Against the Dark

“If we run a hundred miles an hour to the other end of the continent in order to get away from the obstacle, we find the very same problem waiting for us when we arrive. It just keeps returning with new names, forms, manifestations until we learn whatever it has to teach us about where we are separating ourselves from reality, how we are pulling back instead of opening up, closing down instead of allowing ourselves to experience fully whatever we encounter, without hesitating or retreating into ourselves.”

Solid Light

James Turrell’s Aten Reign (2013) 

“I am not seeing the world as it is. I am seeing the world as I am. This means that, the world as you see it, reflects who you think you are.”

“There is no such thing as a Self-realised person. When there is no ‘person’ the Self is realised. When there is no ‘person’ the question of coming and going cannot arise. The body is an appearance in the Self. When the body disappears the Self remains as it always was and is. Realisation is the understanding ‘I am not this body which comes and goes, I am that permanent, unchanging reality in which the body and all else appears.”

First, realise that the world is a reflection of yourself. Then, stop finding fault with the reflection.

Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.