Friday, October 7, 2011

Wisdom

We are born wise, but we fall into ignorance. "I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born."

It is strange that the road to spiritual enlightenment leads us back to where we started from. It is as if, like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, we were only dreaming and, with a click of our heels, we discover that we were always home.

All that is required is that we awaken to this fact.

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