The beginning and the end are common on the circumference of a circle. —Heraclitus

 

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Before the world was, consciousness was. In consciousness the world comes to be; in hard consciousness and in pure consciousness the world dissolves. At the root of everything, there is the feeling of ′I am’. 

The state of mind ′there is a world′ is secondary; to be me I don't need the world, the world needs me.


—Nisargadatta Maharaj

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A yogi has no particular path. 

He simply renounces imagining things. 

His mind then ceases out of its own accord, 

and the perfect state naturally occurs.

—Sri Dattatreya

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You will experience realization like water being poured into water,

like liquid gold being poured into liquid gold. 

Everything will be equalized in One Suchness,

profoundly clear, real and pure.


—Yuanwu Keqin (1063 - 1135)

 

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