“There is something about the movement, the Order, and even about me that is not easily definable. There is a touch of something that cannot be buttoned down, something that cannot in the end be defined. Everyone will need to take care of that rather mysterious, indefinable spirit that gives the movement life and energy.”  

Sangharakshita, What is the Western Buddhist Order?

‘I saw Eternity the other night
Like a great Ring of pure and endless light,
All calm as it was bright.’

Henry Vaughan, The World

‘Stand still, O Time, that I may see,
Beyond your flow, Eternity;
Then flow again, that I may bring
Eternity within your ring,
And, bringing it, endow my days
With cause to wonder and to praise.’

Sangharakshita, Time and Eternity
 

“There is something about the movement, the Order, and even about me that is not easily definable. There is a touch of something that cannot be buttoned down, something that cannot in the end be defined. Everyone will need to take care of that rather mysterious, indefinable spirit that gives the movement life and energy.”  

Sangharakshita, What is the Western Buddhist Order?