Leo Tolstoy
A Confession

 

The fable is told of the traveler staggering down the road with a rock in one hand and a brick in the other. On his back was a sack of earth, and around his waist was wound a long coil of vines. On his head was balanced a heavy pumpkin.

Along the way he met a villager who asked, "Weary traveler, why burden yourself with that big rock?"

 "That's odd," replied the traveler, "but I never really noticed it before." So he tossed the rock aside and felt much better.

 Along came another villager who inquired, "Tell me, weary traveler, why wear yourself out with that heavy pumpkin?"

 "I'm glad you pointed it out," said the traveler, "because I didn't realize what I was doing to myself." So he knocked the pumpkin off his head and went on his way with a much lighter step.

 One by one, the villagers made him aware of his needless burdens. So one by one, he abandoned them. Finally, he was a free man-and walked like one.

 This Is Your Secret for Achieving Happiness

 Inner freedom is not a matter of adding anything -it is Purely a ridding Process. Here is one of the most startling and rewarding ideas you could ever grasp.

 Suppose you once had a path across a meadow, but one day found it overgrown with weeds. To restore it, you would not create anything, rather, You would remove something.

As the shrubs and weeds are cleared away the path appears. So it is with the mind.

We need not try to create anything, for there is nothing that needs to be created. Freedom is already present, though perhaps as yet unseen.

 Our mental weeds are made up of negative imaginations, fearful attitudes, unrealistic ideas, an insistence that we already know the answers, and so on.

When self understanding removes them-as it always does-we see the path for the first time. That puts us on the forward march.

 As simple as this idea is, it eludes us. Therefore, we must think about it, review it. We are in the habit of thinking in terms of building, adding, constructing; while all the time, our freedom lies in the opposite direction. Happiness is a ridding process.

 Vernon Howard

The Gospel of Thomas

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The Nag Hammadi Library

-- Lao Tse --

Sleeping Beauty - Variations

Men Who Knew
"May we hear the names of men who knew?"
"Jesus and Buddha head the list.There are many
others with varying degrees of cosmic
consciousness, including Lao-tse, Plotinus,
Saadi, Shankara, Pythagoras, Socrates,
Plato, Al-Ghazzali, Epictetus, Chuang-tse.
You can add Marcus Aurelius, Baruch Spinoza,
William Law, Blaise Pascal, Leo Tolstoy,
Arthur Schopenhauer, Ralph Waldo Emerson."

"Thank heaven for the few who broke through."

Vernon Howard

 

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The Origin of the Species

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A Case of Identity.

Gurdjieff, G. I.
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Carlos Castenada

Socrates suggested that death was an opportunity for philosophical discussion with the greastest people ever to have lived. Hence he did not have a pessimistic vision of the after life

With all your science, can you tell me how it is that light comes into the soul.

Henry David
Thoreau

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