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All things in this creation exist within you, and all things in you exist in creation; there is no border between you and the closest things, and there is no distance between you and the farthest things, and all things, from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, are within you as equal things. In one atom are found all the elements of the earth; in one motion of the mind are found the motions of all the laws of existence; in one drop of water are found the secrets of all the endless oceans; in one aspect of you are found all the aspects of existence.

Khalil Gibran

Q. Has any one of those persons coming here become a jnani? M: A number of those who have come here have acquired the knowledge, but only superficially. No one has really studied what the knowledge is; no one has really grasped the full meaning. What are they doing now? They are entangled in wanting, desiring, and this has made them forget the knowledge. Very few will get this knowledge correctly and absorb it deeply into their hearts. Once you have understood the origin of this movement, this activity, and the reason, the nature of this desire, then only can you return to what you are. Unless you are firm about it, you will not understand.

Like the empty sky it has no boundaries, Yet it is right in this place, ever profound and clear. When you seek to know it, you cannot see it. You cannot take hold of it, But you cannot lose it. In not being able to get it, you get it. When you are silent, it speaks; When you speak, it is silent. The great gate is wide open to bestow alms, And no crowd is blocking the way.

Cheng-tao Ke

No Conflict When the flute is playing For then I see every movement emanates From God’s Holy Dance.

Hafiz

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosophers or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself and that is why you must know yourself. Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

J. Krishnamurti

When he awakens and sees nobody in the house but himself, then he says, "I am, and there is nobody other than I"

Rumi

THERE IS AN old Sufi story that goes something like this:

A young man was wandering from village to village, when he chanced upon the house of a young woman with whom he fell into mad love. He knocked on her door and from within the house her voice called out, "Who is it?"

"It is I," said the young man.

"Go away," said the woman, "There is not room enough in this house for two of us."

Devastated, the young man went away and did much penance, prayer, and meditation. Later, he returned and knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" came the voice from within the house.

"It is you."

The door opened.

Harrison, Steven

When the fish is caught we pay no more attention to the trap.

Huang Po

In our ignorance we are innocent; in our actions we are guilty. We sin without knowing and suffer with out understanding. Our only hope: to stop, to look, to understand and to get out of the traps of memory. For memory feeds imagination and imagination generates desire and fear.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The physical body, composed of the seven dhatus, is not ‘I’. The five sense organs… and the five types of perception known through the senses… are not ‘I’. The five parts of the body which act… and their functions… are not ‘I’. The five vital airs such as prana, which perform the five vital functions such as respiration, are not ‘I’. Even the mind that thinks is not ‘I’. In the state of deep sleep vishaya vasanas remain. Devoid of sensory knowledge and activity, even this [state] is not ‘I’. After negating all of the above as ‘not I, not I’, the knowledge that alone remains is itself ‘I’. The nature of knowledge is sat-chit-ananda [being-consciousness-bliss].

Ramana Maharshi

When consciousness mixes with itself, that is samadhi. When one doesn’t know anything -and doesn’t even know that he doesn’t know anything – that is samadhi

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Whatever you are looking for can only be found inside of you.

Rumi

Turiya, which means the fourth state. Why is this name used? This name is proper because it seems to say the three states of your experiencewaking, dream and deep sleep-are foreign to you and your true state is the fourth, which is different from these three. Should the three states, waking, dream and deep sleep, be taken to form one long dream, the fourth state represents the waking from this dream. Thus it is more withdrawn than deep sleep, also more wakeful than the waking state. Therefore your true state is that fourth one which is distinguished from the waking, dream and deep sleep states. You are that only. What is this fourth state? It is knowledge which does not particularize anything. It is not unaware of itself. That is to say, the fourth state is Pure Knowledge which is not conscious of any object, but not unconscious itself. Only he who has realized it even for a trice, has realized the Truth. You are that only.

For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

If you but cease from useless conceptualizing, you will be what you are and what you have always been.

Ramesh Balsekar