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The Test of a religion or philosophy
Is the number of things it can explain.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t be swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression. Rather say: “Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.”
—Epictetus

It is not difficult to see the reflections in the mirrors, but can you take hold of the moon in the water? … One moon shines in the water everywhere; all the reflected moons are just one moon… People who are ignorant… mistake the pointing finger for the moon.
—Master Yung-chia

The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a heav’n of hell and a Hell of Heav’n.
—John Milton