"There is no 'cause' in Enlightenment anymore than there is a 'cause' for God."
"Thus, one does not 'get' Enlightenment, nor is there any personal self to whom the condition could be applied, much less held as a quality or attribute."
"The way to Enlightenment is simply that of surrendering the barriers that preclude the state of Realization. The personal self, therefore, does not become enlightened but instead falls away and is replaced by the previously obscured Reality of the Self as the Radiance of God Immanent."
pg.xiii of Introduction
"The condition was a permanent replacement of the personal self—a
silent, universal timeless Presence by which the totality of Allness
replaces any prior states of consciousness or the presumption of a
personal self or 'I'."
pg.22
"Enlightenment is the consequence of the surrender of all dualistic illusions to Truth.
All suffering ends with dissolution of the ego's positionalities. Thus do we praise the Lord God for radiating Light to the world."
pg.32,33
"The core of devotion is humility and the willingness to surrender all belief systems and illusions of 'I know'."
"To 'Know', it is necessary to drop the limiting impairment of the illusion of knowing 'about'."
pg.38
"One can surrender the desire of thinkingness to God, which then quickly brings up the mind's fear of survival. At that point, one has to surrender the will to survive to God. If one stops thinking, there is the fear of being mindless. To be thoughtless is called 'Divine idiocy', or 'Divine stupidity'."
pg.84,85
"A useful decision or choice is to decide to stop mentally talking about everything and refrain from interjecting comments, opinions, preferences, and value statements. It is therefore a discipline to just watch without evaluating, investing worth in, or editorializing, commenting, and having preferences about what is witnessed."
"It is an informative practice to 'pretend' to the stupid."
pg.88
"All thinking, from a spiritual viewpoint, is merely vanity, illusion, and pomposity."
pg.89
"In the end, to the true devotee, the pursuit of spiritual reality supercedes all other considerations. The commitment to become enlightened involves the decision 'No matter what.'"
pg.90
Excerpts from:
Discovery of the Presence of God: Devotional Nonduality
pg.22
"Enlightenment is the consequence of the surrender of all dualistic illusions to Truth.
All suffering ends with dissolution of the ego's positionalities. Thus do we praise the Lord God for radiating Light to the world."
pg.32,33
"The core of devotion is humility and the willingness to surrender all belief systems and illusions of 'I know'."
"To 'Know', it is necessary to drop the limiting impairment of the illusion of knowing 'about'."
pg.38
"One can surrender the desire of thinkingness to God, which then quickly brings up the mind's fear of survival. At that point, one has to surrender the will to survive to God. If one stops thinking, there is the fear of being mindless. To be thoughtless is called 'Divine idiocy', or 'Divine stupidity'."
pg.84,85
"A useful decision or choice is to decide to stop mentally talking about everything and refrain from interjecting comments, opinions, preferences, and value statements. It is therefore a discipline to just watch without evaluating, investing worth in, or editorializing, commenting, and having preferences about what is witnessed."
"It is an informative practice to 'pretend' to the stupid."
pg.88
"All thinking, from a spiritual viewpoint, is merely vanity, illusion, and pomposity."
pg.89
"In the end, to the true devotee, the pursuit of spiritual reality supercedes all other considerations. The commitment to become enlightened involves the decision 'No matter what.'"
pg.90
Excerpts from:
Discovery of the Presence of God: Devotional Nonduality
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