The Transparency of Things Quotes

“We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.”
― Rupert Spira, The Transparency of Things

“No formulation of the reality of experience is completely true. Once we acknowledge this, we relieve words of the impossible burden of trying to express the nature of experience and, as a result, leave them free to be spoken and heard in playful and creative ways that evoke Reality itself without trying to frame or grasp it.”
― Rupert Spira, The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience

“Understanding is the dissolution of the mind into its support, into its ground. It is the experience of Consciousness knowing itself, returning to itself knowingly.”
― Rupert Spira, The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience

“The abstract concepts of the mind cannot apprehend Reality, although they are an expression of it.”
― Rupert Spira, The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience

“Every word on this page is in fact only made of paper. It only expresses the nature of the paper, although it may describe the moon.”
― Rupert Spira, The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience

“It is the exploration and the subsequent discovery that Consciousness cannot be found or represented by mind, by thinking, which truly brings this search for itself in the mind to an end. As the mind, as seeking and thinking, comes to an end, that which is ever-present as the support and substance of the mind is revealed. This is the experience of understanding. It is a non-objective experience and is therefore timeless.”
― Rupert Spira, The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience

“We could say that when the knowing of any object is relieved of its objective qualities, the identity of Consciousness and Existence is revealed. This revelation is known as Happiness in relation to the body, Peace in relation to the mind and Beauty in relation to the world.”
― Rupert Spira, The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience

“From the point of view of mind, objects veil Consciousness. From the point of view of Reality, objects reveal Consciousness.”
― Rupert Spira, The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience

“Recognition of our true nature does not need studious reading of spiritual texts, years of meditation practice or deep devotion to a teacher. We need only the willingness to engage in a rigorously honest investigation into the nature of awareness itself – not an intellectual investigation, but a personal investigation into what we truly are.”
― Rupert Spira, The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience