The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it. —Nisargadatta Maharaj

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The appearance of water in a mirage persists after the fact that it is a mirage has dawned on us. So it is with the world. 

Though knowing it to be unreal, it continues to manifest - but we do not try to satisfy our thirst with the water of the mirage. 

As soon as one knows that it is a mirage, one gives it up as useless and does not run after it to get water.


—Ramana Maharshi

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A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. 

But in you is the presence that will be, when all the stars are dead.


—Rainer Maria Rilke

 

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listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go 

 ―E.E. Cummings

 

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