Suchness Quotes

“This is how one ought to see," I repeated yet again. And I might have added, "These are the sort of things one ought to look at." Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves, sufficient in their suchness, not acting a part, not trying, insanely, to go it alone, in isolation from the Dharma-Body, in Luciferian defiance of the grace of God.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

“When you are present, you will know the Presence. It is that simple, and it is that hard.”
― Richard Rohr, Just This

“The mind can only work with name or form or image. . . . What I am saying about your true nature is so simple that the mind cannot grasp it. . . . The manifest is seen as light, and the unmanifest as dark, but what *is* is the same thing--That which perceives both.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, Prior to Consciousness

“To truly live is to accept the suchness and oneness of life in whatever form it unfolds.”
― Steve Leasock

“You cannot know anything spiritually by saying it is a not-that: you can only know it by meeting it in its precise and irreplaceable thisness and honoring it there.”
― Richard Rohr, Just This

“[E]very cognition arises from, and subsides into, the timeless transpersonal ground of pure awareness.... [A]t the terminus of any stream of cognition, cognition dissolves into stillness.... [A]t that moment, the ground of being, which is unconditioned and expanded awareness, is revealed.”
― Christopher D. Wallis, The Recognition Sutras: Illuminating a 1,000-Year-Old Spiritual Masterpiece