Rupert Spira Professions : Poet Born : 1960 Browse All Authors Top 17 quotes by Rupert Spira The discovery that peace, happiness and love are ever-present within our own Being, and completely available at every moment of experience, under all conditions, is the most important discovery that anyone can make. Rupert Spira happiness-and-love important discovery Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere. Rupert Spira finding-yourself attention giving In ignorance, I am something; in understanding, I am nothing; in love, I am everything. Rupert Spira ignorance wisdom spiritual Your Self, Aware Presence, knows no resistance to any appearance and, as such, is happiness itself; like the empty space of a room it cannot be disturbed and is, therefore, peace itself; like this page, it is intimately one with whatever appears on it and is thus love itself; and like water that is not affected by the shape of a wave, it is pure freedom. Causeless joy, imperturbable peace, love that knows no opposite and freedom at the heart of all experience....this is your ever-present nature under all circumstances. Rupert Spira wisdom spiritual heart Happiness is simply to allow everything to be exactly as it is from moment to moment. Rupert Spira moments The world is known by the senses Rupert Spira consciousness mind world The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind. Rupert Spira positive inspirational life Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and take them, without question, for the absolute truth. Rupert Spira attitude world ideas Love is the experience that others are not others. Beauty is the experience that objects are not objects. Rupert Spira objects love-is Looking for happiness in the body, mind or world is like looking for the screen in a movie. The screen doesn't appear in the movie, and yet, at the same time, all that is seen in the movie is the screen. In the same way that the screen 'hides' in plain view, so happiness 'hides' in all experience. Rupert Spira views mind world Love is the natural condition of all experience before thought has divided it into a multiplicity and diversity of objects, selves and others. Rupert Spira diversity self love-is The mind, the body and the world are made out of Consciousness but Consciousness is not made out of them. It is made out of itself. Therefore everything is made only out of Consciousness. Rupert Spira body mind world We don't have to wait for the right circumstances to have happiness. Rupert Spira circumstances waiting Time is the eternal now, seen through the narrow slit of the mind. Rupert Spira positive inspirational life When feeling is divested of the feeler and the felt, it shines as love; when seeing is divested of the seer and the seen, it shines as beauty. Rupert Spira feeler shining feelings IF THE TRUE MEASURE OF A BOOK is to be found in the perfume that remains behind when all the words have been forgotten then, for Beyond Recovery, it is this quality of honesty, openness and surrender which communicates itself in the words and between them, administering not just to the mind but to the background of Awareness. Rupert Spira recovery honesty book We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal. Rupert Spira unreal being-real real Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
