Humans are mirrors.
I look into you and surprisingly,
I find me.
People go away
taking their particular mirror with them
so I can look into another's mirror
and see another piece of me.
This is the only reason people go,
so I may see a different side of me.
Eventually it happens that the mirrors stop coming
when you are ready to see beyond yourself.
But you must be willing to forget yourself completely;
You must be willing to disappear.
Otherwise, you will spend countless lifetimes
looking at yourself from different angles.
There is a certain narcissism
in having to look at yourself so much.
When you come to the end of fascination with yourself
and wish to see what is beyond your limited understanding,
that is when all those mirrors will vanish.
You will wonder where the mirrors went
and for a while, all will be shrouded in mystery.
Then one terrible and glorious day
the real reflection will appear
as the ALL present's it's mirror.
There you will see
not yourself,
but who you really are.
You will see ALL,
and know it to be you.
After seeing such an astonishing sight
you won't need anyone else's mirror
ever again, unless you chose it.
Seeing yourself this way
will change everything,
the way being born or dying
changes everything.
It is a profound thing
to see yourself as someone else.
You will wonder why you spent lifetimes
looking into other people
only to see the wrong person.
This is why you must be alone.
To stop the search,
to reveal the truth,
to become the truth.
And when God looks in the mirror,
they only see you.
And this is the greatest mystery, solved-
that God has a magic mirror
that only sees you
and which, from your place, only sees God.
Find that mirror,
and you will never be alone again.
As long as you spend your life looking
into other people's mirrors,
the view never changes
until you tire of seeing yourself.
Start by being alone.
Though at first, you will not see anything there,
and the silence and darkness will frighten you,
but stay anyway.
Keep insisting to see it,
having emptied yourself
of the simplistic answers you thought you'd found
to find the truth of who you really are.
A day will dawn
that your eyes will be opened
and you will forget who you are
all together.
This will be the greatest day of your life.
Greater than marriage,
for you cannot always be joined.
Marriage is the closest we come
to being one, but never achieving it.
Greater than having a child, for they grow up and go away.
This longing to see the truth will lead to the only lasting union.
This union is what you are searching for.
It is the greatest voyage and the deepest mystery.
But you must let go of you,
or rather, who you said you were.
If you are tired of the same view,
try something new.
Get rid of the other mirrors,
until you find yourself in God's.
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