Philosophy Quotes

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

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"The purpose of life is the knowing of life by itself."
Rupert Spira
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"The moment you stop becoming, you discover what you are."
Rupert Spira
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"The world is your consciousness appearing as multiplicity."
Rupert Spira
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"The mind is a useful tool, but a terrible master."
Rupert Spira
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"Your essence is unaffected by your history."
Rupert Spira
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"The finite cannot contain the infinite, but the infinite contains all finitude."
Rupert Spira
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"Form changes; consciousness remains eternally the same."
Rupert Spira
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"Your true nature is untouched by circumstance."
Rupert Spira
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"The infinite appears as the finite through consciousness."
Rupert Spira
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"You are the consciousness in which all experience appears."
Rupert Spira
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"Your essence preceded your existence and will outlast it."
Rupert Spira
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"The source of all experience is also the source of you."
Rupert Spira
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"The spiritual path is simply the recognition of what you already are."
Mooji
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"The ego wants to be someone; the soul is already everything."
Mooji
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"You are not a limited being having a temporary experience."
Mooji
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"Your true nature is untouched by conditioning."
Mooji
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"The world does not create your experience; your consciousness does."
Mooji
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"The world is not external to you."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Nothing you perceive is you."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Consciousness is the source of all."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Understand that the world is a dream."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"All distinctions are made by the mind."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"All conflict arises from separation."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"There is no path because you are already there."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"I have often thought that if all earthly things pass away, why do I cling to any of them?"
Francis of Assisi
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"Let no one be found to say that I was proud or unjust, for these are poisons to the soul."
Francis of Assisi
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"To die before you die is to live forever. Thus emptiness becomes fullness."
Francis of Assisi
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"The deepest truths are found not in books, but in the silence of the soul."
Francis of Assisi
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"What profit a man if he gain the whole world but lose his soul?"
Francis of Assisi
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"Enlightenment is not an achievement to be obtained; it is the recognition of what already is."
Adyashanti