there is a small space

 

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All reality is consciousness.

And the same consciousness is the life of all: thus we have the explanation for both the sanctity and the unity of life.

As far, verily, as this world-space extends, so far extends the space within the heart. 

Within it, indeed, are contained both heaven and earth, both fire and wind, both sun and moon, lightning and the stars, both what one possesses here and what one does not possess; everything here is contained within it.


—Chhandogya Upanishad 8.1.3

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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. 

The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all your experience to highest advantage to others.  

Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

—Buckminster Fuller

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There is a beautiful expression [...] in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa).'

Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood. This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found.


—Bede Griffiths

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