S. N. Sastri

 The Jiva, or individual, is none but Brahman, but because of identification with the body, mind and senses he looks upon himself as different from Brahman and as a limited being, subject to joys and sorrows caused by external factors. This identification with the body, mind and senses is what is called bondage. In reality the Jiva is the pure Brahman and is different from the body - mind complex. When this truth is realized as an actual experience, the identification with the body - mind complex ceases. This is liberation. Thus liberation is not the attainment of a state which did not exist previously, but only the realization of what one has always been. The illusory snake never existed. What existed even when the snake was seen was only the rope. Similarly, bondage has no real existence at all. Even when we are ignorant of Brahman and think of ourselves as limited by the body, we are really none but the infinite Brahman. Liberation is thus only the removal of the wrong identification with the body, mind and senses. The attainment of the state of liberation - in - life or Jivanmukti is the goal of human life according to the Upanishads.

Hermann Hesse

 

"Many verses of the holy books, above all the Upanishads of Sama-Veda spoke of this innermost thing. It is written: “Your soul is the whole world.” It says that when a man is asleep, he penetrates his innermost and dwells in Atman. There was wonderful wisdom in these verses; all the knowledge of the sages was told here in enchanting language, pure as honey collected by the bees."

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

 "Those who are established in wisdom (sthita-prajna) live in continuous, unbroken awareness that they are not the perishable body but the Atman. Further, they see the same Self in everyone, for the Atman is universally present in all. Such a one, Krishna says, does not identify with personal desires. These desires are on the surface of personality, and the Self is its very core. The Self-realized man or woman is not motivated by personal desires – in other words, by any desire for kama, personal satisfaction."

                                                     

Hermann Hesse

 “The game was called Samsara, a game for children, a game which was perhaps enjoyable played once, twice, ten times -- but was it worth playing continually?”

Swami Ritajananda

 “In the "Brihadaranyaka Upanishad" it is said that it is not the physical person who is attractive, but it is the Atman residing in that person which attracts us. It is that which provides all our delights. Love for someone, the delight experience in that love, both come from the source we call God.”

by Hazrat Inayat Khan:

 

When one dives within, he finds that his real self is above the perpetual motion of the universe.

                                                

Michael A. Singer

 "The more you are willing to just let the world be something you’re aware of, the more it will let you be who you are—the awareness, the Self, the Atman, the Soul."

                                           

Osho

 There are two types of people: one who talks about God, he is the theologian; one who talks God, he is the mystic. Lieh Tzu is a mystic.

The man who talks about God has not known God. Otherwise why should he 'talk about'? The 'about' shows his ignorance. When a man talks God he has experienced. Then God is not a theory to be proved, disproved no; then God is his very life: to be lived.

Stanislav Grof

 

“In the ancient Indian Upanishads, the answer to the question “Who am I?” is “Tat tvam asi.” This succinct Sanskrit sentence means literally: “Thou art That,” or “You are Godhead.” It suggests that we are not namarupa—name and form (body/ego), but that our deepest identity is with a divine spark in our innermost being (Atman) that is ultimately identical with the supreme universal principle (Brahman). And Hinduism is not the only religion that has made this discovery. The revelation concerning the identity of the individual with the divine is the ultimate secret that lies at the mystical core of all great spiritual traditions. The name for this principle could thus be the Tao, Buddha, Cosmic Christ, Allah, Great Spirit, Sila, and many others.”

                                                           

Sevi Maharaj

 The tenth gate is the gathering point of consciousness. Therein lies the path for our return. The tenth gate is also known as the sixth chakra, the third eye, bindu, the center located between the two eyebrows. This is the gateway through which we leave the gates of the sense organs and enter in the divine realms and finally become established in the soul. We travel back from the Realm of Darkness to the Realm of Light, from the Light to the Divine Sound, and from the Realm of Sound to the Soundless State. This is called turning back to the Source.

                                                

Huston Smith

 

"Never during its pilgrimage is the human spirit completely adrift and alone. From start to finish its nucleus is the Atman, the god-within... underlying its whirlpool of transient feelings, emotions, and delusions is the self-luminous, abiding point of the transpersonal god. As the sun lights the world even when cloud-covered, “the Immutable is never seen but is the Witness; it is never heard but is the Hearer; it is never thought but is the Thinker; it is never known but is the Knower. There is no other witness but This, no other knower but This." from the Upanishad"

Adi Shankaracharya

 

"Once we become conscious, even dimly, of the Atman, the Reality within us, the world takes on a very different aspect. It is no longer a court of justice but a kind of gymnasium. Good and evil, pain and pleasure, still exist, but they seem more like the ropes and vaulting-horses and parallel bars which can be used to make our bodies strong. Maya is no longer an endlessly revolving wheel of pain and pleasure but a ladder which can be climbed to consciousness of the Reality."

Rabindranath Tagore

 “Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation.”

Bhat— Kiran

 

"In an ideal world, as connectivity progresses, each human of our world would function the way a cell functions in a human body. We would see each other in the context of our individuality but realise how our individual actions both directly and indirectly affect the greater Earth. It would be as if our Atmans (our individual spirits) could merge into a Brahmin (a cosmic unity)"

Mechthild of Magdeburg

 "A fish cannot drown in water,

A bird does not fall in air.
In the fire of creation,
God doesn't vanish:
The fire brightens.
Each creature God made
must live in its own true nature;
How could I resist my nature,
That lives for oneness with God?"

Change...

 

Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

 “If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.”

                                                           

   

Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

 “What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.”

Amit Ray

 “Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.”

                                                  

Osho

 

“One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind.”

                                                        

Nisargadatta Maharaj

 There were no crucial experiences, no soul-shattering visions. I just ceased imagining myself to be what I never was. I was left with a nothingness full of understanding and love.

Quiet Lotus

 “Peace does not come from outside you. Peace comes from within. If you lie in a field of wild flowers, watching the clouds drift, and feel peaceful, that peace isn’t the quiet of the poppies dreaming. That peace is you, with you wherever you go.”

Joseph P. Kauffman

 “You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself.”

Victor Hugo

 "... meditating under the solemnity of the night sky, a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe."

Aldous Huxley

 “The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.”

Chögyam Trungpa

Altogether, the idea of meditation is not to create states of ecstasy or absorption, but to experience being.

Daisaku Ikeda

 Whatever your circumstances, whatever your past, the forces that determine your future are nowhere but within your own heart and mind. It is here that the star of your destiny shines.

Aubrey Marcus

 

“You are comprised of 84 minerals, 23 elements, and 8 gallons of water spread across 38 trillion cells. You have been built up from nothing by the spare parts of the Earth you have consumed, according to a set of instructions hidden in a double helix and small enough to be carried by a sperm. You are recycled butterflies, plants, rocks, streams, firewood, wolf fur, and shark teeth, broken down to their smallest parts and rebuilt into our planet’s most complex living thing. You are not living on Earth. You are Earth.”

Adyashanti

Meister Eckhart

 

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

Joseph Campbell

 One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

Wald Wassermann

 We may move in different circles but we all dance the same dance on the music of the spheres”

J Krishnamurti, Truth and Actuality

 To come upon that which has no beginning, no end-that is the real depth of meditation and the beauty of it. That requires freedom from all conditioning.

Osho

 Don't become the mood, remain a watcher because the watcher always knows the other is coming, following. Soon you will see the day is disappearing and the night is coming. Remain a watcher.

When you have become sad, again go on watching. As the day has passed, the night will also pass, everything passes.

After a few alert moments you will remember that you are completely separate - you are neither, neither this nor that.

This is how for the first time you will feel blissful. Now you know unhappiness cannot disturb you, and happiness cannot disturb you. You have attained to an imperturbable state, the state of bliss. That is the goal of all buddhas.

Katha Upanishads

 Eternal peace belongs to the wise, who perceive Source Consciousness within themselves, within all beings, within everything. By the mind alone is Source to be realized; when multiplicity is seen as the expression of ONE.

Baba Ram Dass from "Be Here NOW"

 

Eckhart Tolle

 One of the most powerful spiritual practices is to meditate deeply on the mortality of physical forms, including your own. This is called: Die before you die. Go into deeply. Your physical form is dissolving, is no more.

Then a moment comes when all-mind forms or thoughts also die. Yet you are still there - the divine presence that you are, radiant, freely awake. Nothing that was real-ever died, only names, forms and illusions.

Rumi

 

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

Morgan O. Smith

 “Embracing the timeless nature of reality transforms our lives, allowing us to live in harmony with the flow of the universe and experience each moment as an expression of the infinite consciousness.”

Papaji

 

All that you are attached to, all that you Love, all that you know, someday will be gone. Knowing this, and that the world is your mind which you create, play in, and suffer from, is known as discrimination. Discriminate between the real and the unreal. The known is unreal and will come and go so stay with the Unknown, the Unchanging Truth. All which appears and disappears is not real, and no nectar will come from it so don’t cling to it, and once you let go do not turn back to it. Stay as Eternity in your own Being.

The Three Major Hindu Gods - Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva

 

The Three Sacred Vedic Scriptures - Rg, Yajur, and Sama

Om Mystically embodies the Essence of the entire Universe. This meaning is further deepened by the Indian Philosophical belief that God first created Sound and the Universe arose from it. As the most Sacred Sound, Om is the Root of the Universe and everything that exists and it continues to hold everything together.

                                            

Ramana Maharshi

 "Realization is nothing to be got afresh. It is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought 'I have not realized.' Stillness or peace is realization."

Buddha (Nirvana Sutra 6)

 "Now, bhikkhus, various phenomena in this world constantly change. Don't stop, just continue making an effort."

-Leonardo DaVinci

 "Realize that everything connects to everything else."

 

Nisargadatta Maharaj

 The world is full of contradictions; hence your search for harmony and peace. These you cannot find in the world, for the world is the child of chaos. To find order you must search within.”

 

Osho

 In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light."

 

Rumi

 Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?

 

Joseph Campbell

 “We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it’s all about.”

Rumi

 “You were born with potential.

You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”

Khalil Gibran

 

“Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.”