1. “At the phenomenal level the only thing that is not a concept is this knowledge which every single human being, every single sentient being at every time in history, has known: I exist, I Am in this moment, here and now.”
2. “Change is the basis of life. Opposites are interconnected polarities, not irreconcilables over which we have to make a choice.”
3. “Human beings actually have no more independence or autonomy in living their lives than do the characters in a dream. Neither do they have anything to do with the creation of the dream or anything in it. They are simply being lived along with everything else in this living dream of the manifested universe. The entire dream is unreal. Only the dreamer is real, and that is Consciousness itself.”
4. “Human beings have no independent or autonomous existence whether they accept the fact or not. And whether they like it or not, they are being helplessly lived within the vast totality of an imponderably intricate creation over which they have absolutely no control.”
5. “It is not the present which is fleeting past us with sickening speed. The present moment is indeed eternal. It is our imperfect perception that creates the horizontal succession in time. Sequential duration is a consequence of the single-track verbalization of our split-mind, which does not grasp the outer world instantaneously but interprets it perversely by extracting bits and pieces and calling them things and events.”
6. “One who has become enamored with the song within, one who is united with the inner universal pulse, such a one has become immune to the buffeting of the storms of circumstance without.”
7. “Our world is not, in fact, an objective world but a purely subjective one, a world of thought, a world of the word, a world given rise to by the extraordinary fertility of the imagination.”
8. “The dream world contains all the relevant features of the "actual" world. But the continued appearance of a thing is not proof of its reality, regardless of whether it appears to the dreaming mind or the waking senses. Only with the dissolution of all appearance does one awaken to the ultimate Reality of the Self.”
9. “The human mind thinks in lateral terms, but almost everything in the universe is circular. Anything that changes has to come back again.”
10. “The man who embraces the world as real, like the man embracing a woman in his dream, ultimately awakens to find nothing there but himself.”
11. ”The only way that worry will stop is through the proper understanding that change is the very basis of life, that we cannot continuously have something we like. We're got to be prepared to accept things in life which may not be acceptable.”
12. “Time is only a concept. The future moves into the past leaving no time for the present. When the relativity of time is understood as merely a concept for the measurement of apparent change, then there is only the present moment, which is eternity itself.”
13. “When the sense of "me" disappears completely, duality vanishes in ecstasy.”
14. “You have considered yourself to be a separate "self" only because of having regarded a "solid" object with a name, that is the body, as yourself. But in fact the body itself is nothing but an insignificant, vastly intricate complex of electrical wave-patterns, a series of rhythmic functions, a throbbing field of energy, and emptiness. What you actually are, then, is what everybody else is: sentience itself. Therefore, instead of being a puny self by way of an object, you are indeed everything.”
