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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3736, Saturday, December 5, 2009, Editor: Mark
To know itself the self must be faced with its opposite - the
not-self. Desire leads to experience. Experience leads to
discrimination, detachment, self-knowledge - liberation. And what
is liberation after all? To know that you are beyond birth and
death. By forgetting who you are and imagining yourself a mortal
creature, you created so much trouble for yourself that you have
to wake up, like from a bad dream.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is
for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make
things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see
things in the proper light. First, believe in this world - that
there is meaning behind everything. Everything in the world is
good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think
that you are not understanding it in the right light. throw the
burden on yourselves!
- Swami Vivekananda
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased
striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
- The Buddha
It is said that truthfulness alone constitutes the spiritual
discipline of the Kaliyuga. If a man clings tenaciously to truth
he ultimately realizes God.
- Ramakrishna
The core principal to all this is that the mind doesn't like to
be challenged as being nothing more than a preprogrammed
illusion. Once this is seen through as clear as daylight, the
game is over, there are no more assumed problems that existed for
an assumed self. This whole show of light and sound is just seen
for what it is and the undying peace that was always present is
all there is, and all there ever is in the present moment.
Know that all the resistance to this is only the conceptual mind,
just doing its thing. Don't worry about it, it's just what must
play out. With a little investigation, this whole shooting match
can come to an end, and the suffering is over!
- J.D. Hazlewood
Letting go of your individuality is meeting the Infinite.
- Ram Dass