Identity in dreams is meaningless because the dreamer and the dream are one.
—T28.IV.5.4, ACIM
What makes you consider yourself as a person? Your identification with the body. Will this individual personality last? It will remain only so long as the identification with the body remains. But once there is a firm conviction that you are not the body, then that individuality is lost. It is the simplest thing, as soon as you have this conviction that you are not the body, then automatically, instantaneously, you become the total manifest. As soon as you leave your individuality, you become the manifest totality. But your true being is apart from even that which is totally manifest.
—Nisargadatta, The Ultimate Medicine
Thanks for sharing, Marian. The second quote made sense to me until the last sentence. I'm not sure I understand what this means: "But your true being is apart from even that which is totally manifest."
Posted by: Aileen | February 05, 2009 at 08:27 AM
I think this means that what we perceive, even were we able to perceive that which is totally manifest, is still just perception of form --time and space-- and that our true being exists outside of time and space and is therefore not manifest.
Posted by: marian | February 05, 2009 at 10:02 AM
Belatedly (just back from vacation, which was, ironically, very much about the body), these were very useful quotes for me too. As was you comment explanation.
Posted by: Simon | February 12, 2009 at 12:56 AM