The Chandogya Upanishad - Self as Universe

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Self as Universe

The little space within the heart is as great as a vast universe.
The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun,
and the moon and the stars, fire, lightning and winds are there,
and all that now is, and all that is not:
for the whole universe is the Self and the Self dwells within the heart.

- The Chandogya Upanishad

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Vladimir Solovyov - Pregnant with vastnesses!

What is, what was, what shall forever be -
All, all was held here in one steady gaze...
The seas and rivers blue beneath me,
Distant woods, snow-capped peaks.

I saw all, and all was one --
A single image of womanly beauty...
Pregnant with vastnesses!
Before me, in me -- only You.

-Vladimir Solovyev, Three Meetings, 1875

Lao Tzu - Self

It won’t be seen when you look
won’t be grasped when you reach
won’t be heard when you turn an ear
It’s not bright above nor dark below
seamless and un-namable
It is from and goes to no-thing
the no-form form-source
subtle and without image
preceding conception
passing beyond
trace It to Its no-beginning
track It to Its no-end
It can’t be known
only lived as ease in your own life
to understand where you’re from
is the nut of knowledge.

Lao Tze,  Tao te Ching, V. 14

Sant Dnyaneshwar (1940) Full Movie

Mooji - Just let it come

“Our minds turn awakening into a task.
We feel it is something that we have to do,
which is true up to a point,
but we shouldn’t intimidate ourselves with that.
Actually, realising the Truth becomes
a kind of joy and effortlessness,
and gradually we find
it is just confirming itself by itself.
Already it has presented itself
in some subtle way within you.
You cannot be bored with it,
if it is truly alive.
Instead of pushing,
just be more quiet and let it continue to show itself.
Let it find its natural way to reveal itself.
Just let it come.
Your place is to say inside the heart:
‘Yes, absorb me!’
There is tremendous power in this,
when genuinely expressed.”

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche - The Void Nature of Thoughts

What we normally call the mind is the deluded mind, a turbulent vortex of thoughts whipped up by attachment, anger, and ignorance. This mind, unlike enlightened awareness, is always being carried away by one delusion after another. Thoughts of hatred or attachment suddenly arise without warning, triggered by such circumstances as an unexpected meeting with an enemy or a friend, and unless they are immediately overpowered with the proper antidote, they quickly take root and proliferate, reinforcing the habitual predominance of hatred or attachment in the mind and adding more an more karmic patterns.
Yet, however strong these thoughts may seem, they are just thoughts and will eventually dissolve back into emptiness. Once you recognize the intrinsic nature of the mind, these thoughts that seem to appear and disappear all the time can no longer fool you. Just as clouds form, last for a while, and then dissolve back into the empty sky, so deluded thoughts arise, remain for a while, and then vanish into the voidness of mind; in reality nothing at all has happened.
When sunlight falls on a crystal, lights of all colors of the rainbow appear; yet they have no substance that you can grasp. Likewise, all thoughts in their infinite variety – devotion, compassion, harmfulness, desire – are utterly without substance. There is no thought that is something other than voidness; if you recognize the void nature of thoughts at the very moment they arise, they will dissolve. Attachment and hatred will never be able to disturb the mind. Deluded emotions will collapse by themselves. No negative actions will be accumulated, so no suffering will follow.

Chuck Surface - And only Love remains.

There is love,
And there is…
Love.

One arises from a subject,
And is given to an object,
In response to conditionality.

The other, being subjectless,
Knows no object,
And yet… Blesses all.

One is bundled,
With a thousand desires,
And arises "because of".

The other, Full and Complete,
Shines simply because…
It is Its nature.

The Lover, full of Longing,
Desires to hold The Beloved,
For all Eternity.

Only to find,
In the instant of touching…
That both Lover and Beloved Vanish…

And only Love remains.

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E.E.Cummings - I carry your heart with me...

I carry your heart with me
(I carry it in my heart)
I am never without it
(anywhere I go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)

I fear no fate
(for you are my fate,my sweet)
I want no world
(for beautiful you are my world,my true)

And it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart
(I carry it in my heart)