{"quotes":[{"text":"If your consciousness is without form, without quality, and without characteristics of any kind, would that not imply that the consciousness in every other being is also formless? And if they are all without form, how can you distinguish their consciousness from your own? What forms would you use to compare them? Isn’t the observing you exactly the same as the observing them?","author":"Joseph P. Kauffman","tags":["acceptance","appreciation","awakening","awareness","awe","bliss","brahman","buddhism","compassion","connection","consciousness","emotional","enjoy","enlightenment","evolution","existence","fear","forgiveness","freedom","god","gratitude","happiness","heart","hinduism","holographic-universe","illusion","journey","joy","life","love","maya","mental","mind","mystery","nature","nirvana","non-resistence","nonduality","now","oneness","path","peace","presence","reality","samadhi","self","self-acceptence","self-love","spirit","spiritual","spirituality","third-eye","truth","unity","universe","wisdom","within","zen"],"id":1788,"author_id":"Joseph+P.+Kauffman"},{"text":"The human self and the God self are both creations of molecules in the human brain.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["advaita","brainy","consciousness-mind-brain","consciousness","god","god","human-brain","human-mind","meditation","mind","mind","mindfulness","nirvana","nondual-philosophy","nonduality","oneness","oneness-with-god","philosophy","religion","sage","science-of-mind","self","transcendence","transcendence","transcendentalism-god","words-of-wisdom"],"id":7634,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"And he’d expected her to feel like heaven, plus nirvana, plus that scene in Willy Wonka where Charlie starts to fly.","author":"Rainbow Rowell","tags":["heaven","nirvana","willy-wonka"],"id":8731,"author_id":"Rainbow+Rowell"},{"text":"The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["anxiety","class","irrationality","nirvana","reason","society","struggle","utopia"],"id":14750,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"Christ was an ordinary man who upon the attainment of absolute divinity or Nirvana or Samadhi became a better version of himself. Such an experience of divine ecstasy neurologically transformed him into a great teacher for humanity filled with love, kindness and divinity.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["advaita","brainy","buddha","christ","inspirational","inspiring","jesus","jesus-christ","jesus","meditation","meditations","mindfulness","neuropsychology","neurotheology","nirvana","nirvana","nonduality","philosophy","samadhi","theology","transcendence","truth","wise-sayings","words-of-wisdom","words-of-wisdom-inspirational"],"id":15764,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Christ was an ordinary man who upon the attainment of absolute divinity or Nirvana or Samadhi became a better version of himself. Such an experience of divine ecstasy neurologically transformed him into a great teacher for humanity filled with love, kindness and divinity.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["advaita","brainy","buddha","christ","inspirational","inspiring","jesus","jesus-christ","jesus","meditation","meditations","mindfulness","neuropsychology","neurotheology","nirvana","nirvana","nonduality","philosophy","samadhi","theology","transcendence","truth","wise-sayings","words-of-wisdom","words-of-wisdom-inspirational"],"id":15764,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Once the lotus of your inner divinity gets full-blown and you reach the mental state where all the religious giants of human history experienced the all-encompassing sense of godliness, the exuberance of the human mind turns infinite. Awakening into that state makes all the perceptual limitations of the mind disappear, just like a bucket of muddy water turns crystal-clear once poured into the ocean.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["consciousness-mind-brain","consciousness-raising","divine-self","meditation","mindfulness","mindfulness","moses","muhammad","muhammad-pbuh","neurotheology","nirvana","nondual-philosophy","nondualism","nonduality","peace","pearls-of-wisdom","philosophy","philosophy","self-realization","transcendence","transcendence","transcendentalism"],"id":34684,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.","author":"Gautama Buddha","tags":["attachment","awakening","balance","creation","desire","enlightenment","equanimity","faith","good-and-evil","know-thyself","meaning-of-life","nirvana","religion","spiritual","suffering","wisdom"],"id":48153,"author_id":"Gautama+Buddha"},{"text":"For Persons are selves and, in one respect at least, I was now a Not-self, simultaneously perceiving and being the Not-self of the things around me. To this new-born Not-self, the behavior, the appearance, the very thought of the self it had momentarily ceased to be, and ofother selves, its one-time fellows, seemed not indeed distasteful (for distastefulness was not one of thecategories in terms of which I was thinking), but enormously irrelevant.","author":"Aldous Huxley","tags":["anatta","buddhism","nirvana","non-self","not-self","perception"],"id":49998,"author_id":"Aldous+Huxley"},{"text":"You cannot be aware of yourself, for you are awareness itself. How can a witness witness itself? That is like trying to see your own eyes without a reflection, or cut a knife with the tip of its own blade—it is impossible. The subject can only observe the object; it cannot make an object out of itself. But by the very act of observing, you indirectly know yourself as the observer, as the subject. No witnessing of the witness is needed to prove its existence.","author":"Joseph P. 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