"To return to the root is to find the meaning, but to pursue appearances is to miss the source. At the moment of inner enlightenment there is a going beyond appearance and emptiness. The changes that appear to occur in the empty world...... we call real only because of our ignorance. Do not search for the truth; only cease to hold opinions. Do not remain in the dualistic state; avoid such pursuits carefully. If there is a trace of this and that, the right and wrong,  we  will be lost in confusion. 
When mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend..... it ceases to exist in the  way."

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Why are you knocking at every door? 

Go, knock at the door of your own heart.

~Rumi~
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"There are no perfect relationships.  It’s how you accept the imperfections......that make it perfect ."

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"In your total alonness, who are you? A sinner or a saint? A very very famous person,  or just a nobody? You are neither. 

You are neither a very very important person nor a nobody, because for both...... the other is a must. The eyes of others are needed to reflect your personality. You are neither this nor that. You are.... but you are in your reality.  

You are not created by others. You are as you are..." (OSHO)

"If you want to know something, 

go elsewhere. 

If you want to un-know everything,

then sit and listen." - Adya _
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"The illusion that others are better, stronger, or wiser than you are - ---

with it's painful self doubt and insecurity ----

is born of the false perception that you are here on earth to be like someone else."

Guy Finley

I love my friends neither with
my heart nor with my mind.
Just in case heart might stop.... Mind can forget.
I love them with my soul.
Soul never stops or forget...
Rumi 

"The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or against. The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind."
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"Become the in-dweller"

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"Losing an illusion
makes you wiser
than finding a truth."

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