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Somewhere around the year 1310, a Latin author sat down to write a book about furnaces.
From Summa Perfectionis
Pick a shelf of spiritual books at random and you will find, somewhere in the first twenty pages, the same accusation: you are not actually awake.
From The Dhammapada
Two texts, separated by something like two millennia and with no documented line of transmission between them, open with the same move.
The Dhammapada is one of the most widely read Buddhist scriptures, and it has probably been abandoned by more readers than any other short classic.
From The Dhammapada
The Dhammapada is everywhere now. It fits in a pocket, loads free onto any e-reader, and turns up in bookstore poetry sections between Rumi and Mary Oliver.
From The Dhammapada
The quote is on the mug in your kitchen cupboard, or taped to a colleague's monitor, or sliding past in a presentation between two stock photos: "We are…
From The Dhammapada