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the greatest threat to our society and future comes from no external enemy but from the within
There was a part of the mind - perhaps what we call the self-reflective or introspective function - that kept turning to look and, finding emptiness, kept sending the message that something was wrong. It was a reflex that had developed during the years of living in the illusion of individuality, a reflex we commonly consider necessary to our selves. We "look within" repeatedly to determine what we think and feels, to make a study of ourselves and track our states of mind and heart. Now that there was no longer an "in" to look "into", the self-reflective reflex was adrift, but persisted. It kept turning in and turning in, unable to come to terms with the fact that there was no in anymore, only emptiness.
"The Bounty Lies Within Ourselves"
Know that you have a center.
Know that you belong there.
Know that the path to the center takes no effort.
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart...
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
If I don't go within, I go without...
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Whether looked at from outside or inside, bodies dissolve, matter vanishes, spirit remains - once we bother to go into the matter. “Spirit is the living body seen from within, and the body is the outer manifestation of the living spirit.” Extend this statement by Carl Jung to all bodies from electrons to galaxies, and you have the ultimate physics
"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."
"Within you is great power, as well as, the source."
The temple of perfection is inherent within, therefore the temple within is inherently perfect.
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
The Enemy never stands before you--(s)he always lurks within.
Past the Milky Way. Past the stars and moons, the suns and shadows. Past the universe. Past it all. Past the light and into the darkness. Past the created and into the creation, into the deep space of creators, of gods and immortals. Into the creative cosmos. Into the within. Into it. There lies a place with a white planet, a bright dot in the static blackness, a solitary island in the expanse of imaginative nothingness.
This lone planet lies still in its isolation, staring at the darkness with two penetrating eyes that protrude from its spherical whiteness…
~ Chad Cristopher Cobb, "The Sea of Milk" ~
After all, it is all within our Self, it is not about our self and
it is all about transcending ourselves.
~ Darina Stoyanova ~
