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We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. 

Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.


—Alan Watts

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Name and form are past bondages. The fact is, that which IS, is only one. It is omnipresent and universal. We say ‘here is a table’, ‘there is a bird’, or ‘there is a man’.

There is thus a difference in name and form only, but That which IS, is present everywhere and at all times.
That is what is known as asti - Existence, omnipresent.

To say that a thing exists there must be someone to see.
That intelligence to see is known as bhati - Consciousness.

There must be someone to say, ‘I see it, I hear it, I want it’.
That is priyam - Love.

All these three are the attributes of nature, the natural Self.

They are also called Existence, Consciousness, Bliss.
(Sat-Chit-Ananda).


—Sri Ramana Maharshi

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