Wei Wu Wei Quotes

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• It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.
• In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt.
• The only real service we can render to that which we perceive and interpret in phenomenal existence as 'others' is by awakening to universal consciousness…
• We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one.
• Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as systems to be followed. They merely contribute to understanding. They should be for us a…
• Realisation is a matter of becoming conscious of that which is already realised.
• All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.
• There is no mystery whatever — only inability to perceive the obvious.
• Worshiping the teapot instead of drinking the tea.
• What do you have to do? Pack your bags, Go to the station without them, Catch the train, And leave your self behind.
• A man who is seeking for realization is not only going around searching for his spectacles without realizing that they are on his nose all…
• I AM Here Now As This
• The seeing of Truth cannot be dualistic (a 'thing' seen). It cannot be seen by a see-er, or via a see-er. There can only be…
• Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role.
• As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day…
• Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!
• Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn’t one.
• Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.

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