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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3556, Sunday, June 7, 2009, Editor: Mark
When you have a dream, your mind creates all the people and
events in it. They have no reality apart from you, and their
creation takes nothing from you and their re-absorption adds
nothing to you; you are the same after as before. It is something
like that with the manifestation of the universe.
You cannot be outside the Spirit or other than it, because there
is no other. If you discover the real self of you behind all
thoughts and feelings, it is Spirit, the Self of all; whether you
discover it or not, only the Self is.
Why, then, should one trouble to discover It? Because by breaking
through illusion of a separate individuality and discovering the
One Self, suffering and frustration is avoided and strife
replaced by a vibrant Peace, sorrow by a luminous Bliss.
The Oneness of Being is the ultimate truth all religions and all
occultism and esoterism, although some may have lost sight of it.
It is known in Hinduism as `Advaita', Non-Duality. The three
Western religions and some schools of Hinduism have veiled it
behind the less direct teachings of a Personal God who creates
and rewards and punishes. Their teaching is true but not the
ultimate Truth. So long as the ego persists in the illusion of
its own reality, the Self is the God who creates it. The Self
drawing it back is the Love of God for his creature.
- Arthur Osbourne
Q: How then can I become free from this limitation, the sense of
being an individual entity?
A: First welcome all that you think you are. When you fully
welcome all that you take as yourself, you will suddenly find
yourself in openness and you will see that this, and not your
assumptions about your character and so on, is your real nature.
In openness you are aware that all you think, all that appears,
is not you. When you welcome the body, senses and mind, and find
that they are only objects of your perception that appear in you,
you discover a new dimension behind your beliefs. You will be
absorbed by this new dimension and will see that what you took to
be yourself is only an expression of what you are. Then you live
completely integrated, knowingly in your totality.
This coming to know what you are not is an organic ripening but
it can happen in one monment. There is great beauty in it.
- Jean Klein, from Who Am I? The Sacred Quest
In other words, the aim becomes the present moment, and the
present moment is its own significance, and its own preciousness.
The present moment is not different from the self-realization,
which is not different from the self that is realized, which is
not different from the reality that is precious.
- A.H. Almaas, from Diamond Heart Book Three
The "I" is not a thought at all. It is the very
principle of Consciousness itself, pure Being. It is neither
personal mind nor physical body, neither ego nor little self.
Without it they could not exist or function. It is their witness.
- Paul Brunton, from Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The Ego, Vol.
6
I AM is a feeling of permanent awareness. The very center of
consciousness is the feeling of I AM. I may forget who I am,
where I am, what I am, but I cannot forget that I Am. The
awareness of being remains, regardless of the degree of
forgetfulness of who, where, and what I am.
- Neville Goddard, from The Power of Awareness
"I Am That I Am" sums up the whole truth; the method is
summarized in "Be Still."
To know the truth of one's Self as the sole Reality, and to merge
and become one with it, is the only true Realization. Just be the
Self, that is all.
Because people want something elaborate and mysterious, so many
religions have come into existence. Only those who are mature can
understand the matter in its naked simplicity. The ultimate truth
is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one's natural,
original state. It is a great wonder that to teach such a simple
truth a number of religions should be necessary, and so many
disputes should go on between them as to which is the
God-ordained teaching. What a pity!
Your duty is to Be, and not be this or that.
The state we call Realization is simply being one's self, not
knowing anything or becoming anything. It is not a matter of
becoming but of Being. Because people love mystery and not the
truth, religions cater to them, eventually bringing them around
to the Self.
Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the
Self; so why not abide in the Self here and now? There is no
greater mystery than this: Being Reality ourselves, we seek to
gain Reality. Abide as the Self. Do not look for teachings...for
the Self is beyond knowledge and ignorance.
- Ramana Maharshi, from The Essential Teachings of Ramana
Maharshi- A Visual Journey
Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will
unlock the prison door.
- Arnaud Desjardins from Offerings
You are love itself when you are not afraid.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj