Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes introspection and the idea that self-discovery is a sacred journey.
Saraha's quote suggests that the most significant exploration one can undertake is not in distant lands, but within oneself. It highlights the belief that our bodies and minds house the essential truths and experiences of existence, rendering the act of self-exploration a deeply sacred pilgrimage that can lead to profound insights and understanding.
In practice
During a meditation workshop, one could use this quote to encourage participants to look inward.
LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.
The Consul felt a pang. Ah, to have a horse, and gallop away, singing, to someone you loved perhaps, into the heart of all the simplicity and peace in the world; was that not like the opportunity afforded man by life itself? Of course not. Still, just for a moment, it had seemed that it was.
It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.
The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.
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