Sir Hugh Walpole

 The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom ones relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.

Sri Ramakrishna

 

When the Godhead [the Father] is thought of as creating, preserving, and destroyinq, It is known as the Personal God, Saguna Brahman, or the Primal Energy, Adyasakti [the Mother]. Again, when It is thought of as beyond the three gunas [the three qualities of the phenomenal world – sattwa, rajas, and thamas, or balance, energy, and sloth], then It is called the Attributeless Reality, Nirguna Brahman, beyond speech and thought; this is the Supreme Brahman, Parabrahman. (31)

“The Conquest of Illusion”

 

“And such it is, it is an invasion from another world, from the only real world, the world of Reality; it is the vision of truth, or intuition, which, in that world, knows with lightning-like rapidity and with immediate certainty and which flashes down its message of truth into the dullness of our illusion bound intellect”

Maharaj Charan Singh

 For ages the mind has been developing an intense longing for the things of this world which ostensibly satisfy it for some time but cease to do so after a while. The best way to divert the mind from the mundane baubles is to give it a taste of the inner bliss which far transcends any earthly joy.

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.

W. Somerset Maugham,

 

[The goal is] "liberation from the bondage of rebirth. According to the Vedantists the self, which they call the atman and we call the soul, is distinct from the body and its senses, distinct from the mind and its intelligence; it is not part of the Absolute, for the Absolute, being infinite, can have no parts but the Absolute itself. It is uncreated; it has existed form eternity and when at least it has cast off the seven veils of ignorance will return to the infinitude from which it came. 

Michael Kewley

 

With wisdom, everything is seen as clouds passing through an empty sky, some pleasant, some unpleasant, some attractive and some unattractive, but all having the same universal quality of impermanence (Anicca). There is nothing to hold on to and nothing to understand. There is only this moment, and in this moment the whole of our life exists.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

 

The real abode of God is in the heart of mankind; when it is frozen with bitterness or hatred, the doors of the shrine are closed, the light is hidden.

Danna Faulds

 

That's how you came here, like a star without a name... Rumi Be The Energy Trust the energy that courses through you. Trust - then take surrender even deeper. Be the energy. Don't push anything away. Follow each sensation back to its source and focus your awareness there. Be the ecstasy... Be unafraid of consummate wonder. Energy so new, so vulnerable, that you don't know who you are. Be the energy, and paradoxically, be at peace. Dare to be your own illumination, And blaze a trail across the clear night sky...

Unveil to us the face of the true Spiritual Sun, Hidden by a disc of golden light, That we may know the truth And do our whole duty As we journey to Thy Sacred Feet

https://www.godbrahmanistheoceanofloveandconsciousnessdivinityis.com/2023/02/the-gayatri.html

Max Born, Nobel-Prize-winning physicist

 

We have sought for firm ground and found none. The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibration is a wild dance.

SHRI SADGURU BHAU SAHIB MAHARAJ.

 

The main object of all religions is one and the same viz: realisation of God who is the Origin of the whole Universe. He is otherwise known as the Samadhan or the perfect Natural Happiness described above in the beginning hereof. The whole Universe depends upon Him and the life of all beings is preserved on Him and the life of all beings is preserved on account of Him

https://www.godbrahmanistheoceanofloveandconsciousnessdivinityis.com/2023/02/shri-sadguru-bhau-sahib-maharaj_22.html

  

Ramakant

 

To "know  ourself in a  real  sense",  says Ramakant Maharaj,  we are to understand that all the knowledge that we have amassed since baby-hood is body-knowledge,  has come "after the spirit clicked with the body". Then came the impressions, conditioning, pressures and illusory concepts which we have pretty much  unwittingly  imbibed and  accepted over the years  without  question. These have kept us trapped in a vicious circle of body-knowledge, trapped in an illusory world.

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Hadewijch "You who want knowledge..."

Surprisingly, none of this knowledge is ever acquired. It isn’t a new possession or experience or even a new thought. It is already here, at rest in the center of things. When it is found, it is as familiar as our bones. It is our very nature. It is already waiting. There you will find the clear mirror already waiting

Max Born, Nobel-Prize-winning physicist

 

We have sought for firm ground and found none. The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibration is a wild dance.

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"

Ramana Maharshi

The truth of oneself alone is worthy to be scrutinized and known. Taking it as the target of one's attention, one should keenly know it in the Heart. This knowledge of oneself will be revealed only to the consciousness which is silent, clear and free from the activity of the agitated and suffering mind. Know that the consciousness which always shines in the Heart as the formless Self 'I', and which is known by one's being still without thinking about anything as existent or non-existent, alone is the perfect reality.

Swami Vivekananda

 The divinity inside man unconsciously asserts itself. Unfailingly it detects fraud and hypocrisy, and unerringly feels the warmth of truth, the light of spirituality and the holiness of purity.

by S. Radhakrishnan

 The word Atman (Soul) means the “breath of life”. Atman is the principle of man’s life, the Soul that pervades his being, his breath, his intellect and transcends them. Atman is what remains when everything that is not the self is eliminated. It is the unborn and immortal element in man, which is not to be confused with body, mind or intellect.

Shriram Sharma Acharya

 The universe is founded in consciousness and guided by it. The final reality is Universal Consciousness. The Supreme Consciousness is Omnipresent. Its evolutionary powers pervade the entire Universe. All processes of Nature are governed by the laws of this Absolute Force

Hymns to Agni from the Rig Veda

 “The preoccupation of the Mystics was with self-knowledge and a profounder world-knowledge; they found out that in man there was a deeper self and inner being behind the surface of the outward physical man, which it was his highest business to discover and know. “Know thyself” was their great precept, just as in India to know the Self, the Atman became the great spiritual need, the highest thing for the human being”

The Divine Mother

 

The Divine Mother is the Kundalini (“coiled up” power) sleeping in us; without worshiping Her we can never know ourselves. All-merciful, all-powerful, omnipresent are attributes of Divine Mother.

She is the sum total of the energy in the Universe. Every manifestation of power in the Universe is “Mother”. She is Life, She is Intelligence, She is Love. She is in the Universe yet separate from it.

She is a person and can be seen and known (as Shri Ramakrishna saw and knew Her). Established in the idea of Mother, we can do anything. She quickly answers prayer.

Paul Brunton

Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it.

The Doctrine of the Mystics

 For the whole bliss of Soma to be established perfectly in our nature a happy and enlightened and unmaimed condition of mind, vitality and body are necessary. This condition is given to us by the twin Ashwins; wedded to the daughter of Light, drinkers of honey, bringers of perfect satisfactions, healers of maim and malady they occupy our parts of knowledge and parts of action and prepare our mental, vital and physical being for an easy and victorious ascension.

Papaji

 Happiness is permanent. It is always there. What comes and goes is unhappiness. If you identify with what comes and goes, you will be unhappy. If you identify with what is permanent and always there, you are happiness itself