A stone's throw

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Consider what happens when a stone is thrown up. It leaves

its source and is projected up, tries to come down and is always

in motion until it regains its source, where it is at rest. So also

the waters of the ocean evaporate, form clouds which are moved

by winds, condense into water, fall as rain and the waters roll

down the hill in streams and rivers, until they reach their original

source, the ocean, reaching which they are at peace. Thus, you

see, wherever there is a sense of seperateness from the source

there is agitation and movement until the sense of seperateness

is lost. So it is with yourself.

 

To identify oneself with the body and yet to seek happiness is

like attempting to cross a river on the back of an alligator.

 

 

-Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

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