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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into an idea, then into more tangible action.
Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.
If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.
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The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one’s own mind and heart.
Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis.
Detachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be.
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No matter how simplified or complicated life gets, it can make us miserable or it can wake us up.
Stay a verb—don’t become a noun.
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. . . it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing.
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