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As a metaphor, “to enter a stream” implies that one is no longer trapped in cycles of habitual behavior that lead nowhere but has been released from the grip of those habits to flow freely without impediment.
“Les plus grands crosseurs que j'ai rencontrés vous planteront leurs yeux dans les vôtres. Le regard qui fuit dit toujours plus de vérités que celui qui confronte.”
― La foi du braconnier
― La foi du braconnier
“Le penser humain est indissociablement lié à l'ingurgitation du temps. En quelque sorte, il s'étrangle en permanence avec. ll projette sa souffrance dans l'avenir. De cette manière, il crée le désespoir.”
― Primeval and Other Times
― Primeval and Other Times
“Mais à l'état de veille, les humains veulent que la vie ait un sens car ils sont prisonniers du temps. Les animaux rêvent en permanence. Pour eux, le réveil de ce rêve, c'est la mort.”
― Primeval and Other Times
― Primeval and Other Times
“Samadhi is holding onto the Reality while witnessing the world, without reacting to it from within—the stillness of a waveless ocean…. Consciousness which is Absolute and unaffected: that is samadhi…. Sages say that the state of equilibrium which is devoid of the ego is samadhi.”
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“That which is, is peace. All that we need to do is keep quiet: peace is our true nature.”
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