You cannot think your way into awareness. You are awareness. It just gets pointed out.
~ John Wheeler
So long as the play, the dream, seems real for the seeker, then the bottom line is that with some pointing to what is actually REAL, AND some pointing out what is NOT REAL, the suffering can end.
~Charlie Hayes
If I asked you, ‘What is wrong with right now, without thinking about it?’, what would you say? You have to pause for a moment and realise that if there is no thought there, there is nothing wrong.
~ “Sailor” Bob Adamson
It would seem that reality has moved into the mental realm and reality is known by what is thought about it – and not by what it is.
~ John Greven
Give up all questions except one who am I?
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
Enlightenment only becomes available when it has been accepted that it cannot be achieved.
~ Tony Parsons
You can never find mind through the mind. Go beyond it, and find it non-existent.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
~ Alan Watts
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
~ Gautama Siddharta
A fella ain't got a soul of his own, just one great big soul, the one big soul that belongs to everybody.
~ Tom Joad, The Grapes of Wrath
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