"The drive toward enlightenment is powered on the one hand by a painfully felt inner bondage--a frustration with life, a fear of death, or both--and on the other by a conviction that through awakening one can gain liberation." - Roshi Philip Kapleau
I know how you feel: nobody gets out alive and nobody with half a heart escapes the frustration inherent in human life. And whether you are aware of it or not, you already have hope in liberation, too. You possess an inner guide ever nudging you, consciously or unconsciously, towards truth. When you follow your bliss, listen to the "still, small voice," you are in synch with this guide. Follow the world and you bind yourself to the wheel of frustration and annihilation. We have the choice to turn mere hope in liberation into conviction. I swear to you from my heart: there is liberation and you are liberated this very minute, only unawares. Find a path and take it, the sooner the better. This is really our sole purpose in life.
I know how you feel: nobody gets out alive and nobody with half a heart escapes the frustration inherent in human life. And whether you are aware of it or not, you already have hope in liberation, too. You possess an inner guide ever nudging you, consciously or unconsciously, towards truth. When you follow your bliss, listen to the "still, small voice," you are in synch with this guide. Follow the world and you bind yourself to the wheel of frustration and annihilation. We have the choice to turn mere hope in liberation into conviction. I swear to you from my heart: there is liberation and you are liberated this very minute, only unawares. Find a path and take it, the sooner the better. This is really our sole purpose in life.
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