Orphans of The Weaving Loom

Escher

After you died I could not hold a funeral,

And so my life became a funeral.

― Han Kang, Human Acts

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Everyone is God, but we do not see it unless we see God within ourselves.

If you first see God in yourself you will see him in the animals, birds, and rocks.

~ Papaji

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… Now if there is a light shining and I turn my back towards the light what I see in front of me is my shadow. So that’s samsara. The shadow. So if we turn around, if we turn towards the light we find we are translucent, the light is shining through us. Then you have a non-dual awakening.

So in meditation it’s very important not to try too hard. Enlightenment is not something you can get to make or buy. You have to relax into it because it’s already there.

~James Low

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Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we’ll reach a point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we’d do and become will never come to be — and that we’re ordinary.

— Mike Nichols

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… A mystic fire engulfed me across the horizon, all I could see were perspective…