Robert Wolfe > Quotes

“Differences” are a consequence of delusion.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“We have regarded as real what is unreal.  We have to give up this attitude.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“There can be no [ego] desire if there is no object.  The state of no-desire is enlightenment.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“Find the Source of this false I: then it will disappear.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“much-anticipated, long-awaited epiphany is actually a brief, quiet, simple shift in perspective from the one who is looking for That, to the recognition that it is That which is looking.”
― Robert Wolfe, Awakening to Infinite Presence: The Clarity of Self-realization

“Completely give up even concentration, and hold nothing in your mind: you are verily the Self, and therefore free.”
― Robert Wolfe, Always - Only - One

“Any great “experience”—irrespective of how much bliss it may bestow—remains for some time, and then leaves.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“There are no “others”: the Self is the one and only reality.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“One suffers because of the idea that the body is “I”.  Misery”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“As a spark proceeds from fire, “individuality” emanates from the Absolute Self.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“he is that Self.  Then, only, can he view everything as a form of the Self.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“Once the I-thought has completely died, there is not even the thought of “I am Self.”  [There is only Be-ing.]”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“For those in the Self, there is no [separate] seeing—only being.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“It is only the ‘individual’ mind that sees the world. When this mind disappears, the world also disappears…. The world appears when you wake up [from sleep]. So where is it? Clearly, the world [awake or dreaming] is in your thought….”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“The Self is all-pervasive; all “else” is absent.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“The “mind” is nothing but “thoughts”; and behind every thought, there is the primary thought, which is the I-thought.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“When will suffering cease?  Not until individuality is lost.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“One without attachment is free from sorrow.”
― Robert Wolfe, Always - Only - One

“His normal state was silence.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“thoughts have their origin in this stillness.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“Nothing more can be predicated of the Self than its existence.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“To manifest means to “make evident,” to express, not to manufacture. And, in this case, that which expresses is itself expressed by the expression. That which is giving birth, to put it another way, is itself always at the same moment being born; neither womb nor fruit is more fundamental or preliminary than the other.”
― Robert Wolfe, Awakening to Infinite Presence: The Clarity of Self-realization

“When once you realize your own Self, and that there is nothing other than this Self, you will come to look upon the whole universe as the Self.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“Consciousness is the source of the “mind”.  The mind functions as the link between the Self, which is pure consciousness, and the body, which is inert [when absent that link].”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“Being omni-present—as every spiritual and religious tradition declares—it must of necessity be as immediate to us as is our every heartbeat, our every breath. Therefore, there is nowhere that we need to go, and nothing that we need to do, in order to be “in contact” with the Absolute.”
― Robert Wolfe, Always - Only - One

“The obvious answer, of course, is by not identifying: period. There is only one thing that is ever going on: “That”, doing what it does. One of the things that it does is to re-present itself as a “person” who “thinks”. One of these thoughts, among the infinite variety, is “I am (or, they are) suffering.” Another such thought is “I am (or, they are) not suffering.” “Suffering” and “not suffering” are both That doing what it does. Thinking there is suffering/not suffering is also both That doing what it does. In fact, the very “thinker” itself re-presents That doing what it does: it “persons” (among other things).”
― Robert Wolfe, Living Nonduality: Enlightenment Teachings of Self-realization

“Only grief is possible when one thinks of oneself as a body.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“You are the One seer of all: unattached, formless and witness of all you are. The Self is witness, all-pervading, One, actionless, desireless. Know the Self as the witness of all, and Consciousness itself—you are not the body, nor is the body yours, nor are you the doer. You are the eternal Witness, and free.”
― Robert Wolfe, Always - Only - One

“So, there is really no entity by the name of [my] “mind”;”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“There is mischief, or ignorance, as long as there is an object apart from a subject:”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization