Reflections on Wisdom and Compassion: Discourses from “Así Hablaba Quetzalcóatl (Thus Spoke Quetzalcóatl),” Part 1 of 2

THE SPIDER AND THE ANT “And the spider answered her: ’However, where your vision stops, there is a wider World than this one surrounding you, and there I traveled with the threads of imagination. By knitting wisely these threads I can pass to other worlds you may never be able to imagine.’ And the ant thoughtfully said to her: ‘You mean to tell me that there are anthills which go up, instead of down towards the Earth?’ ‘Certainly!’, answered the spider happily, ‘and where light wraps you up everywhere and fills your body with warmth, and makes it as bright as a flame.’” “Beauty is not in that which the eyes can see, but rather the longing for the Truth there is on That which cannot be seen.”

I BEAT WITH LIFE’S BEATING “I see the eagles within the wings of my thoughts become the owners of the sky, taking possession of their younger brothers [limited thoughts] and feeding themselves with them [unlimited thoughts].” “But I, even though seeing, am here, above and below. I feel my heart beating while soaring into flight, and I feel the same beating of the heart going down. I notice calmness on the bush’s leaves, and the haste in the river’s water while looking for the river, without knowing the river is itself, and that it is making it while looking at itself.” “Each branch, each leaf, is a projection from the tree, and adaptation is what makes each one different, and it is an illusion that which confronts it with the other leaves and the other branches of the tree. Blessed be the ones who know how to see over the adaptation and its laws, because they see their Essence face to face. Right observation and patience will help you understand God’s game one day. And by transcending it, you will be able to travel far beyond the separation state because really, we are one and the Same along with God.”