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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3381, Sunday, December 14, 2008, Editor: Mark
The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed.
The reading and the meaning will vary with the reader, but the
paper is the common factor, always present, rarely perceived.
When the ribbon is removed, typing leaves no trace on the paper.
So is my mind - the impressions keep on coming, but no trace is
left.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
Stop searching in your memory and recognize what has been here
all the time.
- Gangaji, from You Are That! - Satsang With Gangaji
Question: Why have we no memory of past lives?
Bhagavan: Memory is a faculty of the mind and part of the
illusion. Why do you want to remember other lives that are also
illusions? If you abide within the Self, there is no past or
future and not even a present since the Self is out of
time-timeless.
- Ramana Maharshi
The ego is simply a thought based on the assumption that you are
a particular body, and this is a lie. All assumptions that follow
and follow and support initial, mistaken assumption are therefore
also lies.
Let go of the practice of trying to hold the body together, of
thinking your reality. This is the beginning. What is then
revealed is so secret that it cannot be spoken. If it is spoken,
it is already a distortion of truth.
- Gangaji, from You Are That! - Satsang With Gangaji
True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from
past and future as a psychological need.
- Eckhart Tolle
All the ancient scriptures are intended simply to make us retrace
our steps to the original source. There is no need to gain
anything. We must simply give up false ideas and useless
accretions. Instead of doing this, we try to catch hold of
something strange and mysterious, believing that happiness lies
elsewhere. That is the mistake.
- Ramana Maharshi
All that we have to do is to give up identifying the Self with
the body, with forms and limits, and then we shall know ourselves
as the Self that we always are.
- Ramana Maharshi