{"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":"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. 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","self","self-acceptence","self-love","spirit","spiritual","spirituality","third-eye","truth","unity","universe","wisdom","within","zen"],"id":54049,"author_id":"Joseph+P.+Kauffman"},{"text":"We fail to see the oneness of all things, and because of this, we unknowingly cause a lot of harm to ourselves. We pollute the Earth that we live on, cut down the trees that produce our oxygen, destroy the ecosystems of nature and the animals that maintain them, and we mistreat and harm each other, thinking that these destructive actions will not have a direct effect on us.","author":"Joseph P. Kauffman","tags":["acceptance","appreciation","awakening","awareness","awe","bliss","brahman","buddhism","compassion","connection","consciousness","emotional","emptiness","enjoy","enlightenment","evolution","existence","fear","forgiveness","form","formless","freedom","god","gratitude","happiness","heart","hinduism","holographic-universe","illusion","interconnection","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","tantra","third-eye","truth","unity","universe","wisdom","within","zen"],"id":66975,"author_id":"Joseph+P.+Kauffman"},{"text":"Jehovah, the Christian name for God derived from the Hebrew Yahweh, (from the letters YHWH), is translated as 'I AM.' YOU ARE the essence of life—the Cosmic Consciousness that creates, lives in, and destroys all things. In Buddhism, your true nature is referred to as your “Buddha Nature.” Muslims refer to it as Allah, Native tribes have often called it the Great Spirit, Taoists refer to it as the Tao, and numerous other cultures throughout history have all created their own distinctive names for it. But the one eternal reality that these cultures point to remains the same—and this reality is YOU.","author":"Joseph P. Kauffman","tags":["acceptance","appreciation","awakening","awareness","awe","bliss","brahman","buddhism","compassion","connection","consciousness","emotional","emptiness","enjoy","enlightenment","evolution","existence","fear","forgiveness","form","formless","freedom","god","gratitude","happiness","heart","hinduism","holographic-universe","illusion","interconnection","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","source","spirit","spiritual","spirituality","tantra","third-eye","truth","unity","universe","wisdom","within","zen"],"id":78332,"author_id":"Joseph+P.+Kauffman"},{"text":"In Advaita Vedanta, and in many other ancient wisdom traditions, the world is said to be an illusion. This illusion is commonly referred to as maya, a Sanskrit name which refers to the apparent, or objective reality which is superimposed on the ultimate reality in order to generate the phenomena of what we call the material world. Maya is the magic by which we create duality—by which we create two worlds from one. This creation is an illusory creation—it is not real—it is an imaginary manifestation of the one Universal Consciousness, appearing as all of the various phenomena in objective reality. Maya is God’s, or Consciousness’s, creative power of emptying or reflecting itself into all things and thus creating all things—the power of subjectivity to take on objective appearance.","author":"Joseph P. Kauffman","tags":["acceptance","ancient","appreciation","awakening","awareness","awe","bliss","brahman","buddhism","compassion","connection","consciousness","emotional","emptiness","enjoy","enlightenment","evolution","existence","fear","forgiveness","form","formless","freedom","god","gratitude","happiness","heart","hinduism","holographic-universe","illusion","interconnection","journey","joy","life","love","maya","mental","mind","mind-body-spirit","mystery","nature","nirvana","non-resistence","nonduality","now","oneness","path","peace","presence","reality","sacred","samadhi","self","self-acceptence","self-love","source","spirit","spiritual","spirituality","tantra","third-eye","truth","unity","universe","wisdom","within","zen"],"id":89041,"author_id":"Joseph+P.+Kauffman"},{"text":"Every being experiences themselves as the center of their experience. Consciousness is what lies at our very core, and connects us all to each other. We may appear to be separate and individual because of the various forms our Consciousness inhabits, but below the surface the substance of our being is one and the same.","author":"Joseph P. Kauffman","tags":["acceptance","appreciation","awakening","awareness","awe","bliss","brahman","buddhism","compassion","connection","consciousness","emotional","emptiness","enjoy","enlightenment","evolution","existence","fear","forgiveness","form","formless","freedom","god","gratitude","happiness","heart","hinduism","holographic-universe","illusion","interconnection","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","tantra","third-eye","truth","unity","universe","wisdom","within","zen"],"id":89904,"author_id":"Joseph+P.+Kauffman"},{"text":"God is the ultimate ground of Being, and this ultimate ground of Being is YOU. For one who realizes their true nature as God, as Consciousness, life becomes a joy without end.","author":"Joseph P. Kauffman","tags":["acceptance","ancient","appreciation","awakening","awareness","awe","bliss","brahman","buddhism","compassion","connection","consciousness","emotional","emptiness","enjoy","enlightenment","evolution","existence","fear","forgiveness","form","formless","freedom","god","gratitude","happiness","heart","hinduism","holographic-universe","illusion","interconnection","journey","joy","life","love","maya","mental","mind","mind-body-spirit","mystery","nature","nirvana","non-resistence","nonduality","now","oneness","path","peace","presence","reality","sacred","samadhi","self","self-acceptence","self-love","source","spirit","spiritual","spirituality","tantra","third-eye","truth","unity","universe","wisdom","within","zen"],"id":104842,"author_id":"Joseph+P.+Kauffman"},{"text":"We are only able to disrespect, mistreat, and harm one another when we forget that the other person is us; when we only see the objects of form, and not the subjective Consciousness that lies within. Lust, greed, violence, selfishness—all arise from perceiving others in terms of their individual differences, seeing them only as bodies, and what we can get from them as bodies, rather than acknowledging the Being that lies within the body.","author":"Joseph P. Kauffman","tags":["acceptance","appreciation","awakening","awareness","awe","bliss","brahman","buddhism","compassion","connection","consciousness","emotional","emptiness","enjoy","enlightenment","evolution","existence","fear","forgiveness","form","formless","freedom","god","gratitude","happiness","heart","hinduism","holographic-universe","illusion","interconnection","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","source","spirit","spiritual","spirituality","tantra","third-eye","truth","unity","universe","wisdom","within","zen"],"id":136228,"author_id":"Joseph+P.+Kauffman"},{"text":"Have you ever had a dream that you were certain was real, only to wake up and realize that everyone and everything in the dream was really you? Well this is how many mystics describe the nature of our reality, as a dream in which we think we are individual personalities existing in the physical universe. But eventually, like in all dreams, we will wake up. Except in this dream we do not wake up to realize we are still in the world, we awake from the world to realize that we are God.","author":"Joseph P. 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The delusion that we are separate beings comes from identifying with the world of form—with our names, our bodies, our roles, our beliefs, our thoughts, and all of the mental constructs that we have created; but even these are more connected to the universe than we realize.","author":"Joseph P. 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