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All you need to understand is that you are the one that perceives reality, that you give reality instead of receiving it. Things are as they are because you accept them as they are. 

When you blindly accept the limits of your conditioned self, doubt and isolation appear before you as real. Through silent observation and the contemplation of ‘I-am’, you begin the process of self understanding. Layers of memory and self identification begin to shed and the shell of isolation breaks up by itself. 

—Nisargadatta Maharaj

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It is believed by most

that time passes;

in actual fact,

it stays where it is. 

This idea of passing may be called time,

but it is an incorrect idea,

for since one sees it only as passing,

one cannot understand that it stays just where it is.

—Dogen Zenji

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Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. 

One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data, which is often fragmentary and fleeting.

—V.S. Ramachandran

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Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.


—Rupert Spira

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