“In order to illustrate a basic truth about life, ancient philosophers told a story about the astronomer and the stars. The astronomer habitually took an evening stroll outside the city to gaze at the starry heavens. While lost in stargazing, he fell into a well. His cries for help brought rescuers on the run. One of them advised, ‘It is better to see your very next step than to lose yourself in skies you do not as yet understand.”
– Vernon Howard, The Esoteric Path to a New Life, p. 46
In this very intimate radio interview, John de Ruiter speaks about:
The interviewer shares her own experience and asks good questions. This is the second part of a two part interview:
Your comments?
“Nihilism is the rejection of everything but rejection. It has no stance – except the stance of having no stance.
Being for or against ideas is just another idea. We are free when we no longer derive a sense of self from being for or against anything. When you have no views, even the view of having no views, you are truly free.
Both attachment and rejection mire you more deeply in sleep.
Find what is false in yourself. If you do this deeply enough, you will wake yourself up from this nightmare of conformity and nonconformity and find Something Else. This is not a religion.
Atheists have a god and that is the god of having no god. Who would you be without any positions or beliefs at all?”
–James Wood Stelzenmuller. The Path of Awakening (2007) p.265-266
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