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13 Pillars of Enlightenment: How to realize your true nature and end suffering QUOTES

13 Pillars of Enlightenment: How to realize your true nature and end suffering QUOTES

1 " All that I know is that I am.

I can know that the self is not me, because I can inquire into it, deconstruct it until it seems to dissolve, or just leave it alone, and yet I still exist. The body is not me, because it appears, changes, and eventually ceases to exist. Consciousness, too, is heir to movement and impermanence, and I am not solely that either. What remains when all else is removed is the silence that is a still, infinite, boundless, permanent, un-cancellable nothingness from which all springs.
And this Absoluteness never changes. 

I can only say that I am this. "

― , 13 Pillars of Enlightenment: How to realize your true nature and end suffering

2 " When the mind is completely still, then all movement ceases. Beneath the substrate of consciousness is that which the sages of Vedanta call the Absolute. While the Absolute cannot be described, it is only known by negation. Remove everything from the equation, and there it is, right here all along. "

― , 13 Pillars of Enlightenment: How to realize your true nature and end suffering