To feel that you are an individual is itself a conditioning; the one who wants to break the conditioning is also imaginary. How can you destroy an ego which is not there?
The Garden of Eden am I. I give sprout to all that grows within the Garden and so everything born in the Garden that dies in the Garden and dissolves in the Garden is none other than I.
Consciousness is pure knowledge. The mind arises out of it and is made up of thoughts. The essence of the mind is only awareness or consciousness. However, when the ego overclouds it, it functions as reasoning, thinking or perceiving.
Ramana Maharshi
The dream character is often mistaken for the dreamer. The dreamer isn't just playing the role of the character but the entirety of the dream, thus the dreamer isn't the character one imagines oneSelf to be in the dream...at all. Everything is realized as "not me, not me."
@anandamayi_ma_ Maya tempts itself with clinging to partial realizations and visions that are full of wonder but all are like playgrounds at the park for children. Children love to play save for a few that wander off to explore all alone what the other children won't even be capable to imagine.
@NomeeNome1 Taking a closer look at anything thought to be solid and we find nothing is as solid as we like to think. Everything is "space" or "Consciousness"...beyond the words of course.
The apparently separate self or ego who seeks happiness, and the true and only self of pure awareness whose nature is happiness, are the same self, partially concealed in the former, fully revealed in the latter. - Rupert Spira, You Are the Happiness You Seek
In this video, Eckhart Tolle teaches us how to look through the disguises and how our consciousness can help us to recognize the truth in all life forms.https://t.co/II9pr9G0Ll
Many who come here have read 'I Am That.' They come here to see, as a curiosity, who this person is. They have a look and then go away. If you want to find out something more, then sit quietly and listen for as long as you can, and try to understand what is said.