Koans from Non-duality

As we encounter liminality, complexity, paradox & other challenges, we're being repeatedly invited not just to "think outside the box", but to transcend it altogether. Poets, other artists, saints & mystics leave trails of breadcrumbs for us to follow into the paradigm-shattering mystery of life.

It's fascinating (& reassuring) to see how their sayings seem to point in the same direction.

"Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough." George Washington Carver

“… as we take our stand knowingly as aware presence, the mind, body and world recede into the background. When the presence and primacy of our self has been established, objects come close again, closer than close. They dissolve into our self and reveal themselves as none other than the shape that our self is taking from moment to moment.

This dissolution is known as the experience of love. It is the dissolution of all the apparent boundaries that seem to keep an object, other, person or world, at a distance or separate. Love and knowledge are, in fact, one and the same.”

Rupert Spira. “Presence, Volume II: The Intimacy of All Experience.” Non-duality Press, Salisbury, UK, 2011.