Aphorisms XXV

Un article de Caverne des 1001 nuits.

Ego, again and again, is blinding people about what they really are. When the ego stands in the way, the mirror is dark.

Our mind is so full of patterns that we only seek for the repetition of the known and we don't see the present.

Manhood tends to tackle problems on a superficial way. The depth of truth remains out of reach for most of us.

Words are meant to be forgotten for people to continue walking on their path.

Manhood would be more calm if everyone had nothing to prove to the others.

Le pessimisme ou le cynisme sont acceptables socialement tandis que la vérité vous fait passer pour un fou.

For many years, I only read the surface of the world. Now I understand what it means to go deeper in things. This work is with no end.

My wife is a like the sky: she is the purest being when stormy clouds are not here to hide her beauty.

If we want wisdom, we can find it because it is not hidden. But is our heart ready to accept the truth of it?

Words are meant to understand that we have to burn them inside with the rest of the 'I'

Occidental culture obeys the same accumulation logic than material assets. Indeed, culture is matter and it obstructs the mind.

One disease of the mind is to see things through the right and wrong glasses.

Man is frightened by disorder even if disorder is somewhat the core of human life. Disorder is what is versus what we think should be.

The world may be yours, you won't really own anything at all.

Unto the path of the Beloved, Our ego is our first and only enemy.

It is quite awkward that we tend to live our mental life through the writings of others. This is one cornerstone of conditionning.

Signs of conditionning: put too much hope in someone, in some ideology, in some dogma, etc., or in their absence, their denial.

Signs of conditionning in our thoughts: to feel trapped, closed, emprisonned, to think you have no choice, that the society makes it all...

Most of us think under conditionning. One of the first sign of it is to believe you worry when you are told what to worry about.

I sometimes wish there were no words to separate people. For words are illusions filling the heart with ideas instead of love.

Most of us desperately seek to be loved while their heart is not full of love. Love always and ask nothing in return!

Complexity is never true.

The rainy night is bringing its pot of contingent water noises in which melts the singing of the hoot.

With time, I become more transparent, as if I was vanishing from the world.

Each time I speak, I realize I could abstain myself.

Some people carry a real bad karma.

Maya is not a concept. It is real and it takes a while to understand it, see it, feel it.

To have a real exchange, you have to be two people listening to each other. This is quite hard to find.

Contrary to what some people may think, false gurus are very useful: they show that some gurus can be true.

If only the pure in intentions were to be religious men and women, there would be nobody in the temples.

Psychology is a subset of religion. A religious man cannot but be interested in psychology.

Exotericism and esotericism division may only be the consequence of dogma. With a more opened dogma, there is only a path amongst others.

To a certain extent, worrying about all the issues of the world is a waste of energy that you may have used doing what you are supposed to.