July 14, 2008

Life is a Mirror

We all have learned to look at a photo like this and know, without a doubt, that the trees are not IN the water. It's a bit more difficult to see our life as a reflection of ourselves. It's amazing how different our world becomes once we make an effort to see things in this way.

Look in the mirror.
What's there
is not you,
but an image projected
by the ego.
Like a movie.


Know that,
apply it to
your whole life,
and things will begin
to look different.
Very different.

Better.
Stefan Nadzo

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Just by being ourselves
we are borne toward a destiny
far beyond anything
we could imagine.
It is enough to know
that the being
I nourish inside me
is the same as the Being
that suffuses every atom
of the cosmos.
When the two
see each other as equals
they will be equal,
because then the same force
that controls the galaxies
will be upholding
my individual existence.

Deepak Chopra

***

We dont see things as they are
We see things as we are.

Anais Nin