Originally posted by Gauze:
[b]From Christianity
A brother in Scetis committed a fault. A council was called to
which abba Moses was invited, but he refused to go to it. Then the
priest sent someone to him, saying, "Come, for everyone is waiting
for you". So he got up and went. He took a leaking jug and filled
it with water and carried it with him. The others came out to meet
him and said, " what is this, father?" The old man said to them,
"My sins run out behind me, and I do not see them, and today I am
coming to judge the errors of another." When they heard that, they
said no more to the brother but forgave him.
A brother sinned and the priest ordered him to go out of the
church; abba Bessarion got up and went out with him, saying, "I,
too, am a sinner."
- The Paradise of the Desert Fathers, OrthodoxWiki
Who are the Desert
Fathers?
The phrase "desert fathers" encompasses an influential fourth
century group of hermits and cenobites who settled in the Egyptian
desert. The origins of Western monasticism lie in these primitive
hermitages and religious communities. Paul of Thebes is the first
hermit recorded to...
From Buddhism:
Yamaoka Tesshu, as a young student of Zen, visited one master after
another. He called upon Dokuon of Shokoku.
Desiring to show his attainment, he said: "The mind, Buddha, and
sentient beings, after all, do not exist. The true nature of
phenomena is emptiness. There is no relaization, no delusion, no
sage, no mediocrity. There is no giving and nothing to be
received."
Dokuon, who was smoking quietly, said nothing. Suddenly he whacked
Yamaoka with his bamboo pipe. This made the youth quite
angry.
"If nothing exists," inquired Dokuon, "where did this anger come
from?"
- Zen Wisdom archives of ThePlumButtChronicles
[b]From Islam:
God has declared: I am close to the thought that My servant has of
Me, and I am with him whenever he recollects Me. If he remembers Me
in himself, I remember him in Myself, and if he remembers Me in a
gathering, I remember him better than those in the gathering do,
and if he approaches Me by as much as one hands length, I approach
him by a cubit, and if he approaches Me by a cubit, I approach him
by two hands length. If he takes
a step towards Me, I run towards him.
- Hadith Qudsi[/b]
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it enlightened me alot. hah
