We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
— Herman Hesse, Siddhartha Show more
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps. — Herman Hesse, Siddhartha Show more
If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat a
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People who think of life as being like climbing a mountain are treating their own existences as lines. As if there is a line that started the instant one came into this world, and that continues in all manner of curves of varying sizes until it arrives at the summit, and then at long last reaches its terminus, which is death. This conception, which
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“Many situations in life are similar to going on a hike: the view changes once you start walking.
You don’t need all the answers right now. New paths will reveal themselves if you have the courage to get started.”
You don’t need all the answers right now. New paths will reveal themselves if you have the courage to get started.”
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“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.”
The spiritual path also progresses in circles that create an ever-deepening spiral of growth: we dissolve images and learn new ways of being, then we go deeper and see the errors in the ways we now follow, and we dissolve those blockages. Facing a particular issue, we work something through only to circle around at a later time and face the same is
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“The journey goes down, not up.” She is saying that spiritual awakening is not like climbing up a mountain on our own and leaving others behind. We are letting go of our attachments, even to climbing the mountain.
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like climbing up the signpost instead of following the road.