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"I was in a bookshop somewhere, that's how it all started".

Nigel Frank Adamson  

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching 

  "Returning is the movement of the Way." 

"Gospel of Thomas"

If you give birth to what's within you, what you have within you will save you. If you don't have that within [you], what you don't have within you [will] kill you.

Jesus

Extract from "The Wasteland"

IV. Death by Water

Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,

Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell

And the profit and loss.

A current under sea

Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell

He passed the stages of his age and youth Entering the whirlpool.

Gentile or Jew

O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,

Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

 T.S.Eliot

Tao Te Ching

The Tao that can be told

is not the eternal Tao

The name that can be named

is not the eternal Name.

Lao Tzu

The Inexpressible One

The One cannot be seen

For no one can envision it

The One is eternal

For it exists forever

The One is inconceivable 

For no one can comprehend it

The One is indescribable

For no one can put any words to it.

Apocryphon of John

 Extract from "Little Gidding" 

If you came this way, 

Taking any route, starting from anywhere,

At any time or at any season, 

It would always be the same: you would have to put off 

Sense and notion. You are not here to verify,

Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity 

Or carry report. You are here to kneel 

Where prayer has been valid.

 T.S.Eliot

"Zhuangzi"

What I call perfection of hearing is not hearing others, but oneself. What I call perfection of vision is not seeing others, but oneself. For a man who sees not himself, but others, takes not possession of himself, but of others, thus taking what others should take and not what he himself should take. Instead of being himself, he in fact becomes some one else.

 Chuang Tzu

Extract from "Panthea"

And we two lovers shall not sit afar,

Critics of nature, but the joyous sea

Shall be our raiment, and the bearded star

Shoot arrows at our pleasure! We shall be

Part of the mighty universal whole,

And through all æons mix and mingle with the Kosmic Soul!

Oscar Wilde