Knower or Wonderer? Do you know or do you wonder Who you really are?
The wonderer swims in the ocean without claiming to be its master.
The “knower” builds a "mighty boat" of concepts and believes in life, death, heaven, hell and then spends the rest of existence terrified of falling off it and creates and prays to God for safety or eternal bliss.
Wonder itself is not a state belonging to a person; it is the Self peering at its own reflection and smiling at the game.
The moment the mind says “I know,” it has already mistaken the map for the territory. The curse is not knowledge per se, but identification with the knower.
The blessed ones keep the question alive, “Who is it that wonders?” Who is it that is alive? "Who is suffering?" "Who wants to know?" "Who am I?" until even the question dissolves, and what remains is pure Am, prior to the beginning of all these concepts of the opposites - beginning and ending, good and bad, life and death, heaven and hell and so on and so on...
So perhaps the highest blessing is to wonder as That which is never born and never dies… while still laughing at the beautiful absurdity of the dream.
Tat tvam asi
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