As the sleeping mind — driven on, as it is by unconscious desires — awakens to see that the only thing thought can do is make circles, it slowly stops seeking. The divine longing of the heart to know unconditional love remains, but the old “action” of trying to think one’s way out of pain, and into some imagined “paradise” falls away. Now the veils part… and instead of there being an imagined path one must walk, one realizes that Life itself — in its eternal act of revealing itself to itself within oneself — is the true “pathless path” because… no one walks it.

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