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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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Your consciousness is not in your body.
Your body is in your consciousness.
You are not in your reality.
Your reality is in your consciousness.
You are not within time or space.
Space and time are ideas within your consciousness.
Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it.
My guru told me, "Trust me, I tell you: you are Divine. Take it as the absolute truth. Your joy is divine, your suffering is divine too. All comes from God. Remember it always. You are God, your will alone is done."
If you have regard for me, remember my words. The knowledge "I Am” is the greatest God, the Guru; be one with that, be intimate with it. That itself will bless you with all the knowledge relevant for you.
—Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Remember the clear light, the pure clear white light from which everything in the universe comes, to which everything in the universe returns; the original nature of your own mind; the natural state of the universe unmanifest.
Let go into the clear light, trust it, merge with it.
It is your own true nature, it is home.
—Tibetan Book of the Dead
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