Shankaracharya

"You are the Self, the infinite being, the pure, unchanging consciousness, which pervades everything. Your nature is bliss and your glory is without stain. Because you identify yourself with the ego, you are tied to birth and death. Your bondage has no other cause."

Swami Nirmalananda Giri.

"It is necessary, then, for us to firmly set in mind that we are birthless beings, that we have never “come into being” or been “created.” Rather, we are co-eternal with God, the Essence of our existence. We never came into being, nor shall we ever cease to be. When we understand that our consciousness is somehow a wave of the Infinite Consciousness that is God, that we are irrevocably a part of God’s infinite Light and Life, it will have a transforming effect on us."

Awareness is the universal solvent. by The Mystical Lion

Awareness is the “sword of Emptiness” that cuts through all illusions and delusions.

Within the boundless luminosity and clarity of the Basic Space of Awareness, every “thing” simply, ceaselessly arises and dissolves into its fundamental, empty Essence.

Arises and dissolves. Arises and dissolves….

—Adyashanti

 "The truth is that you already are what you are seeking…Turn around to see what is looking."

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

 Sometimes a word, a sentence or a poem or a story, is so resonant, so right, it causes us to remember, at least for an instant, what substance we are really made from, and where is our true home.

Patanjali

 

—Fred Davis, The Book of Undoing

 

“In Nondual teachings it is said, ‘The eye can't see itself.’ They mean that you are that invisible eye. You can't see yourself when you look back, because you're the no-thing doing the looking…What you've been looking with—your magical attention, which is nothing more than focused awareness—is what you've been looking for—unfocused awareness which is the living background of all things.”

Adyashanti

 “Awakened awareness reveals awareness, not as something to possess, but rather the vast, conscious spaciousness that we are...This experience brings a great fearlessness, freedom, lightness, and clarity of mind.”

Arundhati Roy

 To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try to understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.

Sri nisargadatta maharaj