I perceive that whilst everything around me is ever changing, ever dying,
there is underlying all that change a living power that is changeless,
that holds all together, that creates,dissolves and recreates…
for I can see that in the midst of death, life persists,in the midst of untruth, truth persists,
in the midst of darkness, light persists.
Mahatma Gandhi
Let my doing nothing
When I have nothing to do
Become untroubled in its depth
Of peace like the evening in the seashore
When the water is silent.
Rabindranath Tagore
We have natural wakefulness, but we also have a lot of confusion.
The point is that the confusion is temporary and the basic nature is fundamental.
Gaylon Ferguson, Natural Wakefulness
The stream of thinking has enormous momentum
that can easily drag you along with it.
Every thought pretends that it matters so much.
Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks
Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness,
be it material or psychological.
Happiness comes from letting go
Mark Epstein
My teacher told me to hold on to the sense ‘I am’ tenaciously and not to swerve from it even for a moment. I did my best to follow his advice and in a comparatively short time I realized within myself the truth of his teaching. This brought an end to the mind; in the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am – unbound.
I simply followed (my teacher’s) instruction which was to focus the mind on pure being, ‘I am’, and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the ‘I am’ in my mind, and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it, all disappeared – myself, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained, and unfathomable silence.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, 1897 –1981 indian non dualist teacher
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