Mystics of every tradition speak of the perfection of things as they are. Any moment, every moment, can be experienced, when we’re in the condition of full openness, as ripeness.

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What Basho meant was not only to be innocent, open and fresh. He also meant being able to see things as they are and not as we think or expect them to be. Childhood is the season during which this ...

Now the difficulty in this lies, it seems to me, in the capacity to observe, to see things as they are, not as we would like them to be, or what they should be, but actually what is going on.

HOROSCOPES: See things as they are, not as you want them to be By SALLY BROMPTON FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY Published: 19:50 EDT, 30 September 2017 | Updated: 19:50 EDT, 30 September 2017 ...

Lee, who prefers to look at things as they are, constructs a deliberately prosaic world where Mija’s employer can make a grand gesture out of tipping her the equivalent of nine bucks, and the ...

You are defeated. Look directly at things as they are. Do not project, do not interpret. Do not force your mind upon things. Allow the reality to assert itself. Allow a gap between two illusions.