This is how a human being can change:
There's a worm addicted to eating grape leaves.
Suddenly, he wakes up, call it Grace, whatever, something wakes him, and he's no longer a worm.
He's the entire vineyard, and the orchard too, the fruit, the trunks, a growing wisdom and joy
that doesn't need
to devour.
RUMI 'The Worm's Waking' Coleman Barks version
Indeed, when a group, a path, a teacher, a practice, or a community begin to see themselves as having 'the perfect way,' it is a sure sign that reality testing has been impaired.
Stephen Cope YOGA AND THE QUEST FOR THE TRUE SELF 'To the Mountaintop'
'Can I extend my awareness of my self and bring it to each and every part of my body without any variation This is what I mean by fullness in meditation.'
BKS Iyengar THE TREE OF YOGA 'the flower'
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint Exupery
An empty day without events.
And that is why
it grew immense
as space. And suddenly
happiness of being
entered me.
Anna Swir, Milosz and Nathan, trans. TALKING TO MY BODY 'Priceless Gifts'
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