Parallels
Passages from different traditions that say the same thing in their own ways. Each is set beside the others, with a note on where they meet and where they part.
- The search turned inward
What is sought abroad is found within.
- Work without claim
The work is done, and nothing is claimed for it.
- The empty vessel
What is empty is what can be used, and filled.
- One life in many forms
The many are one, seen rightly.
- Change and return
All things change; the wise watch how.
- Death as a guest
The end of life met without dread.
- The transparent eye
The one who sees is lost in what is seen.
- The ladder of love
Love rises from lesser things and rests only in the highest.
- The practice of dying
The wise prepare for death every day.
- What words cannot hold
The one who knows says least.
- Learning and the good life
Learning is not the same as knowing.
- The voice awaited
The soul waits, listening, for God to speak.
- One reason in all
The mind in each belongs to a mind in all.
- The retreat
Withdrawal, and what it is for.
- The guest within
God is found within the soul.