561 Quotes About Nonduality

The most amazing and strange thing about awakening to the truth of oneness is that there is no such thing as oneness as an isolated phenomenon.

-Anam Thubten

SHOHAKU OKUMURA ~ If we feel we’re becoming enlightened, that’s delusion.

-Kosho Uchiyama Roshi

I don't seek truth, for I am truth.

-Abhijit Naskar

The mind never has anything new to say-all it knows is of the past.

-Bert McCoy

Water doesn't know where it's going to flow, it just flows.

-Bert McCoy

what is not true does not exist in this moment.

-Bert McCoy

Presence is not an object. It is the openness that beholds it all.

-Joan Tollifson

  • Author Joan Tollifson
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    So I’ve held on to Catholicism or Zen, as practices, as fantasy futures, as possible identities. But when I actually dare to lower myself down into this emptiness—no, that sounds entirely too dualistic and willful and “courageous”—but when this seeing suddenly happens and thought relaxes, Zen drops completely away, and something much deeper is contacted, some entirely other way of being.

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So I’ve held on to Catholicism or Zen, as practices, as fantasy futures, as possible identities. But when I actually dare to lower myself down into this emptiness—no, that sounds entirely too dualistic and willful and “courageous”—but when this seeing suddenly happens and thought relaxes, Zen drops completely away, and something much deeper is contacted, some entirely other way of being.

-Joan Tollifson

Love is the weapon of mass illumination.

-teZa Lord

 

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