Beauty is Real

Anne Cotterill, (1933–2010)

You start dying slowly :

If you avoid to feel passion

And their turbulent emotions;

Those which make your eyes glisten

And your heart beat fast.

~ Pablo Neruda

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…If the human race were to vanish from the face of the earth save for one halfway talented child that had received no education, this child would rediscover the entire course of evolution, it would be capable of producing everything once more, gods and demons, paradises, commandments, the Old and New Testament.

― Hermann Hesse

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Recognizing the empty, nonexistent, insubstantial nature of the ego is meditation on absolute bodhicitta.

~Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

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… The ego must constantly create enemies, because it must continue to perpetuate the belief in separation because that is how it stays alive in your mind. It must make an enemy out of life, out of others, and even yourself — in short, it must continue to generate illusions and continue to attack those illusions– but, [as ACIM teaches]: ‘Nothing real can be threatened; nothing unreal exists.’ THIS is the foundation upon which peace is built.