1000 Quotes

“Along with "Be the Absolute," Nisargadatta is shouting "Be yourself. Be a natural human being."
Do not run from anything. Face everything. Be a complete human being. Give all, live all, be all. "I Am That" means be a human being, too.
When the Absolute is allowed to blossom, It celebrates your humanity. It makes full use of it. There is no "where" to go.”
― Ramaji, 1000: The Levels of Consciousness and a Map of the Stages of Awakening for Spiritual Seekers and Teachers

“To attain enlightenment and get established in nonduality is one thing. To live as a human being who compassionately embodies the truth "All is my very Self" is quite another.”
― Ramaji, 1000: The Levels of Consciousness and a Map of the Stages of Awakening for Spiritual Seekers and Teachers

“No mind. No knowledge. No other. No world. No enlightened person. Nothing has ever happened. Everything is perfect just as it is right now. There is only the Absolute (the Self).”
― Ramaji, 1000: The Levels of Consciousness and a Map of the Stages of Awakening for Spiritual Seekers and Teachers

“Only the Self, no world." ~ Ramana

"Otherness" is a product of the mind. There is NO other at all.”
― Ramaji, 1000: The Levels of Consciousness and a Map of the Stages of Awakening for Spiritual Seekers and Teachers

“Nothing has ever happened to anyone. No you, no me, no abused, no abuser, no victim, no crime. NO WORLD!”
― Ramaji, 1000: The Levels of Consciousness and a Map of the Stages of Awakening for Spiritual Seekers and Teachers

“One is always in the absolute state, knowingly or unknowingly, for that is all there is. To be knowingly in the absolute state means to be happy, content and at peace without the slightest restriction."
~ Francis Lucille”
― Ramaji, 1000: The Levels of Consciousness and a Map of the Stages of Awakening for Spiritual Seekers and Teachers

“I just answer questions… because it is the questions that trigger the answers. You see, if there is not the urgency, intensity in the question, the answer doesn't come. In a way, it is the desire from which the question originates that pulls the answer out of presence. I'm not answering questions -- I'm listening to questions, and then I'm listening to the answer."
~ Francis Lucille”
― Ramaji, 1000: The Levels of Consciousness and a Map of the Stages of Awakening for Spiritual Seekers and Teachers

“You end up where you started, but there is now a difference.
What is different now is that your "flaw finder" machine has stopped. This flaw-finding machine is called the mind.”
― Ramaji, 1000: The Levels of Consciousness and a Map of the Stages of Awakening for Spiritual Seekers and Teachers

“The Self, the Absolute, the divine, is difficult to find because it is naked right in front of you.”
― Ramaji, 1000: The Levels of Consciousness and a Map of the Stages of Awakening for Spiritual Seekers and Teachers

“This journey is a fire. It will consume everything. Then it will consume itself. It will leave nothing at all behind. It will be as if nothing ever happened. Even the notion of enlightenment will to be seen to be absurd. It is beyond enlightenment. You already are the Self. You cannot attain it. You are it. You can gain a recognition that you are That. That is the difference.”
― Ramaji, 1000: The Levels of Consciousness and a Map of the Stages of Awakening for Spiritual Seekers and Teachers

“In sum, I believe one of the main characteristics of the LOC 1000 sage is that he or she has decided to make themselves unconditionally available to spiritual seekers everywhere. The heart of the LOC 1000 sage has broken open. Nothing is held back. Nothing can be held back. Nothing will be held back. The LOC 1000 sage is all in all of the time in every way.”
― Ramaji, 1000: The Levels of Consciousness and a Map of the Stages of Awakening for Spiritual Seekers and Teachers