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Nisargadatta used to say that nothing perceivable or conceivable is what you are. You are what it appears on/in.
Kat Adamson • Sailor Bob
When the mind is brought to stillness we see that we are the mountain and not the changing patterns of weather appearing on the mountain.
Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
While some traditions teach us that we are a part, or a spark of, the Divine, the View of this path is that we are the whole—the One Reality. The LSN is magnificent in its teaching of this path since it begins with the nāma Śrīmāta (see N1) that reveals the contraction of the limitless, non-dual Divine into limitation and duality, and ends with the
... See moreKavitha Chinnaiyan • Glorious Alchemy: Living the Lalitā Sahasranāma
If we emulate him, we are emulating a being whose mind and actions were in accord with reality,
Reginald A. Ray • In the Presence of Masters: Wisdom from 30 Contemporary Tibetan Buddhist Teachers
The way through this paradox is to recognize that we always shape our experience, mostly unconsciously, with the grooves of the mind-body, which in turn reinforce themselves, because the more that the mind and breath flow through conditioned grooves, the deeper those grooves become.
Michael Stone • The Inner Tradition of Yoga: A Guide to Yoga Philosophy for the Contemporary Practitioner
the mind creates the illusion of a separate individuality.
Arthur Osborne • Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self-Knowledge

The individual human being, even the sovereign individual, is not the creator of consciousness, will, intelligence, or love but the reflector of these qualities and capacities. Like a mirror, we can reflect a spectrum of qualities depending on how polished and clean our mirror is. Likewise, our mirrors can become distorted and corroded by egoism an
... See moreKabir Helminski • The Mysterion: Rumi and the Secret of Becoming Fully Human
the object of perception cannot be separated from the mind that perceives it.