Mostly as a result of meditation, but sometimes during an unexpected glimpse, a mystical experience of an unusual kind may develop.  He feels transparent to the Overself; its light passes into and through him.  He then finds that his ordinary condition was as if a thick wall surrounded him, devoid of windows and topped by a thick roof, a condition of imprisonment in limitation and ordinariness.  But now the walls turn to glass their density is miraculously gone, he is not only open to the light streaming in but lets it pass on, irradiating the world around.

~ Paul Brunton 
[Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself; Chapter 6: Experiencing a Glimpse; # 166]

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

[Notebooks Category 20: What Is Philosophy? > Chapter 1: Toward Defining
Philosophy > # 471]

He then learns that in going down into the secrets
of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

~ Emerson

When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellant, but I could no longer find them.

~ Sri Aurobindo

The differences between human beings still remain after illumination. The variations which make each one a unique specimen and the individual that he is, still continue to exist. But the Oneness behind human beings powerfully counterbalances.

~ Paul Brunton

On the exoteric level the traditions are irreconcilable. On the esoteric, experiential level of the heart reigns an eloquent, reverential silence.

~ Frederick Frank

Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.

~ Chuang Tzu

And what if all of animated nature
Be but organic harps, diversely framed
That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps
Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze
At once the soul of each, and God of all

~ Coleridge

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

Indian thought did not spurn the accumulated wisdom of its ancients in favour of current fashions and did not experience a violent disruption of its traditional hospitality to multiple standpoints. The so-called astika or orthodox schools found no difficulty in combining their veneration of the Vedic hymns with a wide and diverse range of views, and even the nastika or heterodox schools, which repudiated the canonical 'authority' of the Vedas, retained much of Vedic and Upanishadic metaphysics and almost the whole of their psychology and ethics. Indian philosophical schools could not see themselves as exclusive bearers of the total Truth. They emerged together from a long-standing and continuous effort to enhance our common understanding of God, Man and Nature, and they came to be considered as darshanas or paradigmatic standpoints shedding light from different angles on noumenal and phenomenal realities. They refrained from claiming that any illumination which can be rendered in words -- or even in thoughts -- can be either final or complete.

~ Raghavan Iyer

No one can deny that a network (a world network) of economic and psychic affiliations is being woven at ever increasing speed which envelops and constantly penetrates more deeply within each of us. With every day that passes it becomes a little more impossible for us to act or think otherwise than collectively.

~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It is a (hidden) law, moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as "separateness"; and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive.

~ H.P. Blavatsky

Your world is one of barriers and fences,
because the I in you is one of barriers and fences.
Some things it would fence out as alien to itself.
Some things it would fence in as kindred to itself.
Yet that outside the fence is ever breaking in;
and that within the fence is ever breaking out.
For they; being offspring of the same mother
even your I would not be set apart.

~ Mikhail Naimy

"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)

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet.
We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive
is owed not just to ourselves but also to that
Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.

~ Carl Sagan

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

Everything happens altogether by itself.
The shadow of causation can never be
caught because all things and events are
merely interconnected differentiations in
the form of a single, unified field.
- Ramesh S. Balsekar

"We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion.... This, then, is my true religion, my simple faith. In this sense, there is no need for temple or church, for mosque or synagogue, no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine or dogma. Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple. The doctrine is compassion. Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are: ultimately these are all we need. So long as we practice these in our daily lives, then no matter if we are learned or unlearned, whether we believe in Buddha or God, or follow some other religion or none at all, as long as we have compassion for others and conduct ourselves with restraint out of a sense of responsibility, there is no doubt we will be happy."

- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

"The procession of eternity passes by. All the petty irritations and egoistic twists, the deep-scarred bitterness and rebellious cynicisms and trivial cares, fall for a time out of my character as dead brown leaves falling from sapless darkening trees in autumn. How can they continue to exist in such a grand rarefied atmosphere as now overwhelms me with such well-defined strength? How can these futile pain-bringing elements continue to afflict me when another self, the Overself, now arises in all its sublimity and makes me its temporary victim, seizing mind, heart and body in its grip as a cat seizes a mouse with its white teeth?

...Helpless, and yet what joyful freedom! The bonds of the personal ego are flung aside by the unseen hand, and with their going goes all care, all anxiety, all concern for the past errors and future uncertainties. The Overself, in announcing its presence, announces also that It comes as liberator. It commands - and everything mean, petty and cramping shrinks back and disappears. It glances - and flowing sea of love, adoration, humility surges up to Its feet.

How soothing is the sense of Its benign unfolding presence! All inner conflict is stilled. The blood no longer wars with the brain; nor passion with thought. When our minds have been totally subdued by logic, we are lost. The divine transcends logic.

Himalaya has opened the golden windows of heaven for me and I must bless the day that I entered its quiet realm."
- Paul Brunton