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>In each atom a hundred suns are concealed... The core in the centre of the heart is small, Yet the Lord of both worlds will enter there.
Shabistarî


>All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
Kabîr

>If you cleave the heart of one drop of water
There will issue from it a hundred oceans.
Shabistarî

>‘O Arjuna, I am in the expanse of the Heart,’ says Śrî Krishna. ‘He who is in the Sun, is also in this man,’ says a mantra in the Upanishads. ‘The Kingdom of God is within,’ says the Bible. All are thus agreed that God is within. What is to be brought down? From where? Who is to bring what, and why?

>Realization is only the removal of obstacles to the recognition of the eternal, immanent Reality. Reality is. It need not be taken from place to place.
Sri Ramana Maharshi

>He who knows Brahma as the real (satya), as knowledge (jñâna), as the infinite (ananta),
Set down in the secret place (of the heart) and in the highest heaven,
He obtains all desires,
Together with the intelligent Brahma.
Taittirîya Upanishad, II. 1

>As soon as one particle of dust is raised, the great earth manifests itself there in its entirety. In one lion are revealed millions of lions, and in millions of lions is revealed one lion. Thousands and thousands of them there are indeed, but know ye just one, one only.
Jimyo

>Man’s heart is the central point
And heaven the circumference.
Shabistarî

>The Buddhas in the numberless Buddhist kingdoms
Are nothing other than the one Buddha in the center of our soul.
Kôbô Daishi

>Find Buddha in your own heart, whose essential nature is the Buddha himself.
Eisai

>I thought that I had arrived at the very Throne of God and I said to it: ‘O Throne, they tell us that God rests upon thee.’ ‘O Bâyazîd,’ replied the Throne, ‘we are told here that He dwells in a humble heart.’
Bâyazîd al-Bisṭâmî

>The kingdom (Law) of the Buddha is not far away, but within us; eternal truth (Shinnyo) can not be seen outside ourselves. Search, and you will find it. Believe, and you will soon be free from illusion. Practise, and you will at once realize the truth. Alas! for the foolish who deny this certainty! Woe to them who are too ‘drunken and mad’ to listen to the living sermon of nature!
Kôbô Daishi