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“I could illustrate the second approach with the image of a nut that one must open. The first parable that came to my mind earlier, is immersing the nut in an emollient, perhaps water, and rubbing it occasionally, so that the water penetrates better, and we let time do its work. The shell softens over the course of weeks or months; when the time is ready, a little pressure from the hand suffices, and the nut opens up like that of a ripe avocado! Or even better, one lets the nut mature under the sun and under the rain and maybe even under the winter frosts. When the time is ripe a delicate sapling will emerge from the substantial flesh that will have pierced the shell, as if playing - or to put it better, the shell will have opened on its own, to let it pass.”
― Alexandre Grothendieck

“One common mistake is to think that one reality is THE reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.”
― Mother Meera, Answers, Part I

“Anything you are going through right now has probably already happened to a nun living several hundred years ago”
― Ana Garriga, Convent Wisdom: How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life

“That sea of bliss in which the seeker drowns himself,
And that wonderful cause which forever makes it disappear,
The ignorance which makes the physical world appear,
Is the divine and perennial concept that we ourselves are Brahman.”
― Joshua Norager, Advaita in translation 8 - the Raft of Awareness or Vijnananauka by Adi Shankara