Jiddu Krishnamurti This Light in Oneself

One has to be a light to oneself; this light is the law. There is no other law. All the other laws are made by thought and so are fragmentary and contradictory. To be a light to oneself is not to follow the light of another, however reasonable, logical, historical, and however convincing. You cannot be a light to yourself if you are in the dark shadows of authority, of dogma, of conclusion.

Swami Muktananda

 One who loves his own Self loves the whole world.

A description, from Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind by Richard Maurice Bucke: 1902

“Like a flash there is presented to his consciousness a clear conception (a vision) in outline of the meaning and drift of the universe…He sees and knows that the cosmos…is in fact…in very truth a living presence. He sees that instead of men being, as it were, patches of life scattered through an infinite sea of non-living substance, they are in reality specks of relative death in an infinite ocean of life. He sees that the life which is in man is as immortal as God is; that the universe is so built and ordered that without any peradventure all things work together for the good of each and all; that the foundation principle of the world is what we call love, and that the happiness of every individual is in the long run absolutely certain.””The person who passes through this experience will learn in the few minutes, or even moments, of its continuance more than in months or years of study, and he will learn much that no study every taught or can teach. Especially does he obtain such a conception of *the whole*…Along with moral elevation and intellectual illumination comes what must be called, for want of a better term, a sense of immortality.”

Dialectics of Enlightenment PUBLISHED ON May 28, 2016 by Jenna Lilla

The Isha Upanishad offers insight into some core dialectics of enlightenment. Spiritual dialectics are resolved in the Innermost Self (Ātman), as a spiritual seeker realizes higher and higher levels of synthesis, until an ultimate dialectic is resolved: the identity of the Innermost Self (Ātman) in the Supreme Self (Brahman). It is said that the Vedas are the body of the cosmic Purusha (see image above). As we read the Vedas, and work with the symbols and concepts contained therein we inhabit a sacred body. Cosmic Purusha is comprised of Lokas or worlds, and the body of Purusha contains lower worlds and upper worlds, places where Devas and Asuras reside. Enlightenment entails movement toward the light of the Devas (spiritual truth), and away from the darkness of the Asuras (ignorance). Ultimately, even this duality is resolved as we encounter the cosmic light and heart of Purusa, as an inner light and inner heart. This inner heart is our own and yet does not find its location in any organ of the body. It is a symbolic heart: a symbolic light, ours and beyond ours

Ribhu Gita

 55.There is no world apart from the Self.

There is nothing of the non-Self, ever. Anything apart from the Self is unreal. This is the truth—the truth. There is no doubt of this. 56. There is no happiness apart from the Self. There is nothing else apart from the Self. There is nowhere to go apart from the Self. One should remain forever in the Self. 57. There is nothing anywhere apart from the Self. There is not a blade of grass apart from the Self. There is nothing whatever apart from the Self. There is nothing apart from the Self at any time.

58. This explanation of the Bliss of the Self has been expounded to you by me. Whichever wise man hears this once, himself becomes Brahman. 59. This gives instant Liberation from bondage by being heard even once. By understanding the meaning of this treatise, one is liberated from everything.

LAO TZU

 

Mooji

 There is a way to again be in real time with the universe, but it is not through force, imagination or manipulation.

It is by finding your true Self. When you do, you will not need to manipulate life, it will simply flow.

OSHO

 For the wise, rocks on the path will become steppingstones, not obstacles.

Swami Vivekananda

 Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more will the senses creep into the field of religion, and spirituality will decrease in the same ratio.

Hinduism Today Magazine

 All Hindus worship one Supreme Reality, though they call it by many names. There is no eternal hell, no damnation, in Hinduism, and no intrinsic evil--no satanic force that opposes the will of God. Hindus believe that the cosmos was created out of God and is permeated by Him--a Supreme Being who both is form and pervades form, who creates, sustains and destroys the universe only to recreate it again in unending cycles. Each soul is free to find his own way, whether by devotion, austerity, meditation, yoga or selfless service