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The path of liberation Is as narrow as a razor’s edge.
The Razor’s Edge follows the spiritual arc of Larry Darrell from zero to enlightenment. At the beginning of the story Larry is a pretty normal young guy, destined to become a stockbroker, get married, have kids and jump out a window when the depression hits. Fine, but hardly the stuff of film or literature. Fortunately for us, someone throws a war and Larry’s invited. He goes and discovers how dead the dead look when they’re dead (terribly, btw). That death-awareness event provides him with a glimpse behind the veil and turns his life in a new direction, so he chucks one destiny and sets out to discover another. He goes to a lot of places and does a lot of stuff that includes the achievement of satori, samadhi, sainthood or somesuch, whatever that’s supposed to mean.
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There was a child went forth every day, and the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became, and that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
