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Ancient and Inherited Things
In China we don’t consider a person really beautiful until we know them for a long time and then we know what lies behind their facade.
— Zhang Ziyi
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Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
~ Adyashanti
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No society wants you to become wise: it is against the investment of all societies…
~ Rajneesh
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The only thing you have to offer another human being is your own state of being.
~Ram Dass
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I find that somehow,
by shifting the focus of attention,
I become the very thing I look at,
and experience the kind of consciousness it has.
I become the inner witness of the thing.
I call this capacity of entering
other focal points of consciousness,
LOVE, you may give it any name you like.
