"If you have Jnana, you are at peace with yourself and the world,
for all the happiness that exists, all the joy that exists, all the peace that exists, all the love that exists, is another name for Jnana.
Therefore to the extent that you awaken,
to that extent do you find that all is well,
wherever you are."
- Robert Adams
spiritual ,
Robert Adams
, all-is-well
, awakening
, bliss
, inner-peace
, jnani
, joy
, unconditional-love
"To realize that you are not your thoughts
is when you being to awaken spiritually."
- Eckhart Tolle
spiritual ,
Eckhart Tolle
, awakening
, detachment
, neti-neti
, self-realization
, who-am-i
"The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions
seems real until the awakening."
- Adi Shankaracharya
spiritual ,
Adi Shankaracharya
, attachment
, awakening
, dream-sleep
, illusion
"Our original nature is void, omnipresent, silent, pure;
it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy
-and that is all.
Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself."
- Huangbo Xiyun
spiritual ,
Huangbo Xiyun
, awakening
, bliss
, emptiness
, inner-peace
, pure
, silence
, source-energy
, who-you-are
"The reality which shines fully, without misery and without a body,
not only when the world is known but also when the world is not known,
is your real form."
- Ramana Maharshi
spiritual ,
Ramana Maharshi
, absolute-reality
, awakening
, detachment
, reality
, who-you-are
"The awakened state of being, the enlightened state of being,
can also be called the natural state of being."
- Adyashanti
quoted from 'True Meditation'
spiritual ,
Adyashanti
, awakening
, enlightenment
, who-you-are
"Once you catch a glimpse of self-realization, you'll never go back again.
There's no turning back."
- Robert Adams
spiritual ,
Robert Adams
, advaita-vedanta
, awakening
, self-realization
"When you awaken, you appear the same as you are right now, only you're totally free.
That's all. You're completely, totally free.
Your people will still see you the same way you are now.
They will not see any difference.
If they stay with you twenty-four hours a day,
they will notice you do not react to things any longer.
They will notice you've become an embodiment of peace,
that you're always happy, nothing disturbs you.
There's absolutely nothing to be afraid of.
It's a wonderful experience."
- Robert Adams
from Satsang. Talk 159 - The Self or the World
spiritual ,
Robert Adams
, alignment
, awakening
, bliss
, carefree
, enlightenment
, happiness
, happy
, inner-peace
, liberation
, serenity
"Become nothing,
And He'll turn you into everything."
- Rumi
spiritual ,
Rumi
, awakening
, emptiness
, neti-neti
, no-thoughts
"In the ultimate reality there's nothing as we know it, as we conceive it.
As long as you're able to voice it, it's false.
As long as you able to think about it, it does not exist.
Reality is silence, not words."
- Robert Adams
spiritual ,
Robert Adams
, absolute-reality
, awakening
, emptiness
, neti-neti
, reality
, silence
"The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts,
in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate,
to reveal itself."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
'Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Walking Toward Enlightenment'
spiritual ,
Thich Nhat Hanh
, awakening
, empty-mind
, neti-neti
, secret
, spirit-guides
, truth
"We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness"
- Thich Nhat Hanh
spiritual ,
Thich Nhat Hanh
, awakening
, illusion
, unity
, we-are-all-one
"The world is but a show, glittering and empty.
It appears exactly as it looks, but there is no depth in it, nor meaning.
Only the onlooker is real."
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
'I Am That' page 171
spiritual ,
Nisargadatta Maharaj
, awakening
, broader-perspective
, emptiness
, illusion
, reality
, self
"Find where the ego rises from and it will disappear"
- Papaji
spiritual ,
Papaji
, awakening
, ego
, self-inquiry
, who-am-i
"Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are
and then being that"
- Adyashanti
spiritual ,
Adyashanti
, awakening
, enlightenment
, inner-being
, self
, who-you-are
"If you see the illusion you are enlightened,
but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion"
- Papaji
spiritual ,
Papaji
, awakening
, enlightenment
, illusion
"The three states (waking, dream and sleep) owe their existence to non-inquiry
and inquiry puts an end to them"
- Ramana Maharshi
quoted from 'Be As You Are'
spiritual ,
Ramana Maharshi
, advaita-vedanta
, awakening
, dream-sleep
, illusion
, self-inquiry
"The most decisive event in your life
is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions.
Instead, you can be present as the awareness
behind the thoughts and emotions."
- Eckhart Tolle
spiritual ,
Eckhart Tolle
, awakening
, awareness
, be-the-witness
, neti-neti
"You do not have to struggle to reach God,
but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you."
- Paramahansa Yogananda
spiritual ,
Paramahansa Yogananda
, awakening
, god
, illusion
, seeking-god
, struggle
, within-yourself
"When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness.
Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence."
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
spiritual ,
Nisargadatta Maharaj
, awakening
, be-the-witness
, emptiness
, infinite
, self-inquiry
, silence
, who-am-i
"When the ego dies, the soul awakes."
- Mahatma Gandhi
spiritual ,
Mahatma Gandhi
, awakening
, ego
, self-realization
, soul
, who-you-are
"Realize that what is seen is not there"
- Ashtavakra Gita
spiritual ,
Ashtavakra Gita
, awakening
, illusion
, maya
, neti-neti
, reality
"May we awaken from the dream that we are different."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
spiritual ,
Thich Nhat Hanh
, awakening
, humanity
, illusion
, racism
, unity
, we-are-all-one
"We become so enmeshed in the world. We think things are real.
Everything bothers us. We become angry. We become upset.
But the truth is you are not maya.
You are absolute reality. You are total awareness. You are the Self.
Know who you are and wake up.
Awaken and be free."
- Robert Adams
spiritual ,
Robert Adams
, awakening
, awareness
, illusion
, liberation
, maya
, reality
, self
, self-realization
, who-you-are
"Once you free yourself from the idea, 'I am my body' and the consequences of this idea, you will awaken to your natural state of being."
- Jean Klein
spiritual ,
Jean Klein
, awakening
, inner-being
, liberation
, neti-neti
, self-inquiry
, self-realization
, who-you-are
"Ground yourself, strip yourself down to blind loving silence.
Stay there until you see you are gazing at the light with its own ageless eyes."
- Rumi
spiritual ,
Rumi
, awakening
, eyes
, light
, meditation
, neti-neti
, self-inquiry
, self-realization
, silence
"A spark of truth can burn up a mountain of lies."
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
inspiring ,
spiritual ,
Nisargadatta Maharaj
, awakening
, illusion
, truth
"Emptiness is only another word for what you are.
You spend your whole life trying to be the best ‘someone’ you can be, but now you are discovering that you are actually no one.
This is the most significant and profound discovery a human being can make,
and in this discovery is true freedom, true joy, and true peace."
- Mooji
spiritual ,
Mooji
, awakening
, emptiness
, empty-mind
, freedom
, joy
, liberation
, neti-neti
, peace
, serenity
, who-you-are
"Let go your attachment to the unreal and the real will swiftly and smoothly step into its own."
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
spiritual ,
Nisargadatta Maharaj
, attachment
, awakening
, detachment
, illusion
, neti-neti
, reality
"Every morning we wake up from our dreams,
but to be truly awake, we must also awaken from the waking state."
- Mooji
spiritual ,
Mooji
, awakening
, dream-sleep
, illusion
"Leave your body alone.
Take just enough care of it. Exercise it a little, feed it right foods, but don't think about it too much.
Keep your mind on reality. Merge your mind with reality, and you will experience reality.
You will live in a world without problems."
- Robert Adams
spiritual ,
Robert Adams
, all-is-well
, awakening
, awareness
, body
, illusion
, neti-neti
, problems
, reality
, self-realization
, who-you-are
"When the mind is utterly still,
that which is sacred, can take place."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
spiritual ,
Jiddu Krishnamurti
, awakening
, divine
, empty-mind
, stillness
, tranquility
"You are the Sole Witness of all that is, forever free.
Your only bondage is not seeing This."
- Ashtavakra Gita
spiritual ,
Ashtavakra Gita
, advaita-vedanta
, awakening
, be-the-witness
, enlightenment
, liberation
, self-realization
"Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought!
Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?"
- Rumi
spiritual ,
Rumi
, advaita-vedanta
, awakening
, empty-mind
, liberation
, no-thoughts
, non-duality
, self-inquiry
, worry
"The 'you' who you think you are does not exist"
- Alan Watts
spiritual ,
Alan Watts
, awakening
, ego
, illusion
, neti-neti
, who-am-i
, who-you-are
"What is your life about anyway?
Nothing but a struggle to be someone.
Nothing but a running from your own silence."
- Rumi
spiritual ,
Rumi
, attachment
, awakening
, ego
, illusion
, maya
, self-image
, silence
"We are right where we are supposed to be, free and happy.
But some illusion called the personal self, the I-thought, tells us quite a different story.
It shows us all kinds of pictures in our mind, and we fall into deeper delusion.
This is called maya, the grand illusion, the cosmic joke."
- Robert Adams
spiritual ,
Robert Adams
, advaita-vedanta
, awakening
, ego
, freedom
, happy
, illusion
, maya
, mind
"You are not a drop in the ocean
You are the entire ocean in a drop"
- Rumi
spiritual ,
Rumi
, awakening
, awareness
, enlightenment
, illusion
, ocean
, reality
, self-realization
, universe
, who-am-i
, who-you-are
"The universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want, you already are."
- Rumi
spiritual ,
Rumi
, awakening
, desires
, illusion
, reality
, self-realization
, universe
, who-you-are
, within-yourself
"If you can only stop your mind from thinking,
self-realization will come of itself."
- Robert Adams
spiritual ,
Robert Adams
, advaita-vedanta
, awakening
, empty-mind
, self-realization
, stop-thinking