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Name/Link D=Deceased L=Living T=Openly teaching ? = nothing known	Location	Quote
Abbah Frederic L, T	Netherlands	"Spiritual life is not something you are just interested in, like a hobby or a study. It is much deeper than that. You are driven to it by something in yourself. In fact as long as you do not feel that urge, you should not start on a spiritual path, because when you do not feel any real need to re-orient yourself, nothing will change."
Sailor Bob Adamson L, T	Victoria, Australia	"Who is this "me" that you believe yourself to be. Have you ever investigated and had a look. And when I start to do that, I find that the false cannot stand up to that investigation."
Adi Da Samraj L, T	Fiji	"Even this attainment, this knowledge...is a modification of your own state. There is a conscious instant in which it becomes obvious that this is so. And that is, if we can still apply any name or significance to it whatsoever, radical understanding. It is absolutely nothing."
Adyashanti L, T	California	"The aim of spiritual practice is to discover in your own present experience That which the movement of thought never touches. This does not mean to suppress the thinking mind, nor does it mean to attempt to understand by using thought. What I am pointing toward is the Unknown: the already, ever-present, silent-still-source that not only proceeds thought but surrounds it. You must become more interested in the unknown than in that which is known."
Aja L, T	Portland, Oregon	"Our life has been turned topsy turvy with choice. Where we once knew where our destiny lay, what our path was, and what was required of us to gain the graces of the divine and enter into our conceived heaven, now we flounder in an ocean of choices."
A.H. Almaas L, T	Boulder, Colorado Berkely, California	"Once you know yourself to be the personal essence, what you do doesn't matter much. You choose what will enlarge and enhance your real self. There can never be a sense of lasting fulfillment unless you have realized that essential part of yourself. Nothing else can take its place." www.ahalmaas.com
Amber L		"We are concerned too much perhaps with what we are conscious of, and forget the miracle of consciousness itself."
Ammachi L, T	Worldwide	"...by keeping our mind on God constantly, while engaged in any work, the benefit will reach all members of the family. The ultimate aim in life should not be to amass wealth for children and relatives; it should be to focus on our own spiritual development."
Ananda Sky L, T	Sweden	"Well back in Sweden again, i turned my attention with renewed vigor upon consciousness, my own feeling of "I". This lead to a number of strong experiences. After a few months, however, my old life took the upper hand. I thought now and then especially about Gangaji but it wasn’t until January 1995 that i finally took myself by the collar and sought out the couple who had shown the Gangaji video two years earlier."
Reb Anderson L, T	California, Worldwide	"There's this little or big fear of what will happen if I let go of past and future. Will I survive? Will I go insane? Will I lose my reputation? Will I do something crazy? Who will be here to control me? If I don't stand outside and watch over myself and make sure if I throw myself into the present who will make sure I don't do something wrong? Who will protect me?"
Arjuna Nick Ardagh L, T	California, Worldwide	"... So this is really the nature of our endeavor now, ... to sit together in full honoring of the unchanging immaculate truth and of the suchness of being a human being and all the implications which that has without the need to deny any of it or to make it outside the realm of awakening."
Erik Asmussen L	Sweden	"Polarity: This implies that differences are not merely oppositions, but that differences are distinctions that are a nondual part of a larger whole. Asmussen articulates and intensifies polarities. In the dormitory Ormen Lange, which means long snake, the railing of the second-floor exterior walkway consists of wooden members that spring from the supporting columns like the branches of a tree. The columns and railings rise and fall rhythmically as they march across the face of the building, imaging the forest against which the building is sited and giving artistic expression to the rhythmical movement of students as they walk along this very public concourse. This same polarity of rising and falling can be seen in the design of the chimneylike bathroom vents that break the ridgeline of Ormen Lange. A vent that is shaped with an expanded, upward-rising top is followed by one with the opposite gesture."
Wayne Austin L, T	Cyberspace	"How do you begin to speak in such a way that what you are saying does not get absorbed into the collective trance that you are emerging from? You See everything in the Present Moment, Now, no past, no future. One Moment. Yet, in order to be Heard, you must lie, you must lie in the sense that you must use the lie, past, present, future (time) in order to bring someone out of the lie, the lie which in Truth they were never in."
Avasa L, T	Cyberspace	"I have been into sharing my stuff for over 30 years after realising the Self in 1972 and have been available since that time for anyone to contact when the universe conected us.This last 18 months I have been on the net and placed a number of bits n pieces on Ganga Ji's site.I am avilable through my Email box and always willing to help any sincere seeker with any stuff I am able so if you know of anyone ? give me a try. I have never charged for what I do as I see that if the job is done from the Heart then the universe pays accordingly! All is One."
Aziz L, T	Wordwide	"Beneath the I Am is a place of Absolute Rest. The Absolute is a secret of the Being aspect of the I Am. The Awareness or Heart cannot reach the Absolute. The complete surrender happens only through the Being."
Ralph Bakker L, T	The Netherlands, Cyberspace	"Praising God is the same as praising myself or - for that sake - yourself. The angel became the guy while God rolled himself around. The pure VOID of undifferentiated consciousness blew it and threw it and its tag fell on the floor. God shook off his own ID and fell silent. At that moment I woke up. I turned around and noticed that there was no-one there. I became the singing of the Halleluja."
Baba Bhagwan Ramji L, T	Sonoma, California	"...although I know of even higher methods which can lead one face to face with the Self, but I am unable to put them in words because they pertain to experience. By putting them in words one can not understand them."
Ramesh S. Balsekar L, T	Bombay, India	"Between pure Awareness and Awareness reflected as consciousness there is a gap which the mind cannot cross. The reflection of the sun in a drop of dew is not the sun itself."
Jan Barendrecht L, T	Cyberspace	"I have no intent to write any book because seeing in retrospect the events from my life, doing the right, spontaneous wish as an innocent child was all that mattered."
Éric Baret L, T	Worldwide	"Truth is not 'something' to be felt, or to be experienced; it is the constant experience of non-truth."
Michael Barnett L, T	Europe	"The dualities of form and content, phenomena and essence, are both there and not there. Their distinguishing features are acknowledged, but because they are completely interwoven, they do not clash. The duality works so intimately that effectively it disappears."
Bob Bays L	U.S.	"The essence of 'Ultimate Reality' is unknown and indeed unknowable therefore it may as well be called the 'X'. Although the 'X' cannot be known as the object of awareness, perception or cognition, it can be Realized as changeless Being-without-attributes infinite Consciousness-without-an-object and the absolute, unmanifest Source of All"
Jeff Belyea L, T	Maine, Cyberspace	"To be a guru one must; first be fully self-realized, actualized, illumined, god-realized, have experienced christ consciousness, gone into nirvikalpa samadhi and sahaj samadhi, seen through the illusion of duality, reached nirvana, known the bliss of transcendent awareness, perceived that which is beyond the rational and sensory, and awakened to natural enlightenment. Then that one must be willing to serve as a guide for those who wish to take the same epic journey."
Edwin Bergman L, T	New York	"I blessed my "path" as I put it into the fire to be forever burned. I let it return to the nothingness from which it came. I bless and give eternal thanks to all of my teachers and students, starting with my beautiful parents and ending with the beloved Gangaji. I encourage you to do the same with your path. I then encourage you to put "you" as you know yourself to be, into this symbolic fire as well."
Marcello Bermann L, T	Southern California	I am not politically correct. I do not care about being right, or being judged to be right. I don't care about your opinions, or mine. Time has ran out for all that. Time is now. If you're going to run and hide, you won't find shelter, there's a part of you that's tired of all that, the facade, the lies, the tricks. Your soul is hungry for the truth, feed it, for it won't leave you alone until you do. You want Peace, -I AM THAT- so be it.
Wolfgang Bernard L, T	Cyberspace, France, Germany	"Truth cannot be experienced. Truth is (or isn't). All that you can experience is true but not truth."
Jon Bernie L, T	San Francisco	Jon expresses deep gratitude for his teacher, Adyashanti, who closely and with love mentored him to fruition on the path and asked Jon to teach. Along with public teaching and leading retreats, Jon has had a full time private practice in San Francisco for the past 22 years. Certified in Zero Balancing, Alexander Technique, NLP and Amanae - as well as trained in Self Acceptance Training, Ericksonian Hypnosis, Cranial Sacral therapy and eye movement emotional release work - Jon integrates emotional and hands-on therapy from the perspective of deep interconnected beingness.
Bhava L, T	?	"If you have a desire to discover your own true nature and want support, please call on me. It is a privilege to serve you."
bindu L, T	Australia, cyberspace	"Become nothing. - This does not mean that you yourself - Should or can become nothing- It means remain as nothing, Do Not Become. The rags are rags and always will be rags. However we can clean them by diving into the self such that they dissolve into the acid of The Self. We cannot clean them, we cannot replace them we cannot get new ones, because new ones are still rags. We can only refuse to get dressed."
Sensei Charles Shinkai Birx and Sensei Ellen Jikai Birx L, T	Virginia	"When we sit we have no goals. We simply sit straight and tall, solid and still, like a mountain or like a great tree with deep roots- at one with the good earth.
Judith Blackstone L, T	New York	"We realize fundamental consciousness by accessing the subtle channel in the vertical core of our body. The more access we have to this channel, the more realization we have of fundamental consciousness, pervading our body and our environment."
Brad Blanton L, T	Virginia	"We all lie like hell. It wears us out. It is the major source of all human stress. Lying kills people."
Brother Lawrence		"I found no small pain in this exercise, and yet I continued it, notwithstanding all the difficulties that occurred, without troubling or disquieting myself when my mind had wandered involuntarily. I made this my business as much all the day long as at the appointed times of prayer; for alt all times, ever hour, every minute, even in the height of my business, I drove away from my mind everything that was capable of interrupting my thoughts of God."
Paul Brunton D		"Meditation on oneself was a necessary and admirable pursuit, but it did not constitute the entire activity which life was constantly asking of man. It was good, but it proved to be not enough. For the efflux of time had shown me the limitations of mystics, and more time showed that those limitations were accountable by the one-sidedness of their outlook and the incompleteness of their experience."
Buddha		"I am awake." Or, "It is awake."
Cameron Burgess L, T	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Cyberspace	“In truth, there is no teaching, there is no dogma, there is no ‘way’ to be or not be, to do or not do. In truth there is only the ever-deepening knowing that it is not the seer, the seen or the seeing that matters, but the place in which all three rest, the awareness of all three. This is who you are.”
Aruna Byers L, T	Okinawa, Japan	"When I asked Aruna about my fear, she told me to go into it and experience it fully. Then she asked, 'what is the source of the fear?' At that point I experienced a very big space there, pure space, but it was fun and free, like an amusement park with nothing there."
R.J. Campbell D		"I image the being of God to myself as a shoreless ocean of undifferentiated being, the one reality which eternally is, and out of which our life has come. That shoreless ocean is bliss, light, life, love, and power all in one. There is no other reality."
Candice L, T	Marin County, California Worldwide	"You are always about to die. So see your consciousness as a feast of nothing; your body as not constituting an 'I'; your Natural State as formless and neither coming nor going; your Natural State as something neither commencing at birth nor perishing at death, but whole and motionless in its very depths; your Natural State and points of view as one – you can really accomplish this, you are the Natural State in a flash. You are no longer entangled by points of view; you are the Natural State."
Antoine Carré L	Cyberspace	"I guess Vertigo comes when one comes to realize that each little action or movement carries all of life with it... And Vertigo comes to vanish when there is no one left to realize that each little action or movement carries all of life with it..."
Carlos Castaneda/don Juan D ?		"There is nothing in this world that a warrior cannot account for. You see, a warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing for him to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything."
Cee L, T	Northern California, Cyberspace	"To be or not to be may be the question. To be and not to be, may be the answer."
Master Charles L, T	?	"To live consciously is to live with balance. Awareness of truthful reality is the result. Meditation is the means."
Hilda Charlton D		"I don't encourage anything. I let it happen. If a person thinks he is getting spiritual, then he isn't spiritual. Having the very idea "Now I'm getting spiritual" means he's not, because ego has come in. You must become like an empty flute of Krishna."
Sandeep Chatterjee L, T	Cyberspace	"Once you have 'known', your every act is automatically of awareness, of consciousness. Soon you forget all about enlightenment, because it has become your body, your bones, your blood, your marrow, your being. There have been masters who have forgotten completely that they are enlightened, because there is no need to remember it.Their Masters have hit them with the Zen stick and said 'now pick up your rented bicycle and go away.Get on'. Enlightenment does not happen twice-once is enough."
Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu L, T	Worldwide	"Ultimately the guru is he who ends up making you the guru. He is free. He remains free. He remains unnoticed. He is like an ice cube in a cooling drink. He cools your consciousness and then disappears."
Chris and Emma ??	U.K.	Chris does nearly all the talking-because it is man's nature to conceptualize, whereas woman (when she is being a true woman and not trying to fit into an image foisted on her by man) is content to just be. According to Emma (in one of her rare pronouncements), the East has taught that enlightenment is a solitary pursuit and that men and women cannot enter it together. But they can. The West will produce men and women who can find Truth "in relationship".
Andrew Cohen L, T	Worldwide	"Allowing oneself to embrace a life without compromise and free from pretense is utterly liberating in its depth and singularity. Like none other, it enables the individual to give their full and undivided attention to the destruction of all that is false, wrong and untrue."
Peter Collins L	Ireland	"...the first step in moving from rigid phenomenal (dualistic) to intuitive (nondual) awareness is to create paradox in terms of the dualistic interpretation (through bi-directional understanding). This prepares the mind for a qualitative transformation where the paradox is intuitively reconciled. This intuitive awareness in turn facilitates a greater recognition of the rational paradox of dualistic interpretations. So in dynamic terms, direct intuitive awareness and indirect bi-directional understanding are inseparable."
Cor and Inana L, T	Germany	"It's our ego that separates us from one another. Enlightenment is here to get us integrated with our fellow human beings."
Jan Cox L, T	Atlanta, Georgia	"A man with a history is a dead man walking."
Dada Bhagwan D	Institute in Topeka, Kansas	"Dada Bhagwan is the Lord of the Universe who is manifest fully within...Ambalal Muljibhai Patel, a contractor by profession, had just finished supper and was sitting on a bench at a railway platform in Surat, Gujarat State, India...waiting for another train. The time was late evening in June 1958. He was 51 years old. An extraordinary phenomenon occured and within 48 minutes he attained Self Realization."
Dalai Lama L, T	Worldwide	"No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. We have the same basic human needs and is concerns. All of us human beings want freedom and the right to determine our own destiny as individuals and as peoples. That is human nature."
Susan Dane L, T	France	"Spirituality is about one central thing--not self promotion or self-improvement, but rather becoming the space where Spirit lives its life as us. Dedication to this 'striving' is the wisest investment of our time and energy and the only true promise of a genuine 'better.'"
John David L, T	Australia, India	"Become quiet, let go of your daily drama, look deeply inside and discover the subtle Truth that has always been present."
David Davidson L, T	New York	"So could this be a contemporary domain for the non-dual guru function? Cyberspace may or may not produce the guru as embodied personality-certainly many individuals are already showing up on the Web and in newsgroups to claim a teaching role or provide collegial spiritual support . Yet I see a new possibility emerging here, consistent with the Internet's fundamental character as an self-organising, egalitarian and freedom loving community that resists authority, control and external regulation."
Ellen Davis L, T	Los Angeles	"If you go deep enough into what you gauge as a center point of emptiness or silence, you will find no center point. Your notion of center point is where you are referencing from in relation to somewhere else. It is what gives you your sense of self."
David Deida L, T	U.S., Canada	"In the midst of orgasm, practice opening, breathing and feeling all that you can feel, your intense pleasure, your lover, the entire room, the lives beginning and ending everywhere, and continue opening to feel everything fully without closure."
Anthony de Mello D		"Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts--generally somebody else's--mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions."
The Desert Fathers		"The Abbot Macarius used to say to the brethren in Scete, 'When mass is ended in the church, flee, my brothers.' And one of the brethren said to him, 'Father, whither in this solitude can we further flee?' And he laid his finger upon his mouth saying, 'This is what I would have you flee.' And so he would go into his cell and shut the door and there sit alone."
Djihi Marianne L, T	Netherlands
Dolano L, T	Koregaon Park, Poona, India	I say, just knowing who am I is not enlightenment. I call this awakening, but only when deeply recognized the value of who am I. Enlightenment I call when the drop has fallen into the ocean. The drop falls into the ocean, when the recognition is so complete that the mind is liberated. Then everything falls into its place.
Billy Doyle L, T	London, England	"This approach is based on the traditional art of listening. We don't really know the real body. Through accumulated tensions and living in the head, in a world of concepts and ideas, the body too has become an idea, rather than something living, something felt."
Jim Dreaver L, T	California	"I was strolling down to the afternoon dialogue, contemplating the notion that I was not the "person" I'd taken myself to be, when my "I," my ego--with its whole story-line--suddenly jumped out into my awareness. In that moment, I saw the game I'd been playing all these years. I saw my attachment to the identity of myself as a spiritual "seeker." I felt a great sadness. I sensed I would never be able to quite buy into my own "story" again."
Tim Duerden ? ?	?	"Thus, in unity there is no duality and in duality there is no unity. The mystery is the ‘connection’ between these two independent states."

Name/Link D=Deceased L=Living T=Openly teaching ? = nothing known	Location	Quote
Meister Eckhart		"There is no process of becoming in God, but only a present moment, that is a becoming without a becoming, a becoming-new without renewal. . . All that is in God is an eternal present- time without renewal."
Elysha L, T	New Zealand, Cyberspace	"The gentlest thing that you can do for yourself is to come back home and into your Heart."
William Fahey L		"I found myself in a place I'd never been, and wondered - who am I?"
Becky Fitzsimmons L		"Explaining nondualism in words isn't easy. Nondualism is by nature paradoxical and elusive, at least to our habitual way of thinking. It is also eternal, beatific, and worthwhile."
Sri Ganapati Sachchidananda Swamiji L, T	India, Worldwide	"Sadguru is like gold, sugar cane and sandal wood. Gold : the more you burn it the purer it become. Sugar cane: the more you sqeeze it, the greater is the quantity of juice that it yields. Sandal wood: the more you rub, the greater is the scent that it yields."
Ganga Karmokar L, T	India, Seattle, Cyberspace	"there is nothing that is to be learned. it is more of a process of letting go... you do not gain anything... how can you gain what has always been and will always be Reality...."
Gangaji L, T	Worldwide	"When you are willing to walk on air, to not be supported, to not be maintained, then you see you are walking without feet or legs. And when you are walking without feet or legs, you are walking without a head. You are walking without a director. Then you can't even say you are walking. You can't say you are teaching, you can't say you are giving, you can't say you're receiving. You can only say, 'I am.' From that 'am' the clearest, most pristine, most unwalked-upon teaching speaks. Naturally."
Alice Gardner L, T	Vermont	The author of this site makes no claims to any special state or stage or perspective. What is contained here is a simple expression of how things are seen to be, by this individual, and no claims of correctness or realization can be made based on that. It is my hope however, that what flows onto these pages may be helpful, or even valuable to others who open themselves to the possibility of our awakening in the midst of life.
Jim Gilman L, T	California	"Notice how painful it is, to constantly be wanting, wanting. This is our suffering. Once we realize that the problem is not that we do not have what we want, but rather THAT WE COMPULSIVELY DESIRE, then we will develop the heroism to do something about it."
Philip Goddard L		"...my life quest was over, successfully completed; there was nothing more that I had to seek or to do to fulfil myself. This seemed incredible, because despite having been purposefully moving towards liberation from limiting habitual tendencies and negative emotions, I'd had no idea that I was heading for such a sublime goal, and up to that point had still felt painfully lacking in a life direction and was plagued by a feeling of unfulfilment despite all my creative work - and now, suddenly I'd hit the fulfilment that my life had all along really been pointing to, without even trying!"
Thaddeus Golas L		"There is not point in worry or wonder about worse or better spiritual conditions, although that game is available. You will not be able to rise above your present vibration level to stay until you love the way you are now."
Greg Goode L, T	New York, Cyberspace	"The mind, memory, body and world appear as thoughts, feelings, and sensations. These are all arisings appearing in Consciousness, which is Knowledge. Arisings cannot reach outside themselves. They cannot point to each other, touch each other or contain each other. Since memory is also just an arising, it cannot point backwards or forwards to anything. So there can't really be two arisings. If there cannot be two arisings, how can there be one? What is left? Knowledge, our true nature."
Gurdjieff D		"One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind."
Guruji Grace Love L, T	Arizona	Guruji Grace Love is a wholistic healer of 23 years. She uses a wide range of modalities, including Unconditional Love, Reiki, Clinical Hypnotherapy, aromatherapy, flower remedies, play, meditation, spontaneous prayer, and spiritual counsel. Guruji trained with the Simontons, Dr. Irving Oyle, Dr. Hans Selye, Dr. Barry Seedman, and meditated in India and California with enlightened Sages. She is a 10 year breast cancer survivor. She has had a Clinical Hypnotherapy practice for 23 years and is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, a Master Hypnotist, and a candidate for both the Doctor of Clinical Hypnotherapy and the Ph. D. through Albert University.
Joan Halifax L, T	New Mexico	"Spirituality is difficult for us to touch because it flows to and from the invisible, from love and the mystery of death. It comes out of that meltdown that we know as love and compassion and the surrender that we know as death."
Hanuman L, T	Washington, Oregon	"The very heart of Satsang is the revelation of that which is already and always eternally silent and everpresent."
Burt Harding L, T	Vancouver, B.C.	"What really gives meaning is the love you feel. The love is in you. If you don't feel love, there is no meaning. Now, if you believe that it is the other that gives you meaning, then you are attached. This attachment blinds you to your own love and brings pain."
Douglas Harding L, T	Worldwide	"Our need is to discover that it is a myth, and to start living that other kind of life, the life of non-confrontation - in which each of us is emptied for the others. I would see the future of my work as the continued pointing to the truth of non-confrontation and its necessity."
David Hargrove L, T	Atlanta, Georgia	"In November of 1996 I was waking back to my desk at work and suddenly and from nowhere the simple understanding happened. All things conceivable or perceivable were contained in the "One effortless Awareness." I found myself to Be what I had always been 'Simple Being.'"
Steven Harrison L, T	Worldwide	"At the historic core of every religion is not ritual, but someone who broke through ritual to direct contact with the transcendental. They were not following religion. They were discovering it and living it. Moses, Jesus, Buddha, Lao-tzu, Mohammed were not following anything but the expression of their direct contact with the actuality of life."
Harsha (Dr. Harsh K. Luthar) L, T	Cyberspace	"Once a student asked a teacher, 'How can I really know whether I exist or not after death?' The teacher said, 'You Are Existence.' The jump was too big. The student became silent. One day, after many years, the student Realized. The Self is Existence. The Self is Pure Perception which is the same as the Pure Perceiver. It is not nothingness. But it is devoid of things. It is No-Thingness. This perception is devoid of all thoughts and concepts and imagination of this and that and therefore is free from interpretation. To say It is beyond this and beyond that is to make a mystery of it. No need to complicate the simple beauty of who we are."
David R. Hawkins L, T	Sedona, Worldwide	"Self Identitiy is not an easy concept to comprehend. It is actually a subjective realization that cannot be adequately verbalized because of the inherent structure of languaging."
Nick Herbert L		"One of the best-kept secrets of science--a veritable skeleton in the science closet--is the fact that physicists have lost their grip on reality."
Chuck Hillig L	California	"...if you really feel moved to save the whales, help the poor, stop AIDs, etc., then go ahead and completely throw yourself into it 100%. Don't hold anything back! The "you" that you think you are, though, is not really the "do-er" of any of these actions. Consequently, this "you," then, need not concern itself with the results of these "actions" that you're feeling so compelled to, seemingly, "do." In Truth, by playing ALL of the so-called "parts" in the cosmic drama, Consciousness is really "doing" it all."
Evor Hines L, T	Warwickshire, UK; cyberspace	"whatever appears to be going on. Or not … Beyond concepts of: good and bad, happy and sad pleasure and pain, laughing or crying life and death, beginning and end..."
Lex Hixon D		"Basically, non-duality is a continual correction of dualistic conceptions as they arise. It's a spontaneous process which, without judgment, playfully erases lines of division as they arise."
David Hodges L	Cyberspace	"We are so lucky to have that nice new paperback edition with the yellow and black cover. It will change from inspiration to experience, though, when you put down the book and ask yourself where "you" were while your mind was busy reading the book. Another thing to try is, whenever Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj says that the key is to find I AM, pay attention. Pay attention. Pay attention. Don't let yourself be in the position of all those questioners of his, trying to figure him out or trying to figure IT out. Realize that Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj is asking you to experience what he is saying NOW."
Edgar Hofer L, T	Austria, La-Gomera Spain, Cyberspace	"...the often spoken "I AM" "(is all what is)" does not sound "total and final true" for me anymore... sm and: the "real journey" did start AFTER, but this is a total different story..."
His Holiness Hui Neng, the great Sixth Patriarch of Ch'an		Hui Neng defined Sitting Ch'an as: "In the midst of all good and evil, not a thought is aroused in the mind - this is called Sitting. Seeing into one's original nature, not being moved at all - this is called Ch'an. He taught that Sitting Ch'an should be practiced at all times, not just during formal sitting. He stressed it is the attitude of mind that is important, and not the physical posture, because truth can be found standing, walking, or lying down. In Japanese, Sitting Ch'an was called Zazen."

Name/Link D=Deceased L=Living T=Openly teaching ? = nothing known	Location	Quote
Ibn 'Arabi		"The relationship between the human being and retreat is that between God the Real (al-haqq) and 'the heart of the servant which contains God' and where nothing else enters, under any aspect belonging to worldly realities, so that the heart being empty (khali) or free of every worldly reality, God manifests Himself there with His Being."
Catherine Ingram L, T	Portland, Oregon. U.S.	"What I'm speaking about is dropping the illusory mythis of 'I', 'me', 'mine'. This is about subtraction rather than addition. Subtract what is not real and let the real shine through effortlessly, without obstruction."
Leonard Ingram (Bhagwan Ra Afrika) L, T	Illinois	"When one is truly in contact with reality, and not one's concept and abstraction of reality, no choices arise. Choices are created by the mind - not by reality! Reality is simply the case." Traditions: World religions, Psychology (anger management), African-American culture, Sant Mat. Location: Illinois. Access:see website.
Ishvara L, T	Santa Fe, New Mexico	In the Alaya community, there are no goals. There are no methods or techniques. Instead, Alaya is a Space of de-programming. It is a Space of letting go of goals, systems and methods. Getting rid of beliefs and concepts "about" the process. This is a fast track that leaves self-help far behind."
Leonard Jacobson L, T	Northern California	"I am one of God's alarm clocks. It is time to wake up."
Jae Jah Noh ? ?		"How can one really explain the Infinite? Only an infinite explanation could possibly achieve that purpose and it is immediately available in the form of real life. The infinite explanation arises spontaneously and naturally as the form of your very life. Life is itself its own explanation, and immediately obviates the need for any other."
Eli Jaxon-Bear L, T	Worldwide	"It was not until I had passed through many spiritual traditions and lineages, meeting many gurus and saints did I finally come across the pure transmission of immaculate Realization. In the vast universe of spirituality where claims and counterclaims, cover-ups and frauds run rife, there is one who is universally respected as a true Self-realized one who did no harm. His devotees called him Ramana Maharshi. He said, 'You cannot acquire happiness and bliss. Your nature is happiness and bliss.'"
Jesus Christ		"I will give you what eye has not seen and what ear has not heard and what hand has not touched and (what) has not arisen in the heart of man."
Jetsunma Ahkön Norbu Lhamo L, T	U.S.	"Now my experience has been that, of the people who came to my temple at first, some of the ones who were suffering the most were a lot of the gay people. They were deeply ingrained in finding an identity and gathering it around themselves and making a box out of it. It was as if they were less free than those who didn’t feel the need to find an identity. They were just encumbered by this need."
Jinendra Swami L, T	India	"In my sadhana I realized, it's not what I do but what I stop doing that matters. There was nothing to be changed but simply my attitude, which required no conscious efforts but simple Awareness."
Jnaneshvar		"In a tank the water may be so clear that it appears non-existent; though one who looks into the tank may not see it, still it is there. Similarly, the ultimate Reality exists in Itself, and is beyond the conceptions of existence or non-existence."
Kali Ma L, T	California	A one-pointed mind, fixed on the goal of awakening, is one of the most powerful forces on earth. Free of the past, free of interruption, free of projections about the future, it is one-pointed-ness that allows the practitioner to fully experience life. Discipline is the path to one-pointedness and concentration. It is Discipline that can save a person’s life by constantly redirecting it’s forces towards that which has greatest meaning."
Raymond Karczewski L, T	cyberspace	"Do not strive for spirituality. If you do, you will block it. It will be prevented from coming into your life. That is the most difficult thing for most people to learn, not to get in their own way. It is already yours. It has always been so. Relax, be still, and you will see what I mean."
Karma Triyana Dharmachakra L, T	New York	"The term Karma Triyana Dharmachakra is from the Sanskrit and translates loosely as "the place under the spiritual guidance and protection of His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa (Karma) where all three (Tri) levels (yana) of the Buddha's teachings (Dharma) are preserved and taught (chakra)." The term, as used for this Web site, refers in particular to His Holiness Karmapa's main monastic seat in North America at Woodstock, New York, and generally to all of the projects and activities that manifest from there through His Holiness's inspiration, blessings, and activities."
Karunamayi L, T	U.S. Worldwide	"The finale of mediation is spiritual illumination and its language is silence."
Byron Katie L, T	Worldwide	Judge your neighbor, ask four questions: 1) Is it true? 2) Can I really know that it’s true? 3) What do I get when I hold that belief? 4) Who (or what) would I be without that belief? Turn it around.
Kay L, T	Mississippi	"Is this all there is?"
Jack Kerouac D		"And I buy Buddha, who said, that what he said was neither true nor untrue, and there's the only true thing or good thing I ever heard and it rings a cloudy bell, a mighty supramundane gong -- He said, 'Your trip was long, illimitable, you came to this raindrop called your life, and call it yours -- we have purposed that you vow to be awakened -- whether in a million lifetimes you disregard this Kingly Heeding, it's still a raindrop in the sea and who's disturbed and what is time--?"
Kiran L, T	India, Worldwide	"Remember, you are nobody in this vast existence. The whole existence is working since billions of years. What impact are you going to have on this existence during your short life of sixty, eighty or a hundred years? Basically no impact!"
Dr. Jean Klein D		"...between deep sleep and awakening, there was a sudden vanishing of all the residues of 'my persons', each having believed themselves hitherto to be a doer, a sufferer, an enjoyer. All this vanished completely, and I was seized in full consciousness by an all-penetrating light, without inside or outside. This was the awakening in Reality, in the I am...I knew myself in the actual happening, not as a concept, but as a being without localisation in time or space. In this non-state there was a freedom, full and objectless joy."
Henry Kono L, T	Worldwide, Canada	"Wherever you place your attention, leave it there and do not let it wander. The rest will follow naturally." Tradition: Aikido.
Jack Kornfield L, T	U.S.	"While I benefited enormously from the training offered in the Thai and Burmese monasteries where I practised, I noticed two striking things. First, there were major areas of difficulty in my life, such as loneliness, intimate relationships, work, childhood wounds, and patterns of fear, that even very deep meditation didn’t touch. Second, among the several dozen Western monks (and lots of Asian meditators) I met during my time in Asia, with a few notable exceptions, most were not helped by meditation in big areas of their lives. Many were deeply wounded, neurotic, frightened, grieving, and often used spiritual practice to hide and avoid problematic parts of themselves."
Sri Krishna		"...the beginningless Brahman, ... can be called neither being nor nonbeing. It is both near and far, both within and without every creature; it moves and is unmoving. In its subtlety it is beyond comprehension. It is indivisible, yet appears divided in separate creatures. Know it to be the creator, the preserver, and the destroyer. Dwelling in every heart, it is beyond darkness. It is called the light of lights, the object and goal of knowledge, and knowledge itself."
Prof. V. Krishnmurthy L		"The physical reality that Science is after is only half the battle in the quest for knowledge. Vedanta says that there is a Spiritual Reality within us, which has divine attributes, as unbelievable as would the physics of fundamental matter be to a layman. Spirituality is the pursuit of the divine in us. This is what is missed by Science. The path has to be a step by step process of internal self-discipline, not just in terms of habits and manners but in terms of what we think we really are. This spiritual task of the individual is necessary for the Society to reform itself."
J. Krishnamurti D		"Now, there is no security, no comfort, but only clarity of thought which brings about the understanding of the fundamental cause of suffering, which alone will liberate man. In this liberation lies the blessedness of the present. I say that there is an eternal reality which can be discovered only when the mind is free from all illusion. So beware of the person who offers you comfort, for in this there must be exploitation; he creates a snare in which you are caught like a fish in a net." "Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path."
U.G. Krishnamurti D	Worldwide	"You can never understand the tremendous peace that is always there within you, that is your natural state. Your trying to create a peaceful state of mind is in fact creating disturbance within you. You can only talk of peace, create a state of mind and say to yourself that you are very peaceful -- but that is not peace; that is violence. So there is no use in practicing peace, there is no reason to practice silence. Real silence is explosive; it is not the dead state of mind that spiritual seekers think. 'Oh, I am at peace with myself! There is silence, a tremendous silence! I experience silence!' -- that doesn't mean anything at all. This is volcanic in its nature: it's bubbling all the time -- the energy, the life -- that is its quality. You may ask how I know. I don't know. Life is aware of itself, if we can put it that way -- it is conscious of itself."
Swami Lakshman Joo Raina ? ?		"Anything can happen in this world. Everything is possible in this world. One may die at any moment. Any second one may die. Any second there would be fire. Your house will catch fire and it will turn to ashes. Your bank draft of money will be smuggled. Everything is possible in this world. So, whatever you have to do, do in this world for that point. Be in an equilibrium state always. If you have got $1000 in your pocket, well and good. If you have nothing and you are a pauper, then, well and good. Think like that. Then you'll be liberated from the repeated births and deaths."
Lama Surya Das L, T	U.S. Worldwide	"On the other hand, deep spiritual life can be very special. I have been zapped by my gurus. I admit it. So I won't pretend that blessings don't exist. But they happen when you are ripe; you can hardly force it. You can't decide who the gurus really are or what they are going to do to you or how you are going to get zapped. So you just kind of schlep along and see what happens and try to enjoy it along the way. Don't take it too seriously. Affirm everything along the Way. There is a lot of joy and delight in that."
Lama Thubten Yeshe D		"The object of insight meditation, the experience of shunyata, is realization of non-duality. The flashing of the worldly sense objects and images disappears and there is the experience of the one total unity of absolute reality. Here there is a difference between the experience and the philosophy of shunyata."
Lao Tzu		Something mysteriously formed, Born before heaven and earth. In the silence and the void, Standing alone and unchanging, Ever present and in motion. Perhaps it is the mother of ten thousand things. I do not know its name. Call it Tao.
Ronda LaRue L, T	California, Cyberspace	"The yearning drive to find meaning in one’s life, the deep desire to know why we are here, the hope of healing, the ability to express the fullness of ourselves – and the fears that keep us from this Self-Realization – these are the very core drivers of our actions, our feelings and our beliefs, each moment of each day. This deep yearning for, and sensing of, “something more” commingled with an incessant fear of being hurt and obliterated is both the biggest block, and our surest avenue, to freedom".
Gloria Lee L		Like a caged bird, You are caught in today. Only at this moment May you sing your song. But first, Listen to your heart... Listen to your heart's story, then listen to the innocence... of your soul's original silence."
Lester Levenson D		In 1952, Lester Levenson, a physicist from New Jersey, claimed he had discovered the ultimate secret to achieving and maintaining perfect health, effortless wealth, deeply satisfying relationships, as well as a profound sense of peace, happiness and freedom—independent of outer circumstances. In a nutshell, he claimed he had discovered the Ultimate Secret of Success.
Jose LeRoy ? ?		"Enlightenment doesn't remove the personal sense, the feeling of existing, but this feeling of being, this 'I AM' is pure; it is no longer identified with an individual who is confronting other individuals. The 'I AM' is not relative, it is absolute; it is an unlimited presence and conscious of itself."
E.J. Light L, T	Cyberspace	"It is conditioned thinking that says 'But we don't know that', because we are fully Aware of it. It is because of the conditioned thinking that we do not Realize that we are Aware of it. And so we go on quests try to 'Discover it for myself', all the time under the auspices of our conditioned thinking. So it is a conditioned quest and a conditioned discovery."
Dustin LindenSmith L		"Traditionally, my understanding has been based on details and knowledge such as the nature of this, the definition of that, the particulars of this, or that; I consider it a grand leap forward that I am no longer concerned with anything other than understanding anymore - there is no knowledge other than That, and That is all that I wish to understand."
Sharlene Lindstrom L		"Every moment of my life, so far, has led me here, just to write these words in this moment. It may not sound like much, but to me it's a blessing to have the freedom of speech, the freedom to express, and the freedom to share."
Wayne Liquorman L, T	Hermosa Beach, California; Worldwide	"Go back to your church, your temple, your therapist, your drug dealer, your ashram. There you may find a few moments peace. You found it there once. Here is only emptiness for you."
Clara Llum L, T	Miami, cyberspace	"All these experiences converge in what I am now and how I teach or coach. Although I am just a walker of the Path, I have always found people that come to me in search of advice, love or instruction. My feeling is that they get some benefit, peace, clarity, confidence or resolution, so I decided to continue my sharing, not forgetting that -to me- all are mirrors of Wisdom."
Barry Long L, T	Australia	"Enlightenment is to be emptied (not empty) of feelings and thus at one with the pure sensation of divine being. And that pretty well sums up the whole spiritual process. But the spiritual process is so little understood that people don't realize their feelings are personal and false and have been misleading them all their life."
Francis Lucille www. francislucille.com L, T	Worldwide	"Remember the recipes for happiness that were given to you by these same people when you were a child, study hard, get a good job, marry the right man, etc.? These recipes don't work, otherwise you wouldn't be here asking these questions. They don't work because they are based on a false perspective of reality, a perspective that I am suggesting that you put into question."

Name/Link D=Deceased L=Living T=Openly teaching ? = nothing known	Location	Quote
M. L, T	cyberspace	"By stilling all vikalpas (dichotomising thought constructs) during meditation, one eventually, by virtue of practice, begins to carry a thought free state into his day to day activities. This inward absorption that is free of all vikalpas--even though the eyes are turned outward and one is going about his daily business--is called Bhairavi mudra or Khechari mudra."
Ma L, T	Florida, U.S.	"This very moment I want you to breathe into an imaginary empty space inside of you. Then breathe out the clarity of love. See how you feel. Where is that empty space?"
Andrew Macnab L		"Regarding psychological wounds and awakening, it is my experience that attention to wounds can slow healing down, like picking at scabs. With awakening, the wounds heal up, or rather they are seen as not real. I think it is a mistake to tie psychological healing to awakening. One can happen without the other and neither is a necessary precondition for the other. Wounds heal themselves given time and rest first, then gentle exercise. Taking it on oneself to break down another's ego is prideful hurtful and wrong. It ends badly however well intentioned. It shows error and delusion in the one who takes it upon himself to do so. My advice to young seeker who finds such a person would be to run the other way as fast as he can."
Mahamandaleshwar Swami Nityananda L, T	Worldwide	"...spirituality is really about becoming simple and free, not becoming more entrapped by ideas or thoughts such as, 'this is what I need to be,' or, 'this is who I should become.' Really, it's about unbecoming, connecting to that space within, being who we truly are, becoming more and more established in the awareness 'I am that Truth, I am that Consciousness.'
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi L, T	Worldwide	"There is no moving towards the omnipresent; wherever we are, we are that. When we talk on the level of evolution, we talk on the level of stress. Otherwise, when we talk of evolution it's just a waste of time."
Maitreya L, T	New Zealand	"You are programmed by Source to desire and achieve. The fire of now burns your toys. The fire of now is dangerous for children who are attached to their toys. Your toys are: your friends and relationships, your desire for pleasure and possessions, your lust for life, your need for attention, whatever pulls you outward away from your centre. The fire of now burns in your centre with the eternal energy of Source. It is awareness."
Manchine L, T	Chile, Cyberspace	"The sacrifice of the true Nondual Guerilla is that (s)he must precariously leave one foot in the dual. It is an honor, and a lesson that is absolutely neccesary for his/her final liberation." Tradition: Psychology, Independent nondualism. Location: Chile, Cyberspace. Access: Impossible Realities
Jean-Marc Mantel L, T	Israel, Europe	"The therapist should therefore be well-informed so as to be able to regulate, with the co-operation of the patient, a therapy using various means and adapted to changing situations. But he/she should never loose sight of a crisis being the expression of suffering, either latent or obvious, that liberation from suffering is the dearest desire of both "care-taker" and "care-giver", and that the price of liberation is very high, as it requires the dissolution of all beliefs, images and constructs about ourselves, and their conscious resolution in the absolute silence which precedes creation."
Kip Mazuy L, T	New Zealand, cyberspace	"In this moment, who are you? This question simply takes out the thinking you and all that is left is this feeling of being. All that is left is this moment. Ask this over and over. "Who am I? Who am I?" The question takes you immediately back to now."
John McClellan ? ?		"I suspect I brought the nondual view into the wrong arena. Maybe it's a specialty subject, an area of concentration for saints and sages, for buddhas and bodhisattvas. Ecology seems to be understood in our society today as Environmentalism, what we have been calling in this seminar Shallow Ecology. As such it seems to be a place for values, for splendid games of good guys and bad guys, for right and wrong, for trying to help, and make a difference and so on. My new thought is, well, maybe rightly so!I'm not sure about these things, I'm just trying to figure out why it is that my simply pointing to what seems Obvious has been such uphill work, and arouses so much resistance."
Mark McCloskey L, T	Cyberspace	"All spirituality, all the teachers, all the teachings, all philosophies, all psychologies and therapies, all the words on this website are attempting to tell you the same thing: if you wish to live fully, to experience life freely, to have peace of mind and heart and to feel good about your own existence and to be love to all those around you, you must live out of this present moment."
Thomas J. McFarlane L		"Mathematics is not only a thread by which we may know the Beyond, but also a means by which we may commune with it."
Dan "Anubuddha" McKee L, T	Thailand, Worldwide	"Allow life as if You are a hollow Bamboo flute Being played by the master. Navigate life as if You know the wind The stars, the waves And the ship Are your friends. Bless life as if Every moment is like saying Grace before a meal."
Meher Baba D		"In nonduality there is freedom from limitation, as well as the knowledge and appreciation of things as they are. In nonduality alone is there the realization of the true spiritual infinity that secures abiding and unfading bliss."
Franklin Merrell-Wolff D		"1.Consciousness-without-an-object is. 2.Before objects were Consciousness-without-an-object is. 3.Though objects seem to exist Consciousness-without-an-object is. 4.When objects vanish yet remaining through all unaffected Consciousness-without-an-object is. 5.Outside of Consciousness-without-an-object nothing is."
Gary Merrill L, T	UK, Cyberspace	Oneness is not gained but uncovered as already the case. Some call this Tao or God, but it is not a name or concept. What is one doesn't know itself as one, as that would require a relation, two. The division into self and other gives the appearance of duality, of separate identity, of an objective world. Oneness is before 'one' and 'not one'. What is true isn't known, but is right here right now, as it is. Is neither real nor illusion.
Thomas Merton D		"The only full and authentic purification is that which turns a man completely inside out, so that he no longer has a self to defend, no longer an intimate heritage to protect against inroads and dilapidations.......the full maturity of the spiritual life cannot be reached unless we first pass through the dread, anguish, trouble, and fear that necessarily accompany the inner crisis of "spiritual death" in which we finally abandon our attachment to our exterior self and surrender completely to Christ."
Canela Michelle Meyers L, T	North Vancouver, BC, Canada	You are the Present. The Gift of each moment. You are the only one to receive this gift, this Present; to allow an unwrapping of That. Will you relax enough to witness this unwrapping? Thoughts, sensations, emotions, all that is revealed, is simply the ‘wrapping paper’ of the Gift of Who you Are. The invitation is, to not get caught up in the wrapping paper, to simply let it unfold to reveal That which resides always; The Truth of Who you Are.”
Milarepa D		"In the city of the illusory body, The illusory mind is the great culprit, Enslaved by the flesh and blood of the body, With little time to realize the Ultimate Reality. O Retchung, discern the true nature of mind."
Richard C. Miller, Ph.D. L, T	California, N.America	"All great searches begin with the suspension of the statements: 'I know' and 'I don’t know.' This orients us in an attitude of listening. In fact, yoga may be described as the art and science of listening, and silence is the ground in which listening takes root and blossoms."CA, N.America
Dan Millman L, T	Northern California, U.S.	"...the heroic choice often means taking responsibility for where you are now and participating fully and intentionally, with greater presence and passion than ever before."
Kenneth G. Mills D	Canada	"My life has been one, hopefully, that could lead you to find the Key that would erase your robotization and would allow you to perceive your True Identity. This is not easy to do. The reason it isn't easy to do is because you have such a love affair with your everyday experience without realizing it is built on supposition." ... "'Kenneth Mills' evening gowns are clearly the work of a Renaissance man. There is poetry in every pleat, art in every sweep of silk. His creative talent is so prolific that his designs will remain light years ahead of his imitators."
Mira L, T	Worldwide	"I don't believe in preparation, because preparation leads you to somewhere very far in your life, you need many years. And after all you are never ready, psychological you are never ready for something . This question "Who am I " is not a psychological question you know. It 's a natural question and it is like an arrow. You have just to follow the direction of it and it doesn' t care of any psychology any preparation. It is natural, it is your natural nature you know. "
Moller de la Rouviere (no link at this time) L, T	South Africa	is the resident meditation teacher and spiritual facilitator at ADVAITA-ASHRAM in a remote, but beautiful part of the South African countryside. The gradual removal of all the obscurations we bring to our lives which inhibit the Freedom and Clarity of our inherent Non-dual Vision is the path which Moller proposes and which he encourages everyone who is serious about ‘this thing called life' to consider with him.
Joel Moorwood L, T	Eugene, Oregon