"Before we were born we had no feeling; we were one
with the universe....After we are separated by birth from this oneness,
as the water falling from the waterfall is separated by the wind and
rocks, then we have feeling. You have difficulty because you have
feeling. You attach to the feeling you have without knowing just how
this kind of feeling is created. When you do not realize that you are
one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it
is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are
the same thing. When we realize this fact we have no fear of death
anymore, and we have no actual difficulty in our life." —Shunryu Suzuki in Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Christ is quoted as saying, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick." When we live under the delusion that we are separate from the Universe we live in fear; we are sick in heart.
Like a good doctor, those who have mastered the healing arts can show us the way back to ourselves.
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