Suffering

"Who is it that loves and who that suffers?
He alone stages a play with Himself;
who exists save Him?
The individual suffers because he perceives duality.
It is duality which causes all sorrow and grief.
Find the One everywhere
and in everything
and there will be an end to pain and suffering."

~ Anandmayee Maa.

Liberation

In Liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists; that there is nothing to support; that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and You are That.

– Adyashanti

Emptiness

Interviewer: Why is it we all so desperately want to be loved?

KRISHNAMURTI: Because we are so desperately empty, lonely.

Interviewer: But you say that loving is more important than being loved.

KRISHNAMURTI: Yes, of course—which means one must understand this emptiness, this loneliness in oneself. A mind that is self-concerned with its own ambitions, greeds, fears, guilt, suffering has no capacity to love. Love can only come into being when there is a total self-abandonment. And total abandonment can only happen with the understanding of oneself. Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom and therefore wisdom and love go together. This means there is love only when I have really understood myself and therefore know in myself there is no fragmentation at all—no sense of anger, ambition, greed or separative activity.

Dream

You dream that you are awake, you dream that you are asleep --- and you do not realize you are dreaming because you are still in the dream!
Indeed, when you do realize that this is all a dream, you will have already awakened.

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One who has seen his true nature, no longer regards life as being full of menace and misery as most people do.
His previously mistaken sense of personal
volition and responsibility, has disappeared in such freedom and joy, that life is now just an amusing spectacle like a game or dream, in which he has no real part.

Ramesh Balsekar

Still mind

समाधानसमाधान-हिताहितविकल्पनाः। शून्यचित्तो न जानाति कैवल्यमिव संस्थितः॥17-18॥

संदेह और समाधान एवं हित और अहित की कल्पना से परे, शून्य चित्त वाला पुरुष कैवल्य में ही स्थित रहता है।
One with still mental state, stabilises in Kaevaily (-absolute-state, singleness, oneness), above the imagination of doubts and solutions welfare or anmity-harm-inimical-evil-injury, to anyone.

I am

When there is I there is problem when there is no I there is peace and happiness... <3

Liberation

Everyone who attains liberation
must go through difficult experiences,
lots of troubles, tribulations and fear for some time.
Bigger than you imagine can come.
Actually, we are all experiencing these things on drip-feed
throughout the life, but remain unaware of this.
And if they are coming more intensely now
it is because you are at a stage where you can bear their weight.
Perhaps more love or the presence of a supporting spiritual being
raises your courage and new possibilities begin flowering.
But if you want to keep or protect your person,
these forces will grow and wrap themselves
around any sense of self you take yourself to be.
Self-inquiry, contemplation, self-surrender help you to surrender,
to offer everything up to the higher power
and to merge yourself with the God-Self.
And thus you find every good thing is with you.
The greatest love becomes your fragrance.
The greatest power flows inside you.
Nevertheless, doubts, hesitations and resistance will come.
Know all is well if you don't turn to yourself personally.
If you turn to yourself, turn to yourself Impersonally.
Thus you turn to the Supreme, to the Lord of the universe.
Just keep your head there under His holy feet
until duality and unicity become one.

~ Mooji