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

Wisdom

Bondage

"Bondage is when the mind is tangled in one of the senses, and liberation is when the mind is not tangled in any of the senses."

~ Ashtavakra Gita.

Mind is always engaged in the pursuit of pleasures of senses- be it the pleasure of greater knowledge, greater power, physical satisfaction, a new experience or any thing this clever, cunning mind can envision.

We may ask what is wrong in it? For the very simple reason that pleasure bring pain, frustration, sorrow and fear, howsoever we avoid them. Pain is the shadow of pleasure. Because when we are denied a pleasure which we desire and seek earnestly, we become anxious, envious, fearful and hateful. A inner- conflict arises, and that is the cause of our bondage.

Those who know don't talk

Those who know don't talk.
Those who talk don't know.

Close your mouth,
block off your senses,
blunt your sharpness,
untie your knots,
soften your glare,
settle your dust.
This is the primal identity.

Be like the Tao.
It can't be approached or withdrawn from,
benefited or harmed,
honored or brought into disgrace.
It gives itself up continually.
That is why it endures.

~ Lao Tzu

...from "Tao Te Ching" (verse 56), translation by S. Mitchell