RIVER of KNOWLEDGE

"Behold, the kingdom of God is within you."

"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."

"This region of truth is not to be investigated as a thing external to us . . . It is within us."

"The power of consciousness is infinite."

"In the vicinity of coherence (Yoga), hostile tendencies are eliminated."

"The greatest wisdom is to know thyself."

"Your cure is within you, yet you do not sense it! Your sickness is from you, yet you do not see it! You consider yourself a small body; Yet encapsulated within you is the entire universe!"

"And on earth are signs of God for those of assured faith. They are within you, do you not perceive?"

"I see myself to be the All. I am in heaven and earth, in water and air; I am in beasts and plants; I am a babe in the womb, and one that is not yet conceived, and one that has been born; I am present everywhere."

"I am everything, coming in, going out. How can I speak of another? Like a wave my body is here and gone. Look closely – a million waves, one sea."

"inwardly my soul is a chamber . . . and in this . . . is the whole Truth, and in it I understand and possess the whole Truth that is in heaven and in earth . . . together with so great a certainty that in nowise, were the whole world to say the opposite, could I believe otherwise."

"There is all one, and one in all . . . when he sees all in all, then a man stands above mere understanding."

"Within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One. And this deep power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one."

"Your mind itself finally lost the notion of particularity which kept it on the alert. It was like an immense harmony engulfing your soul with marvelous palpitations, and you felt in its plenitude an inexpressible comprehension of the unrivaled wholeness of things; the interval between you and the object, like an abyss closing, grew narrower and narrower, until the difference vanished, because you both were bathed in infinity."

"The object is suddenly seen, is felt, to be one with the self . . . The knower, the knowledge, and the thing known are once more one . . . This form of Consciousness is the only true knowledge – it is the only true existence. And it is a matter of experience; it has been testified to in all parts of the world and in all ages of history."

"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness."

"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the soul of men when they realise their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its Powers . . . and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us."

"The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science."

"There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible . . . Reality, of which visible things are the symbol, shines before my mind."

"The stuff of the world is mind-stuff."

"Within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One. And this deep power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one."

"Your mind itself finally lost the notion of particularity which kept it on the alert. It was like an immense harmony engulfing your soul with marvelous palpitations, and you felt in its plenitude an inexpressible comprehension of the unrivaled wholeness of things; the interval between you and the object, like an abyss closing, grew narrower and narrower, until the difference vanished, because you both were bathed in infinity."

"The object is suddenly seen, is felt, to be one with the self . . . The knower, the knowledge, and the thing known are once more one . . . This form of Consciousness is the only true knowledge – it is the only true existence. And it is a matter of experience; it has been testified to in all parts of the world and in all ages of history."

"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness."

"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the soul of men when they realise their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its Powers . . . and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us."

"The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science."

"There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible . . . Reality, of which visible things are the symbol, shines before my mind."

"No longer was 'I' spreading everywhere through the whole of an illimitable and conscious Space, nor was there a Divine Presence all about me, but everywhere only Consciousness with no subjective nor objective element."

"Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else."

"At that moment of that day I knew the Universe, which I held and beheld inside myself . . . I had undergone the birth of my creative spirit and the birth of that part of the mind which reaches out beyond the material and visible world."

"Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."

"The circumference of consciousness was the circumference of the perceptible world; the world perceived was that consciousness, the consciousness the world: there was no distinction knowledge and its object."

"In classical physics, science started from the belief – or, should one say, from the illusion? – that we could describe the world, or least parts of the world, without any reference to ourselves."

""Sometimes I seem to know each separate thing while lost in the one, and then it is that I feel profoundly the almost palpable linking up of the universe. From life to life, from kind to kind, through the mind to the sky and out to each planet, the chain reaches. Ah, who can doubt it? . . . But I have failed to describe it, because . . . it is wordless and unimaginable and pictureless.""

"This surely is one of the best rewards of humanity. To be filled with comprehension of the beauty and marvellous complexity of the physical world, and for this happy excitement of the senses to lead directly into an awareness of spiritual significance. The fact that such experience comes most surely with love, with possession by the creative eros, suggests that it belongs near the root of our mystery. Certainly it grants man a state of mind in which I believe he must come more and more to live: a mood of intensely conscious individuality which serves only to strengthen an intense consciousness of unity with all being. His mind is one infinitesimal node in the mind present throughout all being, just as his body shares in the unity of matter."

"As I gazed about the room on that first morning, one of the things which particularly fascinated me was that there was no essential difference between that which was animate and that which was inanimate – only in form and function, not in basic substance, where there was only one Substance, that living, knowing, Light which breathed out from everything."

"...the architecture of the universe is consistent with the hypothesis that mind plays an essential role in its functioning."

"The very cosmos itself depends for its being on the uttermost mystery of consciousness."