This way of seeing and being can be difficult to envision for anyone unfamiliar with the territory. Even if one is a prodigy or genius in any field of endeavor it is invaluable to have a teacher (or teachers) who are a bit (or much) further down the path we want to walk, and who - knowing the territory - can provide guidance.
Quotes - especially, from people who have walked this pathless path - can convey meanings that might be obscure when presented through expository writing alone. For this reason, I have included the words of beings at a variety of levels of realization, and from a variety of cultures, in hopes that their words can transmit a taste of what the Buddha has called, "The One Taste" - the taste of liberation.
Additional quotes will follow in Part 4.
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Potent Quotes
"I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken..."
"Self-awareness gives us a vantage point or a perspective on reality that goes beyond the senses and the mind. It opens the possibility that other planes of consciousness are just as real as this physical plane that we have become habituated to. How do we know that? Perhaps we had an ineffable experience through a piece of music, literature, or took a psychedelic, or were out in nature, or were inspired by somebody more liberated and not so caught in the material world."
--- Ram Dass - American devotee of Neem Karoli Baba
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"This is why it is so difficult to explain the path to one who has not tried; he will see only his point of view, or rather the loss of his point of view. And yet, if we only knew how each loss of one's viewpoint is a progress and how life changes when one passes from the stage of closed truth to open truth: [This] truth, like life itself, is too great to be trapped by points of view because it embraces every point of view and sees the utility of each thing at every stage of an infinite development, a truth great enough to deny itself and pass endlessly into higher truth."
--- Sri Aurobindo - 20th century Indian sage
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To die to one story in order to be reborn to a larger one. Development involves giving up a smaller story in order to wake up to a larger story.
--- Jean Houston - contemporary psychologist
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half-awake. We are making use of only a small part of our mental and physical resources.
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