On the Wings of Hope : Prose

Good intentions may create hell. Bad intentions strengthen it. There is no difference between different intentions of sleeping ones.

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The shyness, moved to its limit, becomes recklessness. The recklessness, moved to its limit, becomes feat. Heroes of sleepers are always full of shyness.

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The faith, moved to its limit, is fanaticism. The mind, moved to its limit, is genius. Heroes of sleepers are always fanatical concerning possibilities of mind.

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The joy becomes a grief, and grief of others becomes a joy. The grief and joy of sleepers never change their nature.

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Awakening relieves of illusions. Awakening makes one reasonable. A mind, full of illusions, is unable to understand the beauty of awakening.

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Having awakened, you become lonely. Sleeping ones cannot share the path of awakened. Awakened ones are free to aid sleeping ones to wake up.

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The way of sleepers is long. The way of awakened is difficult. Life does not end with awakening.

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Rescue outside is illusion. Rescue in other is illusion. Rescue from illusions comes through own awakening - and the question on saviors disappears.

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The sleeping and awakened ones live in one world. The worlds of both are completely different.

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Sleeping ones dream of own importance. Having awakened, they become guides of importance of Universe to those still sleeping.

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Sleeping ones live in the past, hardly realizing the present. Awakened ones live in the present, presaging the future.

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Nature laws, that were firm earlier, collapse under a stream of new knowledge. Only sleepers firmly believe in own pansophy.

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In the beginning there was a dream. Then comprehension has come. Awakening has come after comprehension. Such is a way of the world. Such is the way of everyone.

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We dream and think that we exist. We awake to see our former dream. Are we all the dream of someone another ?

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It’s possible to wake up from an intolerable cold - and to see winter, reigning around you.

It's possible to wake up, having heard birds, singing behind a window, - and to find spring’s arrival.

It's possible to wake up in sweat from devouring summer’s fire, when the sun is already in zenith.

It's possible to wake up with arrival of autumn when from a last leaf falls from withering tree.

Every awakened one has its own path.

30.09.2010

Book of the Ways

There is no river without a source. The river, flowing through desert, is doomed to wither. The river without inflows can become a stream. The great rivers feed the seas.

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Being useless for others, you are doomed to loneliness. Being useful to yourself you will once again find the whole new world of friends.

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The happiness comes without achievements. The joy comes without prayers. The grass grows by itself. The true believe is not fanaticism.

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Thousands of ways lead away and only one – to yourself. But to find one, you will have to pass through thousands.

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The one chosen better way will reach destination faster than those chosen the worst. Yet both will once come to the same point.

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Each beginning becomes the end, and each end becomes the new beginning. The question on existence of the beginning of the beginnings remains opened.

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The past was the present. The future becomes the present. Only present always remains itself.

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What was absurd yesterday, today became the nature law. Laws change - the nature remains the same.

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Water sharpens a stone, making it’s smooth. Water washes stone coast, making its soft. Life will teach everyone, capable of learning.

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You will create hatred, harming. You will create hatred, aiding. The love of others grows in your ability to aid yourself.

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Trying to become better, you may not make it. Wishing to know more, you may not learn it. The true comprehension happens suddenly.

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It is possible to come, having overcome all obstacles. It is possible to reach only by not considering them as those.

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The joyful will not notice obstacles. The sad will exaggerate them. Only calm clearly sees all his path.

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Time changes countries. Time changes worlds. Time changes Universes. Are their changes relative if the time itself is relative ?

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Life can destroy your achievements. Life can uplift you. Only those passed the first and the second can learn calmness.

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You cannot run faster than yourself. You cannot run slower than yourself. Everyone travels with its own speed.

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It is easy to evade from fight. It is difficult to avoid it. The true warrior wins without battling.

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Life demands movement. Life never stops. The one stopped voluntary shortens his own.

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It is impossible to remember what was thousand years ago. It is impossible to know what will be  thousand years afterwards. Only the present matters.

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