Book of the Essence

You are not mind. You are not body. You are not feeling. It’s easier to express true essence through negation.

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Only having dumped from yourself all opinions of a society of who you should be, it is possible to learn who you are. Only having learnt who you are, it is possible to see whom you can become.

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Not loving yourself, it’s impossible to experience the same feeling to another. Hating yourself, it’s impossible not to experience the same feeling to another.

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Happiness is out of mind limits. Feeling is out of mind limits. Observation covers them all.

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Ability to feel makes one living. Ability to think makes one reasonable. Nobody but you can aid in learning yourself.

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The fish, who is going down stream, can be washed ashore by inflow. The fish who is going against the stream, may not reach. It’s possible to act without explicit purpose.

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Mind will assure you that you are better. Mind will force you to be at war. Only having been tired of blood of victories, it is possible to start wishing to wash hands.

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Without having the goal, you will not start moving. Having not started moving, it is impossible to reach. Only the one who has no place to go finally reaches.

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Wishing much means to suffer defeat one day. Wishing little means to accept it now. The victory is possible only in the absence of desires but who will desire this victory?

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If everyone can aid himself, aid to others will be ceased. But everyone knows how to aid others, and no one how to aid himself.

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Being reasonable, you cease to be living. Being responsible, you cease to be living. Being moral, you cease to be living. Only having managed to become them all at own will for a while, you remain them.

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Operating the house, it’s possible to do it badly. Operating the country, it’s possible to do it badly. Operating the world, it’s possible to do it badly. The highest skill possible is in mastering yourself.

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Having dissolved in the world - you will lose yourself. Having dissolved in the other - you will lose yourself. Only having dissolved in yourself, you will find true yourself.

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Joy is not in achievement. Joy is not in comprehension. True joy is in their possibility.

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Having learnt others, you will not learn yourself. Without having learnt yourself, it is impossible to learn others. Let everyone think of how much he should do himself.

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To answer a question "Who I am" is more difficult, than a question "Whom I can become". But without having answered the first question, it is impossible to answer the second.

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The one living forever is the one who never dies. The one who never dies is the one who knows no such thing as death.

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To live alone - means to live in suffering. To live together -  means to live in suffering. A peace with yourself is necessary at first.

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It’s possible to be a holy man – and never reach. It’s possible to be a sinner – and never reach. Reaching yourself has nothing in common with others.

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It's possible to have things - and not to be adhered to them. It's possible not to have things - and to be adhered to them. But in order to be released from their adherence you once have to reject them.

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The victory of one is defeat of another. Defeat of one is a victory of another. The one truly free can neither win, nor be defeated.

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Release from grief is joy. Release from joy is calmness. Release from calmness is death.

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The thick-skinned do not feel soft touches. Turtles never run. Moles know no such thing as sun. Wingless have no power to fly. Such is the way of things.

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Light cannot reach closed eyes. Eyes of sleeping ones never shine brightly with light. Light disseminates darkness by its very nature. Such is the way of things.

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What was living yesterday, today became dead once again to further create life in a new form. Life and death are inseparable and one does not exist without another. Such is the way of things.

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The unblown flower becomes a weed for those near him.

The withered oasis becomes a part of desert.

Not thawed ice becomes an iceberg in ocean.

The lake, born in adverse environment, becomes a bog.

The nature knows no emptiness.

Such is the way of things.

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Nobody can become everything. The one who was everything can become nobody. External greatness has nothing in common with inner one.

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Plants do feel. Animals do think. Humans consider only themselves reasonable. We are all parts of single whole.

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Living for yourself – you live for others. Living for others – you live for yourself. Only those learnt will confirm these words.

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Joy is necessity. Happiness is necessity. Love is necessity. Creativity remains a possibility.

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They say : “It’s wrong”. They say : “It’s not done in that way”. Only having denied interdictions, it’s possible to learn to create.

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Freedom “together” is not a freedom. Freedom “from” is not a freedom. The true freedom – is a freedom “for”.

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The sun knows not right ones. The sun knows not wrong ones. The sun shines having no purpose to warm someone. The one who has found his true nature is like the sun.

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The stream cannot be compared to the river. The river cannot be compared to the sea. The one who has found his true nature is like the ocean.

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It’s possible to accumulate lots of knowledge – and to know nothing. It’s possible to have no knowledge – and to know a lot. Only in silence of own experience an enlightenment is born.

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To know all about all is impossible. To know all about others is senseless. To learn even yourself, the Eternity may not suffice.

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The dog howls not from joy. The cat purrs not from grief. Both dogs and cats are unable to alter their nature. Is human capable of doing so?

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One thousand opinions on you are not you. Your words are not you. The one who knows himself is capable to operate all three, still remaining the fourth.

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It’s possible to talk with sinners - and to remain holy. It’s possible not to torture the body - and to remain holy. It's possible to live simple life - and to remain holy. The true holiness is holiness of consciousness.

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The one plunged in crowd will not find himself. The one renounced the world will not learn others. One can learn himself without renouncing, but can never renounce himself.

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The sacred accepts approval of others. The sinner accepts hatred of others. The wise does not seek attention of others like the first and the second.

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The prayer “for” is begging. The prayer “contra” is hopelessness. The prayer “pro” is unfulfilled hope. For truly free one his entire life becomes the only possible prayer.

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Only the poor needs alms. Only the ignorant about his own ignorance needs belief. Only the one tempered in hearth of own experience has no need for superstitions of others.

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It’s never possible to accept yourself, renouncing. It’s possible to change yourself, only having accepted. It’s possible to learn yourself, only having remembered.

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The invisible balance reigns in Universe. Because of a dust of personal desires people are not capable to behold it. The human is free to choose his own way in the world. To change the uniform laws of  Universe is not in his powers.

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The reason has no physical form. The mind – is just a guide for a reason. The guide knows nothing about an unfamiliar route, but is capable to tell of him to another when the journey is finished.

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Life for yourself is celebration of ego. Life for others is celebration of slavery. The wise does not live for someone.

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Until the last enemy inside is defeated, battles are inevitable. Until there is peace inside you, you will always bring wars with you. It’s only possible to win yourself having surrendered to existence.

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When the last particle of “I” disappears, a return to a source becomes possible. When return to a source is performed, the human as we know it is no more.

Book of the Ways

There is no river without a source. The river, flowing through desert, is doomed to wither. The river without inflows can become a stream. The great rivers feed the seas.

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Being useless for others, you are doomed to loneliness. Being useful to yourself you will once again find the whole new world of friends.

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The happiness comes without achievements. The joy comes without prayers. The grass grows by itself. The true believe is not fanaticism.

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Thousands of ways lead away and only one – to yourself. But to find one, you will have to pass through thousands.

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The one chosen better way will reach destination faster than those chosen the worst. Yet both will once come to the same point.

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Each beginning becomes the end, and each end becomes the new beginning. The question on existence of the beginning of the beginnings remains opened.

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The past was the present. The future becomes the present. Only present always remains itself.

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What was absurd yesterday, today became the nature law. Laws change - the nature remains the same.

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Water sharpens a stone, making it’s smooth. Water washes stone coast, making its soft. Life will teach everyone, capable of learning.

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You will create hatred, harming. You will create hatred, aiding. The love of others grows in your ability to aid yourself.

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Trying to become better, you may not make it. Wishing to know more, you may not learn it. The true comprehension happens suddenly.

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It is possible to come, having overcome all obstacles. It is possible to reach only by not considering them as those.

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The joyful will not notice obstacles. The sad will exaggerate them. Only calm clearly sees all his path.

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Time changes countries. Time changes worlds. Time changes Universes. Are their changes relative if the time itself is relative ?

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Life can destroy your achievements. Life can uplift you. Only those passed the first and the second can learn calmness.

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You cannot run faster than yourself. You cannot run slower than yourself. Everyone travels with its own speed.

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It is easy to evade from fight. It is difficult to avoid it. The true warrior wins without battling.

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Life demands movement. Life never stops. The one stopped voluntary shortens his own.

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It is impossible to remember what was thousand years ago. It is impossible to know what will be  thousand years afterwards. Only the present matters.

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When the peace reigns around – observe. When war storms rage nearby – observe. Only the one who saw both war and peace can learn temporariness of both. Only the one who saw both grief and happiness can learn the value of calmness.

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The one blinded by happiness may not see the danger. The one blinded by anger punished himself for errors of another. Only the free is capable to find a right combination of the first and the second.

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Failure gives rise to grief. Achievement of goal produces boredom. Only by refusing petty goals it’s possible to feel fullness of life.

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One can disbelieve in paradise – and still live in it. One can deny hell – and still live in it. The true hell and paradise is a hell and paradise of the present.

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It’s possible to trust something – and know nothing about it. It’s possible to believe in something – and never learn it. Only by rejecting blind belief it’s possible to test it on yourself.

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It’s hard to accept something that changes a world picture. It’s impossible to accept something that destroys it. It’s expensive to buy new one. Only creative one is capable of making its own.

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The blind belief leads to intolerance. The wonderful hope can be broken. Only love is capable to accept crash of hope and to transform belief into trust.

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The one who destroyed God is doomed to loneliness. The one who created God outside is doomed to slavery. Only the one who have discovered God in himself becomes truly free.

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Thousands of reasons create grief. Hundreds of reasons create delight. True joy needs no reasons.

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Existence knows nothing about our plans. Existence does not take our expectations into consideration. Only those having no plans and expectations are capable to learn fullness of life.

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Blind ones call themselves as clearly seeing. Deaf ones call themselves as those who have heard the voice. Dead ones call themselves normal. Will there be a place for healthy ones in a world of sick ?

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Capitulation is a victory, and the victory is possible only in capitulation. Only the learnt will confirm these words.

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The heavy stone sinks in a river of time – and waters of the river sharpen it. There is no instant justice.

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It is possible to pass by road of life and to reach last point. It is possible to creep windbreaks and bogs to come to the same road again. Not any experience is valuable for a way.

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The consciousness is capable to age and rejuvenate. For the one who has found a child in himself time is ready to turn back.

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When both the past and the future disappears, only present remains. When there is only present – the time is no more.

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It’s impossible to predict the duration of own life, but one can choose its width. The one who chosen the wide road will have more fellow travellers.

It’s impossible to feel taste and distinguish flashing landscapes of own life, moving with too high speed. The one hastening to live is hastening to die.

Ignorance of the general traffic regulation, as well as ignoring of other moving ones can become a cause of accident. The understanding of rules and psychology of those moving comes with experience.

Everyone starts from his last point. The point of destination is same for all.

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It’s possible to travel own road, creeping. It’s possible to pass it on foot. One can soar high and fly through it. Both three options lead to one point, but only from height of the bird's flight all way is clearly visible.

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Nobody came back from death doors in the same kind as he entered it. Either there was nobody to come back, or one’s clothes were different.

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When you approach the border of own "I", a chasm of despair reveals before you.

When you see events and people of the past, now forever left far behind, and rush in a search of irrevocably lost, a chasm of despair lives nearby.

When you realize all senselessness of former life without awakening, a chasm of despair opens under your feet.

When you understand that it will be impossible to return, once started travelling your way, but only accelerate your steps – you accept a chasm of despair.

There is a bridge through a chasm, but it passable only alone. Those fallen into a chasm and those crossed the bridge to the end never return.

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The one aspiring to slow down time will not be in time. The one hurrying events will not be in time. Only the one going with natural speed of his Way always comes and leaves in time.

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The star which has fallen in hands cannot be kept.

The star which has fallen in hands cannot be sold.

It is possible to absorb its beauty, giving it the new form.

The form is not capable to show all beauty of stars.

The one who never saw start will also reject all forms.

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We are blind from a birth, but not everyone realizes that he is plunged into the darkness.

There is a switch in a dark room, but is it so easy to group it in the dark ? The switch is high up, and man is small from a birth.

There are a lot of things which you will inevitably come across in darkness. They seem much more terrible, than they are actually.

Each of us has his own room, plunged in darkness.

It is possible to accept a dark room for a native habitat and to take out judgments about world, without seeing. A simple way for many is the most attractive.

It is possible to grow gradually, and to touch walls consistently, sooner or later having come across the switch. But not all of us are given that much time.

It is possible to try to grope it, being small, and to put a finger in the socket. Not everyone is capable to endure painful shock being received and furthermore to continue searches once again.

It is possible, moving exclusively instinctively, to upraise hands upwards and in a desperate jump to turn it on miraculously. How many people possess such inborn instinct ?

When the switch is found, the darkness dissipates, and the room appears in its true form.

Those who stayed in darkness for too long bright light could blind for a while.

It’s never possible to put the joy of those awakened into words.

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As your own "I" is being dissolved, you start to hear the music of the heavens.

Personal desires and ambitions deform it, but are not capable to force to break off.

The one realizing his true nature becomes a tool for music.

The Awakened One, travelling the path of Existence is the source of the purest sound of stars.

Book of the Sleepers

The Sleeper has come to the Awakened, yawning deeply.

- I heard from others that you had reached something, which is not spoken about among simple people. Tell me please, what is that you have learnt ?

The Awakened has smiled.

- I have reached nothing. I have simply ceased to sleep anymore.

- I too do not sleep in the afternoon, and sometimes I may not sleep even at night. If it’s everything, of what you are capable – than you are not greater than I am at all.

- In the world of those awakened there are no those, who are greater, and those, who are lesser, - answered the Awakened.

- Then why do they say differently?

- The ones saying this are sleeping ones – much like you are.

- Then how do I distinguish those saying this from those awakened ?

- Look in their eyes, and if you are close to awakening – you will feel the difference.

- Why does the sight of these, how you call them, awakened ones, is shining with fire of unknown origin, disturbing me ?

- Because their eyes are opened.

- Who is this sleeper, of which you speak all the time ?

- It’s you.

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A sleeping mind is full of illusions. The one plunged in sleep is like the water carrier with a sieve full of holes. Only having awakened it’s possible to see those sleeping.

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The dream of the sinner in filled with expiations. The dream of holy one is filled with inspirations. The dream of evil one is filled with treachery. The dream of kind one is filled with joy.

Only having realized all these dreams, it is possible to take the first step to awakening.

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The sleep of everyone was long. Awakening demands time. For those who have awakened time is stopped.

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It’s possible to become the richest one in sleep. It’s possible to become the poorest beggar in sleep. The value of awakening cannot be measured.

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When you live common life – you remain in a dream. When you sleep – you remain in a doubled dream. Few ones are capable to awake truly, but those who did still live common life.

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The love is transformed to hatred, and hatred pretends to be love. The love and hatred of sleepers are doomed to endlessly transform into each other.

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Mind in sleep is full of illusions. Illusions of one are capable to damage minds of others. Dreams are similar to illusions. The most powerful dreams of sleepers should never come true.

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It’s impossible to awake, not living in sleep. It’s impossible to fall asleep, not living in sleep. Only those learnt will confirm these words.

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It’s possible to sleep in the afternoon. It’s possible to be awake at night. For once awakened there is not difference between day and night.

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Having awakened, you will see sleepers around you. Having fallen asleep again, you cease to see them. Two sleeping ones will never see each other’s sleep.

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Those important will remain. Those useless will vanish. The importance of everything useless is indisputable for those sleeping.

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Good intentions may create hell. Bad intentions strengthen it. There is no difference between different intentions of sleeping ones.

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The shyness, moved to its limit, becomes recklessness. The recklessness, moved to its limit, becomes feat. Heroes of sleepers are always full of shyness.

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The faith, moved to its limit, is fanaticism. The mind, moved to its limit, is genius. Heroes of sleepers are always fanatical concerning possibilities of mind.

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The joy becomes a grief, and grief of others becomes a joy. The grief and joy of sleepers never change their nature.

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Awakening relieves of illusions. Awakening makes one reasonable. A mind, full of illusions, is unable to understand the beauty of awakening.

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Having awakened, you become lonely. Sleeping ones cannot share the path of awakened. Awakened ones are free to aid sleeping ones to wake up.

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The way of sleepers is long. The way of awakened is difficult. Life does not end with awakening.

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Rescue outside is illusion. Rescue in other is illusion. Rescue from illusions comes through own awakening - and the question on saviors disappears.

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The sleeping and awakened ones live in one world. The worlds of both are completely different.

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Sleeping ones dream of own importance. Having awakened, they become guides of importance of Universe to those still sleeping.

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Sleeping ones live in the past, hardly realizing the present. Awakened ones live in the present, presaging the future.

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Nature laws, that were firm earlier, collapse under a stream of new knowledge. Only sleepers firmly believe in own pansophy.

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In the beginning there was a dream. Then comprehension has come. Awakening has come after comprehension. Such is a way of the world. Such is the way of everyone.

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We dream and think that we exist. We awake to see our former dream. Are we all the dream of someone another ?

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It’s possible to wake up from an intolerable cold - and to see winter, reigning around you.

It's possible to wake up, having heard birds, singing behind a window, - and to find spring’s arrival.

It's possible to wake up in sweat from devouring summer’s fire, when the sun is already in zenith.

It's possible to wake up with arrival of autumn when from a last leaf falls from withering tree.

Every awakened one has its own path. 

Book of the Future

Adults will be like children, and children will show traits of adults. Only with revival of child in a soul simplicity of life will be learnt.

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The war always comes after the peace – and new peace becomes simply a delay before the following war. Will the epoch of thousand-year peace finally come ?

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Borders are opening. Nations are mixing up. Cultures are enriching each other. Those divided in pieces will once again become whole.

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Shabby knowledge fall. Superstitions die off. When last prejudice will be rejected, your understanding of the Universe will transform greatly.

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Outdated knowledge demands updating. New age demands new discoveries. The most valuable discovery of everyone will be he himself.

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The time of planet’s assimilation has already passed. The time of its usage passes. The time of its transformation comes.

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What’s the reason to inhabit far worlds, if own home remains deserted ? Only with transformation of own home world the transformation of others becomes possible.

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Unexplored influences are awaiting their research. Unknown energies are awaiting their discovery. Mind without prejudices will be a key to the treasury.

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Knowledge releases from fetters of ignorance. Knowledge makes one more reasonable. The knowledge is a result of studying of a universe. The knowledge will become the catalyst of itself.

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Those living in epoch of changes complain about small disorders, not seeing a sunrise on the horizon. It is impossible to cease sunrise, but the one who raises his sight from the earth receives an enlightenment.

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Uniform, transformed, young, rejoicing, singing, prospering. Such is your future world.