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Where there is a duality, there one sees another; there one sees, hears, touches or speaks to another 

But where everything has become just one's own self, then whereby and whom would one see, hear, touch, think of or speak to? 

Then whereby and whom would one understand?


—Brihadaranyaka Upabishad (2.4.14)

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The beginning of the spiritual journey is the realization - not just the information, but the real interior conviction - that there is a higher power, or God. I would make it as easy as possible for everyone, that there is an Other - capital “O”. 

Second step, is to try and become the Other - capital “O”.

And finally, the realization that there is no other.

—Father Thomas Keating

 

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