“Don't forget love;
it will bring all the madness you need
to unfurl yourself across the universe.”
Meera Bai Hindu mystic poet
Mīrābāī, in ” Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West”, p. 251
“If you forget yourself, you become the universe.”
As quoted in The Awakening Artist: Madness and Spiritual Awakening in Art by Patrick Howe
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Japanese Zen Buddhist master 1686–1769Related quotes
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1950s, Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
Context: I’ve seen people who discovered a great meaning in their jobs and they became so absorbed in that that they didn’t have time to become self-centered. They loved their job. And the great prayer that anyone could pray at that point is: “O God, help me to love my job as this individual loves his or hers. O God, help me to give my self to my work and to my job and to my allegiance as this individual does.” And this is the way out. And I think this is what [Ralph Waldo] Emerson meant when he said: “O, see how the masses of men worry themselves into nameless graves, while here and there, some great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.” And this becomes a point of balance when you can forget yourself into immortality. You’re not so absorbed in self, but you are absorbed in something beyond self.
Michael Moorcock book The War Hound and the World's Pain
Source: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 3 (p. 42)
Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) Korean religious leader
For Whom Are We Living http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/sunmyungmoonpre67/Sm570407.htm, (1957-04-07)
“Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.”
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author
Source: The Active Side of Infinity
