no(thing, every(thing

  

Emerald Nebula

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‘Nothing is me’ is the first step. 'Everything is me’ is the next. Both hang on the idea: 'there is a world’. 

When this too is given up, you remain what you are – the non-dual Self (Awareness). You are it here and now, but your vision is obstructed by your false ideas about your self.


—Nisargadatta Maharaj

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You must be ready to accept the possibility that there is a limitless range of awareness for which we now have no words; that awareness can expand beyond range of your ego, your self, your familiar identity, beyond everything you have learned, beyond your notions of space and time, beyond the differences which usually separate people from each other and from the world around them.


—The Tibetan Book of the Dead

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