No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth

A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the mystic who tries to speak logically and formally of unity consciousness is doomed to sound very paradoxical or contradictory.

humans discovered they were now living in two worlds—the concrete vs. the abstract, the ideal vs. the real, the universal vs. the particular.

put it plainly, to say that “ultimate reality is a unity of opposites” is actually to say that in ultimate reality there are no boundaries. Anywhere.

not occur yesterday. Rather, it is a present occurrence, a present fact, a present activity.

(which are ideas and concepts).

“Where to draw the line?” really means, “Where the battle is to take place.”

we generate the illusion that experience itself likewise moves past us.

If right now you just temporarily forget everything that happened in your past, and just feel that pure inner I-ness—has anything really changed?

I have a body, but I am not my body. I can see and feel my body, and what can be seen and felt is not the true Seer. My body may be tired or excited, sick or healthy, heavy or light, but that has nothing to do with my inward I. I have a body, but I am not my body. I have desires, but I am not my desires. I can know my desires, and what can be known