The Great Silence or Mystical Union

a) 'But thought's the slave of life,
And life time's fool;
And Time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop.'
Shakespeare: from Hotspur's dying solilique in I Henry IV,V,4,83.

b) 'As a lamp in a place sheltered from the wind does not flicker,
Even so is the mind in union with God.'
Krishna (Bhagavad Gita VI:19)

c) 'Monks, There is a domain where there is neither solid nor fluid,
Neither heat nor movement, neither sun nor moon.
Monks, I call that neither a coming nor a going,
Nor a stopping, nor a being born nor a dying.
It is without any foundation, without development, without foothold:
That is what the end of suffering is.'
Buddha (Pali Canon, Udana VIII:3)

d) 'Be lost altogether in Brahman like an arrow that has completely penetrated its target.'
Upanishads

e) 'This consciousness of the One comes not by knowledge, but by an actual Presence superior to any knowing.'
Plotinus

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