Rupert Spira Quotes

#1. I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.

N. T. Rama Rao Jr.

#2. The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind.

Rupert Spira

#3. Love is the natural condition of all experience before thought has divided it into a multiplicity and diversity of objects, selves and others.

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#4. The discovery that peace, happiness and love are ever-present within our own Being, and completely available at every moment of experience, under all conditions, is the most important discovery that anyone can make.

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#5. Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.

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#6. Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and take them, without question, for the absolute truth.

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#7. We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.

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#8. I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.

Miranda Lambert

#9. Happiness is simply to allow everything to be exactly as it is from moment to moment.

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#10. Time is the eternal now, seen through the narrow slit of the mind.

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#11. For though we very truly hear that the kingdom of God will be filled with splendor, joy, happiness and glory, yet when these things are spoken of, they remain utterly remote from our perception, and as it were, wrapped in obscurities, until that day.

John Calvin

#12. The mind, the body and the world are made out of Consciousness but Consciousness is not made out of them. It is made out of itself. Therefore everything is made only out of Consciousness.

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#13. We don't have to wait for the right circumstances to have happiness.

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#14. That which draws us by its mystical force; what every created thing, even the very stones, feels with absolute certainty as the center of its being ... is the force of love. Christians call this "eternal blessedness." It is a necessity of man for growth and joy.

Gustav Mahler

#15. I soon realized that it is not enough for a master simply to analyse variations scrupulously just like an accountant. He must learn to work out which particular moves he should consider and then examine just as many variations as necessary - no more and no less.

Alexander Kotov

#16. It's hard to live a full life without love.

Jon Jones

#17. Love is the experience that others are not others. Beauty is the experience that objects are not objects.

Rupert Spira

#18. The world is known by the senses
The senses are known by the mind
The mind is known by Consciousness
And Consciousness is known by itself

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#19. Looking for happiness in the body, mind or world is like looking for the screen in a movie. The screen doesn't appear in the movie, and yet, at the same time, all that is seen in the movie is the screen. In the same way that the screen 'hides' in plain view, so happiness 'hides' in all experience.

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#20. A new medium always has a period when it is struggling inside the confining box of an earlier medium. Creators have to unlearn what they knew before they can see the fresh, uncharted vistas stretching before them.

Dave Morris

#21. In ignorance I am something; in understanding I am nothing, in love I am everything.

Rupert Spira

#22. When feeling is divested of the feeler and the felt, it shines as love; when seeing is divested of the seer and the seen, it shines as beauty.

Rupert Spira