Heaven is this moment.

Hell is the burning desire for this moment to be differen

t. It s that simple.
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own conven
ience. JK
"Only a free being can be unfree." M. Heidegger
I keep forgetting that my memory's not as good as it used to be.
Whatever "exists" could possibly "not exist." Therefore, I do not exist.
The difference between a flower and a weed is a judgement - Unknown.
Most often the body is perfectly aware while "you" are absorbed in thoughts.
Even "ego" is no self.
There's nothing to deny or renounce.
"Advaita" or "non-duality" means "not-two", I am you...crazy isn't it?
Who owns a feeling?
There R no appearances in Actuality. No objects. In Reality there is no witness.
No subject. Where is separation outside thoughts?
We're not attached to people; we're attached to concepts about people. Byron Kat
ie
It is perfectly safe to stand nowhere.
Want to find what you seek? Stop looking for it.
"Your true self is free from beauty and ugliness, free from God and evil.When yo
u manifest yourself as emptiness, at that moment, you are free from everything."
Pain + Non-acceptance = Suffering
You can feel like a basket case, but that feeling is your wealth, not something t
o be thrown out or improved upon. Pema Chodron
"As long as there is any 'one' to suffer - he will."
No one has feelings. Feelings aren't possessions, they're transitory phenomena.
You can't have feelings any more than you can have sunlight.
The 'self' is not an entity, but a perceived state of tension. Feeling tense is
intentional, integral to 'self'.
Give your question to silence, and let silence answer it. Silence is alive in yo
u, as you.
Sounds are outer noise. But there is also inner noise.
It s not an accident but there to teach you.

Pema Chodron

It is the perspective of the sufferer that determines whether a given experience

perpetuates suffering or is a vehicle for awakening.

Nothing upsets your mind when you're impatient; you don't ever have complication
s Your are no longer vulnerable to anxiety or frustration.
Disturbing thoughts are the cause of awareness; focus your mind on these very th
oughts themselves. Phagmo Drubpa
When you realize you are experiencing, the observer and participant are seem as
apparent/different aspects of this experiencing...
Peace is ordinary presence, when we stop seeking it.
The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call matter is conscio
usness itself. -- Nisargadatta
You're the one you're looking for.
Light has no color and is all colors.
It's not that anyone can see space. It's that space is everything seen.
No god, no santa claus, no present moment.
If there's one there's another.
Is there another moment than the present moment?
What is remembered is never real; the real is now.
Be the invisible, don't fear invisibles.
One never directly perceives "one's head."
Awareness is not in a head. The head is in awareness.
Waves of water instantiate "waveness" but don't exist in themselves as waves.
Waves are simply water and how water acts.
No thing or being is "aware." Everything and all being is awareness.
The stone, the insect, the cat, the demon -- awareness. You are That.
You breathe and you are breathed.
The "monster" in the movie is by nature the light streaming through the projecto
r to the screen, not existing in itself.
Nothing is ever wrong with now. This could possibly be false but give it your at
tention and verify beyond "thinking."
We know not what we do.
Consider the possibility that everything is exactly as it appears without deep o
r special meaning.
There wasn't any fall, and won't be any rise.
Rejoice. No matter what "happens" it's not you. And there is only "happening."
No mind is the Life of Mind. No self is Self-delight.
The simplicity is: only awareness is aware of "unawareness."

Life is dead already and death is full of Life.

Don't be fooled by language into thinking there is an equation to solve. Reality
is asymmetry.
Nobody imprisoned, nobody released.
True nature is No Mind, not some concept of "nature."
Being concept free does not mean we do not make use of concepts; but means we a
re not attached to concepts.~Mooji
Only mind can utter "my mind" so to what does "my" refer?
Possessive expressions such as "my mind" are magically deceiving.
A thought "I cannot reach the truth." Turn it around: "I am Truth. Thoughts cann
ot reach Me."
in advaita the knowing it is the being it. There is no distinctive act of graspi
ng awareness.
I am nothing of which I am aware.
Mind is the realm of possibility and not of actuality. Actualities are merely hi
ghlighted possibilities.
Compassion is the foundation of earnestness. Compassion for yourself and others,
born of suffering, your own and others.
You cling to the false, because you do not know the true. Earnestness, not perfe
ction, is a precondition to self-realization.
The sentence:
I can see that I am false contains all you need for liberation. Pon
der over it, go into it deeply, go to the root of it.
What is remembered is never real; the real is now.
The only trouble is that you are addicted to experience and you cherish your mem
ories.
Do not look for a Guru, do not even think of one. Make your goal your Guru.
As the mind is made of words and images, so is every reflection in the mind. It
covers up reality with verbalization and then complains.
There will be many messengers, but the message is one: be what you are.
Unless you know yourself well, how can you know another? And when you know yours
elf -- you are the other.
Complete self-surrender by itself is liberation.
Abandon all sense of separation, see yourself in all and act accordingly. With a
ction bliss will come and, with bliss, conviction.
There is no body, nor a world to contain it; there is only a mental condition, a
dreamlike state, easy to dispel by questioning its reality.
Do understand that to be, reality need not be known. Ignorance and knowledge are

in the mind, not in the real.

If you know what you teach, you can teach what you know, Here seership and teach
ership are one. But the Absolute...
You need not reach out for what is already with you. Your very reaching out make
s you miss it.
Mistrust all, until you are convinced. The true Guru will never humiliate you, n
or will he estrange you from yourself.
You are the Supreme Reality beyond the world and its creator, beyond consciousne
ss and its witness, beyond all assertions and denials.
You do not know what you are and therefore you imagine your self to be what you
are not. Hence desires and fear and overwhelming despair.
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.
Whatever has a beginning must have an end. In the timeless all is perfect, here
and now.
You fight others all the time for your survival as a separate body-mind, a parti
cular name and form. To live you must destroy.
The world is what it contains and each thing affects all others. We all kill the
child and we all die with it.
This alteration of being and becoming is inevitable; but my home is beyond.
It is the instinct of exploration, the love of the unknown, that brings me into
existence.
I do not look at death as a calamity as I do not rejoice at the birth of a child
. The child is out for trouble while the dead is out of it.
The cosmic heart beats ceaselessly. I am the witness and the heart too.
In our ignorance we are innocent; in our actions we are guilty. We sin without k
nowing and suffer without understanding.
The ideas of 'me' and 'mine' are at the root of all conflict. Be free of them an
d you will be out of conflict.
The timeless reality of pure being is not in movement, for all movement requires
a motionless background. It is itself the background.
All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with revere
nce and love.
Give your heart and mind to brooding over the 'I am', what is it, how is it, wha
t is its source, its life, its meaning.
Give your self infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you
are beyond.
What relationship can there be between what is and what merely appears to be? Is
there any relationship between the...
When all distinctions and reactions are no more, what remains is reality.

Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of conscious

ness and finally go beyond it. The art
The limited only is perfectible. The unlimited is already perfect. You are perfe
ct, only you don't know it.
Reality is not a concept, nor the manifestation of a concept. It has nothing to
do with concepts.
The effort to understand yourself is Yoga. Be a Yogi, give your life to it, broo
d, wonder, search, till you come to the root of error.
The source is neither right nor wrong. Nor is desire by itself right or wrong. I
t is nothing but striving for happiness.
In reality nothing happens, there is no past nor future; all appears and nothing
is.
It is you who are in movement and not time. Stop moving and time will cease.
As an 'I am' you are the river, flowing between the banks of the body. But you a
re also the source and the ocean and the clouds in the sky.
Awareness is not limited to consciousness. It is of all that is. Consciousness i
s of duality. There is no duality in
Science merely pushes back the frontiers of our ignorance.