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Inward and outward.

We are born into influence.

The moment we come into existence we are exposed to influences.

Influence that conditions us from the time we are in the mother’s womb.

Like the nutrition we got from our mother, we also got a dose of conditioning.

We never asked for it, no one ever asked if we needed it.

Irony is such that most people don’t even realise they are under the influence.

Very few do realise and spend all of their lives deconditioning and grooming themself.

We never live a frame of thoughts, and scheme of themes until we are in our body.

It is the way we operate in the world.

We nod yes even if we disagree or are neutral about our friend’s opinions.

We say yes instead of NO; To the BS and forced participation in the stupidity of formalities.

Partly because of the fear of losing out, partly because somewhere deep down you need the connection with others.

We are social animals. But cognition makes us something more than an animal.

Either way, whether you believe in something or don’t – you are not alone.

And the search for someone who understands you beyond the shallow veils is prevalent.

As prevalent as the search for yourself.

A disciple is in search of a master, and so is the master in search of a disciple.

Man is in search of man, inward and outward.

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We all want a connection.

It allows us to understand ourselves. To know where we stand.

The identity is not taken by a person, it is given.

By the people around and the world that shapes it.

The true nature is unidentified. But the face that is recognised by others is our currency to communicate with the world.

I nor care for it, don’t mind either.

As it keeps on changing and is different for everyone we come across throughout the day.

Impermanence is a symptom of being alive.

But in foot forward to communicate with the world we make things complicated.

We misunderstand our stature to be a measure of our standing in society.

But we make things complicated and miss the opportunity to genuinely connect with someone.

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Complexities are rudimentary. Conceptualisation loots your consciousness.

Simplicity is flowing. It is a sign of divine intelligence.

If you connect with a person with a simple gesture of a smile, you save the havoc of explaining to him your ideologies and beliefs.

When you offer love, you save the penance of fundamentalism to forcefully convert someone to believe in you.

This is universal. This is true.

We are not in search of a person who is eager to believe in our juvenile ideas of life.

We are in search of ourselves.

It is the ego that wants to see the world from a certain perspective. And directs the search outward.

A person without an ego sees the world as it is. An illusion.

A reflection of his pure empty mind and an extension of his physical being.

Understanding that the root of everything is nothingness is profound.

When your consciousness is saved from the ego mind, your consciousness expands beyond your mind, body and speech.

Your awareness is what you touch, you see, and experience.

Things that are known and unknown.

You are found in it and so is all the world and universe.

Within and Without.

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Live life in a back seat.

I know, it does not sound aspirational. But what are the aspirations anyway?

A potency of disappointment. An urge to compare diamonds with glass shards.

An unsuccessful attempt to fit into frames of someone else’s idea of success.

What is success anyway? We are all moving towards an inevitable failure called death.

It doesn’t mean life is meaningless.

There is a reason you are alive. And I am sure it is a very good reason.

But to find it out you have to give up on the reasoning.

Don’t be reasonable. It is limiting.

Instead, allow the revelation.

The only purpose of life is to do nothing and allow the revelation of truth on its own.

Let it ozz like sap from the maple tree. And the one who needs it will come for it.

Offer it to humanity as a service.

And then the man in search of a man would have found the man he was searching for.

Within and without.

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In a true sense, to have found yourself is to be lost in every sense.

To have lost everything is to have become everything.

Give up everything to be everything.

Be interested in yourself and the world will be interested in you.

Because you because you become your world.

What you see and feel is a reflection of yourself.

This is the celebration of life. Your expression complements yourself. You complement yourself in conversation with others.

This is the missing link humanity has been searching for ages.

This is the connection we were lacking.

The world has been fighting with each other since the dawn of civilisation.

But it is crucial to understand that we are at war with ourselves.

As a human, and as a society.

We don’t have disappointments with the world but with ourselves.

The ideas we hold dear to our hearts are a disappointment.

Riping yourself off with this malignant layer of conditioning is to free yourself from your bondage.

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Lose this conditioning. It feels like you have lost the world.

But you have only lost what you thought you had, not what you had.

What you have is revealed when the layers of conditioning and influences wear off.

We you are not busy with entanglements of the mind, you have time for yourself.

You start enjoying your own company.

And a happy person has more than enough of his presence, that can be shared with everyone around.

He has spent the assumptions of the past and future in return for the joy in the present.

You have lost sight of the world that you thought existed and in return have found the world within.

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Now when you go out in the world, you see what you are.

This world is a reflection of what you are.

There is beauty waiting to be found in unexpected places.

The body gets rid of the caccon on old beliefs.

There is the realisation of every moment folding in front of you.

The mind gets rid of the thoughts.

There is a direct experience of superconciousness from moment to moment.

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See life in a new light. Be self-illuminated.

You were when you were not this body and you will be when you drop this body.

You have always been there. And a true purpose of the body is to celebrate.

There is no other reason to be found. Just celebrate.

Spread the light, spread the joy and spread the love from your heart.

Everything else will fade out on its own. Only you will remain, only love will remain.

Each time you blink your eye, you will see a new world.

Free from the bandages of the past, not worrying about the future.

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