“The pearl is so small a thing, yet so valuable and so difficult to procure. Similarly, the Self is like the pearl: to find it you must dive deep down into the silence, deeper and ever deeper, until it is reached.” ~ Ramana Maharshi
Quoted from Silence in the Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, by David Godman.
“If you want the truth,
I’ll tell you the truth:
Listen to the secret sound,
the real sound,
which is inside you. …”
~ Kabir
Excerpt from “The Simple Purification,” from News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness. By Robert Bly
“Can there be happiness in unity? Does not all happiness imply necessarily contact, hence duality?”
Here’s Nisargadatta Majaraj’s answer ….
I looked inward … And the beauty of my own emptiness … filled me till dawn. It enveloped me like a mine of rubies … Its hue clothed me in red silk ~ Rumi
…. As translated by Jonathan Star
“It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life …
perpetuating itself through all eternity,
to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the
universe which we dimly perceive,
and to try humbly to comprehend
an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.”
~ Albert Einstein
“We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know – we have forgotten how to be – to be still – to be ourselves – to be where life is here and now.”
~ Eckhart Tolle (from his book Stillness Speaks)
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