Philosophy Quotes

Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.

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"The spiritual path is an unraveling, not a becoming."
Adyashanti
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"The question 'Who am I?' can undo everything."
Adyashanti
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"The greatest teaching is through being, not doing."
Adyashanti
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"Your essence never changes, only your awareness of it."
Adyashanti
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"The deepest teaching is silence."
Adyashanti
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"Enlightenment is a radical shift in perspective."
Adyashanti
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"The search itself is the only real obstacle."
Adyashanti
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"The answer to your deepest question is silence."
Adyashanti
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"The spiritual path ends where it began: here and now."
Adyashanti
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"Consciousness is the only thing that is not an object of consciousness. It is that which is aware of all objects."
Rupert Spira
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"The world is made of consciousness appearing as objects."
Rupert Spira
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"Reality is non-dual; separation is an illusion of the mind."
Rupert Spira
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"Consciousness is prior to existence and the world."
Rupert Spira
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"The body and mind are appearances in consciousness, not the other way around."
Rupert Spira
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"Space and time are modes of consciousness, not containers of it."
Rupert Spira
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"You are the screen on which the world is projected."
Rupert Spira
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"The universe is made of consciousness, not matter."
Rupert Spira
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"You are not in the world; the world is in you."
Rupert Spira
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"The body is a thought in the mind of consciousness."
Rupert Spira
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"The ego is the belief that you are separate from the whole."
Rupert Spira
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"The infinite is contained within the finite."
Rupert Spira
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"Reality is not created by the mind; the mind is created by reality."
Rupert Spira
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"Consciousness is not inside you; you are inside consciousness."
Rupert Spira
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"The mind creates the illusion of separation through language."
Rupert Spira
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"The body is a musical instrument through which consciousness plays."
Rupert Spira
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"The infinite expresses itself through the limitations of form."
Rupert Spira
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"Consciousness is the source and substance of all experience."
Rupert Spira
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"Possess the world as if you possess nothing, and possess nothing as if you own everything."
Francis of Assisi
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"The eternal glory shines brightest in the humblest of hearts."
Francis of Assisi
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"To know God's will is not to escape suffering but to find meaning in it."
Francis of Assisi