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Katha Upanishad

Ashish • 2 cards

It is a kind of nightly death to leave behind the weight of bones and flesh, abandoning the storylines of our lives.

Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams

Sylvari

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You don’t escape from being human, even if you do get enlightened. You may think you do—you may enter into some exalted states, gain psychic powers, and attract followers who think you’re an avatar of the Divine. But that is just delusion.

Jay Michaelson • Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment

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Spandan Neogy • 7 cards

The return movement in a person’s life, the weakening or dissolution of form, whether through old age, illness, disability, loss, or some kind of personal tragedy, carries great potential for spiritual awakening—the dis-identification of consciousness from form.

Eckhart Tolle • A New Earth: The life-changing follow up to The Power of Now. ‘My No.1 guru will always be Eckhart Tolle’ Chris Evans

Goddess (here in reduced form as the serpent’s messenger, Eve) testified to the right of Man to come to the knowledge of the now forbidden Light.

Joseph Campbell • Goddesses

Genies

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Then you can cast off the flesh body through the death process, but without the trauma of dying. You release the light body from its fleshly cocoon. You put on the "robe of light." You no longer cast a shadow because you no longer have a shadow.