Silence

The silence is another way of saying to keep your mind stayed on God all the time.  God is the silence and you are that.  Feel the silence right now.  You can feel it. It's a thing of beauty.
You know when you're getting into the true silence, you begin to become happier, and happier and happier for no reason.  It makes no difference what's going on in the world.  The world is in one place and you're in another place.

In the deep silence you are identifying with the substratum of creation.  Always remember to go into the silence.  A sage is always in the silence.  A sage may be talking, listening, partaking of activities, but to the sage there's only silence.

Robert Adams

Supreme happiness

Everyone runs after happiness and enjoyment. Yet, supreme happiness and bliss are ever There and nowhere else. That which is eternal must be revealed, and then the question of going in search of anything does not arise.

~ Sri Anandamayi Ma

...from 'Matri Vani' http://www.anandamayi.org/books/Matrivani.htm

Awakening

“Now the funny thing about the Truth, or enlightenment, or awakening, is that we miss it even though it’s not hidden. It’s not far away waiting for a moment where we deserve it. It is hard to find because it is right here. This openness has always been here. If it had a voice, it would have been saying something like, ‘For Pete’s sake, I wonder how long this image thing is going to go on!’ This imageless Self -- call it awakeness or awareness or openness, whatever word might trigger the remembrance for you -- is very quiet. But don’t believe me. Take the words inside. Discover for yourself. You are the authority. I’m just the messenger.”

~ Adyashanti

Emptiness Dancing

Jnani Vijnani

The jnani gives up his identification with worldly things, discriminating, 'Not this, not this'. Only then can he realize Brahman. It is like reaching the roof of a house by leaving the steps behind, one by one. But the vijnani, who is more intimately acquainted with Brahman, realizes something more. He realizes that the steps are made of the same materials as the roof: bricks, lime, and brick-dust. That which is realized intuitively as Brahman, through the eliminating process of 'Not this, not this', is then found to have become the universe and all its living beings. The vijnani sees that the Reality which is nirguna, without attributes, is also saguna, with attributes.

A man cannot live on the roof a long time. He comes down again. Those who realize Brahman in samadhi come down also and find that it is Brahman that has become the universe and its living beings. In the musical scale there are the notes sa, re ga, ma, pa, dha, and ni; but one cannot keep one's voice on 'ni' a long time. The ego does not vanish altogether. The man coming down from samadhi perceives that it is Brahman that has become the ego, the universe, and all living beings. This is known as vijnana."
http://www.arunachala-ramana.org/forum/index.php?topic=7540.0

Vairagya Dispassion

Vairāgya (Devanagari: वैराग्य, also spelt Vairagya) is a Sanskrit term used in Hindu philosophy that roughly translates as dispassion, detachment, or renunciation, in particular renunciation from the pains and pleasures in the material world (Maya). The Hindu philosophers who advocated vairāgya told their followers that it is a means to achieve moksha. True vairagya refers to an internal state of mind rather than to external lifestyle and can be practiced equally well by one engaged in family life and career as it can be by a renunciate. Vairagya does not mean suppression or developing repulsion for material objects. By the application of vivek (spiritual discrimination or discernment) to life experience, the aspirant gradually develops a strong attraction for the inner spiritual source of fulfillment and happiness and limited attachments fall away naturally. Balance is maintained between the inner spiritual state and one's external life through the practice of seeing all limited entities as expressions of the one Cosmic Consciousness or Brahman.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vairagya