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"Ninguno de ellos me miraba y yo viajaba como un traicionero." p. 232

"Por caminos muy distintos he tenido siempre los mismos recuerdos. De día y de noche ellos corren por mi memoria como los ríos de un país. Algunas veces yo los contemplo; y otras veces ellos se desbordan." p. 234

"Ninguno de ellos me miraba y yo viajaba como un traicionero." p. 232

"Por caminos muy distintos he tenido siempre los mismos recuerdos. De día y de noche ellos corren por mi memoria como los ríos de un país. Algunas veces yo los contemplo; y otras veces ellos se desbordan." p. 234

"Ninguno de ellos me miraba y yo viajaba como un traicionero."

Nourish yourself on good wholesome food, good wholesome food. I'm not talking about actual food, I'm talking about sunsets, about nature, about a good movie, about a good book, about enjoyable work, about good company, and hopefully you will break your addictions to those other feelings.

And living doesn't mean working in government, or being a big businessman, or performing great act of charity. That isn't living. Living is to have dropped all the impediments and to live in the present moment with freshness. "The birds of the air...they never toil nor spin." That is living.

So love the thought of death, love it. Go back to it again and again. Think of the loveliness of that corpse, of that skeleton, of those bones crumbling till there's only a handful of dust. From there on, what a relief, what a relief. So you probably don't know what I'm talking about at this point; you're too frightened to think of it. But it's such a relief when you can look back on life from that perspective.

Life is for the gambler, it really is. That's what Jesus was saying. Are you ready to risk it? Do you know when you're ready to risk it? When you've discovered that, when you know that this thing that people call life is not really life. People mistakenly think that living is keeping the body alive. So love the thought of death, love it. Go back to it again and again.

So imagine your lying flat and your dead. Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything doesn't it? What's a lovely, lovely meditation. Do it every day if you have the time. It's unbelievable, but you'll come alive.

He calls it tasting and feeling the truth - not knowing it, but tasting and feeling it, getting a feel for it. When you get a feel for it you change. When you know it in your head, you don't.

The pleasures of the senses and the pleasures of the mind. Good reading, when you enjoy a good book. Or a really good discussion, or thinking. It's marvelous. Unfortunately, people have gone crazy, and they're getting more and more addicted because they do not know how to enjoy the lovely things of life. So they're going in for greater and greater artificial stimulants.

Unless definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

You were not allowed to enjoy the solid, nutritious food of life - namely, work, play, fun, laughter, the company of people, the pleasures of the senses and the mind. You were given a taste for the drug called approval, appreciation, attention.

If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.

That's way people are so tired, so weary. You and I were trying to be dissatisfied with ourselves. That's where the evil comes from psychologically. We're always dissatisfied, we're always discontented, we're always pushing. Go on, put out more effort, more and more effort. But there's always that conflict inside; there's very little understanding.

He said, "A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it." People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.

If you would die to the past, if you would die to every minute, you would be the person who is fully alive, because a fully alive person is one who is full of death. We're always dying to things. We're always shedding everything in order to be fully alive and to be resurrected at every moment.

When people say they really want to experience every moment, they're really talking awareness, except for that "wanting." You don't want to experience awareness; you do or you don't.

Some people see awareness as a high point, A plateau, beyond experiencing every moment as it is. That's making a goal out of awareness. But with true awareness there's nowhere to go, nothing to achieve. How do you get to this awareness? Through awareness.

An attachment destroys your capacity to love. What is love? Love his sensitivity, love this consciousness. To give you an example: I'm listening to a symphony, but if all I hear is the sound of the drums I don't hear the symphony. What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any person or thing.

Learn what it means to experience something fully, and drop it and move onto the next moment, uninfluenced by the previous one. You'd be traveling with such little baggage that you could pass through the eye of a needle. You'd know what eternal life is, because eternal life is now, in the timeless now. Only thus will you enter into eternal life.

No great merit in it if it's mechanical. The beauty of an action comes not from its having become a habit but from its sensitivity, consciousness, clarity of perception, and accuracy of response. I can say yes to one beggar and no to another.

If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.

What does it really matter? Provided you continue to be you aware, to live life from moment to moment. How marvelously it's described in those words in the Gospel:"look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns...Consider the lilies of the field... They neither toil nor spin." That's the real mystic speaking, the awakened person.

If you get yourself a new job or a new spouse or a new home or a new guru or a new spirituality, that does not change you. It's like imagining that you change your handwriting by changing your pen. Or that you change your capacity to think by changing your hat.

Do not suppress the desire, because then you would become lifeless. You'd be without energy and that would be terrible. But don't suppress desire, understand it. Understand it. Don't seek to fulfill desire so much as to understand desire. And don't just renounce the objects of your desire, understand them; see them in their true light. See them for what they are really worth.