You have learnt so much
And read a thousand books.
Have you ever read your Self?
You have gone to mosque and temple.
Have you ever visited your soul?
You are busy fighting Satan.
Have you ever fought your
Ill intentions?
You have reached into the skies,
But have you reached
What's in your heart?

~ Bulleh Shah

Exactly as a shadow appears when light is intercepted by the body, so does the person arise when pure self- awareness is obstructed by the "I-am-the-body" idea.

And as the shadow changes shape and position according to the lay of the land, so does the person appear to rejoice and suffer, rest and toil, find and lose according to the pattern of destiny.

When the body is no more, the person disappears completely without return, only the witness remains and the Great Unknown.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

"I-am" Parabrahman.
"I-am" the absolute reality.
Never was I born.
Never can I die.
I am not the body nor the mind nor the doer.
"I-am" pure consciousness, all-pervading.
Fire cannot burn me.
Water cannot drown me.
No harm can ever come to me.
For I am not what I appear to be.
How wonderful this is.
You should spend all of your spare time thinking of these things.

~ Robert Adams

There will be periods of frustration; there will be periods of doubt. Your worldly involvements would hamper your Sadhana (practice) and an atmosphere of defeat would prevail. But, come what may, just throw everything aside, don't bother about anything and continue your abidance in the 'I am' with all earnestness. The 'I am' would test your endurance, but a moment would come when it will be pleased with you, become your friend and release its stranglehold on you, and reveal all the secrets.

NISARGADATTA

Consciousness and unconsciousness are two aspects of one life. They co-exist. To know the world you forget the self - to know the self you forget the world. What is world after all? A collection of memories. Cling to one thing that matters, hold on to 'I am' and let go all else. This is sadhana. In realization there is nothing to hold on to and nothing to forget. Everything is known, nothing is remembered.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Stay without ambition, without the least desire, exposed, vulnerable, unprotected, uncertain and alone, completely open to and welcoming life as it happens, without the selfish conviction that all must yield you pleasure or profit, material or so-called spiritual.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

When there is no "I" there is no karma. 

Sri Ramana Maharshi

There is neither creation nor destruction,
neither destiny nor free will,
neither path nor achievement.

This is the final truth.

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

When you reach the deep layers of your true being, you will find that the mind's surface-play affects you very little.

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

All thoughts vanish into emptiness

"Good and bad,
Happy and sad,
All thoughts vanish into emptiness,
Like the imprint of a bird in the sky."

from The Sadhana of Mahamudra by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

Nothing is wrong with you

Nothing is wrong with you, but the ideas you have of yourself are altogether wrong. It is not you who desires, fears and suffers, it is the person built on the foundation of your body by circumstances and influences. You are not that person. This must be clearly established in your mind and never lost sight of.

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I have no karma

I have no karma; I'm the sacrificial fire in which all karma's consumed.
I have no sorrow; I'm the sacrificial fire in which all sorrow's consumed.
I have no craving; I'm the sacrificial fire in which all craving's consumed.
I'm nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I'm everywhere, like space.

Sinless, I consume all sins; I'm the sacrificial fire.
Dutiless, I consume all duties; I'm the sacrificial fire.
Boundless, I consume all bondage; I'm the sacrificial fire.
I'm nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I'm everywhere, like space.

~ Dattatreya's Song of the Avadhut (3.9-10)

Even now the mind is not.

Even now the mind is not. Recognize it. How can you do it if not in everyday activities. They go on automatically. Know that the mind promoting them is not real but a phantom proceeding from the Self.

Ramana Maharshi

...

Questioner: How to deal with people?

Nisargadatta Maharaj: Why make plans and what for? Such questions show anxiety. Relationship is a living thing. Be at peace with your inner self and you will be at peace with everybody.
Realise that you are not the master of what happens, you cannot control the future except in purely technical matters. Human relationship cannot be planned, it is too rich and varied. Just be understanding and compassionate, free of all self seeking.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

...

"A consciência do justo é o único templo do único Deus; e, nesse templo, a renúncia ao egoísmo é o único culto"

- Antero de Quental.

Longing is the core of mystery.
Longing itself brings the cure.
The only rule is, suffer the pain.

Your desire must be disciplined,
and what you want to happen
in time, sacrificed.

~ Rumi

“(…) Se conhecêssemos melhor a máquina do mundo, talvez descobríssemos que muita tirania se estabelece fora de nós como se fosse a projecção, ou como sendo realmente a projecção, das linhas autocráticas que temos dentro de nós; primeiro oprimimos, depois nos oprimem; no fundo, quase sempre nos queixamos dos ditadores que nós mesmos somos para os outros. (…)”

- Agostinho da Silva, "Sobre as Escolhas"

If your thought is a rose you are a rose garden, if it is thorn , thorn garden. Rumi

Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

Rumi

"Siddhis keep you from becoming enlightened.
Siddhis actually keep you back.
Some people, because of past lives and past experiences,
as they progress on this path, they develop certain siddhis.
They can ... read the future, look into the past,
be able to do astrology, the I Ching,
become a Master of occult powers.
In the Upanishads it clearly states,
occult powers will keep you back for thousands of incarnations.
Do not rest on siddhis.
Leave the siddhis alone.
Go beyond them.
Go beyond everything, until there is no one left to do siddhis.
To do siddhis, there has to be an entity.
There has to be a person to experience these siddhis.
In Advaita Vedanta, the person becomes obliterated.
Therefore for whom are there siddhis?
So when you see a person with great siddhis,
really that person has a mind.
His or her mind is still working, and they will not be free.
Only when you give it all up, and you destroy the ego,
the personality, do you become omnipresence.
If you are everything, why do you need siddhis?
Forget about siddhis."

~Robert Adams - T173: Turn Within Always

By day I praised you, and never knew it. By night I stayed with you, and never knew it. I always thought that I was me--but no, I was you and never knew it --- Rumi

You have this choice again.

To realize the world is a dream, to leave everything alone, to be at peace with yourself, and to be at peace with others, and just observe the world without reacting to it.

Or you can get completely and fully involved in this world, totally involved in the world, trying to make things happen, trying to make yourself popular, make yourself good, bad, go through all kinds of experiences, and always fighting for survival.

This is the choice you've got. This is the choice you have. This is the choice that you have to work with. What will you do with it?

~ Robert Adams

“ Knowing yourself is the beginning 

of all wisdom" -  Aristotle

 If you desire the world,
You may try to renounce it
In order to escape sorrow.

Instead, renounce desire!
Then you will be free of sorrow,
And the world will not trouble you.

If you desire liberation,
But you still say "mine,"
If you feel you are the body,
You are not a wise man or seeker.

You are simply a man who suffers.

Let Hari teach you
Or Brahma, born of the lotus,
Or Shiva himself!

Unless you forget everything,
You will never live in your heart.


~ Ashtavakra Gita 16.9-11

There are no states of awakening. There are no levels. You are either awakened or not awakened. The levels are in sadhana. In spiritual practice. There are levels in spiritual practice. But there are no levels in awakening. Once you awaken you understand that you've always been awakened. There never was a time when you were not awakened.

~ Robert Adams

The Divine Mother unceasingly embraces all beings whether or not they are aware of Her presence. She is the indwelling Spirit. Her cosmic name is 'I am'.

~ Mooji

Striving is the root of sorrow.
But who understands this?

Only when you are blessed
With the understanding of this teaching
Will you find freedom.

Who is lazier than the master?
He has trouble even blinking!

But only he is happy.
No one else!

~ Ashtavakra Gita

"Não o prazer, não a glória, não o poder: a liberdade, unicamente a liberdade"

- Fernando Pessoa, Livro do Desassossego.

“O modo como as coisas aparecem é o meu ser; / O modo como as coisas emergem é a minha realidade;

 /Não há fenómeno que não seja eu / No inteiro universo”

- Buda primordial, no tantra do Dzogchen "Majestic Creative Energy of the Universe".

" Everything in Nature has a threefold aspect. The highest aspect of alchemy is the regeneration of man in the spirit of God out of the material elements of his physical body. The physical body itself is the greatest of mysteries, because in it are contained in a condensed, solidified, and corporeal state the very essences which go to make up the substance of the spiritual man, and this is the secret of the "Philosopher's Stone." Man roots with his material elements in the earth, penetrates with his soul through the animal forces of Nature, while his higher nature reaches above the animal creation into the realm of immortality. "

" The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love. "

- Meister Eckhart, Germany, circa 1260 – circa 1327

● Ignorance is not overcome by brute force—it is overcome only by enlightenment.

● Philosophy is the perfect science and the science of perfection.

● The living of philosophy is the most noble of all arts.

● Absolute knowledge exists only in the Divine Nature itself and is alone discoverable by the inner perceptions of an enlightened soul. This is because the soul itself, being part of the Divine Nature, partakes subjectively of divine knowledge. "

- Manly Palmer Hall

“[…] o povo português […] teve um projecto, ou melhor, guarda nos seus arcanos, no seu inconsciente arcaico, na cifra da sua língua e cultura, na sua memória inconsciente, no seu imaginário, no seu pensamento implícito e por vezes explícito, um projecto, a que chamamos um projecto áureo de realização da humanidade”

- António Quadros, Portugal, Razão e Mistério, I, Lisboa, Guimarães Editores, 1986, p.17.

" A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard. "

- Eliphas Levi

"Our Earth is degenerate in these later days.
Bribery and corruption are common.
Children no longer obey their parents.
The end of the world is apparently approaching."

~ Carved in a stone slab around 2800 BC.

“Pois tudo, tudo há-de passar, enfim.
O homem, o próprio mundo passará,
Mas a Saudade é irmã da Eternidade”

- Teixeira de Pascoaes, “Marânus”, 1911.

Conserva zelosamente o teu direito a reflectir,
porque até o acto de pensar erradamente
é melhor do que não pensar em absoluto.

Hipátia de Alexandria (355-415)

"Don't let your heart get big because of your knowledge.
Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the scholar.
(For) the limits of art are not brought,
(and) no artisan is equipped with perfection. "

- vizier Ptahhotep. Ancient Egypt, circa 2400 BCE

" Swinging open the doors of this antechamber, the illumined pass into the greater and more perfect existence. The ignorant dwell in a world bounded by time and space. "

- Manly Palmer Hall

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies. 
Thomas Huxley

Once you realise that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Everything you see, comes to pass.
Know that you are not that.
All things that are heard, come to pass.
Know that you are not that.
All things that are touched, come to pass.
Know that you are not that.
All things that are tasted, come to pass,
Know you are not that.
All things that are thought of, come to pass,
Know that you are not that.
All things, which are imagined, come to pass.
Know that you are not that.
All things that are learned, come to pass,
Know you are not that.
All that is manifest comes to pass,
Know you are not that.
All things of the mind come to pass,
Know that you are not that.
That which does not come to pass, but inside which all phenomena come to pass, know That - to be yourSelf.

~ Mooji

“É dentro de nós, em nós e por nosso exforço, que tem de vir, e virá, D. Sebastião. O Sebastianismo só é infecundo e estiolante quando o interpreto litteralmente, como a sperança da vinda exterior do Rei ido, vinda que, sem nosso exforço, milagrosamente nos haja de salvar.
[…]
Não é de fora, é de dentro que apparecerá D. Sebastião […]”

- Fernando Pessoa, Sebastianismo e Quinto Império

Always remember all is well.
All is well.
All is perfectly well.
Never forget that.
Do not think about it.
Do not try to analyze it.
Just accept it in your heart.
All is well, period, end.

~ Robert Adams

All experience is illusory, limited and temporal. Expect nothing from experience. Realisation by itself is not an experience, though it may lead to a new dimension of experiences. Yet the new experiences, however interesting, are not more real than the old. Definitely realisation is not a new experience. It is the discovery of the timeless factor in every experience. It is awareness, which makes experience possible. Just like in all the colours light is the colourless factor, so in every experience awareness is present, yet it is not an experience.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

“A dádiva do Ocidente foi a revolução social; a dádiva do Oriente foi a visão individual do si/vazio essencial. Necessitamos de ambos”

~ Gary Snyder

● And Ieschouah said“[Come], that I may teach you about [secrets] no person [has] ever seen. For there exists a great and boundless realm, whose extent no generation of angels has seen, [in which] there is [a] great invisible [Spirit],
which no eye of an angel has ever seen, no thought of the heart has ever comprehended,and it was never called by any name ●

- The Gospel of Judas

‎" When a person, by means of his studies, reaches the level at which he wants nothing but spiritual elevation and at which he accepts only the bare necessities of life in order to sustain his physical existence, not for pleasure’s sake, this is the first step of his ascent to the spiritual world. "

- Talmud, Psachim

"A ciência materialista ocidental não tem lugar para qualquer tipo de espiritualidade e, na realidade, considera-a incompatível com a visão de mundo científica. A moderna pesquisa da consciência mostra que a espiritualidade é uma dimensão natural e legítima da psique humana e do plano universal das coisas. Contudo, nesse contexto, é importante enfatizar que essa declaração aplica-se à espiritualidade genuína e não às doutrinas das religiões organizadas."
- Stanislav Grof, Psicologia do Futuro

" I advise you, whoever you are, oh you! Who wish to explore the mysteries of nature, if you do not find within that which you seek, neither shall you find it outside. If you ignore the excellencies Of your own house, how do you intend to find excellence elsewhere? Within you is hidden the treasure. Oh, man, know thyself and you shall know the Universe and the Gods! "

- The oracle at Delphi

The overview effect

http://vimeo.com/planetarycollective/overview

“Everything that you need exists in this present moment, and this moment is all that exists.”

—	By K. X.  Carey

The mind cannot seek the mind.
You ignore what is real and hold on to that which is unreal, then try to find what it is. You think you are the mind and, therefore, ask how it is to be controlled.
If the mind exists, it can be controlled, but it does not. 

Understand this by inquiry.

Ramana Maharshi

All beings by nature are Buddhas
as ice by nature is water.
Apart from water there is no ice;
apart from beings no Buddhas.

~ Hakuin Ekaku

Agostinho da Silva nasceu a 13 de Fevereiro de 1906, há 107 anos.

“Quando chegou a minha hora de nascer no céu das ideias, estava atento ao globo terrestre que ia passando pela frente à espera de encontrar uma terra que me agradasse. E, como eu, estavam outros: quer dizer, toda a gente escolhe o lugar onde nasce. Que nascer não é uma fatalidade, mas uma escolha pré-consciente, daquela consciência que se perde quando se voa do Céu para a Terra, como dizia Platão...”

- Agostinho da Silva, Vida Conversável, 1994.

To see reality is as simple as to see one's face in a mirror. Only the mirror must be clear and true. A quiet mind, undistorted by desires and fears, free from ideas and opinions, clear on all the levels, is needed to reflect the reality. Be clear and quiet -- alert and detached, all else will happen by itself.

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

" The philosopher's stone is really the philosophical stone, for philosophy is truly likened to a magic jewel whose touch transmutes base substances into priceless gems like itself. Wisdom is the alchemist's powder of projection which transforms many thousand times its own weight of gross ignorance into the precious substance of enlightenment. "

- Manly Palmer Hall

Castelos de Portugal

“Se nos vendemos tão baratos, porque nos avaliamos tão caros ?”

- Padre António Vieira, Sermão da Quarta Dominga do Advento.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=e9c0d05b-b544-4338-9776-44986ba9a743

"We should learn to see everyday life as mandala - the luminous fringes of experience which radiate spontaneously from the empty nature of our being. The aspects of our mandala are the day-to-day objects of our life experience moving in the dance or play of the universe. By this symbolism the inner teacher reveals the profound and ultimate significance of being. Therefore we should be natural and spontaneous, accepting and learning from everything. This enables us to see the ironic and amusing side of events that usually irritate us....The everyday practice of Dzogchen is just everyday life itself."

~Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Reality is blocked by form and image.

~ Rumi

Live as though you don't exist; like you are two eyeballs floating in space with nothing behind them.
No brain attached. Not even hair - Nothing.
There is a place inside your own heart, inside your own being that knows the kind of seemingly foolish things I speak and it is totally thrilled to be reminded of this infinite expanse and infinite joy that it is.
Find this place.

~ Mooji

“ If the doors of perception were cleansed,
everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
For man has closed himself up,
till he sees all things through the narrow chinks of his cavern. ”

- William Blake

Reality

“Avanço lentamente, morto, e a minha visão já não é minha, já não é nada: é só a do animal humano que herdou sem querer a cultura grega, a ordem romana, a moral cristã e todas as mais ilusões que formam a civilização em que sinto.

Onde estarão os vivos?”

- Fernando Pessoa, Livro do Desassossego.

Do not believe that anything that has happened to you, to your body, to your affairs, has been erroneous.
Everything that's happened to you has been necessary.
You are in your right place, going through the right conditions.
You are with the right people.
You are where you're supposed to be.
The wise person does not complain about their lot.
They rise higher by self-inquiry, by explaining to themselves, inquiring within themselves, "How did I come here?
What is my source?
Who am I?" and becoming totally free and liberated.
- Ponder this.

Robert Adams

O suplício físico de Jacques de Molay,

O suplício físico de Jacques de Molay, impotente para produzir nenhum resultado mais que baixamente material, desencadeou sobre a Igreja as forças mágicas que essa acção material era incompetente para dominar, servindo só para as desencadear. E o pior foi que o processo de imolação fosse pelo Fogo, isto é, pelo Elemento da Ordem. Assim, para falar um pouco obscuramente, o que era Adepto Exempto, em vez de passar a Mestre do Templo, foi erguido a Mago, e, apto a pronunciar a Palavra da Era, pronunciou-a como Irmão Negro, e contra a Igreja. Toda a civilização moderna, desde a Reforma aos nossos tempos, no que é oposição à Igreja e conspurcação dela e dos seus princípios, é a vingança encarnada de Jacques do Molay. A fogueira em que foi queimado o Grão-Mestre dos Templários foi o lume que ateou o incêndio em que hoje todos ardemos.

Num ponto, porém, a vingança de Molay, operando per vias inferiores, caiu no mesmo erro em que haviam caído os seus algozes. Foi quando D. Sebastião, AE [Adepto Exempto], foi feito cair em Alcácer Quibir. Caiu pela espada, isto é, pela Terra, e o erro foi o mesmo que o de fazer Molay cair pelo Fogo, porque de igual natureza. No mesmo modo o Adepto Exempto ascendeu a Mago, queimando o grau intermédio, e pronunciou, no tempo dado, a Palavra de Era seguinte.

s.d.

Fernando Pessoa e a Filosofia Hermética - Fragmentos do espólio . Fernando Pessoa. (Introdução e organização de Yvette K. Centeno.) Lisboa: Presença, 1985. 

 - 43.

‎" Few seek wisdom for its own sake; most desire it only as a solution to the discomforts of life. While wisdom certainly releases man from bondage to trivial annoyances, it also bestows upon him a larger responsibility than he ever knew. "

- Manly Palmer Hall

No bad fortune, no good fortune, no loss, no gain;
Never seek such things in eternal serenity.
For years the dusty mirror has gone uncleaned,
Now let us polish it completely, once and for all.

~ Shodoka ('Song of Enlightenment'), verse 5

Não sou nada.

Nunca serei nada.

Não posso querer ser nada.

À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.

F. Pessoa

"Lo! This is the self-aware primordial wisdom.
It is beyond all avenues of speech and all thoughts of mind.
I, Tilopa have nothing further to reveal. Know all to be the display of awareness.
Without imagining, without deliberating, without analyzing, without meditating,
without investigating, just let the mind be in its natural state."

India Mahasiddha Tilopa

A lot of things I don't know anything about,

but I know in the moment what I need to know.

And the things I don't need to know, I am not concerned about.

This is my good fortune.

~ Mooji 

You have no problems. It has been your ego all the time fooling you, making you believe that something is wrong, and you've been playing hide and seek, trying to find God here, there and everywhere, when all the time God was within yourself as yourself.

~ Robert Adams

The Gospel of Thomas

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gthlamb.html

Les hommes purs arrivent jusqu'à Dieu sans clercs et sans savants, car ils sont déjà saints dans le Seigneur qui les instruits comme il veut, quand il veut et où il veut.

Louis Cattiaux

Everyone has Buddha-nature in him, so don't think that you are not worthy or fit enough to win freedom. Everyone is Buddha himself, but you don't recognize your Buddha-nature because you want something else. You don't love and honor your own Self. Your Self is Buddha. Yet, you don't believe this because you are deeply attached to something else which is temporary, impermanent and false. All your attention is focused on the unreal. The genuine desire for freedom cannot rise in someone who is firmly established in ignorance. When you are in ignorance, Reality is kept hidden from you. Something else is projected within the mind which you take to be real. All this is nothing but ignorance.

~ Sri H. W. L. Poonja (Papaji)

I Am a keeper of sheep.

I'm a keeper of sheep.

The sheep are my thoughts

And my thoughts are all sensations.

I think with my eyes and ears

And with my hands and feet

And with my nose and mouth.

To think is to see it and smell it

And to eat a fruit is to taste it's meaning.

That's why on a hot day

When I ache from enjoying it so much,

And stretch out on the grass,

Closing my warm eyes,

I feel my whole body lying full length in reality,

I know the truth and I'm happy.

Alberto Caeiro

(do site http://nescritas.com/)

O Universo

O universo não é uma idéia minha.
A minha idéia do Universo é que é uma idéia minha.
A noite não anoitece pelos meus olhos,
A minha idéia da noite é que anoitece por meus olhos.
Fora de eu pensar e de haver quaisquer pensamentos
A noite anoitece concretamente
E o fulgor das estrelas existe como se tivesse peso.

Alberto Caeiro