Прохор Озорнин - On the Wings of Hope - Prose

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About false knowledge and spiritual enlightenment

It’s possible to accumulate lots of knowledge – and to know nothing. It’s possible to have no knowledge – and to know a lot. Only in the silence of own experience, an enlightenment is born.

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About purity of clear consciousness

It’s possible to talk with sinners – and to remain holy. It’s possible not to torture the body – and to remain holy. It’s possible to live a simple life – and to remain holy. The true holiness is holiness of consciousness.

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About renunciation and self-knowledge

The one plunged in the crowd will not find himself. The one renounced the world will not learn others. One can learn himself without renouncing, but can never renounce himself.

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About wisdom of right attention

The sacred accept approval of others. The sinner accepts hatred of others. The wise do not seek the attention of others like the first and the second.

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About acceptance and learning of yourself

It’s never possible to accept yourself, renouncing. It’s possible to change yourself, only having accepted. It’s possible to learn yourself, only having remembered.

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About nature, laws, and the nature of laws

What was absurd yesterday, today became the natural law. Laws change – the nature remains the same.

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About life as a teacher

Water sharpens a stone, making it’s smooth. Water washes stone coast, making its soft. Life will teach everyone, capable of learning.

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About the speed of destiny

You cannot run faster than yourself. You cannot run slower than yourself. Everyone travels with its own speed.

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About the creation of now

One can disbelieve in paradise – and still live in it. One can deny hell – and live in it. The true hell and paradise is a hell and paradise of the present.

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About building of world-outlook

It’s hard to accept something that changes a world picture. It’s impossible to accept something that destroys it. It’s expensive to buy a new one. Only creative one is capable of making its own.

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About abnormality of the normal

Blind ones call themselves as clearly seeing. Deaf ones call themselves as those who have heard the voice. Dead ones call themselves normal. Will there be a place for healthy ones in a world of sick?

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About delayed triumph of justice

The heavy stone sinks in a river of time – and waters of the river sharpen it. There is no instant justice.

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About low-useful experience

It is possible to pass by road of life and to reach the last point. It is possible to creep windbreaks and bogs to come to the same road again. Not any experience is valuable for a way.

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About living as children

The consciousness is capable to age and rejuvenate. For the one who has found a child in himself time is ready to turn back.

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About roads of human lives

It’s impossible to predict the duration of own life, but one can choose its width. The one who chose the wide road will have more fellow travelers. It’s impossible to feel taste and distinguish flashing landscapes of own life, moving with too high speed. The one hastening to live is hastening to die. Ignorance of the general traffic regulation, as well as ignoring of other moving ones can become a cause of the accident. The understanding of rules and psychology of those moving comes with experience. Everyone starts from his last point. The point of destination is the same for all.

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About ways of movement on the way

It’s possible to travel own road, creeping. It’s possible to pass it on foot. One can soar high and fly through it. Both three options lead to one point, but only from height of the bird’s flight, all way is clearly visible.

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About new births

Nobody came back from death doors in the same kind as he entered it. Either there was nobody to come back, or one’s clothes were different.

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About overcoming of the darkness of an ego

When you approach the border of own “I”, a chasm of despair reveals before you. When you see events and people of the past, now forever left far behind, and rush in a search of irrevocably lost, a chasm of despair lives nearby. When you realize all senselessness of former life without awakening, a chasm of despair opens under your feet. When you understand that it will be impossible to return, once started traveling your way, but only accelerate your steps – you accept a chasm of despair. There is a bridge through a chasm, but it passable only alone. Those who have fallen into a chasm and those who have crossed the bridge to the end never return.

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About those hearing the divine world

The star which has fallen in hands cannot be kept. The star which has fallen in hands cannot be sold. It is possible to absorb its beauty, giving it the new form. The form is not capable to show all beauty of stars. The one who never saw start will also reject all forms.

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About spiritual enlightenment

We are blind from a birth, but not everyone realizes that he is plunged into the darkness. There is a switch in a dark room, but is it so easy to group it in the dark? The switch is high up, and man is small from a birth. There are a lot of things which you will inevitably come across in darkness. They seem much more terrible than they are actually. Each of us has his own room, plunged in darkness. It is possible to accept a dark room for a native habitat and to take out judgments about the world, without seeing. A simple way for many is the most attractive. It is possible to grow gradually and to touch walls consistently, sooner or later have come across the switch. But not all of us are given that much time. It is possible to try to grope it, being small, and to put a finger in the socket. Not everyone is capable to endure painful shock being received and furthermore to continue searches once again. It is possible, moving exclusively instinctively, to upraise hands upwards and in a desperate jump to turn it on miraculously. How many people possess such inborn instinct? When the switch is found, the darkness dissipates, and the room appears in its true form. Those who stayed in darkness for too long bright light could blind for a while. It’s never possible to put the joy of those awakened into words.

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About way of no-ego “I”

As your own “I” is being dissolved, you start to hear the music of the heavens. Personal desires and ambitions deform it but are not capable to force to break off. The one realizing his true nature becomes a tool for music. The Awakened One, traveling the path of Existence is the source of the purest sound of stars.

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About the time of non-sleeping ones

The sleep of everyone was long. Awakening demands time. For those who have awakened time is stopped.

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About visibility of sleeping ones

Having awakened, you will see sleepers around you. Having fallen asleep again, you cease to see them. Two sleeping ones will never see each other’s sleep.

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About heroes of the sleeping

The shyness moved to its limit, becomes recklessness. The recklessness moved to its limit, becomes feat. Heroes of sleepers are always full of shyness.

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About rescue from illusions

Rescue outside is an illusion. Rescue in other is an illusion. Rescue from illusions comes through own awakening – and the question on saviors disappears.

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About worlds of sleeping and awakened ones