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Look deep into the recesses of your being, and identify everything you think makes you, you.
Traverse all your mind’s pathways, and locate every desire and thought. Summon every opinion and belief, every interest and passion, and interrogate each and every one, relentlessly.
Ask them where they came from, and who planted them. Ask them if... See more
The Pursuit
I've read that over the entrance to the Greek mysteries where the words are written, "Know thy Self" which is really your teaching.
Well this teaching is neither Greek, nor Hebrew, nor Christian, nor Hindu, it is just a universal message of the truth, that's as ancient as the hills, it's nothing new. Only it works, something happens to lift us up ab
... See moreKnow thyself.
One old koan tells the story of a student who asks his teacher for permission to leave the monastery. “Where do you want to go?” the teacher asks. “Around on pilgrimage,” replies the student. The teacher presses him, “What is the purpose of a pilgrimage?” After all, doesn’t practice teach us that everything we’re looking for is already right here?
... See moreBarry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
As the great mystic Saint John of the Cross said, “In order to come to the knowledge you have not, you must go by a way in which you know not.” I love this quote. It’s entirely paradoxical.
Adyashanti • Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering
One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing. Socrates
Jed McKenna • Spiritual Warfare (The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 3)
Know thyself.