For those who would see directly into essential nature, the idea of the sacred is a delusion and an obstruction: it diverts us from seeing what is before our eyes: plain thusness. And This, thusness, is the nature of the nature of nature. The wild in the wild
Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveller.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Whenever you are offended, it’s usually because your self-image has not been worshiped or it has been momentarily exposed. The false self will quickly react with a vengeance to any offenses against it because all it has is its own fragile assumptions about itself. Don’t waste much time defending your ego. The True Self is untouchable, or as Paul puts it “it takes no offense” (1 Corinthians 13:5). People who can live from their True Selves are genuinely happy.
Do not feel overwhelmed by the length of this journey.
All you ever need do is focus on one thing, what you are doing.
Stay on the path and put one foot in front of the other – that is all.
There is joy in the struggle.
It’s only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.
Ram Dass
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
Blaise Pascal
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