Rumi

Come to the orchard in Spring,
There is light and wine and sweethearts in the pomegranate flowers.
If you do not come, these do not matter.
If you do come these do not matter.

Osho

People come to me and they say, "We want to know God -- where is God?" Now, the question is just absurd. WHERE IS HE NOT? You ask WHERE He is; you must be dead blind. Can't you see Him? Only He is! In the tree and in the bird, in the animal, in the river, in the mountain, in man, in woman... everywhere He is. He has taken so many forms to surround you, to dance around you. From everywhere He is saying "Hello!" and you don't listen. From everywhere He is calling you. From everywhere He is inviting you: "Come to me!" But you are somehow keeping your eyes closed, or you have got blinders on -- you don't look anywhere.

Inscription inside Japanese Pligrim's Hat

Really there is no East, no West,
Where then is the South and the North?
Illusion makes the world close in,
Enlightenment opens it on every side.

Chogyam Trungpa

In true meditation, there is no ambition to stir up thoughts, nor is there an ambition to suppress them. They are just allowed to occur spontaneously and become an expression of basic sanity. They become the expression of the precision and the clarity of the awakened state of mind.

Tilopa

At first a yogi feels his mind is tumbling like a waterfall; In mid-course, like the Ganges, it flows on slow and gentle; In the end, it is a great vast ocean, Where the lights of Child and Mother merge in one.

Anadi Kristof

The way you experience yourself is your only reality. It is precisely this experience of yourself we are deepening. If you are in a state of forgetfulness, completely identified with the mind, you don't really exist. The way you experience yourself is just a mess. There is nothing stable inside, nothing you can rely upon. There is just the fluctuation of thoughts, emotions and energy. This type of existing is called suffering. You are not suffering because of your desires or attachments. The primal reason you are suffering is because of the way you experience yourself, your own isness.

Ryokan

Like the little stream
Making its way
Through the mossy crevices

I, too, quietly
Turn clear and transparent.

The wind has settled,
The blossoms have fallen;

Birds sing,
The mountains grow dark -

This is the wondrous Power of Spirit

Dongshan

And goo goo wa wa - words that are not words.
In the end nothing is grasped because speech is not precise.

Maitreya Ishwara

Life can be directly experienced only as the constant flow of Now. It is just your mind that wanders habitually in past and future dreams and plans. Your body, breath and senses are always herenow.

Eckhard Tolle

The human condition: lost in thought.

Ramana

Self is only Being -
not being this or that.
It is Simple Being.
BE, and
There is the end of ignorance.

Bodhidharma

If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.

Wu Men

One Instant is eternity
eternity is the now
When you see through this one instant
you see through the one who sees

Kalu Rinpoche

You live in illusion and the appearance of things.
There is a reality, but you do not know this.
When you understand this, you will see that you are nothing.
And being nothing, you are everything. That is all.

Rumi

Don't look at your form, however ugly or beautiful.
Look at love and at the aim of your quest....
O you whose lips are parched, keep looking for water.
Those parched lips are proof that eventually you will reach the source.

Osho

This is the sign of a hard person - he is dull stupid, mechanical. He may be a good computer, but he is not a man. You do something and he reacts in a well established way. His reaction is predictable; he is a robot.

The real man acts spontaneously. If you ask him a question, your question gets a response, not a reaction. He opens his heart to your question, exposes himself to your question, responds to it...

* * *

The whole effort of Zen is how to drop this schizophrenia, how to drop this split personality, how to drop the individual mind of man, how to become undivided, integrated, centered, crystalized.

The way you are, you cannot say that you are. You don't have a being. You are a marketplace - many voices. If you want to say 'yes', immediately the 'no' is there. You cannot even utter a simple word 'yes' with totality..... In this way happiness is not possible; unhappiness is a natural consequence of split personality.

Maitreya Ishwara

The time will come when you have digested enough words. When that time comes, take the challenge: face yourself directly without any comment from your mind.
In silent awareness you know the truth.
In silence divinity is revealed.
In silence you disappear.
Now is the moment to let go into silence.
Silence is the answer.

Richard Bach

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly.

Adyashanti

Our deepest nature is silence: That space which is beyond the known, understanding, and imagination. True silence is not a dead or static state; it is a state of unity, creative response, and deep love. Salvation lies within the heart of silence and nowhere else.

Be still and know.

Anadi Kristof

Most human beings agreed to live in ignorance with their consciousness lost in the mind. They accepted to live in forgetfulness. But with this agreement, they have died. A person who is not free from the mind is a ghost and not a being. Freedom from the mind is your dignity as the divine being, which you are. A being has to be born. It is not born from another, it is born from within. When you are born in the body, it means that the body becomes pregnant with the Soul. The Soul is not released until you give birth to her. One day she will be born.

Eckhart Tolle

Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life. The only place where you can experience the flow of life is the Now, so to surrender is to accept the present moment unconditionally and without reservation. It is to relinquish inner resistance to what is.

G.I. Gurdjieff

Everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected, nothing is separate. Therefore everything is going in the only way it can go. If people were different everything would be different. They are what they are, so everything is as it is.

Nothing to add

Everything
just as it is,
as it is,
as is.
Flowers in bloom.
Nothing to add.

Maitreya Ishwara

The illusion is not the world but the mind’s dualistic inclination to divide itself from the one power of God.

Duality is the artificial separation of the mind from the Whole that produces the hell of the ego. Mind divides. No-mind transcends duality. When mind becomes silent it transcends duality and is engaged in the flow of life - the eternal Now.

Yoka

Stupid ones, childish ones,
They suppose there is something in an empty fist.
They mistake the pointing finger for the moon.
They are idle dreamers lost in form and sensation.

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Being is not being; non-being is not non-being;
Miss this rule by a hair,
And you are off by a thousand miles.
Understanding it, the dragon-child abruptly attains Buddhahood;
Misunderstanding it, the greatest scholar falls into hell.

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When we see truly, there is nothing at all.
There is no person; there is no Buddha.
Innumerable things of the universe
Are just bubbles on the sea.
Wise sages are all like flashes of lightning

Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi

It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature.

Ramesh

Consciousness has produced this play.
Consciousness has written the script.
Consciousness is playing all the characters.
(Consciousness Fucks! Consciousness Sucks!)
And Consciousness is witnessing the play.
It's a one man show.