Non-Duality

Non-duality is about experiencing reality as it is, one undivided whole. Duality pertains to the mind while reality transcends the mind. Duality is a way of perceiving, and not the actuality of the whole.

The truth of the whole is neither one nor two. It is simply what it is. non-duality is just a way of negating the common held worldview that is characterized by duality.

Me and you, this and that, him and her, love and hate, etc. Yes of course these interrelated opposites are true in a sense or rather from a certain place of looking, but the deeper and more profound seeing is not concerned with these divisions.

Your nirvanic eye is always one, seeing totality. A formless eye that gives birth and witnesses all things simultaneously.

This is the peak of spiritual understanding, and the following is a collection of quotes that expound the non-dual understanding.

/Daniel Seeker

Number of quotes found: 29

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I cannot show you God or enable you to see God because God is not an object that can be seen. God is the subject. He is the seer. Don’t concern yourself with objects that can be seen. Find out who the seer is… You alone are God.

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— Ramana Maharshi

Source: When asked by Papaji if he could show him God

All the mind-streams eventually flow into the one ocean beingness, there are many pathways for the mind, there are no paths for the heart, for the heart is infinite and fills everything.

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— Mooji

Source: Sayings of Mooji Baba - Mooji.org

Just as the fire is the direct cause for cooking, so without Knowledge no emancipation can be had. Compared with all other forms of discipline Knowledge of the Self is the one direct means for liberation.

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— Adi Shankara

Source: Atma Bodha

There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only. It is beyond quality. If there is unity, there will also be duality. The numeral one gives rise to other numbers. The truth is neither one nor two. IT is as it is.

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— Ramana Maharshi

The Self is not in objects, nor are objects in the pure and infinite Self. The Self is tranquil, free of attachment and desire. In this alone I abide.

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— Ashtavakra Gita

The inner silence is self-surrender. And that is living without the sense of ego. Solitude is in the mind of humanity. Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of “language.” It is interrupted by speaking; for words obstruct this mute language. Silence is permanent and benefits the whole of humanity…. By silence, eloquence is meant. It is the best language. There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.

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— Ramana Maharshi

Time says, all that you see, all that you perceive, belongs to me! I eat everything… Except for awareness… Because I myself arise out of that Supreme One.

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— Mooji

You are the Solitary Witness of All That Is, forever free. Your only bondage is not seeing This.

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— Ashtavakra Gita

Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.

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— Rupert Spira

Water and a bubble on it are one and the same. The bubble has its birth in the water, floats on it, and is ultimately resolved into it.

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— Ramakrishna

When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

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— Ramakrishna

I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like. Love says “I am everything”. Wisdom says “I am nothing”. Between the two, my life flows. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both

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— Nisargadatta Maharaj

Source: I Am That, 1973

As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher. The source of light is dark, unknown is the source of knowledge. That source alone is. Go back to that source and abide there.

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— Nisargadatta Maharaj

Source: I Am That - Chapter 42 - 1973

For the subsidence of mind there is no other means more effective and adequate than Self-enquiry. Even though by other means the mind subsides, that is only apparently so; it will rise again.

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— Ramana Maharshi

Our self – luminous, empty Awareness – knows no resistance and is, therefore, Peace itself; it seeks nothing and is, thus, happiness itself; it is intimately one with all appearances and is, as such, pure love.

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— Rupert Spira

Source: The Ashes of Love - 2014

Once you realize 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.

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— Nisargadatta Maharaj

When we look with the “I”
We dream
When we look for the “I”
We awaken.

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— Mooji

Source: Satsang

To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need nothing. Be what you are, a conscious being and don’t stray away from yourself.

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— Nisargadatta Maharaj

Source: I Am That, 1973

Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.

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— Adi Shankara

Source: Tattva Bodhah

However, love, peace and happiness are inherent in the knowing of our own being. In fact, they are the knowing of being. They are simply other names for our self.

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— Rupert Spira

Source: Presence: The Intimacy of All Experience

Space seems broken and diverse because of the many forms in it. Remove the forms and pure space remains. So, too with the Omnipresent Self.

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— Adi Shankara

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

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— Nisargadatta Maharaj

Source: I Am That, 1973

Love is the experience that others are not others. Beauty is the experience that objects are not objects.

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— Rupert Spira

Source: The Way of Beauty - 2013

The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.

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— Adi Shankara

Truth is silent but, when met with questions about its true nature, is compelled to speak.

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— Rupert Spira

Source: The Ashes of Love - Opening Paragraph - 2014

We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.

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— Rupert Spira

Source: The Transparency of Things - 2008

A spark of truth can burn up a mountain of lies.

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— Nisargadatta Maharaj

Source: I Am That, 1973

The mind is not your friend… not yet.

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— Mooji

Source: Satsang

Can the seer be seen?

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— Mooji

Source: Satsang