Favorite Quotes – 1

There is only light and the light is all. Everything else is but a picture made of light. The picture is in the light and the light is in the picture. Life and death, self and not-self — abandon all these ideas. They are of no use to you.
– Nisargadatta Maharaj

Consciousness which is undivided imagines to itself desirable objects and runs after them. It is then known as the mind. — Yoga Vasishta Sara

“When we believe in the world outside of ourselves, gain is often perceived as good and loss as bad. When we stop believing in a world external to self. that reverses: gain becomes bad and loss becomes good. Nothing we can lose was ever ours in the first place. All we can ever lose is illusion.”

–Jed McKenna, Spiritual Warfare

Nisargadatta: Wherever it leads you, it will be a dream. The very idea of going beyond the dream is illusory. Why go anywhere? Just realise that you are dreaming a dream you call the world, and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another. Love all, or none of it, and stop complaining. When you have seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs be done.

— I AM THAT

If you trust me, believe when I tell you that you are the pure awareness that illuminates consciousness and its infinite content. Realize this and live accordingly.     
– Nisargadatta Maharaj

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in the drop
– Rumi

I wish I could show you … When you are lonely or in darkness
The astonishing light of your own being                                                            

–Hafeez

Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you but your own imagination,
you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas, and live by Truth alone.

-Nis