The real source of beauty is the explosion that happens when you reach the center of your being. Every cell of your being starts dancing, every fibre of your existence starts vibrating in an unknown, mysterious melody. And then there is beauty. And then there is Truth.

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There is nowhere to go and there is nothing to attain. You are already there where you need to be....just remaining within yourself, withdrawing yourself from everything, every energy and concentrating it at the very center of your being....Gurdjieff calls it 'crystallization'. And he was a man very much like Bodhidharma....what he calls crystallization of your being is called by Bodhidharma awakening of your being, or buddhahood

- Bodhidharma: The Greatest Zen Master


Don't wander unneccessarily here and there. You cannot find Truth: it is not an object that you have to go somewhere and find. It is your subjectivity; it is your interiority. By being patient, silently waiting, you suddenly come across yourself

- The Rebellious Spirit

Whatsover you are doing, all doing has to become peripheral, and a constant search for truth and a constant thirst for truth has to become your very center....If the desire to know truth arises in you, integration comes of its own accord

- Philosophia Perennis


Truth is an existential experience....a consciousness without mind, a consciousness without thoughts, a consciousness without any wavering - an unwavering consciousness.....then truth is there - call it God, call it Nirvana or whatsoever you like to call it. It is there and it is an experience. You are in it and it is in you

- The Heart Sutra


Your being is never reflected in the eyes of others. Your being you have to come to know only in one way - and that is by closing your eyes to all mirrors. You have to enter into your own inward existence, to face it directly. Nobody can give you any idea what it is. You can know it, but not from others. It can never be a borrowed knowledge, it can only be a direct experience, a direct experiencing, immediate

- The Discipline of Transcendence