God did not create man in his image

God did not create man in his image, man created God in his image

ego is a process in conciousness

No matter how clearly you grasp the central teaching of Advaita, it confounds the mind. Yet, in the process, it may cause a shift in consciousness from ego identity to consciousness identity, wherein ego is understood as a process in consciousness, and all of the things that arise within consciousness - including the body and the mind - are understood as mere phenomena.

ego is pure illusion

"Ego is pure illusion, created by the mistaken identification with mind and all its projections - mental, emotional, physical, and circumstantial - as who one is . . . Most people cannot see through the illusion, or the defense, long enough to really sever the habit of mental identification . . . the resolve and ruthlessness required to cut the habit of mind is rare." - Amber Terrell

God made sense turn outward

“God made sense turn outward, man therefore looks outward, not into himself. Now and again a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.
The ignorant man runs after pleasure, sinks into the entanglements of death; but the wise man, seeking the undying, does not run among things that die.
He through whom we see, taste, smell, feel, hear, enjoy, knows everything. He is that Self.
The wise man by meditating upon the self-dependent, all-pervading Self, understands waking and sleeping and goes beyond sorrow.” - Kathopanishad

this fleeting world

Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world
A star at dawn, a bauble in the stream;
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream. - Buddha

why not just be here

Why not just be here, with tenderness, generosity, and compassion? Why not simply rest in the eternal magic of uncompromising attention and affection? Why not fall unguardedly in love with the endless peace into which all things are born, your very own Self? We are all the very Same One. Why hold back?

continuous

Continuous, the sounds gestured towards the Moon falling into the multitude of ponds and all the cosmoses splashed over everything and so the ponds emptied out entirely as we drunk them up in one gulp - and before the Blessed One blinked, That One is gone, and with it, even the Everlasting went with It. - Krishna

when you are stabilised in your own self

When you are stabilized in your own Self, then there is no otherness, you are everything. If you abide in your Self, you are like space and there is no duality left. You are as expansive and as subtle as space, and that is liberation. You are not conditioned by name and form. If you are like space, what is the point of going elsewhere? The space which is here is also everywhere else.

freedom as a human being

Freedom as a human being will always be very limited. Being human is neither limitless nor our ultimate truth. The idea of being human can be a limiting paradigm if it is our final understanding of ourselves. Understanding ourselves as consciousness, we take freedom to a whole new level. We can re-acquaint with consciousness and move beyond the limits of the human being. Yes, we are human, but on a more profound level, we are consciousness. We need not deny that we are human beings, but the essence of these beings is consciousness. The foundation of our existence is boundless consciousness. - Timothy Schoorel

the divine is not meant to be discovered in heaven

The Divine is not meant to be discovered in heaven. If the Divine was meant to be discovered in heaven, we would be in heaven and not here

what is not what if

I prefer to live more with "what is" instead of "what if".

Who am I?

The mind consists of thoughts. The 'I' thought is the first to arise in the mind. When the enquiry ' Who am I?' is persistently pursued, all other thoughts get destroyed, and finally the 'I' thought itself vanishes leaving the supreme non-dual Self alone. The false identification of the Self with the phenomena of non-self such as the body and mind thus ends, and there is illumination, Sakshatkara. The process of enquiry of course, is not an easy one. As one enquires 'Who am I?', other thoughts will arise; but as these arise, one should not yield to them by following them , on the contrary, one should ask 'To whom do they arise ?' In order to do this, one has to be extremely vigilant. Through constant enquiry one should make the mind stay in its source, without allowing it to wander away and get lost in the mazes of thought created by itself. All other disciplines such as breath-control and meditation on the forms of God should be regarded as auxiliary practices. They are useful in so far as they help the mind to become quiescent and one-pointed.

sea of pure conciousness

The separate self dissolves in the sea of pure consciousness, infinite and immortal. Separateness arises from identifying the Self with the body, which is made up of the elements; when this physical identification dissolves, there can be no more separate self. This is what I want to tell you, beloved.
(Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. Chapter 2, 4:12)

as the rivers

As the rivers flowing east and west
Merge in the sea and become one with it,
Forgetting they were ever separate rivers,
So do all creatures lose their separateness
When they merge at last into pure Being.
(Chandogya Upanishad. 10:1-2)

that in whom reside all beings and who reside in all beings

That in whom reside all beings and who reside in all beings, who is the giver of grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being--I am That." Amritbindu Upanishad

Just give up the idea that you have to do something or reach somewhere. That's all you have to do

Student: You are telling us to let go, but it is very difficult.

Poonja: That's because you have the idea that letting go is something that you have to do. To move from one place to another may be difficult if the journey is long and hard. But if you don't have to move at all, how can you say that it is difficult? Just give up the idea that you have to do something or reach somewhere. That's all you have to do.

individual self is nothing more than an idea

It was Sri Ramana's basic thesis that the individual self is nothing more than a thought or an idea. He said that this thought, which he called 'I'-thought, originates from a place called the Heart-centre, which he located on the right side of the chest in the human body. From there the 'I'-thought rises up to the brain and identifies itself with the body: 'I am this body.' It then creates the illusion that there is a mind or an individual self which inhabits the body and which controls all its thoughts and actions. The 'I'-thought accomplishes this by identifying itself with all the thoughts and perceptions that go on in the body. For example, 'I' (that is the 'I'-thought) am doing this, 'I' am thinking this, 'I' am feeling happy, etc. Thus, the idea that one is an individual person is generated and sustained by the 'I'-thought and by its habit of constantly attaching itself to all the thoughts that arise. Sri Ramana maintained that one could reverse this process by depriving the 'I'-thought of all the thoughts and perceptions that it normally identifies with. Sri Ramana taught that this 'I'-thought is actually an unreal entity, and that it only appears to exist when it identifies itself with other thoughts. He said that if one can break the connection between the 'I'-thought and the thoughts it identifies with, then the 'I'-thought itself will subside and finally disappear. Sri Ramana suggested that this could be done by holding onto the 'I'-thought, that is, the inner feeling of 'I' or 'I am' and excluding all other thoughts. As an aid to keeping one's attention on this inner feeling of 'I', he recommended that one should constantly question oneself 'Who am I?' or 'Where does this "I" come from?' He said that if one can keep one's attention on this inner feeling of 'I', and if one can exclude all other thoughts, then the 'I'-thought will start to subside into the Heart-centre.