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When you really understand the limitations of your physical level and your mental level, then you become really thirsty to get into the spiritual level. Then, you know that what you have known, what you have learned and what you have understood all these years is just NOTHING. You become, actually, NOTHING, in the words of the Zen philosophy: you have to become nothing. Until this stage, you feel that you are something. Don't we hear people saying, "Oh, he or she is really something"? But that something should become nothing. When we really become NOTHING, then we get into a sphere where we become EVERYTHING. And that nothingness is expressed as devotion, faith, respect and humility. It really takes a lot of courage to let go and to be nothing.

-Sri Swami Satchidananda

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