Richard Pryor,
that lion-hearted man,
was one of my first and is still one
of my best teachers — in more ways than I
have time to recount. Listen to how mentally and
spiritually high he was near the end of his physical body.
Listen to the body of his work and be informed about
the human condition and the path of a sexual abuse
victim, drug addict, acutely intelligent and
deeply soulful human being.
All praise.
Hear - Richard Pryor
Don’t
try to escape from
the movements of the world.
Remain in the midst of everything,
focused into the empty space
at the center of
yourself.
Pouring
your whole being
there without pause, alert,
quietly smiling, you detach from
clamor and chaos and become
independent and free.
From here you can
teach yourself
everything.
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I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Magian, nor Muslim.
I am not of the East, nor of the West, nor of the land, nor of the sea;
I am not of Nature’s mint, nor of the circling heavens.
I am not of earth, nor of water, nor of air, nor of fire;
I am not of the empyrean, nor of the dust, nor of existence, nor of entity.
I am not of India, nor of China, nor of Bulghar, nor of Saqsin;
I am not of the kingdom of ‘Iraqain, nor of the country of Khurasan.
I am not of this world, nor of the next, nor of Paradise, nor of Hell;
I am not of Adam, nor of Eve, nor of Eden and Rizwan.
My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless;
‘Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved.
I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one;
One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.
He is the first, He is the last, He is the outward, He is the inward.
He
shall cover thee
with his feathers, and under
his wings shalt thou
trust.
