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Is This a Trap?
I would like to ask a question which may lead us to something: what will make humanity change, deeply, fundamentally, radically?…
What will make a human being leave the way they are going, and move in a totally different direction? I think that is one of our great problems, don’t you? Why? If one is concerned, as one must be, with humanity, with all the things that are going on, what would be the right action to move humanity out of one direction to another? Is this question valid? Has it any significance?
— J. Krishnamurti
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We’re already in the presence of God. What’s absent is awareness.
— Richard Rohr
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What you seek is so near you that there is no place for ‘a way.’
— Nisargadatta
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Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos. He is no longer involved in nature and has lost his emotional participation in natural events, which hitherto had a symbolic meaning for him. Thunder is no longer the voice of a god, nor is lightning his avenging missile. No river contains a spirit, no tree means a man’s life, no snake is the embodiment of wisdom and no mountain still harbours a great demon. Neither do things speak to him nor can he speak to things, like stones, springs, plants and animals.
