Religious Thought 218

People shed whole jugs of tears for wife and children. They swim in tears for money. But who weeps for God? Cry to Him with a real cry.

- Ramakrishna

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If you worship those worthy of worship, --Awakened Ones or their disciples-- who've transcended complications, lamentation, & grief, who are unendangered, fearless, unbound: there's no measure for reckoning that your merit's 'this much.'

- Dhammapada 13, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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When Moses conversed with God, he asked, "Lord, where shall I seek You?" God answered, "Among the brokenhearted." Moses continued, "But, Lord, no heart could be more despairing than mine." And God replied, "Then I am where you are."

- Abul-Fayd al-Misri, The Kashf al-Mahjub

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Let nothing upset you, Let nothing frighten you. Everything is changing; God alone is changeless. Patience attains the goal. Who has God lacks nothing; God alone fills all their needs.

- Theresa of Avila

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So follow the way of the good, and keep to the paths of the just.

- Proverbs 2:20

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