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“Is there any fire without smoke?” he asked in the afternoon. He sat in the big chair, the light of the sunset from the open door on his face. “No,” I said. “And what is smoke?” “The impurities which are expelled because they cannot be consumed by the fire.” “Correct,” he nodded briefly.”
― Ram Das Batchelder, Rising in Love: My Wild and Crazy Ride to Here and Now, with Amma, the Hugging Saint

“The cure for suffering–which, as we have said, is the collision of consciousness with unconsciousness–is not to be submerged in unconsciousness, but to be raised to consciousness and to suffer more. The evil of suffering is cured by more suffering, by higher suffering. Do not take opium, but put salt and vinegar in the soul’s wound, for when you sleep and no longer feel the suffering, you are not. And to be, that is imperative. Do not then close your eyes to the agonizing Sphinx, but look her in the face and let her seize you in her mouth and crunch you with her hundred thousand poisonous teeth and swallow you. And when she has swallowed you, you will know the sweetness of the taste of suffering.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

“The magical worldview is this: As above, so below. As within, so without.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“This notion that we must wait and wait while we slowly progress out of enslavement into liberation, out of ignorance into knowledge, out of the present limitations into a future union with the Divine, is only true if we let it be so. But we need not. We can shift our identification from the ego to the Overself in our habitual thinking, in our daily reactions and attitudes, in our response to events and the world. We have thought our way into this unsatisfactory state; we can unthink our way out of it. By incessantly remembering what we really are, here and now at this very moment, we set ourselves free. Why wait for what already is?”
― Paul Brunton, Advanced Contemplation: The Peace Within You