“Did you get what you want?”
“No.”
“Then why did you go?”
“To not get anything.”
“Strange.”
“What?”
“To leave to not achieve anything.”
“I said not get, I did not say not achieve. Not getting is an achievement.”
“Which means not getting is also an acquisition.”
“No. It is not something you can keep and collect. It is a deep sense of not wanting.”
“You said not getting.”
“You must not get what you don’t want.”
“Do you always get what you want?”
“I always get what I don’t want.”
“Therefore, your not getting is an achievement?”
“Yes. That coupled with not wanting.”
“Achievement seems like a goal.”
“A goal for a non-goal ceases to be so.”
“Isn't it still about striving for something?”
“Drowsiness does not strive for sleep. It happens. Yet, it is an aspiration.”
“Are you happy?”
“No.”
“Why?”
“Because if I recognise something as happiness it becomes a need. Happiness should be a happening, not a destination to reach.”
“So you resist reaching a place?”
“I resist wanting to reach a place. The place should be where I am or land up in or that comes and stays with me. It has less to do with a geographical accident and more to do with my imagination.”
“Isn’t imagination an activity?”
“Imagination is a recreation of a non-reality. Therefore, it is goal-less.”
“But don’t people create with their imagination?”
“The process of creation is real, they transform the imagination, enslave it.”
“And you?”
“I live it, internalise it. It completes my non-reality. That is why I want nothing.”
“Are you complete?”
“As much as any hollow is. There are no missing pieces here. The whole is missing.”
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paolo coelho, “Continue in the direction of the Pyramids”, said the alchemist. “And continue to pay heed to the omens. Your heart is still capable of showing you where the treasure is.”
“Is that the one thing I still need to know?”
“No”, the alchemist answered. “What you still need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one ‘dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.’
“Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.”
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Yes, life is just itself is an imagination of our souls as in reality life doesn't exist...
So, if you live with your imgainations you got to live with your life....
Thanks Kunal for quoting those words of wisdom.
Circle:
True. Well, true in a spiritual sense. I wish I could imagine the process of living too...
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