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Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot; seek the path that demands your whole being. Leave that which is not, but appears to be; seek that which is , but is not apparent. Rumi
As long as I am this or that, or “have” this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. (When) you neither are nor have this or that, then you are omnipresent and—being neither this nor that—are all things. Meister Eckhart
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The Tao is self-evident To those who live in choiceless awareness. When you perceive everything objectively, Your path is clear and unobstructed.
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