Browse 602 quotes about Nonduality.
“Many individuals on spiritual paths either avoid intimate relationships altogether or continue to struggle relationally, despite good intentions, due to the influence of unconscious patterns rooted in our formative years. Psychological work to bring these patterns to conscious awareness is frequently necessary. As Swami Prajnanpad emphasized, the context of a committed relationship serves as a potent litmus test, exposing our vulnerabilities and potentially confounding superficial spiritual achievements. Rather than viewing relational difficulties as mere manifestations of the unpleasantness inherent in the cycle of existence (samsara), we could recognize relationships as a significant evolutionary challenge—the very curriculum for our awakening.”
Source: Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
“Just as the opposite of addiction is connection, not mere sobriety, the antidote to separation and suffering is not enmeshed relationships, but the embodiment of our fundamental nondual nature—the acceptance that we are inherently interconnected beings. The separate self perspective acts as "inner colonialism," imposing an artificial individual identity on our interconnected consciousness. This colonization of the self dominates and subjugates our deeper, nondual nature, creating borders within our experience. Similar to colonial powers, it drains us of vitality and belonging. It leads to an "imperialism of consciousness," reinforcing the separate self narrative and undermining our interdependence with life. Recognizing this dynamic reveals the toll on our psyche, emotions, and spirituality, as it severs us from meaning and wholeness. Undoing this colonialism liberates us to reclaim our interconnected, nondual nature.”
Source: Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
“Our journey spirals inwardly towards the central point—our unique Self—contrasted with the separate self. This unique Self represents a perfect equilibrium of immanence and transcendence, particle and wave, parts and whole. It neither rejects nor clings to either polarity, instead guiding from a harmonious balance between the opposing spectrums. The unique Self transcends the ego's constraints and the abstraction of nondual awareness, allowing us to fully embody the human form while recognizing our spiritual nature. Without realizing and gravitating towards this unique Self, we remain subject to the ego's chaotic attempts to manage disparate parts. The unique Self exerts a grounding, centering gravitational force similar to Earth's pull, providing a stable point of attraction. While the transpersonal Self is the boundless, aware presence containing everything, analogous to the limitless expanse of outer space beyond Earth.”
Source: Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
“Duality and nonduality are not separate; within the concept of duonity, they are inextricably interwoven. Each aspect holds equal value, and the experience of duality serves as a pathway to realizing nonduality.”
Source: Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
“Nondual parts work modalities restructure the internal family, enabling the ego to relinquish authority, resulting in Self-leadership. Capable of integrating the conscious and unconscious aspects of the psyche without becoming overwhelmed, the Self serves as the ideal organizing principle.”
Source: Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
“Neumann draws a parallel between the infant's initial state of absolute wholeness, where the ego is submerged in the unconscious realm of uroboric unity. As the ego emerges, we experience a painful sense of separation from this unitary state, as well as from the intimate connection to life. The pinnacle of psychological growth becomes attaining once more that lost condition of original integration, but this time with full conscious awareness under the leadership of the Self.”
Source: Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
“The presence of fire during the ordeal (dark night of the soul) symbolizes burning off remnants of burdens to prepare for integration of the part's re-awakening to its inherent beauty and positive qualities. Braving those flames facilitates this unveiling and a shift towards awareness of Self within. Just as diamonds form under incredible heat and pressure deep within the Earth, so too does the intense fire of inner turmoil and emotional pressure during the ordeal stage forge exiled parts into brilliant gems of Self-realization.”
Source: Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
“Discernment is a meeting point of the parts' will, the Self's will, and the universal will. From this confluence, a living, flowing Knowing emerges—a unified will that guides our actions and perceptions. With this clear yet permeable sense of Self, we engage with the world with openness and care, neither losing ourselves nor closing ourselves off.”
Source: Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
“Intentions born from our Self possess a natural flow and spaciousness, unfettered by the urgency and strain that can arise from parts weighed down by burdens. These Self-sourced intentions often emerge when we embody Self energy, experiencing an openness and vibrant fullness within our hearts. Such intentions are fluid and unbound, free from attachment to rigid, measurable goals. Instead, they invite a co-creative dance with the universe itself, emphasizing compassion, rather than fixating on tangible outcomes.”
Source: Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
“Our spiritual essence is not something foreign we must acquire—it is already within us, waiting to be revealed. As our parts relax, gain trust and feel secure and safe enough to step back, Self naturally emerges. We don't need to arduously develop Self-leadership; it arises spontaneously as our inner world becomes more balanced and harmonious. In this way, we embody the essence of our divine nature without effort.”
Source: Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
“The spirit of love and oneness is beyond time and form.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Oneness is the sum total of all eternal truth.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Giants in Jeans Sonnet 75
Nonduality comes from wholeness,
Wholeness rises when sectarianism is slashed.
Sectarianism fails when we fall in love,
Not with one person but the whole world.
When the stranger becomes family,
Politicians will lose their job.
When love overwhelms all rigidity,
Arms dealers will mourn and sob.
When diplomacy keeps the world divided,
Reliance on institutions goes through the roof.
The best way to sustain profits of war,
Is to keep people infected with the nationalist flu.
Enough with this barbarianism of sovereignty!
Step up and shout, the whole world is my family!”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“Be the heart that loves and lifts, be the hand that shares might. Feel the talk and talk the feel, be the mirror of sight beyond sight.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“The Naskar Code (Sonnet)
Kainat** is my qaum*,
Universe is my aum.
Carrying **cosmos in my chest,
every *community is my home.
Sat* is my nam-e,
*Honesty, my identity.
I am the one who is,
reflection of all humanity.
Bodhi* and dharma** are key to life,
lifting us high above the animals.
*Awareness wakes us to divine vision,
**Duty is the seed of civilization.
Valley of life is without elite divide,
Science, philosophy, divine, all are one.
Scientist, Poet, Dervish, or Philosopher,
Adjectives though plenty, noun is but one.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“I have nothing to lose, no reputation, no image, no class.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Sometimes I'm Dervish, sometimes Advaita, and the Brain Scientist keeps out the superstition.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Childish eurocentric conventions are too puny to contain the vastness of a transcendental human, sometimes I'm Dervish, sometimes Advaita, and the Brain Scientist keeps out the superstition.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“I don't need a seat at your table,
all your tables are inconsequential.
You can have your puny jungle,
the Universe belongs to me.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“I am dust, I am ash -
I am cinders, I am grass.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“I am controversial because I ask for tolerance, I am controversial because I'm integration incarnate, I am controversial because I call for humanity, at the expense of both faith and facts.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Go Burn My Verses (Sonnet 2636)
Burn the verses, I'll write fiction -
burn the fiction, I'll write music -
burn the music, I'll adopt a new language -
burn the language, I'll pick up paintbrush -
burn the paintbrush, I'll grab a soldering iron.
Take away one medium, I'll adopt a new one,
apes don't have the braincells to sabotage my mission.
The only unstoppable organism in the universe,
is the mind that embraces evolution over limitation.
You keep asking, how do I write so immense -
I keep asking, where's the off switch for this!
Every time I decide to take a breather,
ideas start pouring, so I keep typing restless.
You're welcome to burn all my verses,
still you cannot dampen the spark of oneness.
Today I'm Naskar, tomorrow another -
truth will find a postman, across time and space.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“If you fail to call any country your own, if the whole charade of nationality and tribal identity feels meaningless to you, then you may come and walk beside Naskar.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“If the whole charade of nationality feels meaningless to you, then you may come and walk beside Naskar.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Only Fact is Me (Sonnet 2655)
I'm the impulse before the language,
I'm the reason before the science,
I'm the pulse before the poetry,
I'm the kernel before the divinity.
I'm larger than genre, larger than grammar,
I'm larger than primate dictionary.
I'm the duty that precedes the path,
I'm the mutation before the humanity.
I switch languages like radio,
I switch cultures like seasons -
if you tie Naskar to a nation,
you've failed the Naskar mission.
Only fact in this universe - is me -
and I am nothing, so nothing is fact,
everything is flux -
and I - am the flux of infinity.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Finite versus Infinite Naskar (Sonnet 2672)
Can I get my brain back now,
if you're done hijacking it!
"You're welcome to it, as if
it'll make any difference whatsoever,
you yourself have admitted that everything you write from thought is dull, that's why I took over in the first place!"
I admit, I said that, nevertheless, do not underestimate rational thought, it may not come up with magical lines and equations, but it does achieve a great deal with sheer devotion and tedious scrutiny.
Every potential transcendental idea still needs rational thought afterwards to be executed in the mortal world - alright, rational thought is nowhere near as radiant as what might be called divine inspiration, nevertheless, it has its irreplaceable place in society.
Besides, I let you take over because I'd already made my contributions to rationality like any other scientist during my first few years, that was when I didn't know you existed, I had read stories about you, but didn't actually think that you'd turn me into yet another flute, like you once did to my brother Jalal long time ago!”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Sanity is poison on the fabric of love,
Insanity is impediment to our luminescence.
Beyond the squabbles of infantile dualities,
Come and meet me at the confluence of sentience.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“Oneness is the path,
Oneness is the pedestrian.
Either we are all one,
Or ever-battling barbarian.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“Human is another name for undivision, not another synonym for discrimination.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Honor He Wrote Sonnet 96
Only a few understand the language of intellect,
Then most of them arrogantly boast and trod.
But from the tallest mountain to tiniest grass,
Everyone understands the language of love.
I've practiced all faith 'n ideology for a brief period,
And I accept all of them to be equally human.
That is why everyone thinks of me as their very own,
Everyone thinks, I am their own school’s person.
I have no sect of my own, yet I am in every sect,
I have no school of my own, yet I am in every school.
One who loves, loves all no matter their label,
And finds a reflection in all beings including the fool.
There is no two, but only One that there ever is.
All separation is the sign of a spirit selfish.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“In front of oneness language, faith, culture, all these are mere expendable trivialities.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“In becoming one with people, even if you lose your language, along with every last trace of your so-called cultural background, that's not a loss, but an actual fulfillment of life.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“I wiped out my cultural identity, I wiped out my religious identity, I wiped out my national identity as well as my gender identity. In short, I wiped myself out from my psyche, only then I found a place in each and every heart of this world, only then I became the voice of each and every person on earth.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“The Upanishads teach monism, that all is God or the Absolute, Sarvam Khalvidam Brahma, “Everything is Brahman”. But they do not do this in simply an abstract manner. That One Being is present in all of us as our own deeper and immortal soul and Self, the Atman, Aham Brahmasmi, “I am Brahman” or the Absolute. In this regard, the Upanishads probably first clearly set forth in human history a way of Self-Knowledge taking us to the Absolute. Yet theism is also present in many places in the Upanishads, a recognition of One God or Isvara as the creator, preserver and destroyer of the universe and the ability to unite with Him (or Her) through meditation. The Upanishads also say Ishavasyam Idam Sarvam, “All this universe is pervaded by the Lord”
Source: The Principal Upanishads: The Essential Philosophical Foundation of Hinduism
“You are That, here and now. (p. 77)”
Source: Talks With Ramana Maharshi: On Realizing Abiding Peace and Happiness
“To begin with, it seems like an effort to keep returning to the welcoming presence, but at some point it is so natural that it seems to require an effort to leave it. It feels like home. We no longer feel that we need to be entertained.”
Source: The Perfume of Silence
“Protect the seedling of
hope! Hold it while they whip you like they whipped me. Your tears will water it. It will take root in your stomach; it will not abandon
you. Your belly will seem a little warmer, the lashings of today a little
tamer, and the dawn not so far away.”
Source: Journeys Beyond Earth
“Naskar, The Origin Story
(Sonnet 1999)
Naren, Subhas, Abhijit,
three vessels, one spirit.
All three spring from paramhansa,
in paramhansa we three perish.
One mission, three vessels -
one teacher, three students.
Erase the one teacher, and
you erase our driving promise.
Before the scientist emerged poet,
he was but a wandering monk -
born nirvikalpa from sahasrara Gadadhar -
Naren, Subhas, Abhijit, are not three but one.
Awake, arise, adopt the world!
Give me brains, and give me heart.
Whenever fear and fanaticism take hold,
from amongst you will rise a Naskar.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“What I have written in ten years,
will last for over 10,000 years.
In the process, one man's nonduality
will flood the world with humanitarians.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“The Power that knows the way will take care of you. The One who makes the sun shine, the grass grow, the apples grow perfectly on apple trees. The food that sustains us, nourishes us, everything has been lovingly provided for us. Have faith. Trust the Power that knows the way. This is a first step. To have total faith and total trust in the Infinite, the One. You
may call this God if you want to. Makes no difference what you call it. It is within you. It is without you. It is everywhere. (p. 195)”
Source: Silence of the Heart: Dialogues with Robert Adams
“The initial function of spirituality emerged from questioning the human condition and also from deep experiences of wonder. The word religion itself, initially meaning to “reconnect,” seems to have come from direct experiences of something larger than just a set of fixed ideas. It marked a return to something essential that we just failed to recognize in the myopia of our everyday lives. How curious that we turn experiences of awe into dogmas and stagnant ideas. That we have come to associate faith with fundamentalism, blindness, and even terrorism gives us something important to look at.”
Source: The Logic of Faith: A Buddhist Approach to Finding Certainty Beyond Belief and Doubt
“Dual, nondual, all are human construct - beyond ritual and reason ignites divine sanity.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Life is perpetual freshness, in permanent movement,
As such, we need to be the same way;
A childlike innocence is requested by Existence,
Every time, in every circumstance – a priceless purity.”
Source: Life Is Eternal Newness
“This divine matrix exists at the junction of the twofold movements. At this junction there are no opposites. Our wish manifests as a reverberation of the apex of the movement. This insures that the pendulum of polarity will not swing away from us and thereby take away our manifestation, for the idea behind the manifestation will be anchored in non-duality, and balanced on both points of the triangle.”
Source: Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence
“Soul that is kind is soul divine, mind segregated is most unholy kind.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Naskar vs States of Earth (Sonnet 2635)
On planet earth everyone is citizen,
regimes that deny rights
require psychiatric treatment.
Politicians that run concentration camps
deserve more holes than they got,
yet don't, just put Uncle in a home.
Flags that sell hate deserve to be burnt,
yet don't burn them, just leave them behind.
Badges that strike fear among the innocents
deserve to be slaughtered, yet don't slaughter,
just cripple them with vigil disobedience.
I'm the Original Virtue that predates vermin vaticans,
I'm the First Piety that predates all promised estate.
I'm the Sacred Science that defangs all poison saffron,
I'm the Ink of Mind that outdates doctrinal malignance.
I'm the Original Swastika that predates all reichs,
I'm the Sunrise that outlives puny stars and stripes.
I'm Justice, I'm Dervish, I'm phenyl to the fascist -
my footsteps are the law, I'm pesticide to prejudice.
Crowns belong beneath my sneakers, white or not.
When ICE comes, I stand here with a blowtorch.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“In the land of liberty, the self and others are all one all-pervading system of magnificent harmony, but what keeps most humans to live in that land, is non-acceptance of their own self, which is a form of denial of the self - therefore, the first step is acceptance of the self.”
“Prejudice is utter unpiety.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“How I Get My Ideas (The Sonnet)
You wanted to know how I get my ideas,
The universe speaks to me.
You wanted to know how my words appear,
The soil and the air hand them to me.
You asked how do I speak for every culture,
I listen to the heart beyond the word.
You asked how am I not bound by geography,
Long ago I turned my inner walls into dust.
You said to me that I should have some fun,
I'll indeed have fun when the fallen are lifted.
You wanted to know why do I care at all,
That's because I am an alive human not an insect.
Instead of asking why and how a human acts human,
If there is no such being around why not be the first one!”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Dervish Advaitam Sonnet
Aham dharmam, aham daivam,
Aham qurban for bhoolokam.
Aham nyayam, aham shastram,
Aham the end of all divisionism.
Aham prakriti, aham pralayam,
Aham the seed of all causality.
I am life, I am death as well,
Life to love ‘n death to inhumanity.
To most people family is the world,
But to me the world is family.
Because I am accountable for all life,
I am the epitome of collectivity.
All that is civilized starts with me.
Aham brahmandam, aham brahmasmi.
(aham: I am, dharmam: duty, daivam: divinity, qurban: sacrificed, bhoolokam: kingdom of earth, nyayam: justice, shastram: gospel, prakriti: nature, pralayam: apocalypse, brahmandam: universe, brahmasmi: almighty)”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers