"Once we have taken this Step, withholding nothing, we are delighted. We can look the world in the eye. We can be alone at perfect peace and ease.. Our fears fall from us. . . . we begin to have a spiritual experience. The feeling that the drink problem has disappeared will often come strongly."
"If you don't break your ropes while you are alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic just because the body is rotten - that is all fantasy.
What is found now is found then.
If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an empty apartment in the City of Death.
If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire."
Kabir, mystical Indian poet
I love the image of an apartment in the City of Death. I can't imagine many nice apartments in that city. I'm not wondering whether or not I should be on Zillow looking for an apartment in the City of Death. I love the image of ghosts helping you along after you die, doing things for you then that you should be doing now. I'm not afraid of ghosts but I don't really want them helping me along. In my mind they don't appear as particularly helpful in the pursuit of anything. I will express again the continuing personal revelation of discovering in every spiritual path that I investigate, in every way, shape, and form, the reminder that all we have is right here, right now. Don't be nice tomorrow. Don't do anything tomorrow. Don't be nice today because the reward is down the road, after you die. What's the fun in that? If being nice is a chore that I only undertake in anticipation of eternal bliss my life is going to be a slog in the mire.
"We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us day and night."
Jack Kornfield
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