Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings.... If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.
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Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and so on. Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.Lao Tzu
Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.
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Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, 'We did this ourselves.'
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It reverts to nothingness. This is called shape without shape, Form without object. It is The Vague and Elusive.
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To know you have enough is to be rich.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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