Books - Nondualism
Nonduality cannot ultimately be conveyed in words, but here are a few notable attempts.
"Awareness knows itself simply by being itself."
- Rupert Spira
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"There is no one to reach the end of the journey and there is no journey because what you are seeking is already all there is."
- Tony Parsons
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"Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized."
- Ramana Maharshi
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"Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my life flows."
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"The choiceless truth of who you are is revealed to be permanently here permeating everything. Not a thing and not separate from anything."
- Gangaji
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"The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge."
- Ramana Maharshi
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"There is nothing other than aliveness. That is all there is."
- Tony Parsons
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"We suffer because we overlook the fact that, at heart, we are all right."
- Douglas Harding
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"Our silent nature is everywhere all at once."
- Sharon Landrith
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"Time is not."
- Atmanada Krishna Menon
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"We're like waves looking for the ocean. And when the waves hear about a meeting they say, "Let's go to that meeting because wise people are there who'll tell us where the ocean is". The waves are just the ocean waving. There's no such thing as an enlightened person who "knows" the ocean. When you cease looking for the ocean, the ocean is seen. As long as there's a seeker looking for the ocean, the seeker and the ocean seem to remain apart. When the seeking falls away, there is simply ocean."
- Tony Parsons
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"All that you see in life emerges from the womb of God."
- Mooji
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"Truth is a pathless land."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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"The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace."
- Jean Klein
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"There are no leaders, there are no wise men, there are no teachers, and there are no fathers and mothers. All there is, is this."
- Tony Parsons
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"We are one huge universe speaking and listening to itself."
- Francis Lucille
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"Welcoming, openness, is the nature of life."
- Jean Klein
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"The state of craving for anything blocks all deeper experience. Nothing of value can happen to a mind which knows exactly what it wants."
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"The mind does not find truth. It does not find reality. It is dissolved in it."
- Rupert Spira
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"Form is nothing but seeing."
- Atmanada Krishna Menon
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"There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There is a great silence that is listening the thoughts."
- Adyashanti
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"You can't see it until you stop looking for it, and simply let 'what is' be there."
- Tony Parsons
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"There is no repetition in life, it is we who impose repetition on it."
- Jean Klein
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"Those who know only scriptures know nothing. To know is to be."
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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"The most effective way to avoid awakening is to seek it."
- Tony Parsons
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"Meditation is simply to abide as oneself."
- Rupert Spira
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"Belief resides within the shadow of doubt. It only functions effectively in direct proportion to the suppression of the doubt that it seeks to override."
- Tony Parsons
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"When it is understood that consciousness always only experiences itself, it is understood simultaneously that consciousness has nowhere to go and nothing to become."
- Rupert Spira
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"The world is not outside you."
- Ramana Maharshi
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"There is absolutely nothing to attain except the realization that there is absolutely nothing to attain."
- Tony Parsons
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"Any effort to be the presence of awareness would simply be another thought or feeling taking place in already fully present awareness."
- Rupert Spira
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"Thought cannot be see the whole but thinks it can."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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"All and everything is oneness, and all that we do is get in its way by trying to find it."
- Tony Parsons
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"All desire seeks only the end of desire."
- Rupert Spira
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"There can be no process to become what already is, and so there is, of course, nowhere to go and nothing to do."
- Tony Parsons
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"A mind that is full of conclusions is a dead mind. A living mind is a free mind, learning, never concluding."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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"By seeming to let go of our fascination with the extraordinary and spectacular, the simple wonder that lies within the ordinary can emerge."
- Tony Parsons
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"You see yourself in the world while I see the world in myself. To you, you get born and die, while to me, the world appears and disappears."
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"To the mind, there seem to be separate objects; but in reality, everything emanates from the same essence."
- Leo Hartong
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"It is the absence of seeking that reveals the wonder of what is."
- Tony Parsons
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"Know nothing; be everything."
- Rupert Spira
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"To be, you must be nobody. To think yourself to be someone or something is death and hell."
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Drop asking why and simply become totally involved in the absolutely wonderful miracle of life just as it is, right here, right now."
- Tony Parsons
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"Do not meditate - be. Do not think that you are - be. Do not think about being - you are.
- Ramana Maharshi
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"Love is the discovery that others are not others; beauty is the discovery that objects are not objects."
- Rupert Spira
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"Don't you see that it is your very search for happiness that makes you feel miserable?"
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Whatever happens in your head is not you. Whatever happens in your body is not you. Whatever happens is not you. Yet none of it can exist without you, the perceiver of it all."
- Mooji
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"Being is all there is."
- Tony Parsons
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