When you're traveling, ask a traveler for advice, not someone whose lameness keeps them in one place -Rumi

[Guest guest]

It has been said:

 

:>A genuine spiritual

:> personality is an ordinary person and has no need to play games

:> or tricks.

 

What a lovely definition of ordinary, as surely many an ordinary person

would agree.

 

:> Such a person, due to having Direct Knowledge of the Self, has a stable

:> outlook and is free from delusion.

 

What a lovely definition of steadiness, as surely extraordinary people might

agree.

 

:>A Real Guru is gentle. He is

:> like an ice

:> cube in a drink of water. She gradually cools your

:> consciousness and then

:> disappears without a trace.

 

That is lovely, and apt, and perhaps in the afterglow, a real guru is seen

as just that gentle, gentle, perhaps as gentle as a mother now holding a

newborn grandson. For those, however, who are closer to term than a

grandmother, it may be that a real guru, in the ordinary sense, may instead

seem as "gentle" as childbirth: frightening, yet welcome, fierce yet noble,

demanding, yet generous, screaming yet more alive than any sigh, painful yet

with the promise of a fuller life, unendurable, ever demanding, ever

requiring one more push-- yet be natural and thorough in delivery as that

ice cube, now melted in the glass of water at the bedside.

 

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A golden ring, an ornament of the finest gold, is a wise rebuke to an

attentive ear.

_Proverbs 25.12

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