All the lights of the world cannot be compared even to a ray of inner light of the Self.
The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.
Life without freedom is like a body without a soul, and freedom without thought is like a confused spirit.
When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of non-duality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. All separation ceases.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
