“It's only through form that we can realize emptiness”
Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums
Source: The Dharma Bums
“It takes a while to realize that God can empty garbage.”
— Ram Dass, book Be Here Now
Be Here Now (1971)
Context: If you see yourself as God and then you come back from this state and somebody says, "Hey, Sam, empty the garbage!" it catches you back into the model of "I'm Sam who empties the garbage." You can't maintain these new kinds of structures. It takes a while to realize that God can empty garbage.
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Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 124
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