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The Infinite alone exists and is Real; the finite is passing and false.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
It is your false self that keeps you away from your true Self by every trick it knows.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Absolute honesty is essential in one's search for God (Truth).
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Start by learning to love God by beginning to love those whom you cannot. You will find that in serving others you are serving yourself.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Before he can know Who he is, man has to unlearn the mass of illusory knowledge hehas burdened himself with on the interminable journey from unconsciousness to consciousness.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
There are no divisions as such, but there is an appearance of separateness because of ignorance. This means that everything is of ignorance and that every one is Ignorance personified.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
When the bubble of ignorance bursts the self realizes its oneness with the indivisible Self.
Words that proceed from the Source of Truth have real meaning. But when men speakthese words as their own, the words become meaningless.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Through endless time God's greatest gift is continuously given in silence. But whenmankind becomes completely deaf to the thunder of His Silence God incarnates as Man.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Infinite consciousness being infinite includes every aspect of consciousness. Unconsciousness is one of the aspects of infiniteconsciousness.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
God is Infinite and His Shadow is also infinite.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practising whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not make a show of your faiths and beliefs.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
If you are convinced of God's existence then it rests with you to seek Him, to see Him and to realize Him.
Do not search for God outside of you. God can only be found within you, for His only abode is the heart.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
The Avatar draws upon Himself the universal suffering, but He is sustained under the stupendous burden by His Infinite Bliss and His infinite sense of humour.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
The Avatar does not as a rule interfere with the working out of human destinies. He will do so only in times of grave necessity — when He deems it absolutely necessary from His all — encompassing point of view.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Whether men soar to outer space or dive to the bottom of the deepest ocean they will find themselves as they are, unchanged, because they will not have forgotten themselves nor remembered to exercise the charity of forgiveness.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
God is Love. And Love must love. And to love there must be a Beloved. But since God is Existence infinite and eternal there is no one for Him to love but Himself. And in order to love Himself He must imagine Himself as the Beloved whom He as the Lover imagines He loves.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
These false answers — such as, I am stone, I am bird, I am animal, I am man, I am woman, I am great, I am small — are, in turn, received, tested and discarded until the Question arrives at the right and Final Answer, I AM GOD.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)