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Facing Truths
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Facing Truths
from the faces
series #1
24" X 30" X 2"
Oils
$375.00

Here's the quote that inspired the work:

"Truth is an experience, not a belief.
Truth never comes by studying about it; truth has to be
encountered, truth has to be faced.
The person who studies about love is like the person who
studies about the Himalayas by looking at the map of the
mountains.
The map is not the mountain!
And if you start believing in the map, you will go on
missing the mountain.
If you become too much obsessed with the map, the
mountain may be there dust in front of you, but still you
will not be able to see it.
And that's how it is.
The mountain is in front of you, but your eyes are full of
maps-maps of the mountain, maps about the same
mountain, made by different explorers.
Somebody has climbed the mountain from the north side,
somebody from the east.
They have made different maps: Koran, Bible, Gita
different maps of the same truth.
But you are too full of the maps, too burdened by their
weight; you cannot move even an inch.
You cannot see the mountain just standing in front of you,
virgin snow peaks shining like gold in the morning sun.
You don't have the eyes to see it.
The prejudiced eye is blind, the
heart full of conclusions is dead.
Too many a priori assumptions and your intelligence starts
losing its sharpness, its beauty, its intensity.
It becomes dull.
Dull intelligence is what is called intellect.
Your so-called
intelligentsia are not really intelligent, they are just
intellectual.
Intellect is a corpse.
You can decorate it-you can decorate it with great pearls,
diamonds, emeralds, but still a corpse is a corpse.
To be alive is a
totally different matter."

~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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