This concept of a ghost is as scarcely graspable in its self as the ghost of a concept. Neither life nor death, but the haunting of the one by the other. The “versus” of the conceptual opposition is as unsubstantial as a camera’s click. Ghosts: the concept of the other in the same, the completely other, dead, living in me.
(Derrida)
And I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand.
(John 10:28)
I begin with nothingness. Nothingness is the same as fullness. In infinity full is no better than empty. Nothingness is both empty and full … A thing that is infinite and eternal has no qualities, since it has all qualities. This nothingness or fullness we name the PLEROMA … In all times and places is creation, in all times and places is death.
(Jung)
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,10 and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.
(Colossians 2:9-10)
Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. ‘I am that I am’ sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words ‘Be still’. What does stillness mean? It means destroy yourself.
Because any form or shape is the cause of trouble. Give up the notion that ‘I am so and so’. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that? Hence atma-vidya [Self- knowledge] is the easiest to attain.
The truth of oneself alone is worthy to be scrutinized and known. Taking it as the target of one’s attention, one should keenly know it in the Heart. This knowledge of oneself will be revealed only to the consciousness which is silent, clear and free from the activity of the agitated and suffering mind. Know that the consciousness which always shines in the Heart as the formless Self, ‘I’, and which is known by one’s being still without thinking about anything as existent or non- existent, alone is the perfect reality.
(Sri Ramana Maharshi)
My Father, who gave them to Me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of My Father’s hand.
(John 10:29)
The yogi who is established in union with me, and worships me as the Supreme Soul residing in all beings, dwells only in me, though engaged in all kinds of activities.
Established in oneness with me, one who beholds me as present in all beings, that yogi resides within me, in all circumstances.
(Bhagavad Gita 6:31)
I and the Father are One.
(John 10:30)
The Self is the lord of all; inhabitant of the hearts of all. He is the source of all; creator and dissolver of beings. There is nothing He does not know.
(Mandookya Upanishad)
36 Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.”
37 “You are a king, then!” said Pilate.
Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”
(John 18:36-37)
The only proof of His existence is union with Him. The world disappears in Him. He is the peaceful, the good, the one without a second. This is the fourth condition of the Self—the most worthy of all.
(Mandookya Upanishad)
When you have a moment free, look within. What is important is not to miss the opportunity when it presents itself. If you are earnest you will use your leisure fully. That is enough.
(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)
” … such men will not fall back to cherishing the idea of an ego entity, a personality, a being, or a separated individuality. they will neither fall back to cherishing the idea of things as having intrinsic qualities, nor even of things as devoid of intrinsic qualities.”
(Diamond Sutra)
To write—to him, to present to the dead friend within oneself the gift of his innocence.
(Derrida)
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