“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.” — Rumi

“Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.” — Gautama Buddha

“First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all...modernnonduality.com/quotes/gautama…” — Gautama Buddha

“Human consciousness is a continuum. On one extreme, humans are identified with the material self. On the other extreme is Samadhi, the cessation of self. Every step we take on the continuum towards Samadhi, brings less suffering. ” — Daniel Schmidt

“This is what the path of Dharma is like. It’s not that you have to do all the practices. It is sufficient to take just one of them, whichever one you really have an affinity with, and through practicing...modernnonduality.com/quotes/dhomang…” — Dhomang Yangthang

“There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a dream disappears. Perhaps it is all nothing but a dream.” — P.D. Ouspensky

“To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.” — Ramana Maharshi

“Enlightenment, or Nirvana, is nothing other than the state beyond all obstacles, in the same way that from the peak of a very high mountain one always sees the sun. Nirvana is not a paradise or some special place of happiness, but...modernnonduality.com/quotes/namkhai…” — Namkhai Norbu

“If you have compassion and are imbued with the spirit of the Way, it is of no consequence to be criticized, even reviled, by the ignorant. But if you lack the spirit of the Way, you should be wary of being thought of by others as having the Way.” — Dōgen

“This world is all attachment. Yet you get worried because you are attached.” — Neem Karoli Baba

“Only the action of non-action, the practice of non-practice, unmotivated non-volitional functioning, can lead to that recognition or awakening and why any kind of action, practice or intentional procedure is an insurmountable barrier to such awakening.5” — Wei Wu Wei

“We can never succeed in the outer struggle, because it is just a reflection of our inner world.” — Daniel Schmidt

“The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace.” — Jean Klein

“Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does it signify? It signifies that several millions of sleeping people are trying to destroy...modernnonduality.com/quotes/george-…” — George Gurdjieff

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

“To love is to recognize yourself in another.” — Eckhart Tolle

“I cannot but see you as myself. It is in the very nature of love to see no difference.” — Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Trying to fall in love is like trying to make your heart beat backwards. It can’t be done. I am already what you are. And so we don’t fall in love; we simply notice that we...modernnonduality.com/quotes/jeff-fo…” — Jeff Foster

“There are two core fears: losing what you have, and not getting what you want. There is one solution: Falling in love with where you are.” — Jeff Foster

“Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you...modernnonduality.com/quotes/nisarga…” — Nisargadatta Maharaj