Hafiz

 

Paramahansa Yogananda

 I am infinite. I am spaceless, I am tireless; I am beyond body, thought, and utterance; beyond all matter and mind. I am endless bliss.

 

--Helena Blavatsky (The Secret Doctrine, 1888)

 Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.

Art by Talon Abraxas

 

Ram Dass

 

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

 

Anyone who has had a truly “spiritual” moment, a moment of breaking through our day-to-day reality and touching the divine, knows how difficult it is to communicate that experience to others, or even to recapture it later for ourselves.

Osho

 Consciousness is the bridge, the golden bridge, from this world to the other, from hell to heaven, from the ego to the divine.

SwamiVivekananda

"The name "Ocean" applies to the wave and equally to every part of the ocean and yet it is separate from the ocean.

So in this infinite ocean of existence, we are like wavelets. At the same time, when we really want to grasp ourselves, we cannot - we have become Infinite.

Swami Vivekananda

 The Vedantic sages, after a long search for that Infinite Freedom outside, finally realised that it is an internal subject and the Eternal Soul of souls - this INFINITE REALITY -is man HIMSELF - this duality of existence - Infinite & finite in one, and the INFINITE BEING is also the same finite soul.

This INFINITE is caught, as it were, in the meshes of the intellect and apparently manifests as finite beings but the REALITY remains unchanged.

Poem Of The Butterflies Rumi

 

The people of this world are like the three butterflies in front of a candle's flame. The first one went closer and said:I know about love. The second one touched the flame lightly with his wings and said: I know how love's fire can burn. The third one threw himself into the heart of the flame and was consumed. The alone knows what true love is.

Robert Adams

 "You untrain your mind by just observing your own thoughts, by watching yourself think, by not reacting to your thoughts, not reacting to what happens in your world."