Three Portals to the Unity of Being

                "If nature is infinite being clothed in perception, then friendship or relationship is infinite being, or love, clothed in feeling, and the teaching is infinite being, or pure consciousness, clothed in thought."
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                <a href=""><em><b>Three Portals to the Unity of Being</b></em></a> 
                —Rupert Spira

Three Portals to the Unity of Being

                "When love is refracted through the mind–through the prism of thought and perception–it appears as relationship between the apparent parts of the whole."
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                <a href=""><em><b>Three Portals to the Unity of Being</b></em></a> 
                —Rupert Spira

Three Portals to the Unity of Being

                "You do not need to get rid of anything, nor do you need to become anything. Simply return to the being that you always and already are. Be that knowingly. No effort is required unless, of course, you are temporarily lost in the content of experience. In that case, a gentle effort is needed to disentangle yourself and return to your self. The same being that shines in you as your knowledge–your experience of yourself–shines outside of you as the world."
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                <a href=""><em><b>Three Portals to the Unity of Being</b></em></a> 
                —Rupert Spira

Three Portals to the Unity of Being

                "If you live in close proximity to nature, it impresses its being on you. This is why being in nature is itself a meditation. Beauty is both a portal and an expression of the one reality."
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                <a href=""><em><b>Three Portals to the Unity of Being</b></em></a> 
                —Rupert Spira

Three Portals to the Unity of Being

                "Simply be. All the methods, practices and pathways prescribed in the great traditions are preparations for the ultimate practice–the non-practice of simply being."
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                <a href=""><em><b>Three Portals to the Unity of Being</b></em></a> 
                —Rupert Spira

Three Portals to the Unity of Being

                "These three–perception, feeling and thought–are the portals through which being expresses itself in form. Through these portals, being knows and celebrates itself in every form. What begins as reflection becomes remembrance–the recognition of the unity we have never left."
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                <a href=""><em><b>Three Portals to the Unity of Being</b></em></a> 
                —Rupert Spira

Three Portals to the Unity of Being

                "Every experience you have–the sight of these words, the breath you are taking, the sounds around you–is pervaded by a quiet knowing. That knowing, which we call ‘I’, is not something you possess but what you are. From it arise all thoughts, feelings and perceptions; within it the world appears."
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                <a href=""><em><b>Three Portals to the Unity of Being</b></em></a> 
                —Rupert Spira

Touching the Infinite

                "If the idea-of-self is quieted for a moment, “full alertness” means something quite different than self-engaged mindfulness. In the absence of a watcher, awareness emerges fully and inclusively. The key understanding is that the sense-of-self did not “make this happen,” and therefore “I” cannot make myself “fully alert.”"
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                <a href="https://amazon.com/s?k==Touching+the+Infinite+Rodney+Smith"><em><b>Touching the Infinite</b></em></a> page 129
                —Rodney Smith

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