Swami Vivekananda

 

“Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again.”

Antonio Machado

 

The eye you see is not an eye because you see it it is an eye because it sees you

Swami Nirmalananda Giri

 

 The actual upanishadic question is: “Who else but myself can know that radiant one [devam],” the Self? This is not just an inspiring thought, it is perfect good sense. Being the Self, who else but I can know my Self? Others may see the divine in me, but I alone can know the divine in me.

Swami Nirmalananda Giri

 

Joy and beyond

 The self is “this Effulgent Being, who is joy and who is beyond joy.” We are ourselves devas–gods. There is no happiness or joy anywhere but in ourselves, for we are not happy or joyful by nature, we ARE happiness and joy. The idea is that joy is the permanent, eternal, condition of our true Self

Rumi

 

“The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan:

Many intellectual people, with their various ideas, differ from one another in their opinions and in their way of looking at things, in their speculations, but do the prophets differ from one another? No, they cannot differ. The reason is that it is the various minds which differ, not the souls. The one who lives in his mind, is conscious of his mind; the one who lives in his soul is conscious of the soul.

Robert Adams

“One of these days you will fall into the self, and you will disappear. There will be no body, no image, no concept, no I, no mind, no universe, no God, yet you will appear to be all of those things. That's the paradox.

You will appear to people as an ordinary human being, but you will know that you are the screen upon which images are super-imposed. You are not the images which keep changing. You are forever, eternal, unborn. You are the one. You are total freedom. Your real image will shine forth, and the whole universe will emanate out of you.”

Namah Shivaye, Aum Namah Shivaye!

 

Namah Shivaye, Aum Namah ShivayeNever forget, you are children of immortal bliss, Never forget you are scions of the highest sky.

From the Adi GraNTH

 Peace Lagoon translation: "It was for the sake of the God-conscious beings that our True Lord created this earth, and began this play of death and birth"

Ali ibn Abi Talib

 The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.