The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell. And therefore, if you want to discover nature's nakedness, you must destroy its symbols, and the farther you get in the nearer you come to its essence. When you come to the One that gathers all things up into itself, there your soul must stay.

~ Meister Eckhart

When all the Buddhas manifest themselves in the world, they proclaim nothing but the One Mind.

~ Huang-Po

A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.

~ Huang-Po

The philosophic outlook rises above all sectarian controversy. It finds its
own position not only by appreciating and synthesizing what is solidly based
in the rival sects but also by capping them all with the keystone of
nonduality.

~ Paul Brunton

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In the strictest sense, we cannot actually think about life and reality at all, because this would have to include thinking about thinking, thinking about thinking about thinking, and so *ad infinitum*. One can only attempt a rational, descriptive philosophy of the universe on the assumption that one is totally separate from it. But if you and your thoughts are part of this universe, you cannot stand outside them to describe them. This is why all philosophical and theological systems must ultimately fall apart. To 'know' reality you cannot stand outside and define it; you must enter into it, be it, and feel it.

~ Alan Watts

People do not know how what is at
variance agrees with itself. It is an
attunement of opposite tensions,
like that of the bow and the lyre.

~ Heraclitus

"As soon as you make a sect, you protest against universal brotherhood."
- Swami Vivekananda

He who causes strife and envy among different schools
and philosophies is but an outcome of not seeing
his Adored One omnipresent.

~ Swami Brahmananda Saraswati (Guru Dev)

"The enlightened ones have no boundaries,
but respect those of others."
- Anonymous

What does it mean to learn the knowledge of
God's Unity? To consume yourself in the
presence of the One. If you wish to shine like
day, burn up the night of self-existence.
Dissolve in the Being who is everything.
You grabbed hold of "I" and "we,"
and this dualism is your ruin.
- Rumi