letranger101

"Something makes you turn around. The door is open, you can't close your shelter. You try the handle of the road. It opens. Do not be afraid. It is you my love, you who are the stranger." -L. Cohen "Gonna see the River man, Gonna tell him all I can, About the ban on feeling free. If he tells me all he knows, About the way his river flows, I don't suppose its meant for me. Oh, how they come and go." "And time has told me not to ask for more, For someday our ocean will find its shore. So I leave the ways of making me be, What I really don't want to be." "Now I am darker than the deepest sea, Just hand me down, give me a place to be." -Nick Drake "We call Buddha the awakened one. This awakening is really the cessation of inner dreaming. When there is no dreaming you become pure space. This non-dreaming consciousness is what is known as enlightenment." "You fall into an abyss, and the abyss is bottomless: you go on falling. That is why Buddha has called this nothingness emptiness. There is no end to it. Once you know it, you also have become endless. At this point Being is revealed: then you know who you are, what is your real being, what is your authentic existence. That Being is void." -Osho "You gain nothing. You leave behind what is not your own and find what you have never lost: your own being." "The door that locks you in is also the door that lets you out. I Am is the door. Stay with it until it opens. It is always open, but you are not at it." "You are and I am, but only as points in consciousness." "I see only consciousness, and know everything to be consciousness, as you know the pictures on the cinema screen to be light." "It is enough to shift attention from the screen onto oneself to break the spell." "The world you can perceive is a very small world, entirely private. The world is but a reflection of imagination. Take it to be a dream and be done with it. What you call survival is but the survival of a dream. By forgetting who you are and imagining yourself a mortal creature you create so much trouble for yourself that you have to wake up, like from a bad dream." "Once you have seen that you are dreaming, you shall wake up, but you do not see because you want the dream to continue. A day will come when you long for the ending of the dream. You become willing to pay any price. The price will be dispassion and detachment, the loss of interest in the dream." "The dreamer is one. I Am beyond all dreams. I Am the light in which all dreams appear and disappear." "The I Am in movement creates the world. The I Am at peace becomes the Absolute." -Nisargadatta