Escaping From The World
one’s own insubstantiality and the increasing edge and energy presented by life, all within the universal realm of nonexistence and the sacredness of what is. As one progresses along the path, the unworkability of samsaric states of mind and samsaric pursuits closes in like a circle of fire drawing ever nearer. Opportunities to surrender to the sit
... See moreReginald A. Ray • Secret of the Vajra World
They remind us that we are all flitting through a lighted hall towards the great unknown,
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Flight from vain hope and pride
Thomas à Kempis • The Imitation of Christ: (Original translation as heard on the Hallow App)
Upanishad shows that the only hell is absence of knowledge. As long as man is overpowered by the darkness of ignorance, he is the slave of Nature and must accept whatever comes as the fruit of his thoughts and deeds. When he strays into the path of unreality, the Sages declare that he destroys himself; because he who clings to the perishable body a
... See moreSwami Paramananda • The Upanishads
For those genuinely acquainted with grief, however—despair, poverty, calamity, disease, oppression, or bereavement—but who have no ivory tower to which to retreat, no material advantages to distract them from their suffering, and no hope for anything better in this world, something far stronger may be needed.