Seeing With Wonder

From Mountain Cabins

Nobody likes to let go of the ego- it is so precious to everyone.

However, once you have attained a state of egolessness, the world won’t disappear, as you may think it will.

The world will continue, but a change takes place within you.

Something is uncovered.

You start seeing everything with the wonder and innocence of a child.

~ Amma

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Sometimes you meet people who don’t have a great culture, or a great education, but who have great humanity and a good soul.

So much sensitivity and understanding flows in their behaviour.

All that makes them beautiful people.

I call them “people who know how to live.”

Then you meet educated, cultured, multi-graduate people who lack the sense of respect, education, humility.

I have no definition for these people.

I just know that if I had to choose between one and the other, I would always choose those that “know how to live”

~ Alda Merini

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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.