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1 " Keep everything open and live from openness to openness. "
― , The Perfume of Silence
2 " It [realization of Oneness] means being constantly open to the possibility that we are like two flowers looking at each other from two different branches of the same tree, so that if we were to go deep enough inside to the trunk, we would realize that we are one. Just being open to this possibility will have a profound effect on your relationships and on your experience of the world. "
3 " We are one huge universe speaking and listening to itself. "
4 " Only the ego wants to get rid of the ego. "
5 " When we are happy, we don’t know that we are happy, because happiness requires childlike innocence. When a child is happy, he doesn’t know that he is happy. He doesn’t formulate it, he simply enjoys it. "
6 " If we think there is a problem with the world, we have a problem! "
7 " God sees God everywhere. "
8 " Joy knows itself. As children we didn’t even know the word joy, we were joy. "
9 " Life is a celebration. Consider everything that makes you happy as a gift from God and say, 'Thank you. "
10 " Life is a celebration. Consider everything that makes you happy as a gift from God and say, 'Thank you.'Lucille, Francis. The Perfume of Silence . Unknown. Kindle Edition. "
11 " When we love our hate, we stop hating. Love always wins. To love hatred means to welcome it. It doesn’t mean that we should do what it tells us to do, but we shouldn’t suppress it either. When we love hatred we put ourselves out of the process of hatred, and love begins. "
12 " Just stick to the ordinary circumstances without labeling them ordinary. Be open to them with no desire to change them in any way. They are, in fact, already magical and miraculous. They are the revelation of the Absolute. The mountains, for instance, are already miracles. We don’t need a little angel on top of the mountain to make it more miraculous, so don’t make one up. "
13 " To begin with, it seems like an effort to keep returning to the welcoming presence, but at some point it is so natural that it seems to require an effort to leave it. It feels like home. We no longer feel that we need to be entertained. "
14 " Let ghosts sleep, don’t wake them up. Celebrate and just get used to celebrating more and more. "
15 " I have very strong opinions and don’t want to give them up.. That’s your problem! You’ll be screwed up by those who have the same opinions as you and by those who have the opposite opinions. "
16 " A world without death would have no beauty, no yellow leaves in the autumn. It would be boring. There would be no change because change implies death. A world without death would be a frozen world. The fact is that we want to make the world better than God does. "
17 " All we can do is work on ourselves. We can start with our own sense of being separate, with our own judgment, with our own feeling that things should be different, with our own refusal of the present situation, with our own refusal of others. As a person, we are not going to save the world and perhaps the world doesn’t need to be saved. All we can do as a person is to do our best. "
18 " There is no freedom at the level of the body-mind. There is absolute freedom at the level of consciousness. That which is perceived is not free. That which perceives is freedom itself. "
19 " The only thing that we need to remember is, “I don’t know.” Nobody knows. I am here sitting in a chair like someone who knows, but I don’t know. It just happens, I don’t know how. Every time it happens, I am amazed. "
20 " It could be said that understanding is the intellectual aspect of consciousness, love is the feeling aspect of consciousness, and beauty is the perceptual aspect of consciousness. "