A.J. Plessner

“But if you get with it—in other words, you accept the situation, you flow with it—you come alive. Because you acquire courage, you’re not defending yourself all the time. You acquire energy, because you’re not all locked up, wondering what’s going to happen next. You get the capacity to take risks, and you can’t have a free people unless you are willing to take risks—it’s all gambling. So this falling apart of everything, which incidentally is what makes it alive—change is life—this is the Tao.”
― Alan W. Watts, Tao for Now: Wisdom of the Watercourse

“As soon as one ceases to imagine that one is an individual person, inhabiting a particular body, the whole superstructure of wrong ideas collapses and is replaced by a conscious and permanent awareness of the real Self. At this level of the teaching there is no question of effort or practice. All that is required is an understanding that the Self is not a goal to be attained, it is merely the awareness that prevails when all the limiting ideas about the not-Self have been discarded.”
― Ramana Maharshi, Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

“But I of all people feel my depths far too often and far too strongly to be able to be even halfway content. And I need only feel these depths uninterruptedly for fifteen minutes, the poisonous world will flow into my mouth like water into the drowning man.”
― Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka

“It does not depend on memories and expectations, desires and fears, likes and dislikes. All is seen as it is.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj