Rupert Spira

 Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and take them, without question, for the absolute truth.

LAO TZU

 

Padmā

 When you give up all effort to hold on to what you believe is reality, a sudden awakening experience reveals your being without limitations. Love Itself then calls you deeper into Love, and all Its possibilities.

Ashtavakra Gita 2: 9-10

 

“When the world arises in me, it is just an illusion: Water shimmering in the sun, a vein of silver in mother-of-pearl, a serpent in a strand of rope. From me the world streams out and in me it dissolves, as a bracelet melts into gold, a pot crumbles into clay, a wave subsides into water.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi ~Talk 286.

 

Everything is Energy. ...

 Everything is Energy. Everything you see, sense, and touch is energy. From the stars in the sky... to the earth beneath your feet... to your own physical body—we are all made of the same universal energy. Energy is information. It moves, it vibrates, and it responds.

Louis Dupré, The Quest of the Absolute

 “And yet, the memory of paradise never completely vanishes. Its glory is not lost but veiled, and there are moments when the veil is lifted.”

Nisargadatta

 “You are the all-pervading, eternal and infinitely creative awareness — consciousness. All else is local and temporary. Don't forget what you are.”

Greg Goode

 “You are not an observed object at all, but the open, spacious, brilliant clarity in which objects arise. You cannot grasp or hold this clarity, for it is the very spaciousness in which grasping arises.

Notice that there are no walls to this clarity, no edges to you. You are borderless. You are not contained by anything. You are limitless.”

Joseph Campbell

 At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.