Quotes

Awakeness

When your image of the me takes a break, you’ll find all you are doing at that moment is just being open. You feel quite relieved that you are not trying to get to another moment or a better experience. You feel yourself just being in a very relaxed, easy sense of peace. You haven’t gained anything at all—you’re not smarter, you don’t necessarily know more than anyone else, and you haven’t suddenly become holy. If you are resting as your own true nature, then you feel that there is really nowhere else to go.

At that moment, you feel as if your path has ended. It can be hard to end it when so much is invested in your path, but if you really want to be free, you must want to know the truth more than anything else. And when you do, you find that the truth is so damn empty. There is so much nothing to it. There is so much nobody there, just a very vivid awakeness.

- Adyashanti

Happiness

Please, please see it: everything is alive. 
Great, great Alive. 

This is the happiness of all happiness. 
And this “now here” can never be destroyed. 
The light of your eternal life is shining brightly, now. 
What joy there is in this radiance!

Please, take care of yourself, your shining Buddha-self. 
Become ever more able to appreciate your Buddha-self. 

That is not to say be arrogant. There is nowhere anyone to feel small, no one to be made small, no one to feel superior, no one toward whom you could feel superior. So who are you to feel vain and proud when your very source is all being? 

You are supported, you are nurtured, you are guarded by all being. Thanks to all being, together, one, is all the universe. 

This breath is breathed, so close, always one, always together. Please never forsake the limitless treasure, which is you yourself. 

Be in touch, simply do not look away. Grasp nothing, hold nothing. There is just now, here, fresh, new, alive. Now. Just do you practice with all good grace.

- Roshi Sama

Self

Having realized the One Self, and that there is nothing outside of It, one knows that the image one has worshipped is THAT in a particular form.

Having found Reality, one perceives it in this particular guise: the deity I adored is none other than the One Self, the Brahman - there is no second.

Thus, the One is the Lord I worshipped.

When one has dived into the depth of the sea, water is known to be He in one form. The aspirant who advances along the path of bhakti will, when he has attained to the vision of his Master, become a true servant. The methods of ‘not this, not this’ and ‘this is Thou, this is Thou’ lead to the One Goal.

- Anandamayi Ma