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We must withdraw every thing and thought from the mind except this single thought of trying to achieve the absence of what is not the Absolute. This is called Gnana Yoga: "Neti, Neti" (It is not this), as Sankara called it. And he must go on with this negative elimination until he reaches the stage where a great Void envelops him. If he can succeed in holding resolutely to this Void in sustained concentration -- and he will discover it is one of the hardest things in the world to do so -- he will abruptly find that it is not a mere mental abstraction but something real, not a dream but the most concrete thing in his experience. Then and then only can he declare positively, "It is This." For he has found the Overself.
Paul Brunton [ Write a comment ]
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The more I investigate, the more convinced I become that iconoclastic mystics like Blake and Jiddu Krishnamurti were right in asserting that the very idea of a spiritual path is necessarily self-defeating, because it does the one thing that has to be undone if there is to be awakening to eternity: it concentrates attention firmly on “futurity.”
John Wren-Lewis [ Write a comment ]
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People think, Enlightenment is over here and I’m going to grab it. But it’s formless; it’s a cloud, a miasma. When the willingness is total and complete, then it happens on its own, in a ten thousandth of a second. It doesn’t require effort, it doesn’t require agony, it doesn’t require penance. Consciousness of its own seeks the realization of all that it is.
David Hawkins [ Write a comment ]
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The result is a state of BEING...That there is nothing which can be attained is not idle talk; it is the truth.
Huang Po [ Write a comment ]
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The perennial refrain of the ego in the face of the call from the Absolute is, "I'm not ready yet. I need more time."
And it always sounds so reasonable...
This is what the spiritual drama is all about - the dynamic tension between the ego's endless excuses and the call for unconditional submission from the Absolute.
Andrew Cohen [ Write a comment ]
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