Crowley	Occultism	Liber ABA, Poems	1875-1947	England	036	That first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable. ~ Liber ABA
007	Saint Teresa of Avila	Christianity	The Interior Castle	1515-1582			The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.
008	Jordan Peterson	Psychology, Philosophy, Nonfiction	Maps of Meaning	1962	Canada, Alberta, Fairview	cnt	You want to have a meaningful life? Everything you do matters. That's the definition of a meaningful life. But everything you do matters. You're going to have to carry that with you.
009	Jorge Luis Borges	Philosophy, Poetry	The Library of Babel, the Garden of Forking Paths, Poems	1899-1986	Argentina	042	Ts'ui Pe must have said once: I am withdrawing to write a book. And another time: I am withdrawing to construct a labyrinth. Every one imagined two works; to no one did it occur that the book and the maze were one and the same thing.
010	Peter J Carroll	Occultism, Chaos Magick	Liber Null	1953-	England, Patching	cnt	The selfs must allow each self a shot at its goals in life, if you wish to achieve any sense of fulfillment and remain sane. ~ Psyber Magick
011	Jetsun Milarepa	Buddhism	Poems	1028-1111	Tibet	010	Deep in the wild mountains, is a strange marketplace, where you can trade the hassle and noise of everyday life, for eternal Light.
012	Epictetus	Philosophy, Stoicism	w	50-135 AD	Phygia, Hierapolis	cnt	Only the educated are free. /// Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it. /// First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
013	Friedrich Nietzsche	Philosophy	Thus Spoke Zarathustra	1844-1900	Germany	080	To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
014	Heraclitus	Philosophy, Mysticism	w	-535 - 475 BC	Persian Empire, Ionia, Ephesus	cnt	Asses prefer garbage to gold. /// What was scattered, gathers. /// A fool is excited by every word. /// The seeing have the world in common. /// The path up and down is one and the same.
015	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Science, Theology	Poems	1749-1832	Germany	120	We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
016	Pierre Teilhard de Chardin	Christianity	The Future of Man, The Phenomenon of Man	1881-1955	France, Puy-de-Dome, Orcines	cnt	To see more is to become more. /// The consciousness of each of us is evolution looking at itself and reflecting upon itself.
017	Jalaluddin Rumi	Sufism	Poems	1207-1273	Afghanistan	133	What you seek is seeking you /// Let yourself become living poetry. /// I know you're tired but come, this is the way. /// Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.
018	Manly_P_Hall	Occultism	The Secret Teachings of All Ages	1901-1990	Canada, Ontario, Peterborough	c	Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments. /// I am a stranger amongst them. They cannot know my longings nor taste my sorrows. /// Critics have found fault with all the world's scriptures, but as yet they have discovered no useful substitutes.
019	Kabir	Sufism, Hinduism, Sikhism	Songs of Kabir	1500	India	101	All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
020	Hafiz	Mysticism	Poems	1315-1390	Iran	049	A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth
021	Dogen Zenji	Buddhism, Zen	Poems	1200-1253	Japan	021	The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
022	Ibn Arabi	Sufism, Mysticism, Philosophy	Poems	1165-1240	Spain	036	How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
023	Nichiren	Buddhism	w	1222-1282	Japan, Chiba Prefecture	c	Winter always turns into spring. /// Faith Alone is what really matters. /// Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages. /// We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance.
024	Bodhidharma	Buddhism, Zen	Poems	500	?	010	Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, / and internally have no pantings in your heart; / when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, / you may enter into the Path.
999	Abu l-Husayn al-Nuri	Sufism, Poetry	w	840-908 CE	Baghdad
999	Abu-Said Abil-Kheir	Sufism, Poetry	w	967-1049	B1	023
999	Aeschylus - an ancient Greek playwright, ... recognized as the father ... of tragedy.	Playwright, Soldier	Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Eumenides	-525-456 BC	Greece		Wisdom comes through suffering. / Trouble, with its memories of pain, / Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, / So men against their will / Learn to practice moderation. / Favours come to us from gods. ~ Aeschylus, Agamemnon
999	Alexander Pope	Translation	The Rape of the Lock	1688-1744	England
999	Alfred Tennyson	Poetry		1809-1892	England
999	Allama Muhammad Iqbal	Islam, Philosophy, Politics		1877-1938	Punjab
999	Aonghus of the Divinity
999	Baba Sheikh Farid	Sufism, Poetry	w	1173-1266		014	His grace may fall upon us at anytime, it has no rules, you see? Some don't get it after rituals, vigils: others asleep, it hits suddenly!
999	Basava	Hinduism, Philosophy, Politics		1200	India
999	Beni	Sikhism, Poetry	w	1300s?
999	Bernart de Ventadorn	Music		1135-1194	France
999	Boethius	Christianity		0480?-0525	Italy
999	Buckminster Fuller	Science, Philosophy	Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking	1895-1983	United States, Massachusetts, Milton	001
999	Bulleh Shah	Sufism, Mysticism, Philosophy		1680-1757 CE	Punjab	021	Repeating the name of the Beloved / I have become the Beloved myself. / Whom shall I call the Beloved now?
999	Saint_Catherine of Siena	Christianity		1347-1380	Siena
999	Charles Baudelaire			1821-1867	France
999	Chiao Jan	Buddhism, Zen		730-799	China
999	Chone Lama Lodro Gyatso	Buddhism, Tibetan	In Praise of Dependent Origination	1816-1900	Tibet
999	Choshu Ueda	Poetry, Haiku		1853	Japan		Though it be broken- broken again - still it's there; the moon on the water.
999	Chuang Tzu	Taoism, Philosophy	Poems	-0369-0286 BC	China	006	Kung Wen Hsien saw Yo Shi and exclaimed: / What kind of person is this? / How come only one foot? / Is this ordained by Heaven, / Or caused by Man? / He then said to himself: / It is Heaven, not Man. / Heavens destiny let him be crippled. / The image of Man is given by Heaven. / Therefore we know this is the work of Heaven, not Man.
999	Dadu Dayal	Hinduism		1544-1603	India?
999	Dante Alighieri	Philosophy	The Divine Comedy	1265-1321	Italy
999	Saint_Dionysius the Areopagite	Christianity, Judiciary		0100?-0100? AD	Greece?
999	Edgar Allan Poe	Poetry		1809-1849	United States	077
999	Edward Young	Philosophy, Theology		1683-1765	England
999	Eleazar ben Kallir	Judaism, Poetry	w	570-640
999	Ernest Hemingway			1899-1961	United States
999	Farid ud-Din Attar	Sufism		1120?-1220?	Iran/Persia	024	When you begin the Valley of the Quest / Misfortunes will deprive you of all rest, / Each moment some new trouble terrifies, / And parrots there are panic-stricken flies. / There years must vanish while you strive and grieve; / There is the heart of all you will achieve -- / Renounce the world, your power and all you own, / And in your heart's blood journey on alone. / When once your hands are empty, then your heart / Must purify itself and move apart ... ~ The Valley of the Quest
999	Friedrich Schiller	Poetry, Philosophy, Fiction	Poems	1759-1805	Germany	165
999	Fukuda Chiyo-ni			1703-1775	Japan	012	At the crescent moon the silence enters my heart.
999	George Eliot	Translation		1819-1880	England
999	Gorakhnath	Hinduism		1100?	India?
999	Guru Nanak	Sikhism		1469-1539	Pakistan		Discipline is the workshop; patience, the goldsmith; the anvil, one's thinking; wisdom, the hammer; Fear, the bellows; austerities, the fire; and feeling, the vessel where the deathless liquid is poured. In such a true mint is forged the Word, and those on whom He looks do their rightful deeds. Nanak says: the One who sees, sees. He observes. ~ Discipline is the workshop
999	Hakim Sanai	Sufism	The Walled Garden of Truth	1080-1131	Ghazni	029	Take everything away and leave me alone with You. Close every door and open the one to You. ~ Take everything away
999	Hakuin Ekaku	Buddhism, Zen		1686-1769	Japan		The monkey is reaching For the moon in the water. Until death overtakes him He'll never give up. If he'd let go the branch and Disappear in the deep pool, The whole world would shine With dazzling pureness.
999	Han-shan	Buddhism, Zen, Taoism	Poems	0730?-0850?	China	004
999	Hazrat Inayat Khan	Sufism		1882-1927	India		God is the answer to every question. /// To be really sorry for one's errors is like opening the door of heaven. /// The aim of the Mystic is to stretch his range of Consciousness as widely as possible, so that he may touch the highest pride and the deepest humility.
999	Henry David Thoreau	Philosophy, Poetry		1817-1862	United States	#1	To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. /// Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
999	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Education		1807-1882	United States
999	Homer	Mythology	The Odyssey, The Illiad	-700? BCE	Greece
999	Horace	Poetry	Poetry	-065-008 BC	Italy
999	Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia	Buddhism, Zen, Taoism		0665-0713	China	070
999	Hung-chih Cheng-chueh	Buddhism, Zen, Poetry	w	1091-1157	China, Xizhoue
999	Ibn Ata Illah	Sufism	w	1259 CE - 1310 CE	Alexandria	c	Those travelling to Him are guided by the light of turning their faces toward Him. Those who have arrived have the light of face-to-face encounter. The former belong to lights, but the lights belong to the latter because they belong to Allah, and are His alone. "Say: 'Allah' then leave them plunging in their games.
999	Ikkyu	Buddhism, Zen		1394-1481	Japan	013	1). inside the koan clear mind gashes the great darkness -- 2.) Only one koan matters you
999	Isaac of Stella	Christianity, Philosophy		1100-1170	England
999	Izumi Shikibu	Poetry		976?	Japan		Although the wind / blows terribly here, / the moonlight also leaks / between the roof planks / of this ruined house.
999	Jacopone da Todi	Christianity		1230-1306	Umbria	010
999	Jakushitsu Genko	Buddhism, Zen, Rinzai		1290-1367	Japan		To the branch's edge and the leaf's under surface be most attentive / Its pervasive aroma envelopes people far away / The realms of form and function can't contain it / Spring leaks profusely through the basket
999	James Joyce	Fiction		1882-1941	Ireland		... a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend. ~ Ulysses
999	Jayadeva	Hinduism		1170-1245	India, East
999	John Keats	Poetry	Hyperion, Poems	1795-1821	England	163	It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
999	John Milton	Poetry	Paradise Lost	1608-1674	England		But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the Sense of human sight.
999	Judah Halevi	Judaism, Philosophy, Physician		1075-1141	Toledo
999	Jusammi Chikako	Buddhism, Zen, Chan	w	1400?	Japan		On this summer night All the household lies asleep, And in the doorway, For once open after dark, Stands the moon, brilliant, cloudless.
999	Kahlil Gibran	Mysticism	The Prophet	1883-1931	Lebanon
999	Karma Trinley Rinpoche	Buddhism, Tibetan	w	1931-	Tibet, Nangchen
999	Kelsang Gyatso	Buddhism, Tibetan		1931-	Tibet?
999	Khwaja Abdullah Ansari	Sufism, Poetry	w	1006-1088	Ghaznavid Empire, Khorasan, Herat
999	Kobayashi Issa	Poetry, Haiku		1763-1828	Japan	027	On a branch / floating downriver / a cricket, singing.
999	Kuan Han-Ching	Playwright		1241?-1320?	China?
999	Lalla	Mathematician, Astronomy, Astrology		720-790	India	038	Dance, Lalla, with nothing on but air: Sing, Lalla, wearing the sky. Look at this glowing day! What clothes could be so beautiful, or more sacred?
999	Levi Yitzchak of Berditchov	Judaism, Poetry	w	1740-1809	pob
999	Lewis Carroll	Mathematics, Fiction, Education		1832-1898	England	#1	If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit to memory passages of Scripture, or passages from the best writers in verse or prose. Let him store his mind with these, as safeguards to repeat when he lies awake in some restless night, or when despairing imaginations, or gloomy, suicidal thoughts, beset him. Let these be to him the sword, turning everywhere to keep the way of the Garden of Life from the intrusion of profaner footsteps.
999	Li Bai	Poetry	Poems	0701-0762	China	127
999	Longchen Rabjampa	Buddhism, Tibetan		1308-1364	Tibet
999	Lord Byron	Politics		1788-1824	England
999	Lucretius	Philosophy	Of The Nature Of Things	-099-055 BC	Greece	033
999	Lu Tung Pin	Taoism		755-805	China		My heart is the clear water in the stony pond. Right now it is invaded by the peach-blossom shadows. As soon as I arrive at heaven's palaces I shall settle down with my seven-stringed lute. ~ My heart is the clear water in the stony pond
999	Mansur al-Hallaj	Sufism, Mysticism, Education	Poems	858-922	Iran/Persia	013
999	Marpa Lotsawa	Buddhism, Tibetan		1012-1097	Tibet
999	Mizuta Masahide	Poetry, Haiku, Samurai, Medicine		1657-1723	Japan		Since my house burned down / I now own a better view / of the rising moon
999	Masaoka Shiki	Poetry, Haiku		1867-1902	Japan
999	Matsuo Basho	Buddhism, Zen	Poems	1644-1694	Japan	066	How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
999	Mechthild of Magdeburg	Christianity, Mysticism		1207-1282	?	009
999	Michael Maier	Alchemist, Physician		1568-1622	Germany
999	Miguel de Cervantes	Fiction		1547-1616	Spanish
999	Mirabai	Hinduism		1498-1573	India	020
999	Moses de Leon	Judaism, Kabbalah		1240-1305	Spain
999	Muso Soseki	Buddhism, Zen, Rinzai		1275-1351	Japan	012	Year after year I dug in the earth looking for the blue of heaven only to feel the pile of dirt choking me until once in the dead of night I tripped on a broken brick and kicked it into the air and saw that without a thought I had smashed the bones of the empty sky ~ Toki-no-Ge
999	Nachmanides	Judaism, Kabbalah, Philosophy, Physician		1194-1270	Girona
999	Naftali Bacharach	Judaism, Luranic Kabbalah, Poetry	w	1700?	Germany, Frankfurt
999	Namdev	Hinduism, Sikhism		1270-1350	India
999	Norbert Wiener	Cybernetics, Philosophy, Mathematics	Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine	1894-1964	United States		To live effectively is to live with adequate information.
999	Nozawa Boncho	Poetry, Haiku		1640-1714	Japan		Love. / So many different ways / to have been in love. / The maidservants / Trying to take a peep / Knock down the screen!
999	Nukata	Buddhism	w	638?-710?	Japan	c	While I wait for you, My lord, lost in this longing, Suddenly there comes A stirring of my window blind: The autumn wind is blowing.
999	Omar Khayyam	Polymath, Mathematician, Astronomer, Philosophy		1048-1131	Iran	081
999	Ovid	Poetry	Poetry, Mythology	-043-017 AD	Italy	014
999	Pablo Neruda	Poetry, Politics		1904-1973	Chile
999	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Fiction	Ozymandias, Prometheus Unbound, Poems	1792-1822	England	335	And on the pedestal these words appear / "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" / Nothing beside remains. Round the decay / Of that collossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away ~ Ozymandias
999	Pindar	History		-0518-0438 BC	Greece		For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
999	Pipa	Sikhism, Poetry	w	1425	India, Malwa region
999	Po Chu-i	Poltics		0772-0846	China		my lute set aside on the little table lazily I meditate on cherishing feelings the reason I don't bother to strum and pluck? there's a breeze over the strings and it plays itself
999	Rabbi Abraham Abulafia	Philosophy, Poetry	Light of the Intellect	1240-1291	Spain, Zaragoza
999	Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel	Judaism	w	1907-1972	Poland	#1	Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
999	Rabindranath Tagore	Mysticism, Philosophy		1861-1941	India	251	I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
999	Rainer Maria Rilke	Poetry	Poems	1875-1926	Austria-Hungary	117
999	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Philosophy	Poems	1803-1882	United States	117	Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairytale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
999	Ramananda	Hinduism		1300?-1400?	India
999	Ramprasad	Hinduism, Shaktism	w	1718? - 1775	India, Bengal	021	q
999	Ravidas	Hinduism		1450-1520	India, Varanasi
999	Robert Browning	Poetry	Poems	1812-1889	England	099
999	Ryuzan	Buddhism, Zen		1274-1358	Japan
999	Saadi	Sufism, Mysticism, Logic, Ethics		1210-1291	Shiraz		Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.
999	Saigyo	Poetry		1118-1190	Japan, Kyoto		I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.
999	Saint Clare of Assisi	Christianity	w	1194-1253	Italy, Assisi
999	Saint Francis of Assisi	Christianity, Poetry	w	1181-1226	Holy Roman Empire, Ducy of Spoleto, Assisi	010
999	Saint Hildegard von Bingen	Christianity	w	1098-1179	Holy Roman Empire, County Palatine of the Rhine, Bermersheim vor der Hohe	014
999	Saint John of the Cross	Christianity	works	1542-1591
999	Saint Therese of Lisieux - The Little Flower of Jesus	Christianity	w	1873-1897	France, Orne, Alencon
999	Saisei Muro	Literature		1889-1962	Japan, Ishikawa		Born into the womb ::: Born into the womb of a HIPPU (a woman in a very low social position who is considered stupid and worthless) on a summer's day
999	Santoka Taneda	Poetry		1882-1940	Japan		I have no home / autumn deepens
999	Sappho	Poetry		-0630?-0570? BC	Greece		You are, I think, an evening star, the fairest of all the stars.
999	Saraha	Buddhism, Tibetan		0800?	India?, East?
999	Sarmad	Sufism		?-1659	Iran	012	Along the road, you were my companion Seeking the path, you were my guide No matter to whom I spoke, it was you who answered When Sun called Moon to Sky, it was you who shined In the Night of aloneness, you were my comforter When I laughed, you were the smile on my lips When I cried, you were the tears on my face When I wrote, you were the verse When I sang, you were the song Rarely did my heart desire another lover Then when it did, you came to me in the other. ~ Companion
999	Saul Williams	Music		1972-	United States
999	Shankara	Hinduism, Advaita Vedanta	w	700 CE	India, Kochi	c	q
999	Shih-te	Buddhism		0900?	China?
999	Shiwu	Buddhism, Zen		1272-1352	China?
999	Solomon ibn Gabirol	Judaism, Philosophy	Fons Vitae	1021-1070	Malaga	016
999	Sophocles - was an ancient Greek tragedy playwright. ...	Playwright, Tragedy	Oedipus Rex, Anitgone	-496-406 BC	Greece		He has the thousand-yard stare.
999	Sun Buer	Taoism, Poetry	w	1119-1182 CE	China
999	Surdas	Hinduism		1478?-1579?
999	Swami Vivekananda	Hinduism	Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Jnana Yoga	1863-1902	India, West Bengal, Kolkata		We all have the right to ask for Grace /// My Child, What I want is Muscles of Iron and Nerves of Steel, inside which Dwells a Mind of the same Material as that of which the Thunderbolt is Made.
999	Symeon the New Theologian	Christianity, Catholism		0949-1022	Galatia	011
999	Taigu Ryokan	Buddhism, Zen	Poems	1758-1831	Japan	046	A magnificent temple towers to heaven by the Eternal Bridge. / Priests rival in its halls the sermons of rocks and streams. / I, for one, would gladly sacrifice my brows for my brethren, /But I fear I might aggravate the war, already rank as weeds.
999	Tao Chien	Buddhism, Taoism		0365-0427	China
999	Theophan the Recluse	Christianity		1815-1894	Russia
999	Thomas Carlyle	Mathematician, Philosophy		1795-1881	Scotland
999	Thomas Merton	Christianity, Mysticism, Theology		1915-1968	France	013
999	T S Eliot	Playwright		1888-1965	United States
999	Valmiki	Hinduism	Ramayana	-500 BCE	India
999	Victor Hugo	Novelist, Theatre, Philosophy		1802-1885	France
999	Vidyapati			1352-1448	India
999	Virgil	Mysticism, Philosophy		1683-1765	Roman
999	Voltaire	Philosophy		1694-1778	France
999	Vyasa	Hinduism	Vedas, Mahabharata, Puranas	?	?
999	Walt Whitman	Essay, Journalist		1819-1892	United States, New York	386
999	Wang Wei	Politics, Music, Paint		0699-0759	China	090	A traveler's thoughts in the night / Wander in a thousand miles of dreams.
999	William Blake	Mysticism, Philosophy	w	1757-1827	England	010	If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. /// I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
999	William Butler Yeats	Mysticism, Fiction, Literature	Poems	1865-1939	Ireland	379
999	William Shakespeare	Playwright, Actor	Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth	1564-1616	England
999	William Wordsworth	Poetry	works	1770-1850	England	376
999	Wumen Huikai	Buddhism, Zen	The Blue Clif Records, The Gateless Gate	1183-1260	China	005	The Great Way has no gate, / A thousand roads enter it. / When one passes through this gateless gate, / He freely walks between heaven and earth.
999	Sakai Yamei	Poetry	w	1662?-1713	Japan
999	Yannai	Judaism, Poetry	w	600?	Palestine
999	Yeshe Tsogyal	Buddhism, Tibetan		0800?	Tibet		The Supreme Being is the Dakini Queen of the Lake of Awareness! I have vanished into fields of lotus-light, the plenum of dynamic space, To be born in the inner sanctum of an immaculate lotus; Do not despair, have faith! When you have withdrawn attachment to this rocky defile, This barbaric Tibet, full of war and strife, Abandon unnecessary activity and rely on solitude. Practice energy control, purify your psychic nerves and seed-essence, And cultivate mahamudra and Dsokchen. ... ~ The Supreme Being is the Dakini Queen of the Lake of Awareness!
999	Yosa Buson	Poetry, Painting	w	1716-1784	Japan	012	In a bitter wind a solitary monk bends to words cut in stone
999	Yose ben Yose	Judaism		0500?	Israel/Palestine
999	Yuan Mei	Painting		1716-1798	China, Hangzhou		A month alone behind closed doors forgotten books, remembered, clear again. Poems come, like water to the pool Welling, up and out, from perfect silence
999	Abraham Maslow	Psychology	W1	1908-1970	B1	#1	The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit? /// Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.
999	Alan Perlis	Computer Science	W1	1922-1990	United States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh	#1	We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. /// A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God
999	Albert Bandura	Psychology	W1	1925-	B1	#1	Q1
999	Albert_Camus	Philosophy, Existentialism	W1	1913-1960	B1	#1	The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind. /// Charm is getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
999	Alfred Korzybski	Linguistics	W1	1879-1950	B1	#1	The map is not the territory
999	Alfred North Whitehead	Philosophy, Mathematics	W1	1861-1947	B1	#1	Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. /// here are no whole truths, all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
999	Carl Jung	Psychology, Mysticism, Mythology	W1	1875-1961	B1	#1	Called or not, God is always there. /// The image of God throws a shadow that is just as great as itself.
999	Fyodor Dostoevsky	Philosophy, Existentialism	Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov	1821-?	B1	#1	Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing. /// Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
999	Guru Rinpoche	Buddhism, Tibetan	W1	D1	B1	#1	Q1
999	Meister Eckhart	Christianity, Mysticism	W1	1260-1328	B1	#1	God is greater than God. /// God is all and all is God. /// God is at home. We are in the far country.
999	Plato	Philosophy	W1	-428-348	B1	#1	Q1
999	Pythagoras	Philosophy, Mathematics, Mysticism	W1	-570-495 BC	B1	#1	No one is free that has not obtained the empire of their self. /// You will be an immortal God, deathless, no longer mortal.
999	Rabbi Isaac Luria - ARIZaL "the Lion"	Judaism, Kabbalah, Luranic	W1	1534-1572	Jerusalem	#1	Q1
999	Rabbi Moses Cordovero	Judaism, Kabbalah	W1	1522-1570	B1	#1	Q1
999	Rabbi Moses Luzzatto - RaMCHaL	Judaism, Kabbalah	W1	1707-1746	B1	#1	This world is like the shore and the World to Come like the ocean
999	Tsongkhapa - the Man from Onion Valley	Buddhism, Tibetan	W1	1357-1419	B1	#1	Q1
999	Zhuangzi / Zhuang Zhou	S1	W1	-369-286 BC	B1	#1	Q1
999	Isaac Newton	Science, Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy	W1	1642-1726	B1	#1
999	Ptolemy	Science, Mathematics, Astro, Geo	W1	100-170 AD	B1	#1	Q1
999	Euclid	Science, Mathematics	W1	-435-365 BC	B1	#1	Q1
999	Leonardo da Vinci	Science, Art	W1	1452-1519	Republic of Florence, Vinci	#1	Q1
999	Archimedes	Science, Math, Phy, Eng, Inv, Astro	W1	-287-212 BC	B1	#1	Q1
999	Paracelsus	Alchemist, Physician	W1	1493-1541	B1	#1	Q1
999	Aristotle	Philosophy, Science	W1	-384-322 BC	B1	#1	Q1
999	Plotinus	Philosophy, Christianity	W1	204-270	B1	#1	Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sunlike /// Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
999	Saint Thomas Aquinas	Christianity, Philosophy	W1	1225-1274	B1	#1	Q1
999	Johannes Kepler	Science, Mathematics, Astronomy, Astrology	W1	1571-1630	B1	#1	When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships. /// I too play with symbols... but I play in such a way that I do not forget that I am playing. For nothing is proved by symbols... unless by sure reasons it can be demonstrated that they are not merely symbolic but are descriptions of the ways in which the two things are connected and of the causes of this connection.
999	Socrates	Philosophy	W1	-470-399 BC	B1	#1	Q1
999	Epicurus	Philosophy, Mysticism	W1	-341-270 BC	B1	#1	The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
999	Alan Turing	Computer Science, Math, Log, Cryptanalysis, Philosophy, Biology	W1	1912-1954	B1	#1	Q1
999	Soren Kierkegaard	Philosophy, Theology, Poetry, Social Critic	W1	1813-1855	B1	#1	It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. /// There's nothing more fragrant, more sparkling, more intoxicating than the infinity of possibilities
999	Democritus	Philosophy	W1	-460-370 BC	B1	#1	Q1
999	Hypatia	Philosophy, Astro, Math	W1	350?-450	B1	#1	Q1
999	Maimonides	Judaism, Sephardic, Philosophy	W1	D1	B1	#1	In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction. /// God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.
999	Lao Tzu	S1	W1	-600? BC	B1	#1	A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. /// We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.

AUTHOR

SUBJECT

WORKS

DOB

BIRTHPLACE

BCQ#

QUOTE

001

Sri Aurobindo

Integral Yoga, Hinduism, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology

Savitri, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Life Divine, Collected Works

1872-1950

India, West Bengal, Kolkata

106

But still the invisible Magnet drew his soul ~ Savitri, The World-Stair

002

The Mother

Integral Yoga, Occultism, Buddhism

The Mothers Agenda, WOTM, Q+A

1878-1973

France, Paris

cnt

The Divine Consciousness must be our only guide. ~ Words Of The Mother II

003

Sri Ramakrishna

Hinduism, Philosophy, Mysticism

The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

1836-1886

India, West Bengal

Many are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

004

Ken Wilber

Integral Theory, Philosophy

Sex Ecology Spirituality

1949-

United States, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City

cnt

Growth is hard, regression is easy /// An integral approach acknowledges that all views have a degree of truth. /// The subject of one stage becomes the object of the subject of the next stage.

005

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Hinduism

Who am I?

1879-1950

India, Tamil Nadu

Sorrow makes one think of God. ~ Conscious Immortality /// All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.

006

Aleister Crowley

Occultism

Liber ABA, Poems

1875-1947

England

036

That first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable. ~ Liber ABA

007

Saint Teresa of Avila

Christianity

The Interior Castle

1515-1582

The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.

008

Jordan Peterson

Psychology, Philosophy, Nonfiction

Maps of Meaning

1962

Canada, Alberta, Fairview

cnt

You want to have a meaningful life? Everything you do matters. That's the definition of a meaningful life. But everything you do matters. You're going to have to carry that with you.

009

Jorge Luis Borges

Philosophy, Poetry

The Library of Babel, the Garden of Forking Paths, Poems

1899-1986

Argentina

042

Ts'ui Pe must have said once: I am withdrawing to write a book. And another time: I am withdrawing to construct a labyrinth. Every one imagined two works; to no one did it occur that the book and the maze were one and the same thing.

010

Peter J Carroll

Occultism, Chaos Magick

Liber Null

1953-

England, Patching

cnt

The selfs must allow each self a shot at its goals in life, if you wish to achieve any sense of fulfillment and remain sane. ~ Psyber Magick

011

Jetsun Milarepa

Buddhism

Poems

1028-1111

Tibet

010

Deep in the wild mountains, is a strange marketplace, where you can trade the hassle and noise of everyday life, for eternal Light.

012

Epictetus

Philosophy, Stoicism

50-135 AD

Phygia, Hierapolis

cnt

Only the educated are free. /// Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it. /// First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

013

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophy

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

1844-1900

Germany

080

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

014

Heraclitus

Philosophy, Mysticism

-535 - 475 BC

Persian Empire, Ionia, Ephesus

cnt

Asses prefer garbage to gold. /// What was scattered, gathers. /// A fool is excited by every word. /// The seeing have the world in common. /// The path up and down is one and the same.

015

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science, Theology

Poems

1749-1832

Germany

120

We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.

016

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Christianity

The Future of Man, The Phenomenon of Man

1881-1955

France, Puy-de-Dome, Orcines

cnt

To see more is to become more. /// The consciousness of each of us is evolution looking at itself and reflecting upon itself.

017

Jalaluddin Rumi

Sufism

Poems

1207-1273

Afghanistan

133

What you seek is seeking you /// Let yourself become living poetry. /// I know you're tired but come, this is the way. /// Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.

018

Manly_P_Hall

Occultism

The Secret Teachings of All Ages

1901-1990

Canada, Ontario, Peterborough

Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments. /// I am a stranger amongst them. They cannot know my longings nor taste my sorrows. /// Critics have found fault with all the world's scriptures, but as yet they have discovered no useful substitutes.

019

Kabir

Sufism, Hinduism, Sikhism

Songs of Kabir

1500

India

101

All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.

020

Hafiz

Mysticism

Poems

1315-1390

Iran

049

A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth

021

Dogen Zenji

Buddhism, Zen

Poems

1200-1253

Japan

021

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

022

Ibn Arabi

Sufism, Mysticism, Philosophy

Poems

1165-1240

Spain

036

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

023

Nichiren

Buddhism

1222-1282

Japan, Chiba Prefecture

Winter always turns into spring. /// Faith Alone is what really matters. /// Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages. /// We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance.

024

Bodhidharma

Buddhism, Zen

Poems

500

010

Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, / and internally have no pantings in your heart; / when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, / you may enter into the Path.

999

Abu l-Husayn al-Nuri

Sufism, Poetry

840-908 CE

Baghdad

999

Abu-Said Abil-Kheir

Sufism, Poetry

967-1049

023

999

Aeschylus - an ancient Greek playwright, ... recognized as the father ... of tragedy.

Playwright, Soldier

Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Eumenides

-525-456 BC

Greece

Wisdom comes through suffering. / Trouble, with its memories of pain, / Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, / So men against their will / Learn to practice moderation. / Favours come to us from gods. ~ Aeschylus, Agamemnon

999

Alexander Pope

Translation

The Rape of the Lock

1688-1744

England

999

Alfred Tennyson

Poetry

1809-1892

England

999

Allama Muhammad Iqbal

Islam, Philosophy, Politics

1877-1938

Punjab

999

Aonghus of the Divinity

999

Baba Sheikh Farid

Sufism, Poetry

1173-1266

014

His grace may fall upon us at anytime, it has no rules, you see? Some don't get it after rituals, vigils: others asleep, it hits suddenly!

999

Basava

Hinduism, Philosophy, Politics

1200

India

999

Beni

Sikhism, Poetry

1300s?

999

Bernart de Ventadorn

Music

1135-1194

France

999

Boethius

Christianity

0480?-0525

Italy

999

Buckminster Fuller

Science, Philosophy

Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

1895-1983

United States, Massachusetts, Milton

001

999

Bulleh Shah

Sufism, Mysticism, Philosophy

1680-1757 CE

Punjab

021

Repeating the name of the Beloved / I have become the Beloved myself. / Whom shall I call the Beloved now?

999

Saint_Catherine of Siena

Christianity

1347-1380

Siena

999

Charles Baudelaire

1821-1867

France

999

Chiao Jan

Buddhism, Zen

730-799

China

999

Chone Lama Lodro Gyatso

Buddhism, Tibetan

In Praise of Dependent Origination

1816-1900

Tibet

999

Choshu Ueda

Poetry, Haiku

1853

Japan

Though it be broken- broken again - still it's there; the moon on the water.

999

Chuang Tzu

Taoism, Philosophy

Poems

-0369-0286 BC

China

006

Kung Wen Hsien saw Yo Shi and exclaimed: / What kind of person is this? / How come only one foot? / Is this ordained by Heaven, / Or caused by Man? / He then said to himself: / It is Heaven, not Man. / Heavens destiny let him be crippled. / The image of Man is given by Heaven. / Therefore we know this is the work of Heaven, not Man.

999

Dadu Dayal

Hinduism

1544-1603

India?

999

Dante Alighieri

Philosophy

The Divine Comedy

1265-1321

Italy

999

Saint_Dionysius the Areopagite

Christianity, Judiciary

0100?-0100? AD

Greece?

999

Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry

1809-1849

United States

077

999

Edward Young

Philosophy, Theology

1683-1765

England

999

Eleazar ben Kallir

Judaism, Poetry

570-640

999

Ernest Hemingway

1899-1961

United States

999

Farid ud-Din Attar

Sufism

1120?-1220?

Iran/Persia

024

When you begin the Valley of the Quest / Misfortunes will deprive you of all rest, / Each moment some new trouble terrifies, / And parrots there are panic-stricken flies. / There years must vanish while you strive and grieve; / There is the heart of all you will achieve -- / Renounce the world, your power and all you own, / And in your heart's blood journey on alone. / When once your hands are empty, then your heart / Must purify itself and move apart ... ~ The Valley of the Quest

999

Friedrich Schiller

Poetry, Philosophy, Fiction

Poems

1759-1805

Germany

165

999

Fukuda Chiyo-ni

1703-1775

Japan

012

At the crescent moon the silence enters my heart.

999

George Eliot

Translation

1819-1880

England

999

Gorakhnath

Hinduism

1100?

India?

999

Guru Nanak

Sikhism

1469-1539

Pakistan

Discipline is the workshop; patience, the goldsmith; the anvil, one's thinking; wisdom, the hammer; Fear, the bellows; austerities, the fire; and feeling, the vessel where the deathless liquid is poured. In such a true mint is forged the Word, and those on whom He looks do their rightful deeds. Nanak says: the One who sees, sees. He observes. ~ Discipline is the workshop

999

Hakim Sanai

Sufism

The Walled Garden of Truth

1080-1131

Ghazni

029

Take everything away and leave me alone with You. Close every door and open the one to You. ~ Take everything away

999

Hakuin Ekaku

Buddhism, Zen

1686-1769

Japan

The monkey is reaching For the moon in the water. Until death overtakes him He'll never give up. If he'd let go the branch and Disappear in the deep pool, The whole world would shine With dazzling pureness.

999

Han-shan

Buddhism, Zen, Taoism

Poems

0730?-0850?

China

004

999

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Sufism

1882-1927

India

God is the answer to every question. /// To be really sorry for one's errors is like opening the door of heaven. /// The aim of the Mystic is to stretch his range of Consciousness as widely as possible, so that he may touch the highest pride and the deepest humility.

999

Henry David Thoreau

Philosophy, Poetry

1817-1862

United States

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. /// Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

999

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Education

1807-1882

United States

999

Homer

Mythology

The Odyssey, The Illiad

-700? BCE

Greece

999

Horace

Poetry

-065-008 BC

Italy

999

Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia

Buddhism, Zen, Taoism

0665-0713

China

070

999

Hung-chih Cheng-chueh

Buddhism, Zen, Poetry

1091-1157

China, Xizhoue

999

Ibn Ata Illah

Sufism

1259 CE - 1310 CE

Alexandria

Those travelling to Him are guided by the light of turning their faces toward Him. Those who have arrived have the light of face-to-face encounter. The former belong to lights, but the lights belong to the latter because they belong to Allah, and are His alone. "Say: 'Allah' then leave them plunging in their games.

999

Ikkyu

Buddhism, Zen

1394-1481

Japan

013

1). inside the koan clear mind gashes the great darkness -- 2.) Only one koan matters you

999

Isaac of Stella

Christianity, Philosophy

1100-1170

England

999

Izumi Shikibu

Poetry

976?

Japan

Although the wind / blows terribly here, / the moonlight also leaks / between the roof planks / of this ruined house.

999

Jacopone da Todi

Christianity

1230-1306

Umbria

010

999

Jakushitsu Genko

Buddhism, Zen, Rinzai

1290-1367

Japan

To the branch's edge and the leaf's under surface be most attentive / Its pervasive aroma envelopes people far away / The realms of form and function can't contain it / Spring leaks profusely through the basket

999

James Joyce

Fiction

1882-1941

Ireland

... a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend. ~ Ulysses

999

Jayadeva

Hinduism

1170-1245

India, East

999

John Keats

Poetry

Hyperion, Poems

1795-1821

England

163

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

999

John Milton

Poetry

Paradise Lost

1608-1674

England

But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the Sense of human sight.

999

Judah Halevi

Judaism, Philosophy, Physician

1075-1141

Toledo

999

Jusammi Chikako

Buddhism, Zen, Chan

1400?

Japan

On this summer night All the household lies asleep, And in the doorway, For once open after dark, Stands the moon, brilliant, cloudless.

999

Kahlil Gibran

Mysticism

The Prophet

1883-1931

Lebanon

999

Karma Trinley Rinpoche

Buddhism, Tibetan

1931-

Tibet, Nangchen

999

Kelsang Gyatso

Buddhism, Tibetan

1931-

Tibet?

999

Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

Sufism, Poetry

1006-1088

Ghaznavid Empire, Khorasan, Herat

999

Kobayashi Issa

Poetry, Haiku

1763-1828

Japan

027

On a branch / floating downriver / a cricket, singing.

999

Kuan Han-Ching

Playwright

1241?-1320?

China?

999

Lalla

Mathematician, Astronomy, Astrology

720-790

India

038

Dance, Lalla, with nothing on but air: Sing, Lalla, wearing the sky. Look at this glowing day! What clothes could be so beautiful, or more sacred?

999

Levi Yitzchak of Berditchov

Judaism, Poetry

1740-1809

pob

999

Lewis Carroll

Mathematics, Fiction, Education

1832-1898

England

If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit to memory passages of Scripture, or passages from the best writers in verse or prose. Let him store his mind with these, as safeguards to repeat when he lies awake in some restless night, or when despairing imaginations, or gloomy, suicidal thoughts, beset him. Let these be to him the sword, turning everywhere to keep the way of the Garden of Life from the intrusion of profaner footsteps.

999

Li Bai

Poetry

Poems

0701-0762

China

127

999

Longchen Rabjampa

Buddhism, Tibetan

1308-1364

Tibet

999

Lord Byron

Politics

1788-1824

England

999

Lucretius

Philosophy

Of The Nature Of Things

-099-055 BC

Greece

033

999

Lu Tung Pin

Taoism

755-805

China

My heart is the clear water in the stony pond. Right now it is invaded by the peach-blossom shadows. As soon as I arrive at heaven's palaces I shall settle down with my seven-stringed lute. ~ My heart is the clear water in the stony pond

999

Mansur al-Hallaj

Sufism, Mysticism, Education

Poems

858-922

Iran/Persia

013

999

Marpa Lotsawa

Buddhism, Tibetan

1012-1097

Tibet

999

Mizuta Masahide

Poetry, Haiku, Samurai, Medicine

1657-1723

Japan

Since my house burned down / I now own a better view / of the rising moon

999

Masaoka Shiki

Poetry, Haiku

1867-1902

Japan

999

Matsuo Basho

Buddhism, Zen

Poems

1644-1694

Japan

066

How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.

999

Mechthild of Magdeburg

Christianity, Mysticism

1207-1282

009

999

Michael Maier

Alchemist, Physician

1568-1622

Germany

999

Miguel de Cervantes

Fiction

1547-1616

Spanish

999

Mirabai

Hinduism

1498-1573

India

020

999

Moses de Leon

Judaism, Kabbalah

1240-1305

Spain

999

Muso Soseki

Buddhism, Zen, Rinzai

1275-1351

Japan

012

Year after year I dug in the earth looking for the blue of heaven only to feel the pile of dirt choking me until once in the dead of night I tripped on a broken brick and kicked it into the air and saw that without a thought I had smashed the bones of the empty sky ~ Toki-no-Ge

999

Nachmanides

Judaism, Kabbalah, Philosophy, Physician

1194-1270

Girona

999

Naftali Bacharach

Judaism, Luranic Kabbalah, Poetry

1700?

Germany, Frankfurt

999

Namdev

Hinduism, Sikhism

1270-1350

India

999

Norbert Wiener

Cybernetics, Philosophy, Mathematics

Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

1894-1964

United States

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

999

Nozawa Boncho

Poetry, Haiku

1640-1714

Japan

Love. / So many different ways / to have been in love. / The maidservants / Trying to take a peep / Knock down the screen!

999

Nukata

Buddhism

638?-710?

Japan

While I wait for you, My lord, lost in this longing, Suddenly there comes A stirring of my window blind: The autumn wind is blowing.

999

Omar Khayyam

Polymath, Mathematician, Astronomer, Philosophy

1048-1131

Iran

081

999

Ovid

Poetry

Poetry, Mythology

-043-017 AD

Italy

014

999

Pablo Neruda

Poetry, Politics

1904-1973

Chile

999

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction

Ozymandias, Prometheus Unbound, Poems

1792-1822

England

335

And on the pedestal these words appear / "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" / Nothing beside remains. Round the decay / Of that collossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away ~ Ozymandias

999

Pindar

History

-0518-0438 BC

Greece

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.

999

Pipa

Sikhism, Poetry

1425

India, Malwa region

999

Po Chu-i

Poltics

0772-0846

China

my lute set aside on the little table lazily I meditate on cherishing feelings the reason I don't bother to strum and pluck? there's a breeze over the strings and it plays itself

999

Rabbi Abraham Abulafia

Philosophy, Poetry

Light of the Intellect

1240-1291

Spain, Zaragoza

999

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

Judaism

1907-1972

Poland

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

999

Rabindranath Tagore

Mysticism, Philosophy

1861-1941

India

251

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.

999

Rainer Maria Rilke

Poetry

Poems

1875-1926

Austria-Hungary

117

999

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philosophy

Poems

1803-1882

United States

117

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairytale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

999

Ramananda

Hinduism

1300?-1400?

India

999

Ramprasad

Hinduism, Shaktism

1718? - 1775

India, Bengal

021

999

Ravidas

Hinduism

1450-1520

India, Varanasi

999

Robert Browning

Poetry

Poems

1812-1889

England

099

999

Ryuzan

Buddhism, Zen

1274-1358

Japan

999

Saadi

Sufism, Mysticism, Logic, Ethics

1210-1291

Shiraz

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.

999

Saigyo

Poetry

1118-1190

Japan, Kyoto

I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.

999

Saint Clare of Assisi

Christianity

1194-1253

Italy, Assisi

999

Saint Francis of Assisi

Christianity, Poetry

1181-1226

Holy Roman Empire, Ducy of Spoleto, Assisi

010

999

Saint Hildegard von Bingen

Christianity

1098-1179

Holy Roman Empire, County Palatine of the Rhine, Bermersheim vor der Hohe

014

999

Saint John of the Cross

Christianity

works

1542-1591

999

Saint Therese of Lisieux - The Little Flower of Jesus

Christianity

1873-1897

France, Orne, Alencon

999

Saisei Muro

Literature

1889-1962

Japan, Ishikawa

Born into the womb ::: Born into the womb of a HIPPU (a woman in a very low social position who is considered stupid and worthless) on a summer's day

999

Santoka Taneda

Poetry

1882-1940

Japan

I have no home / autumn deepens

999

Sappho

Poetry

-0630?-0570? BC

Greece

You are, I think, an evening star, the fairest of all the stars.

999

Saraha

Buddhism, Tibetan

0800?

India?, East?

999

Sarmad

Sufism

?-1659

Iran

012

Along the road, you were my companion Seeking the path, you were my guide No matter to whom I spoke, it was you who answered When Sun called Moon to Sky, it was you who shined In the Night of aloneness, you were my comforter When I laughed, you were the smile on my lips When I cried, you were the tears on my face When I wrote, you were the verse When I sang, you were the song Rarely did my heart desire another lover Then when it did, you came to me in the other. ~ Companion

999

Saul Williams

Music

1972-

United States

999

Shankara

Hinduism, Advaita Vedanta

700 CE

India, Kochi

999

Shih-te

Buddhism

0900?

China?

999

Shiwu

Buddhism, Zen

1272-1352

China?

999

Solomon ibn Gabirol

Judaism, Philosophy

Fons Vitae

1021-1070

Malaga

016

999

Sophocles - was an ancient Greek tragedy playwright. ...

Playwright, Tragedy

Oedipus Rex, Anitgone

-496-406 BC

Greece

He has the thousand-yard stare.

999

Sun Buer

Taoism, Poetry

1119-1182 CE

China

999

Surdas

Hinduism

1478?-1579?

999

Swami Vivekananda

Hinduism

Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Jnana Yoga

1863-1902

India, West Bengal, Kolkata

We all have the right to ask for Grace /// My Child, What I want is Muscles of Iron and Nerves of Steel, inside which Dwells a Mind of the same Material as that of which the Thunderbolt is Made.

999

Symeon the New Theologian

Christianity, Catholism

0949-1022

Galatia

011

999

Taigu Ryokan

Buddhism, Zen

Poems

1758-1831

Japan

046

A magnificent temple towers to heaven by the Eternal Bridge. / Priests rival in its halls the sermons of rocks and streams. / I, for one, would gladly sacrifice my brows for my brethren, /But I fear I might aggravate the war, already rank as weeds.

999

Tao Chien

Buddhism, Taoism

0365-0427

China

999

Theophan the Recluse

Christianity

1815-1894

Russia

999

Thomas Carlyle

Mathematician, Philosophy

1795-1881

Scotland

999

Thomas Merton

Christianity, Mysticism, Theology

1915-1968

France

013

999

T S Eliot

Playwright

1888-1965

United States

999

Valmiki

Hinduism

Ramayana

-500 BCE

India

999

Victor Hugo

Novelist, Theatre, Philosophy

1802-1885

France

999

Vidyapati

1352-1448

India

999

Virgil

Mysticism, Philosophy

1683-1765

Roman

999

Voltaire

Philosophy

1694-1778

France

999

Vyasa

Hinduism

Vedas, Mahabharata, Puranas

999

Walt Whitman

Essay, Journalist

1819-1892

United States, New York

386

999

Wang Wei

Politics, Music, Paint

0699-0759

China

090

A traveler's thoughts in the night / Wander in a thousand miles of dreams.

999

William Blake

Mysticism, Philosophy

1757-1827

England

010

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. /// I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.

999

William Butler Yeats

Mysticism, Fiction, Literature

Poems

1865-1939

Ireland

379

999

William Shakespeare

Playwright, Actor

Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth

1564-1616

England

999

William Wordsworth

Poetry

works

1770-1850

England

376

999

Wumen Huikai

Buddhism, Zen

The Blue Clif Records, The Gateless Gate

1183-1260

China

005

The Great Way has no gate, / A thousand roads enter it. / When one passes through this gateless gate, / He freely walks between heaven and earth.

999

Sakai Yamei

Poetry

1662?-1713

Japan

999

Yannai

Judaism, Poetry

600?

Palestine

999

Yeshe Tsogyal

Buddhism, Tibetan

0800?

Tibet

The Supreme Being is the Dakini Queen of the Lake of Awareness! I have vanished into fields of lotus-light, the plenum of dynamic space, To be born in the inner sanctum of an immaculate lotus; Do not despair, have faith! When you have withdrawn attachment to this rocky defile, This barbaric Tibet, full of war and strife, Abandon unnecessary activity and rely on solitude. Practice energy control, purify your psychic nerves and seed-essence, And cultivate mahamudra and Dsokchen. ... ~ The Supreme Being is the Dakini Queen of the Lake of Awareness!

999

Yosa Buson

Poetry, Painting

1716-1784

Japan

012

In a bitter wind a solitary monk bends to words cut in stone

999

Yose ben Yose

Judaism

0500?

Israel/Palestine

999

Yuan Mei

Painting

1716-1798

China, Hangzhou

A month alone behind closed doors forgotten books, remembered, clear again. Poems come, like water to the pool Welling, up and out, from perfect silence

999

Abraham Maslow

Psychology

1908-1970

The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit? /// Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

999

Alan Perlis

Computer Science

1922-1990

United States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. /// A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God

999

Albert Bandura

Psychology

1925-

999

Albert_Camus

Philosophy, Existentialism

1913-1960

The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind. /// Charm is getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

999

Alfred Korzybski

Linguistics

1879-1950

The map is not the territory

999

Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy, Mathematics

1861-1947

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. /// here are no whole truths, all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

999

Carl Jung

Psychology, Mysticism, Mythology

1875-1961

Called or not, God is always there. /// The image of God throws a shadow that is just as great as itself.

999

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Philosophy, Existentialism

Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov

1821-?

Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing. /// Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

999

Guru Rinpoche

Buddhism, Tibetan

999

Meister Eckhart

Christianity, Mysticism

1260-1328

God is greater than God. /// God is all and all is God. /// God is at home. We are in the far country.

999

Plato

Philosophy

-428-348

999

Pythagoras

Philosophy, Mathematics, Mysticism

-570-495 BC

No one is free that has not obtained the empire of their self. /// You will be an immortal God, deathless, no longer mortal.

999

Rabbi Isaac Luria - ARIZaL "the Lion"

Judaism, Kabbalah, Luranic

1534-1572

Jerusalem

999

Rabbi Moses Cordovero

Judaism, Kabbalah

1522-1570

999

Rabbi Moses Luzzatto - RaMCHaL

Judaism, Kabbalah

1707-1746

This world is like the shore and the World to Come like the ocean

999

Tsongkhapa - the Man from Onion Valley

Buddhism, Tibetan

1357-1419

999

Zhuangzi / Zhuang Zhou

-369-286 BC

999

Isaac Newton

Science, Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy

1642-1726

999

Ptolemy

Science, Mathematics, Astro, Geo

100-170 AD

999

Euclid

Science, Mathematics

-435-365 BC

999

Leonardo da Vinci

Science, Art

1452-1519

Republic of Florence, Vinci

999

Archimedes

Science, Math, Phy, Eng, Inv, Astro

-287-212 BC

999

Paracelsus

Alchemist, Physician

1493-1541

999

Aristotle

Philosophy, Science

-384-322 BC

999

Plotinus

Philosophy, Christianity

204-270

Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sunlike /// Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.

999

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Christianity, Philosophy

1225-1274

999

Johannes Kepler

Science, Mathematics, Astronomy, Astrology

1571-1630

When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships. /// I too play with symbols... but I play in such a way that I do not forget that I am playing. For nothing is proved by symbols... unless by sure reasons it can be demonstrated that they are not merely symbolic but are descriptions of the ways in which the two things are connected and of the causes of this connection.

999

Socrates

Philosophy

-470-399 BC

999

Epicurus

Philosophy, Mysticism

-341-270 BC

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

999

Alan Turing

Computer Science, Math, Log, Cryptanalysis, Philosophy, Biology

1912-1954

999

Soren Kierkegaard

Philosophy, Theology, Poetry, Social Critic

1813-1855

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. /// There's nothing more fragrant, more sparkling, more intoxicating than the infinity of possibilities

999

Democritus

Philosophy

-460-370 BC

999

Hypatia

Philosophy, Astro, Math

350?-450

999

Maimonides

Judaism, Sephardic, Philosophy

In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction. /// God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.

999

Lao Tzu

-600? BC

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. /// We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.

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