Sayings
Quotes
A few words, then you sit. These are short sayings from rooms already on this map — not a reprint of anyone’s book. Credit stays with the tradition, the translator, and the publisher. If a line is a familiar paraphrase, we say so.
Today’s quote · Day 259
Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds.
A beginner’s sentence: seeking is not a weekend. Credit stays with the Nag Hammadi text on the Gnosis Archive.
Gospel of Thomas, Lambdin (Gnosis Archive) (opens in a new tab)
The same saying sits beside today’s reading. It returns with the civil year — a ritual, not a streak.
More sayings
Browse when you want another sitting. Each line is brief on purpose. Follow the credit if the words want more room.
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A common English paraphrase of a Buddhist teaching on untying knots — especially the cloth-knot sequence in the Śūraṅgama (Shurangama) Sūtra, where the knots must be understood and loosened in order. The exact wording is not a verbatim sutra line. This phrasing was noticed while watching a public lecture; that video is how we found it, not a publisher that owns the saying.
Śūraṅgama Sūtra, cloth-knot teaching (CTTB translation) (opens in a new tab)
Heard via Lecture where this wording was noticed (opens in a new tab)
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Mind precedes all phenomena. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought.
A public-domain English rendering of the opening verse. Short, attributed, then back to the sutta.
Dhammapada, chapter 1 (Access to Insight) (opens in a new tab)
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A familiar English rendering of the Buddha’s last counsel to the sangha. Traditions translate the Pali slightly differently; the charge is the same: do not outsource the work.
Mahāparinibbāna Sutta (Access to Insight) (opens in a new tab)
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If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.
A short saying from the Nag Hammadi Gospel of Thomas, in Thomas O. Lambdin’s scholarly English. We quote a few words and send you to the archive for the rest.
Gospel of Thomas, Lambdin (Gnosis Archive) (opens in a new tab)
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Opening counsel of Thomas: the kingdom is not a later country. Read the saying in its home on the Gnosis Archive.
Gospel of Thomas, Lambdin (Gnosis Archive) (opens in a new tab)
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The kingdom of the father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it.
A short Nag Hammadi saying. The full logion, with its question about when the kingdom will come, lives on the Gnosis Archive.
Gospel of Thomas, Lambdin (Gnosis Archive) (opens in a new tab)
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Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there.
A short logion on presence in ordinary matter. Read it among its neighbors, not as a slogan peeled off the page.
Gospel of Thomas, Lambdin (Gnosis Archive) (opens in a new tab)
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Public-domain English. Some translations read “in your midst”; sit with the verse rather than a fight over prepositions.
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Public-domain Gospel English. On this map, “know” leans toward lived seeing, not a slogan.
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If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Public-domain Gospel English. A sentence about attention that many contemplative rooms still use.
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Public-domain psalm English. Stillness here is not emptiness for its own sake; it is how knowing arrives.
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An ancient Greek counsel, not a Gnostic invention. Practical Gnosis and classical texts both return to it; we keep the older credit.
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Truth did not come into the world naked, but it came in types and images.
A short Nag Hammadi line on why teaching uses symbols. The full passage lives on the Gnosis Archive; we do not reprint the tractate.
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A public-domain English rendering of a late-antique sentence that neighboring contemplative streams still keep close.
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A short, widely cited line from this stream’s psychology — ego dissolving in ordinary time, not a grim slogan. The books stay on Glorian; we do not republish them.
Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology (Glorian) (opens in a new tab)
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A short attributed counsel from the same stream as Glorian’s beginner lectures on self-observation. Read the teaching there.
Self-observation and self-remembering (Glorian) (opens in a new tab)
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To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind: this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
A public-domain rendering of a compact ethics verse. Yama and inner work on this site rhyme with it; they are not the same classroom.
Dhammapada, chapter 14 (Access to Insight) (opens in a new tab)
When the words have landed
One saying is enough for a sitting. The daily reading is the same clock, with a page to open on the publisher’s site.
The year will still be here tomorrow.