561 Quotes About Nonduality

You want me to talk about love, to give you a hold, something to feel, to admire or obtain. I will not give you a straw to grasp, and in this emptiness you will be taken by yourself. You are love so don’t try to be a lover.

Emotion integrates but emotivity isolates. So free yourself from affectivity. In this absence of emotivity, you may have the impression at first that you become indifferent. But very soon you’ll see that there is really affection for your surroundings. Emotion, affection, is giving.

Emptiness is the absence of some things, not the absence of everything.

Oneself seeks to negate its own Oneness, its own singleness, through the illusion of separation for the sole purpose to escape loneliness. We only need to come to realize the above so that we can come together as One for we already are. The reason for all this diversity is companionship.

Suppose a person has been having constant headache since he was born. He doesn't know what it feels to not have a headache.For him, headache won't feel like headache. It would feel like a sensation very much like sensation of heart beating in the chest. You can not experience pain if you haven't experienced lack of pain.

There is an underlying message in this gospel, which is this: The laws of this world are not the laws of the Kingdom. What makes sense in one realm makes no sense in the other. From the viewpoint of each, the other is absurd. Throughout the text, we see this message repeated again and again.

Unlike seeking, which is result-oriented and rooted in a sense of dissatisfaction and incompleteness, this kind of meditative inquiry is rooted in curiosity, interest and love. Much as a lover explores the beloved, this nondual, nonconceptual inquiry is an act of love and devotion. Much as a child explores the world with open curiosity and wonder, this kind of inquiry is a form of play and self-discovery.

The ever-present you is at home everywhere and always.

The part of you that prefers to be silent is the deeper self.