There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.

To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely with this universe. You feel profoundly rooted in it and connected with it. You feel, in other words, that the whole energy, which expresses itself in the galaxies, is intimate. It is not something to which you are a stranger, but it is that with which you, whatever it is, are intimately bound up. That in your seeing, your hearing, your talking, your thinking, your moving, you express that which it is that moves the sun and other stars.

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.

Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?

When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.