You are able to see through the complex illusions of duality, of self and other, and see and experience it all as an ongoing play of the universal self, of God. Because it is all appreciated as the self, there really is no longer anything to fear, including one’s own death. There is nothing to hold onto. There is nothing to hate. There is nothing t

When I began to recognize the emptiness and clarity of my own mind, my life became richer and more vivid in ways I never could have imagined. Once I shed my ideas about how things should be, I became free to respond to my experience exactly as it was and exactly as I was, right there, right then.

The atman is to our total consciousness what the head is to the sense of sight–neither light nor darkness, neither full nor empty, only an inconceivable beyond. In the moment when every last identification of the Self with some object or concept has ceased, in the state called nirvikalpa or “without conception,” there flashes forth from its unknown