There is no “one” path.
On the contrary, if you go deep and realize,
you will come to know that there are as many paths as there are travelers,
because each individual has to proceed from the point where he is standing already.
He cannot use a ready-made path.
Basically, you create your path by your movement.
A bird is flying: he will leave no footprints in the sky.
The sky will remain a vacuum. The bird has flown – he has not left any footprints.
No bird can follow in his footprints; The sky is always empty.
Consciousness is like a sky, not like the earth.
A Mahavir moves, a Buddha moves, a Meera moves, a Mohammed moves…
You can see their movement, you can see their achievement,
but the moment they move, the path disappears.
You cannot follow, dead-like, you cannot imitate.
You have to find your own path.
Osho: Vigyan Bhairav Tantra v1.24
“To notice awareness is the first step.
Then there is noticing how awareness is experienced through the body,
as presence, as love, as emptiness, as darkness, as light, etc.
As you do this the world is experienced as much more multidimensional and rich.
At first you may experience these different aspects of awareness independently,
but with some experience they will be experienced simultaneously.
They are all various ways that awareness is refracted
and experienced through the senses, the mind, and perception.”
Adyashanti
from “The Way of Liberating Insight” Study Course
As the seed is within the banyan tree,
and within the seed are the flowers,
the fruits and the shade;
so the germ is within the body,
and within that germ is the body again.
Kabir
Swaha Wisdom Cards
When I was the stream
when I was the forest,
when I was still the field
when I was every hoof, foot,
fin and wing, when I
was the sky itself,
no one ever asked me did I have a purpose, no one ever
wondered was there anything I might need,
for there was nothing
I could not love.
It was when I left all we once were that
the agony began, the fear and questions came,
and I wept, I wept. And tears
I had never known before.
So I returned to the river, I returned to
the mountains. I asked for their hand in marriage again,
I begged — I begged to wed every object and creature,
and when they accepted,
God was ever present in my arms.
And He did not say,
“Where have you
been?”
For then I knew my soul — every soul—
has always held
Him.
Meister Eckhart
“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
Lao Tzu
‘The conflict between “I should” and “I should not,” “I must” and “I must not”:
once having created this duality, conflict is inevitable.
So one has to understand the whole process of duality.
Not that there isn’t man and woman, green and red, light and darkness, tall and short – all those are facts.
But in the effort that goes into the division between fact and idea, there is the waste of energy.”
~J. Krishnamurti