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There is never a moment when God is not, and you are That.
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"Your thoughts arise on a moment to moment basis because of your conditioning, but it is a mistake to think that you can do nothing about them. You can be interested in them, or you can ignore them. If you show interest in them, they will persist and you will get caught up in them. If you ignore them, and keep your attention on the Source, they will not develop. And when they don't develop, they disappear."

Annamalai Swami
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Self-inquiry will not make of you anything that you are not already, but it will, over time, destroy the false belief that you are this body, this mind, this story.

That false belief is the root cause of all human suffering whatsoever.

John Sherman

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Ramana

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"Realize what is present here and now."

Ramana
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"If you seek the ego you will find that it does not exist. That is the way to destroy it."

Ramana
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"There is no difference between jnana and surrender."

Ramana
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"...there is no possibility of clearing away all doubts. See to whom the doubts arise. Go to their source and abide in it. Then they cease to arise. That is how doubts are to be cleared."

Ramana
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"Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized. What is permanent must be eternally present. Realize what is present here and now. Once veiled by ignorance and later revealed, Reality looks as if newly realized. But it is not new."

Ramana
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Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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"Be as you are."

Ramana
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"Whose free will is it? You believe it is yours, but you are beyond free will and fate. Abide as That and you will transcend them both."

Ramana
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When you meet with people,

at work or wherever it may be,

give them your fullest attention.

You are no longer there primarily as a person,

but as a field of awareness,

of alert Presence.

The original reason for interacting with the other person ~

buying or selling something,

requesting or giving information,

and so on ~~ now becomes secondary.

The field of awareness that arises between you

becomes the primary purpose for the interaction.

That space of awareness becomes more important

than what you may be talking about,

more important than physical or thought objects.

The human Being becomes more important than the things of this world.



The arising of that unifying field of awareness

between human beings

is the most essential factor

in relationships on the new earth.




~ Eckhart Tolle
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O, What A World of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings and unshowable reveries! And the privacy of it all! A secret theater of speechless monologue and prevenient counsel, an invisible mansion of all moods, musings, and mysteries, an infinite resort of disappointments and discoveries. A whole kingdom where each of us reigns exclusively alone, questioning what we will, commanding what we can. A hidden hermitage where we may study out the troubled book of what we have done and yet may do. An introcosm that is more myself than anything I can find in a mirror. This consciousness that is myself of selves, that is everything, and yet nothing at all -- what is it?

And where did it come from?

And why?

Julian Jaynes
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"...the problem of freedom versus determinism is dualistic in presupposing a self whose actions are either free or determined, and the nondualistic denial of an ontological self resolves that bifurcation: if I am the universe, then complete determinism becomes equivalent to absolute freedom. This issue of causality is perhaps the most crucial one of all..."

David Loy
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Rest

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What you resist persists.
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Annamalai Swami

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"If you understand the true nature of this wheel of life, this wheel that is giving everyone so much alternating happiness and misery, this understanding will lead you to where there is no wheel, no change, no movement. This wheel is spinning in the substratum of the changeless Self. If you take your position in the still, peaceful center of the Self you will know, simultaneously, that the Self is motionless peace, and that the spinning wheel is also Self."

Annamalai Swami
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"You are looking for satisfaction in the outside world because you think that all these objects you see in front of you are real. They are not. The reality is the substratum in which they all appear. This is what you should be seeking...."

Annamalai Swami
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"Clarity, awareness, and emptiness inseparable are spontaneously present,
So why say your practice is not successful?
...Knowing in the present moment is just this,
So why say you do not know it?"

Padmasambhava
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* The late wondercat Barney *

Autumn in Northern New Mexico
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