IT’S FINALLY HERE!! Thank you! The Book of Nothing (available on Amazon) is 250 pages of quotes and piercing questions that were painstakingly pulled from our live-online Sunday Satsangs by my dear friend, the late Gordon Goodman, M.D. He spent an entire year pulling out helpful quotes and questions from my responses to […]
“…My consciousness has never associated itself with this temporary body. Before I came on this earth, Father, I was the same. I grew into womanhood but still I was the same. When the family in which I had been born made arrangements to have this body married, I was the same. And Father, in […]
Gunnar Myrdal: “Results very often are merely a demonstration of our ignorance and a clearer statement of what we do not know” Samual Butler: “Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” Aristotle: “Truth is so large a target that nobody can wholly miss hitting it, but at the same time, nobody […]
Thanks to Caroline!
What is the difference between animals, birds and us? Birds wear the bird body, animals wear the animal body and we wear the human body. We all wear different bodies like different shirts, but in reality we are all the same being. Ramana Periya Puranam, V. Ganesan, p. 123.
Although through sudden awakening, one is the same as the buddhas, the proclivities that have been built up over many lives are deep-rooted. The wind ceases, but the waves still surge… From Encouragement to Practice, by Chinul (Korean monk, 1158–1210). Quote thanks to Christopher Warnock. Art thanks to Lloyd the Void. Without memory, there […]
THAT is Conscious Awakeness.
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“Be the Self and the desires and doubts will disappear. If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.” ~Sri Ramana Maharshi
Experiences that come and go are not an experience of the permanent state. The permanent state never comes and goes, and it is not experienced at one time but not at other. ~Papaji 1910-1997
“One might say that if religion is the opium of the people, the Hindus have the inside dope.” ~Alan Watts English Philosopher 1915 – 1973 Thanks to Kathleen!
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. ~Epictetus, Greek Philosopher, A.D. 55-135
This is from the first complete work attributed to Ibn ‘Arabi to appear in a western language, although many scholars now attribute it to Balyani, a near contemporary, who may well have been influenced by his thought. No one sees Him except Himself, no one reaches Him except Himself. He knows Himself through Himself and […]
Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything. ~Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire French Theologian & Political Activist, 1802 – 1861
“At the beginning there was nothing, and out of this nothingness I could observe how things were born into this world the moment I identified them. I started laughing because I was struck how all those things did not exist until I named them, and it was as if I could see clearly for […]