Not needing to journey

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We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started… and know the place for the first time. 

T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

Salvation, if we can talk about it at all, is the end of ambition, which is when you become completely one with your experience. Knowledge becomes one with wisdom…. You realize that you never needed to make the journey at all, because the journey and the goal are there already. It’s not so much that you are achieving liberation, but it is more that you realize that liberation is right there and that you needn’t have sought for it.

Chögyam Trungpa, Transcending Madness: The Experience of the Six Bardos

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