"If the doors of perception were cleansed,everything would appear to man as it is: infinite."
William Blake "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
"When one contemplates things, everything is revealed as one."
Zohar I:24.1a
"Each religion brings out its own doctrines and insists on them being the only true ones...This is not through wickedness, but through a particular disease of the human psyche of the human brain called fanaticism"
Vivekananda "Living At The Source"

Friday, February 19, 2010

The Tanya On The Importance of Nondualism

In the Tanya, Shneur Zalman writes:

"First among the factors that arouse love and awe, and their foundation, is a pure and faithful belief in the Unity and Oneness of God...'Oneness' here means that all of creation is united with/in God and utterly nullified to Him...just as one loves his soul and his life [higher and lower levels of consciousness], so will he love God when he meditates and reflects in his heart that God is his true soul and his ACTUAL life."

brackets, bold, and capital letters, mine

Chinuch Katan 19, 20, 36
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