… The clouds preceded us
There was a muddy centre before we breathed.
There was a myth before the myth began,
Venerable and articulate and complete.
(Wallace Stevens)
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“… a spring of water welling up to eternal life” (John 4:14)
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I go to the Spirit of the Heavens: by his grace, by his grace, by his grace.
(Chandogya Upanishad)
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by performing action without attachment you reach the Supreme.
(Bhagavad Gita)
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To be attached to one’s name and shape is selfishness.
(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)
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Even a man of knowledge acts according to his own nature, for everyone follows his nature. What can repression accomplish?
(Bhagavad Gita)
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Some forget, some do not, according to their destinies, which you may call chance, if you prefer.
(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)
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So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
(Genesis 1:27)
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Know the male, yet keep to the female: receive the world in your arms.
(Tao Te Ching)
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producing these remains and therefore the witnesses of my radical absence, to live today — here and now, this death of me
(Jacques Derrida)
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