"The Four Agreements" - Some 'advaita-like' quotes

August 24, 2005

Namaste

To follow up my mail on the thread "U.G. Krishnamurti" I

give below some quotes from "The Four Agreements" by Don

Miguel Ruiz published by Amber-Allen Publishing, in 1997.

"This is what he discovered: Everything in existence is a

manifestation of the one living being we call God.

Everything is God. And he came to the conclusion that human

perception is merely light perceiving light. He also saw

that matter is a mirror -- everything is a mirror that

reflects light and creates images of that light -- and the

world of illusion, the Dream, is just like smoke which does

not allow us to see what we really are. 'The real us is

pure love, pure light' ".

"All of humanity is searching for truth, justice and

beauty. ... We keep searching and searching, when

everything is already within us. There is no truth to find.

Wherever we turn our heads, all we see is the truth, but

with the agreements and beliefs we have stored in our mind,

we have no eyes for this truth.

"We don't see the truth because we are blind. What blinds

us are all those false beliefs we have in our mind. We have

the need to be right and to make others wrong. We trust

what we believe, and our beliefs set us up for suffering.

It is as if we live in the middle of a fog that doesn't let

us see any further than our nose. We live in a fog that is

not even real. This fog is a dream, your personal dream of

life -- what you believe, all the concepts you have about

what you are, all the agreements you have made with others,

with yourself, and even with God."

PraNAms to all advaitins.

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