Stop Trying to Be Your True Self. Start Smelling It Instead. Our culture keeps chasing “the true self.” Maybe it’s time to stop defining it and start smelling it. Presence, not identity, is the real fragrance.

Stop trying to “find” yourself. Start smelling yourself instead.
Presence isn’t something you achieve, it’s what’s left when you stop pretending.

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THE ROOT OF THE ROOT OF YOUR SELF
By #Rumi, tr. #KabirHelminski

Don’t go away, come near.
Don’t be faithless, be faithful.
Find the antidote in the venom.
Come to the root of the root of your self.

NEFES
By #YunusEmre, tr. #RefikAlgan & #KabirHelminski

Those who became complete
didn't live this life in hypocrisy,
didn't learn the meaning of things
by reading commentaries.

Reality is an ocean; the Law is a ship.
Many have never left the ship,
never jumped into the sea.

If you go on the Way, they will open the Way to you.
And if you become nothing, you’ll be led to real being.
And if you will be humble, the universe will not contain you,
And you will be shown yourself, without yourself.

- #Rumi, tr. #KabirHelminski

Make all your cares into a single care, the care for being present, and you will be relieved of all care by that Presence.

- #KabirHelminski