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... The time has indeed come for us to rise to meditate upon the supreme Mind. It is the source of all appearances, the explanation of all existences. It is the only reality, the only thing which is, was, and shall be unalterably the same. Mind itself is ineffable and indestructible. We never see it as it is in itself but only the things which are its passing phases.
16.28.1.3,Listen With every thought we break the divine stillness. Yet behind all thoughts is Mind. Behind all things that give rise to thoughts is Mind.
16.28.1.10Listen That which is at the heart of all existence--the world's and yours--must be real, if anything can be. The world may be an illusion, your ego a fiction, but the ultimate essence cannot be either. Reality must be here or nowhere.
16.28.1.15Listen No one can see the Real yet everyone may see the things which come from it. Although it is itself untouchable, whatever we touch enshrines its presence.
16.28.1.22Listen ... And that is to understand there are no two separate entities--a thing and also the thought of it. The thing is in mind, is a projection of mind as the thought. This is nonduality, for mind is not apart from what comes from and goes back into it. As with things, so with bodies and worlds. All appear along with the ultimately cosmic but immediately individual thought of them.
16.28.1.25,Listen Just as the dreamer's mind appears to split itself up into the various figures and persons of his dream, so the One has never really split itself up into the many, but it has appeared to do so.
16.28.1.40Listen The holy trinity is truth, goodness, and beauty. For they are leading attributes of the divine soul in man.
16.28.1.56Listen Mind, which forever is, can undergo no change in itself and no multiplication of itself. If it could, it would not be what it is—the Ultimate, the Absolute, the Unconditioned, and the Unique. Nor, being perfect, complete, could it have desire, purpose, aim, or motive for itself. Therefore it could not have projected the universe on account of any benefit sought or gain needed. There is no answer to the question why the universe was sent forth.
16.28.1.65Listen ”Before Abraham was I am!” These words are an expression of the higher mentalism. Note carefully that Jesus did not say ”I was.” This means that he, as the non-personal unindividuated Mind, existed before the birth of Abraham. ”I am” points to the eternal One where no individual entity ever was, is, or shall be.
16.28.1.87Listen That which always remains the same, never changes, that is reality.
16.28.1.103Listen ... Everything in the universe is liable to changes, because it was born and must die. We venerate God because He is not liable to change, being ever-existent and self-subsisting, birthless and deathless.
16.28.1.108,Listen … In the end we shall have to reserve our best worship not for a particular manifestation in time but for the Timeless itself, not for a historical personage but for the impersonal Infinite.
16.28.1.116,Listen It would be completely false to regard the Void as being a nothing and containing nothing. It is Being itself, and contains reality behind all things. Nor is it a kind of inertia, of paralysis. All action springs out of it, all the world-forces derive from it.
16.28.1.118Listen There is a single Consciousness without beginning or end, ever the same in itself, beyond and behind which there is nothing else.
16.28.1.125Listen Consciousness can exist apart from the world, from the things and creatures in it, and even from the ego, but the world exists only as a projection of consciousness. In this sense the world has no lasting reality but, by contrast, the consciousness has.
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