It's not something you can prove. . . . I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.
Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.
The real does not die, the unreal never lived.
Life is worthy of the name only when it reflects Reality in action. No university will teach you how to live so that when the time of dying comes, you can say: I lived well I do not need to live again. Most of us die wishing we could live again. So many mistakes committed, so much left undone. Most of the people vegetate, but do not live. They merely gather experience and enrich their memory. But experience is the denial of Reality, which is neither sensory nor conceptual, neither of the body, nor of the mind, though it includes and transcends both.
As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher. The source of light is dark, unknown is the source of knowledge. That source alone is. Go back to that source and abide there. "I Am That" - pg 188
You have never been, nor shall ever be, a person. Refuse to consider yourself as one. But as long as you do not even doubt yourself to be Mr. So-and-so, there is little hope. When you refuse to open your eyes, what can you be shown?
The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.
My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.
I do think laughter is the most important thing, and being able to see the funny side of nearly anything is a crucial, crucial thing.
We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge. . . Knowledge is our destiny.