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Okay another one, the timecode is a little off but close enough. First 2 hours or so is breathwork. I wanted to try if I could get some sort of breakthrough into God-consciousness or such, but that didn't work out. Not sure if I'll do another 3h session, maybe one with mushrooms lol

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Okay not going to join for all the days, but maybe here and there a day. I was doing for like the first 2 hours and 40 minutes mantras and the last 20 minutes or so doing nothing. I'd be interested if the people that will do the 21 days, or close to it, describe their experiences and results at the last day.

@Identity would be curious to hear your further findings when you've experimented a bit more with them:)

@Harikrishnan https://www.facebook.com/groups/82990426678/permalink/10157652939376679/ here is a part I enjoyed reading about bashar and its 'people' and their state of consciousness, or in other words how many cycles per second their energy vibrates as they put it Jesus, so bashar says, was/is still quite a bit higher than them.

--------------- @Leo Gura quote function gives me lot of blanc spaces, so I do it like this It's far more radical than that. Since all difference is absolutely relative, there is no difference whatsoever between start and end, therefore it never started. You are imagining right now that it started at some point, and thereby you create the illusion of it having started. This illusion of a start is indistinguishable from reality, so it seems as though it started. But it never did. Everything always starts and ends right now! Your parents start and end right now! They were never real! They didn't give birth to you. You are concocting that story on the fly RIGHT NOW for the first time! This is its start and its end. It's absolutely crucial to become conscious that there is no difference between start and end within consciousness. Oneness cannot have a beginning or an end. There was never just void. That void is something you imagine existed in the past to explain the present. But past is something you're imagining right now for the very first time! Even the idea that you've imagined the past before is wrong, because that assumes a past! You've never imagined the past before. You are imagining right now for the first time that you've imagined the past in the past many times before, thereby creating "memory". Memory is nothing but imagination in the present. Everything you think you remember is actually you imagining for the first time in the present without realizing that you're doing so. Ta-da! --------------- I don't quite get some things you (are trying to) say here, can you be more clear? I'd like to grok it. A model that I heard, and I can wrap my mind around is that you're not moving through time, but shifting through many static images per second, thereby creating a sense or illusion of continuity. Okay the whole reality, the whole shebang is here right now, just shifting through frames, okay fine, not something new here for me. "Your parents start and end right now!", if you mean here their appearance (or appearances as they only exist as static pictures) in/as 'my' experience, yes alright. "You are imagining right now for the first time that you've imagined the past in the past many times before, thereby creating "memory"." You say that you imagine for the first time that there was a past. What are you trying to say here, how is a first time possible if there is no time? Maybe you just mean that the whole shebang is here right now, and so an experience of thought -that gets labeled memory- isn't referring to something that happened before. That memory experience is only a snapshot/experience and doesn't exist before or after the snapshot/experience "to which the memory refers". Is that what you mean?

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Book series of: Conversation with God Book series of: Ringing Cedars of Russia A Bashar video, usually they are paid but now there is one free video for 72 hours. https://www.gaia.com/share/ck80a6ftv00490ikbg0pdgf05?language[0]=en&fbclid=IwAR1KX7VwUjQO4F1pgkhsyvABMiXB6lTZsboZBXFM1HwU_eQWiI4_b88WRZ0

I think science isn't good to listen to for anything about how to live basically. I would just listen to your body and let it guide you. For example don't go check online how much you need to drink, or drink, just listen to your body. It tells you exactly what is good for you. Let your body tell you when it wants to go to sleep, every person might have a different natural sleep cycle. Discipline is misalignment from your Will/feelings/'body' and not conscious behavior

@Shiva99Bashar, a channeled entity, always talks about following your excitement. He says doing what excites you is the fastest way to raise yourself and bring you where you need to be. Don't worry or think about that which you want to do is able to get you where you want, trust that you'll be supported by life in what you love doing. You could see this time you've spend as having been a waste, also you could see that by doing what you thought you needed to but didn't want, you become fed up enough for you to create a readiness to try a different approach. I found a summary of what he talks about here: https://bashar.org/handouts/TheFormula.pdf . However if you want to gain some confidence that this approach will actually work it might be best to download some videos of him where he talks about it.

There is no who, that implies a person, but there is no such thing. But instead of just believing that you can check that easily yourself. Can you find a person/self, whatever that's supposed to mean to you, that is afraid? It could make the fear a little less personal when you see there isn't a person, but at least in my experience it doesn't eliminate the fear. I suppose you could say it is consciousness/spirit that freaks out at times

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I wanted to share a chapter from the book 'Right use of Will : healing and evolving the emotional body'. As a sidenote I want to say that I think this a very important book for if you are interested in living healthy and easily, evolving and healing. The book is -so the books says- channeled from God and gives many understandings and dispels important false beliefs. If you like a copy of it, ask me. Okay so, here goes: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DRUGS I am now going to perhaps seem to diverge here and give some understandings about the use of drugs. It is not really a divergence, however, since drugs have been used by man almost since the original loss of consciousness on Earth in the land of Pan. Since then, people have used drugs to increase the split between Spirit and Will even to the extreme of dying, to escape feelings and consciousness they don't want to accept, and also to try to heal the split and regain feelings and consciousness they believe they have lost. Understandings are needed about drugs. Drugs can help show the way, but they cannot take the way for you. The person using them must know how they can help him. They are not help if you become dependent on them. They are not help if you do not use insight gained from drugs to improve your consciousness on your own. If the drug is helping you, it will take you out of your present prison and show you more that you can assimilate into your consciousness. Drugs have actually damaged many more people than they have helped. Drugs have so far shown themselves to be treacherous because of their ability to gain a hold on the ones using them. Any judgment held about drugs affects the experience had in taking them. If the person believes he has to have the drug, then he has to have it. If belief is held that a drug is necessary to get high or that pain cannot be handled without drugs, the judgment will create the reality. Drugs have a place like anything else. Sometimes relief from pain is necessary; sometimes expansion of consciousness is helped, but for many, drugs have declined into a habit pattern. In these cases, the Will is not able to handle the drugs. Drugs are substances that are hard for the Will to eliminate, especially if the Will is undermined, and the Will of everyone on Earth today is undermined. The accumulation of drug residue will be felt as reduced sensitivity and eventually as complete interference in the nervous system that obstructs the consciousness, sensitivity and awareness considerably. The dosage of the drug must then be increased to produce a similar effect. This increases the residue which calls for increased dosage once again. So, be careful with the use of drugs. If your Will wants to recover, drugs may not be what they seem to be. In more people than not, the increased consciousness they were seeking originally becomes, with habit and time, the decreased consciousness they were seeking to transcend when they began taking drugs. The attuned Will probably won't want drugs, but nothing should be entirely ruled out. However, I will emphasize that drugs can be a treacherous path because they can lead you exactly where you are not trying to go. An understanding needing mention is that people are not meant to decide about the use or non-use of drugs for one another. When some people judged drugs to be damaging, they were being accurate about their own experience, but the form of a judgment is not useful. More than the drug or drugs, it is the consciousness using the drug that it is the determining factor. Drugs cannot be used to further your own denials or to try to permanently avoid something that seems too overwhelming at the time it happens without having to recover this later. You need to know what you are doing and why you are doing it and be willing to accept as soon as possible anything drugs are helping you to escape, such as intense pain or grief. Many people have an uneasy, unsettled, empty feeling that they try to avoid in this way also. Some people mask and avoid symptoms with drugs until the Body's problem is extensive and may even require surgery. Even anaesthesia for surgery will result in eventually having to accept both the pain of surgery and the pain of rejection felt by that part of the Body that was not allowed to be with you and have the message of its symptoms accepted. Anaesthesia is only a temporary escape. Nothing is left unfelt when you are completely present with yourself all the time. Any space in which you were unconscious contains feelings that you must accept when you can. Unconsciousness is the response of not being able to accept something or choosing not to accept something when it is happening. Responsibility for disconnection and denial must be taken as soon as the Spirit involved is able to do it. The Will and the Body remember the pain of surgery and everything else experienced, and can remember this from life to life. And so, at some point, everything will have to come forward to be cleared and given a place of acceptance. Even the loss of memory of recent past lives and distant existences in Pan, Lemuria and Atlantis is based on denial. If you use drugs, use them with this understanding if you can, and not to increase your own denial. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hopefully, any judgement about the use or not use of drugs can be minimized, and then none of the above is taken to justify or strengthen ones own judgements. As I read it, the word drugs here means drugs + psychedelics, so keep a distinction in mind please when you read the word drugs and don't lump all form of drug uses together.

@Mo0ngrass I'll send you a copy in pm :-) Love

From 'Right use of will: healing and evolving the emotional body': EGO Healing your disconnections and non self-acceptance is a matter of personal choice and timing, yet personal choice is not a constant,—it changes and expands as a person evolves. What may not seem right to you now may become right at any moment. Spiritual growth has been thought to require death of the ego. This is not true understanding. There is no problem wih ego. Denying the ego its right function has created disease in the ego and this disease is the problem. Death of the ego is not a necessary part of Spiritual growth. Ego in fact is the part of you that recognizes yourself as you. The ego operates to protect your present level of ability to accept and express. Ego is as Divine as anything else. There is no problem with ego if it sees itself as evolving with the rest of you. You cannot tell the difference between yourself and anything else without ego.

@Mada_ Happy that you appreciate it:)

@LfcCharlie4 Thank you for that, nice input :-)

An excerpt from Conversations with God, on reaching a state of total awareness and tools such as meditation. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now some beings even choose to experience both the forgetfulness of being with the body, and the oneness of the soul, at once. These beings can train a part of themselves to not identify with the body while they are still with the body, thus experiencing the ecstasy of knowing Who They Really Are, without having to lose human wakefulness in order to do it. How do they do this? How can I do this? It is a question of awareness, of reaching a state of total awareness, as I said before. You cannot do totally aware, you can only be totally aware. How? How? There must be some tools You can give me. Daily meditation is one of the best tools with which to create this experience. With it, you can raise your life energy to the highest chakra.....and even leave your body while you are “awake.” In meditation you place yourself in a state of readiness to experience total awareness while your body is in a wakened state. This state of readiness is called true wakefulness. You do not have to be sitting in meditation to experience this. Meditation is simply a device, a "tool,” as you put it. But you do not have to do sitting meditation in order to experience this. You should also know that sitting meditation is not the only kind of meditation there is. There is also stopping meditation. Walking meditation. Doing meditation. Sexual meditation. This is the state of true wakefulness. When you stop in this state, simply stop in your tracks, stop going where you are going, stop doing what you are doing, just stop for a moment, and just "be” right where you are, you become right, exactly where you are. Stopping, even just for a moment, can be blessed. You look around, slowly, and you notice things you did not notice while you were passing them by. The deep smell of the earth just after it rains. That curl of hair over the left ear of your beloved. How truly good it feels to see a child at play. You don’t have to leave your body to experience this. This is the state of true wakefulness. When you walk in this state, you breathe in every flower, you fly with every bird, you feel every crunch beneath your feet. You find beauty and wisdom. For wisdom is found wherever beauty is formed. And beauty is formed everywhere, out of all the stuff of life. You do not have to seek it. It will come to you. And you don’t have to leave your body to experience this. This is the state of true wakefulness. When you "do” in this state, you turn whatever you are doing into a meditation, and thus, into a gift, an offering, from you to your soul, and from your soul to The All. Washing dishes, you enjoy the warmth of the water caressing your hands, and marvel at the wonder of both water, and warmth. Working at your computer, you see the words appear on the screen in front of you in response to the command of your fingers, and exhilarate over the power of the mind and body, when it is harnessed to do your bidding. Preparing dinner, you feel the love of the universe which brought you this nourishment, and as your return gift, pour into the making of this meal all the love of your being. It does not matter how extravagant or how simple the meal is. Soup can be loved into deliciousness. You don’t have to leave your body to experience this. This is the state of true wakefulness. When you experience sexual energy exchange in this state, you know the highest truth of Who You Are. The heart of your lover becomes your home. The body of your lover becomes your own. Your soul no longer imagines itself separate from anything. You don’t have to leave your body to experience this. This is the state of true wakefulness. When you are in readiness, you are in wakefulness. A smile can take you there. A simple smile. Just stop everything for one moment, and smile. At nothing. just because it feels good. Just because your heart knows a secret. And because your soul knows what the secret is. Smile at that. Smile a lot. It will cure whatever ails you. You are asking me for tools, and lam giving them to you. Breathe. That is another tool. Breathe long and deep. Breathe slowly and gently. Breathe in the soft, sweet nothingness of life, so full of energy, so full of love. It is God’s love you are breathing. Breathe deeply, and you can feel it. Breathe very, very deeply, and the love will make you cry. For joy. For you have met your God, and your God has introduced you to your soul. Once this experience has taken place, life is never the same. People talk of having "been to the mountain top,” or having slipped into sublime ecstasy. Their beingness is changed forever. Thank You. I understand. It is the simple things. The simple acts, and the purest. Yes. But know this. Some people meditate for years and never experience this. It has to do with how open one is, how willing. And also, how able to move away from any expectation. Should I meditate every day? As in all things, there are no "shoulds” or "shouldn’ts” here. It is not a question of what you should do, but what you choose to do. Some souls seek to walk in awareness. Some recognize that in this life most people are sleepwalking; unconscious. They are going through life without consciousness. Yet souls who walk in awareness choose a different path. They choose another way. They seek to experience all the peace and joy, limitlessness and freedom, wisdom and love that Oneness brings, not just when they have dropped the body and it has "fallen” (asleep), but when they have risen the body up. It is said of a soul which creates such an experience, "His is risen.” Others, in the so-called "New Age,” term this a process of "consciousness raising.” It doesn’t matter what terms you use (words are the least reliable form of communication), it all comes down to living in awareness. And then, it becomes total awareness. And what is it of which you eventually become totally aware? You eventually become totally aware of Who You Are. Daily meditation is one way you may achieve this. Yet it requires commitment, dedication—a decision to seek inner experience, not outer reward. And remember, the silences hold the secrets. And so the sweetest sound is the sound of silence. This is the song of the soul. If you believe the noises of the world rather than the silences of your soul, you will be lost. So daily meditation is a good idea. A good idea? Yes. Yet know again what I have just said here. The song of the soul may be sung many ways. The sweet sound of silence may be heard many times. Some hear the silence in prayer. Some sing the song in their work. Some seek the secrets in quiet contemplation, others in less contemplative surroundings. When mastery is reached—or even intermittently experienced—the noises of the world can be muffled, the distractions quieted, even in the midst of them. All of life becomes a meditation. All of life is a meditation, in which you are contemplating the Divine. This is called true wakefulness, or mindfulness. Experienced in this way, everything in life is blessed. There is struggle and pain and worry no more. There is only experience, which you may choose to label in any way you wish. You may choose to label all of it perfection. So use your life as a meditation, and all the events in it. Walk in wakefulness, not as one asleep. Move with mindfulness, not mindlessly, and do not tarry in doubt and fear, neither in guilt nor self-recrimination, yet reside in permanent splendor in the assurance that you are grandly loved. You are always One with Me. You are forever welcome. Welcome home. For your home is in My heart, and Mine in yours. I invite you to see this in life as you will surely see it in death. Then you will know that there is no death, and that what you have called life and death are both part of the same unending experience. We are all that is, all that ever was, and all that ever will be, world without end. Amen.

I've read a part about meditation from the books 'Conversation with God'. I regard the books in high esteem so I'll paste it. I'll put it in a separate post because perhaps it's a good read for more people.

@Zigzag Idiot I understand, thank you for your answer:-) I've just read a couple pages, as I thought the book seemed a bit of a drag to go through without very strong results

@Zigzag Idiot Hi, I read you mentioned you went through the exercises in 1-2 years. Could you mention what it did for you? I'm not intending to actually do the exercises, but am curious to what results it gives, or doesn't give

That made me laugh at first, and just a little afterwards I was like 'oh yes of course!'. I could have thought of this myself, but not actually had the idea to actually implement this. Really good tip honestly, because I've been skipping and putting off many opportunities for heavier psychedelic sessions because I didn't want to do crazy things again. I have a tendency to call people on their phone for help when things get hot lol, which isn't a good idea and have some fears that I could commit suicide

I have only a little experience with microdosing, started experimenting with it since a couple months ago. Honestly, I don't feel like you need to purchase any course on it, most guidelines are pretty simply and free if you look for it. It of course comes down to experimenting for yourself, what do you want, how does it effect you, etc. But how hard can this whole thing be? A common guideline is microdose for 1 day, take 2 days of rest. That's pretty much it right? The label 'Superhuman' for me feels like someone just wants to sell you something, as the rest of the advertisement does honestly lol. I wouldn't want to make this microdosing thing more fancy than it is, I just take some pieces of dried magic mushrooms about 2 times a week, on days I feel I could be more comfortable or something and that's it. In the weekend, at times I take more, so that I just sit with closed eyes and basically meditate with them.

Wanted to share this story, I just read it and found it valuable. From the book the 'Ringing Cedars of Russia': ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TWO BROTHERS (A parable) Once upon a time—when doesn't matter—there lived a man and wife. For a long time, they had no children. At an advanced age, the wife gave birth to two sons, two twins, two brothers. The births were difficult, and soon after she had borne the two sons, the woman departed for the other world. The father hired a wet nurse and tried to rear his children. He raised them until the age of fourteen. But he himself died when the sons turned fifteen. The two brothers buried their father in sorrow and sat in their chamber—the two twins. Three minutes separated their appearance in the world, and so one was considered older and the other younger. After a mournful silence, the older brother spoke. "As he was dying, our father expressed his sorrow to us that he had not had time to convey to us the wisdom of life. How will you and I live, my younger brother, without wisdom? Our line will continue unhappy without wisdom. Those who have had time to take wisdom from their fathers might laugh at us." "Do not be sad," the younger told the older. "You are often in reverie. Perhaps time will see to it that you learn wisdom in your reverie. I will do everything you say. I can live without reverie, and living will be pleasant for me anyway. I rejoice when the day arrives and when the sun sets. I will simply live and work on the farm, and you will learn wisdom." "Agreed," the older answered the younger. "Only wisdom cannot be sought by staying in the house. It is not here, no one has left it here, no one will bring it to us here. But I have decided: I am the older brother, and I myself must find everything that is wise in the world for us both, for our line, which will live on down the ages. I must find it, bring it to our home, and give it to us and to our descendants. I will take everything of value our father left us and go all around the world, to all the wise men of different countries, learn all their sciences, and return to our dear home." "Your journey will be long," the younger brother said compassionately. "We have a horse. Take the horse and wagon, load as much good as you can, so you will be less poor on theroad. I will stay home and await the wiser you." The brothers parted for a long time. Years passed. The older brother went from wise man to wise man, temple to temple, learned the teachings of the East and West, spent time in the North and in the South. He had a magnificent memory, and his sharp mind grasped quickly and remembered everything easily. The older brother roamed the world for sixty years or so. His hair and beard turned gray. His keen mind kept wandering and learning wisdom, and he, now a gray wanderer, came to be considered the wisest of men. A throng of disciples followed him. He generously propagated his wisdom to their keen minds. Both young and old heeded him with delight. Great fame preceded him, informing settlements on his path of the wise man's great coming. In his halo of glory, surrounded by a crowd of subservient disciples, the gray-haired wise man came closer and closer to the settlement where he was born and which he had left as a youth of fifteen, sixty years before. All the people from the settlement came to meet him, and his younger brother, also with gray hair, ran out to greet him, rejoicing, and bowed his head before his brother, the wise man. He joyously whispered, "Bless me, my brother and wise man. Come into our home, and I will wash your feet after your long journey. Come into our home, my wise brother, and rest." With a majestic gesture, the wise man ordered all his pupils to remain on the hillock, accept the gifts of those who met them, and hold wise discussions. He followed his younger brother into the house. The majestic and gray-haired wise man sat down at the table in the chamber wearily. The younger brother began washing his feet with warm water and listening to the speeches of his brother and wise man. "I have done my duty," the wise man told him. "I have learned the teachings of the great wise men and set forth my own teaching. I will not stay long in the house, for now teaching others is my lot. But since I promised to bring wisdom to our house, I will spend a day with you keeping this promise. In that time, I will tell you the wisest truths, my younger brother. Here is the first. All people must live in a beautiful garden." Drying his feet with a clean, beautifully embroidered towel, the younger bustled about, trying to please the older, and he said to him, "Taste. On the table before you are fruits from our garden. I gathered the best of them for you." The wise man ate all kinds of beautiful fruits thoughtfully and continued. "It is essential that every person living on earth himself cultivate an ancestral tree. When he dies, that tree will remain as a good memory for his descendants. It will clean the air his descendants breathe. We must all breathe good air." The younger brother rushed and bustled about and said. "Forgive me, my wise brother, I forgot to open the window so that you could breathe fresh air." He pulled back the curtain, opened the window, and continued. "Here, breathe the air of our two cedars. I planted them the year you left. I dug one hole for a sapling with my own shovel, and for the second hole I dug with the shovel you played with when we were children." The wise man gazed thoughtfully at the trees and then continued. "Love is a great emotion. Not everyone is given to live his life with love. There is a great wisdom: each person must strive for love every day." "Oh, how wise you are, my older brother!" the younger exclaimed. "You have learned great wisdom, and I have lost my head before you. Forgive me, I have not even introduced you to my wife." And he shouted, turning toward the door: "Old woman, where are you, my helpmeet?" "Here I am," a cheerful old woman appeared in the doorway carrying steaming pies on a platter. "I was held up with the pies." She placed the pies on the table, and the cheerful old woman made a funny curtsey before the brothers. She walked up close to the younger, her spouse, and said in a half-whisper, but the older brother heard the whisper. "And now, you men, forgive me, I am going now, I have to lie down." "What's the matter with you, silly, all of a sudden deciding to rest? We have a dear guest, my own brother, while you . . ." "It's not me, my head is spinning, and I feel a little nauseated." "And why on earth would you be having any trouble here?" "Maybe you are to blame. We must be having a child again," the old woman said with a laugh, running away. "Forgive me, my brother," the younger brother apologized in embarrassment to the older. "She doesn't know the value of wisdom. She was always cheerful, and in her old age you see she remains a cheery sort." The thoughtful wise man paused a little longer. The sound of children's voices interrupted his reverie. The wise man heard them and said, "Each person must strive to know great wisdom. How to raise children who are happy and just." "Know, wise brother, I thirst to make my children and grandchildren happy. Here you see them coming in, my noisy grandkids." Two boys no older than six and a little girl of about four were standing in the doorway arguing. Trying to get them to settle down, the younger brother told them hurriedly, "Tell me quickly what has happened to you, you noisy children, and don't keep us from our conversation." "Oh!" the smaller boy exclaimed. "One grandfather's turned into two. Which is ours and which isn't? How can we tell?" "Here's our dear granddad, isn't it clear?" And the little granddaughter ran up to the younger of the brothers, pressed her cheek to his leg, ruffled his beard, and prattled, "Granddad, dear granddad, I alone rushed to you to show you how I've learned to dance, and my brothers tagged along. One wants to draw with you. See? He brought his board and chalk. The second brought his pipe and horn, and he wants you to play the horn and pipe for him. But I decided to come see you first. Tell them all that. Send them back where they came from, Granddad." "No, I came to draw first. Then my brother decided to come with me to play the horn," said the grandson with the thin piece of board. "There are two of you granddads," the granddaughter prattled. "Will you decide which of us came first? Pick me or else I'll cry bitter tears." The wise man looked at the grandchildren with a smile and sorrow. Preparing an answer and frowning as he concentrated, the wise man still did not say anything. The younger brother was bustling about and did not let the pause that arose lengthen. He quickly took the horn from the child's hands and without thinking said, "There is no reason for you to argue at all. Dance, my beauty and hopper, and I will play a dance on the horn. My dear musician will help me play the pipe. And you, artist, draw what the sounds of the music draw and what the ballerina dances. Draw it. Now then, everyone get busy quickly." The younger brother played a cheerful and beautiful melody on the pipe, and the grandchildren all repeated after him simultaneously, choosing their favorite thing to depict. The future great musician tried not to lag behind on the melody on the pipe. As a ballerina, the little girl hopped, turning red, joyously depicting her dance. The future artist joyfully drew his picture. The wise man was silent. The wise man learned. . . . When the merriment was over, he stood up and said, "Remember, my younger brother, our father's old chisel and hammer, give them to me. I want to chisel our main lesson in stone. I am leaving now. I probably will not return. Don't try to stop me, and don't wait." The older brother left. The gray-haired wise man and his disciples walked up to the stone; the path went round that stone—the path that called the seeker of wisdom to distant lands away from his own home. The day passed, night came, and the gray-haired wise man hammered and chiseled an inscription in the stone. When the exhausted gray-haired old man finished, his disciples read the inscription on the stone: "All you seek, wanderer, you carry with you. You will find nothing new, and you will lose with every step."

A piece on health issues from the beautiful books 'Ringing Cedars of Russia': "I've also realized that physical illnesses arise in man not only as a result of his removal from Nature or the dark feelings he allows himself. They—illnesses—can also be a mechanism for warning or even saving someone from significantly greater torments. "Illnesses are one mechanism, one means of communication between the Great Intellect—God—and man. Man's pain is His pain as well. But there's no other way. How else can you be told, for example, 'Don't throw all kinds of things that aren't good for you into your stomach'?