What is your real nature? Is it writing, walking or being? The one unalterable reality is being. Until you realize that state of pure being you should pursue the enquiry. If once you are established in it there will be no further worry. No one will enquire into the source of thoughts unless thoughts arise. So long as you think ‘I am walking’ or ‘I am writing’, enquire who does it.
Sri Ramana Maharshi
I was standing in the backyard after a powerful downpour. I admired the vibrant vegetation in early summer. Spiritual questions popped into my head as I was standing there. “Is the perception of a spiritual journey just the conscious realization of the Homecoming journey that we are all on anyway, or are the many teachers and gurus right when they claim that we can consciously propel ourselves on this quest?”
Suddenly I looked up and was mesmerized by the green vegetation that was pulling me in with its intensity, color, form, scent and energy. At that moment I became part with the landscape. The question disappeared as the mind became still. The answer wasn’t quite what I had expected but it was powerful just the same. What quest? The power of now holds all the spiritual answers that we maybe looking for.
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