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While you are alive

Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive.
Jump into the experience while you are alive!
Think….and think….while you are alive.
What you call salvation belongs to the time before death.

If you don’t break your ropes while you are alive,
do you think ghosts will do it after?

The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic
just because the body is rotten-
that is all fantasy.
What is found now is found then.
If you find nothing now,
you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will
have the face of satisfied desire.

So plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is,
Believe in the Great Sound.

Kabir says this: When the guest is being searched for,
it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work.
Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.
—Kabir


Mankind owns four things
that are no good at sea:
rudder, anchor, oars
and the fear of going down.

Antonio Machado

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Beat the drum!

“I went to Africa when I was 19, and when I came back, I was showing (my grandmother) pictures. And I remember her stopping me and just — she had to collect herself. And she said, ‘I cannot believe that a granddaughter of mine has been to Africa. I just can’t imagine how you got there.’ I think that her story is so central to my story. To be able to choose the shape of your own life — you sort of must do that, as an act of honor to those who couldn’t. There were times, especially when I was traveling for Eat, Pray, Love, when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all those Swedish farmwives from beyond the grave who were like, ‘Go! Go to Naples! Eat more pizza! Go to India, ride an elephant! Do it! Swim in the Indian Ocean. Read those books. Learn a language. Do it!’ I could just feel them. They were just like, ‘Go beat the drum.’

– Elizabeth Gilbert

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