We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!
Ram DassAt the moment when there's nothing more to lose, the Ego breaks open - and then we see who we are behind who we thought we were.
Ram DassYou and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.
Ram DassFinally you come to a point where you almost know it all. You are very wise. You are very pure... except for the fact that you may well have gotten caught in the last trap... the desire to know it all and still be you, "the knower." This is an impossibility. For all of the finite knowledge does not add up to the infinite. In order to take the final step, the knower must go. That is, you can only BE it all, but you can't know it all. The goal is non-dualistic - as long as there is a "knower" and "known" you are in dualism.
Ram Dass