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Reading Proust in the Gulag

What books do we turn to as we prepare to die?

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Anthroposophy , Pneumatophilosophy , Geochemistry , Gnosiology , Thumomancy , Microbiota , Philocaly

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“…in order to work psychologically, that is, in order to put the true wisdom into play, one needs to become a child, to become an infant, a baby, stripped of all theories.”

— Master Samael Aun Weor, from his book, “The Revolution of the Dialectic”

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“You are not a separate being. You are Being, and never separate. This is the Enlightenment, the happiness, in which all apparent things consist. It is the very Being of you. It’s a secret not because there’s anyone hiding anything. It’s been proclaimed by sages around the world for millennia. Rather, it’s a secret because enlightenment is often misunderstood to be a matter of personal achievement, like scoring the ultimate goal. But there’s no person there! There’s not even a “there” or a spatial location where a person can reside. There is no individualized or separate “you” or “me”; no goal, no task and no achievement. There are no things, and no gaps separating things.”

— Greg Goode, ‘The Enlightenment Secret’

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“The ignorant one dies while the one who understands is liberated. The mind must sing the ‘I am’ without words. Be liberated, if you think you have acquired knowledge and that is your achievement, then you are still far from Self-knowledge.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am Unborn (a collection of notes from his late talks)

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“The self is an ocean without a shore. Gazing upon it has no beginning or no end, in this world and the next.”

— Andalusian Sufi master, Ibn Arabi (1165-1240) (quoted by the artist Bill Viola)

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“It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.”

— UG Krishnamurti

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“Without a center, without an edge, The luminous expanse of awareness that encompasses all— This vivid, effulgent vastness: Natural, primordial presence. Without an inside, without an outside, Awareness arisen of itself, as wide as the sky, Beyond size, beyond direction, beyond limits— This utter naked openness: Space, inseparable from awareness.”

— lines from the Tibetan mystic poet Shabkar taken from The Life of Shabkar Trans. Matthieu Ricard, Suny Press, 2001 (1994)

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““I am not collecting my knowledge from letters and books, but I have it within my own self; because heaven and earth with all their inhabitants, and moreover, God Himself, is in man.””

— Jakob Böhme, Apology to Balthazar Tilken (ii, 297) (1621)

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“To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.”

— Clause 40 of the Magna Carta, signed 15 June, 1215

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“… life is good only when it is magical and musical, a perfect timing and consent, and when we do not anatomize it. You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor. The world is enigmatical, – everything said, and everything known or done, – and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand anything rightly. You must hear the bird’s song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs. Cannot we be a little abstemious and obedient ? Cannot we let the morning be ?”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Works and Days (1870)

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“Your very desire to formulate truth denies it, because it cannot be contained in words. Truth can be expressed only by the denial of the false — in action. For this you must see the false as false and reject it. Renunciation of the false is liberating and energizing. It lays open the road to perfection.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaja, I Am That (Bombay, 1973)

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“That which is entirely unlimited and unbounded is uncontainable, thus unlocatable. … It is not an “infinite being,” it is superlative to being. Not being any “thing”, it is never present in “part”—it has no parts. Nor can anything possibly have been apart from it: it is absolute, which means whole, complete and entire—unfragmentable, and unavoidable.”

— Robert Wolfe, Living Nonduality (Ojai, California, 2009)

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“The highest thing you can do is to stop thinking about yourself and your problems and be joyful, go out of your way to help others. Feed the hungry, visit the housebound. Forgive everyone, create peace. Use your gifts, your talents, to go out of your way to alleviate the suffering of others with a smile on your face. You can discern your true spiritual stature by your loving kindness…if the end result of illumination is love, compassion and humility, what if we were to do that now?”

— Robert Adams

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“Is it possible for the rose to say, “I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad”? Or is it possible for the lamp to say, “I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people”? Or can a tree say, “I’ll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad”? These are images of what love is about.”

— — Anthony De Mello, SJ, Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality (1992)