ONE FAMILY PLAN
"I" and "Mine"
"He who has no thought of "I" and "mine" whatever towards his mind and body, he who grieves not for that which he has not, he is, indeed, called a bhikkhu." (Buddhism, Dhammapada 367)
"They are forever free who renounce all selfish desires and break away from the ego-cage of 'I,' 'me,' and 'mine' to be united with the Lord. Attain to this, and pass from death to immortality."(Hinduism, Bhagavad Gita 2.71)
"If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it." (Christianity, Mark 8.34-36)
"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life." (Christianity, John 12.24-25)
"O Son of Man! If you love Me, turn away from yourself; and if you seek My pleasure, regard not your own; that you may die in Me and I may eternally live in you." (Baha'i Faith, Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah, Arabic 7)
"The Man of the Way wins no fame, the highest virtue wins no gain, the Great Man has no self." (Taoism, Chuang Tzu 17)
"Torah abides only with him who regards himself as nothing."(Judaism, Talmud, Sota 21b)
"The pursuit of learning is to increase day after day. The pursuit of Tao is to decrease day after day. It is to decrease and further decrease until one reaches the point of taking no action. No action is undertaken, and yet nothing is left undone." (Taoism, Tao Te Ching 48)
"Would one die while living, thus crossing the ocean of existence."(Sikhism, Adi Granth, Suhi Chhant, M.5, p. 777)
"In the evening do not expect [to live till] morning, and in the morning do not expect evening. Prepare as long as you are in good health for sickness, and so long as you are alive for death." (Islam, Forty Hadith of an-Nawawi 40)
"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."(Christianity, Galatians 2.20)
