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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. —Bertrand Russell

Archive for December 18th, 2005

Headlessness

Sunday, December 18th, 2005 Posted in Mind, Spirituality | Comments Off

Douglas Harding is an enlightenment teacher who attained freedom in the Himalayas when he realized he had "no head." As he famously puts it, "I lost a head and gained the universe." Headlessness is simply the childlike, experiential fact that we ...