Emerson's Declaration of Spiritual Independence


"Thoughts are like the wind; they come and go. The secret is not to "think" about thoughts, but to allow them to flow through the mind, while keeping your mind free from after thoughts." ~Sogyal Rinpoche ..*:

"Standing on the bare ground, ... 
my head bathed by the blithe air, 
and uplifted into infinite space, ... 
all mean egotism vanishes. 
I become a transparent eye-ball; 
I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the 
Universal Being circulate through me; 
I am part or particle of God."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~


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