#thelongsearch

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The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.

Emily Dickinson

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The Lorences reside in a small dwelling in the California mountains. For years they have lived mostly in retreat from the world in order to free themselves to pursue a life of simplicity and inquiry. This is both a joyful and very difficult path, as all true paths are.

Innermost House http://innermosthouse.com/innermost-house/how-it-began/

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People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.

Richard Rohr

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...strive upwards unknowing

Pseudo-Denys

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Wherein lies the difference between enlightenment and insanity (or delusion, for want of a more polite term)? It is attachment. When you are attached to it even enlightenment becomes insanity. And when you leave go of it even delusion becomes enlightenment.

Norman Guberman (via mindnomind)

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The Long Search - Buddhism: Footprint of the Buddha (BBC 1977)

[mumeditation]

To describe myself in a scientific way, I must also describe my surroundings, which is a clumsy way of getting around to the realization that you are the entire universe.

Alan Watts

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In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi