Cosmic Consciousness
I had spent the evening in a great city, with two friends, reading and discussing poetry and philosophy. We parted at midnight. I had a long drive in a hansom to my lodging. My mind, deeply under the influence of the ideas, images, and emotions called up by the reading and talk, was calm and peaceful. [More]

The Four Immeasurables
How wonderful it would be if all sentient beings were to abide in equanimity,
Free of hatred and attachment!
May they abide in equanimity!
I myself will cause them to abide in equanimity!
Please, guru-Buddha, grant me blessings to be able to do this. [More]

Believe Not In Astrologers
Believe not in astrologers
Who tell fortunes by the stars,
Nor in dark-eyed women in black silk robes
Who turn the Tarot cards. [More]

The Beautiful Names of Allah
    Call upon Allâh or call upon Rahmân:
by whatever name ye call upon Him (it is well):
  for to Him belong the Most Beautiful Names.
        Qur'ân 17:110, tr Yusuf Ali [More]

The Unmoved Mover
There is, then, something which is always moved with an unceasing motion, which is motion in a circle; and this is plain not in theory only but in fact. Therefore the first heaven must be eternal. There is therefore also something which moves it.[More]

In search of the Supreme Good
After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness. [More]