Here is a set of summary bullet quotes reflecting Rupert Spira’s non-duality teachings, primarily rooted in Advaita Vedanta, Kashmir Shaivism, and direct path inquiry, framed in modern, experiential language:
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Rupert Spira – Non-Duality: Summary Bullet Quotes
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On Consciousness
- “Consciousness is not something we have. It is what we are.”
- “There is no objective evidence for a world outside of experience.”
- “All experience appears in, to, and as awareness.”
- “Consciousness doesn’t know objects. It knows only itself through seeming appearances.”
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On Self & Identity
- “You are not a body or a mind. You are the ever-present, formless awareness in which all comes and goes.”
- “The separate self is an illusion created by identifying with thoughts and sensations.”
- “Peace is the nature of your self, not something to be attained.”
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On the World
- “The world is a modulation of consciousness — not separate from it.”
- “Matter is a name for what experience looks like from the ‘outside’; consciousness is what it feels like from the inside.”
- “There is only one reality appearing as everything — not two.”
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On Practice / Realization
- “The separate self does not become enlightened — it is seen never to have existed.”
- “The highest meditation is simply to abide knowingly as awareness.”
- “Understanding and experience must be unified in non-dual realization.”
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On Language & Teaching
- “The purpose of words is to lead to the silence from which they arise.”
- “The truth cannot be known by the mind — only recognized by awareness in itself.”
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