Tell the mind there is but One; he who divides the One wanders from death to death.
Katha upanishad
The loving contemplative, in his Ground wherein he rests, sees and feels nothing but an incomprehensible Light; and through that simple Nudity which enfolds all things, he finds himself, and feels himself, to be that same Light by which he sees, and nothing else.
Ruysbroeck
The word SUM, I AM, can be spoken by no creature, but by God only.
Meister Eckhart
Every visible and invisible creature is a theophany, or appearance of God.
Erigena
We cannot see the visible except with the invisible.
Meister Eckhart
The stirring of religion is the feeling that my only true self is God.
A.C. Bradley
To Real Being we go back, all that we have and are. To this we return as from This we came. Of What is Here we have direct knowledge, not images or even impressions; and to know without images is to be.... When we look outside of This on which we depend, we ignore our unity. Looking outward we see many faces, look inward and al is the One Head. If a man could but be turned around – by his own motion or the happy pull of Athene – he would at once see God, and himself, and the All.
Plotinus
There is no death of anyone but only in appearance, even as there is no birth of anyone but only in appearance.
Appollonius of Tyana
Liberation is knowing you were not born.
Ramana Maharshi
The ego of the sage arises again and again. But he recognizes it for what it is, therefore it’s not dangerous.
Ramana Maharshi
If you understand, things are just as they are.
If you do not understand, things are just as they are.
Zen Text
For whoever seeks God in some special way, will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way. But whoever seeks God without any special way, finds Him as He really is...and He is life itself.
Meister Eckhart
Destroy ‘the ego,’ hound it , beat it, snub it,
tell it where it gets off?
Great fun, no doubt, but where is it?
Must you not find it first?
Isn’t there a word about catching your goose
before you can cook it?
...The great difficulty here is that there isn’t one.
Wei Wu Wei
Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9% of everything you think,
And everything you do,
Is for your self,
And there isn't one.
Wei Wu Wei
Do you realize that when you give a schilling to a beggar you are giving it to yourself?
Do you realize that when you help a dog over a stile you yourself are being helped?
Do you realize when you kick a man when he is down, you are kicking yourself?
Give him another kick, you deserve it!
Wei Wu Wei
The ‘I’ that questions who it is can no more investigate itself than a mirror can reflect itself.
Leo Hartong: Awakening to the Dream
You see yourself in the world while I see the world in myself. To you, you get born and die, while to me, the world appears and disappears.
Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj
This is the intimate mystery of the impersonal Self that lives and manifests as all that is. It is the One Without a Second, the witness that cannot be witnessed, and the knower that cannot be known.
Leo Hartong: Awakening to the Dream
‘That was a dream,’ God smiled and said,
‘A dream that seemed to be true.
There were no people, living or dead,
there was no earth, and no sky o’er head:
there was only Myself - in you.’
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919), an American writer and poet
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where do you expect to find it?
Dogen Zenji
Bell’s theorem demonstrates that the universe is fundamentally interconnected, interdependent, and inseparable.
Fritjof Capra
In that glory is no ‘I’ or ‘We’ or ‘Thou.’ ‘I’, ‘We’, ‘Thou’ and ‘He’ are all one thing.
Hallaj
There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality. We think that there is something hiding reality and that this must be destroyed before reality is gained. How ridiculous!
Ramana Maharshi
Right now you are Consciousness, appearing as a character in your play.
Maybe you think you need confirmation. Forget it. Relax.
You are already That.
Nathan Gill: Clarity [http://www.NathanGill.com]
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