This is a page of quotes and links to the WebSites that have been very helpful to me and they could be of help to you too.

Conversations with God books have helped me to see how everything fits in the puzzle of life as the.

Eckhart Tolle - He show us, in simple and clear language, that the way, the truth, and the light is within us. A state of enlightenment is attainable, here and now.

Barry Long His teaching does not come from any tradition but from his own direct experience of life.

Osho He led his disciples on paths, which were philosophical, scientific, psychoanalytical, and religious.

J. Krishnamurti He said man has to free himself of all fear, conditioning, authority, and dogma through self-knowledge.

Mysticism in World Religions:

Mysticism is concerned with the nature of reality, the individual's struggle to attain a clear vision of reality, and the transformation of consciousness that accompanies such vision.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding. (The Kethuvim -- Proverbs 3:5. Tanakh)

Then there is one who expands even further until he unites with all existence, with all creatures, with all worlds, singing a song with them all. (Daniel Matt)

Quotations from Christianity

...the Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason, and ... we cannot even represent to ourselves all its greatness. (Gregory of Nazianzus)

Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction. (A. W. Tozer)

Love... transcends all that human Sense and Reason can reach to. (Jacob Boehme)

If, then, you wish to behold and commune with Him who is beyond sense-perception and beyond concept, you must free yourself from every impassioned thought. (Philokalia)

God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. (1 John 4:16)

Quotations from Islam

His mental questionings form the barrier. His physical eyesight bandages his knowing. Self-consciousness plugs his ears.

Recognize that your imagination and your thinking and your sense perception are reed canes that children cut and pretend are horsies. Deny your desires and willfulness, and a real mount may appear under you. (The Essential Rumi)

Quotations from Hinduism

... all illustrations are inadequate and truth is beyond words. (Vasishtha)

... in tantric texts there is a strong streak of contempt or condescension for those who limit themselves to a kind of intellectual jugglery and do not get down to the basic task of experiential replication. (Abhinavagupta)

He offers no ancestral oblations; he praises nobody, blames nobody, is never dependent on anyone. He has no need to repeat the mantram, no more need to practice meditation. The world of change and changeless Reality are one to him, for he sees all in God. (Upanishads)

Quotations from Buddhism

The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions... Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers... (Bodhidharma)

When you give it all up, you get it all. You end up losing absolutely nothing, other than some well cherished opinions and ideas. (Dennis Genpo Merzel)

Quotations from Taoism

I confess that there is nothing to teach: no religion, no science, no body of information which will lead your mind back to the Tao. Today I speak in this fashion, tomorrow in another, but always the Integral Way is beyond words and beyond mind.

Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear. (Hua Hu Ching)

Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.

If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get, if you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood, you will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop, to know when you can get no further by your own action, this is the right beginning! (Chuang Tzu)

There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. (46)

He who is attached to things will suffer much. (44) (The Tao Te Ching)

There are two paths leading to oneness with the Tao. The first in the path of acceptance. Affirm everyone and everything. Freely extend you goodwill and virtue in every direction, regardless of circumstances. Embrace all things as part of the Harmonious Oneness, and then you will begin to perceive it. The second path is that of denial. Recognize that everything you see and think is a falsehood, an illusion, a veil over the truth. Peel all the veils away, and you will arrive at the Oneness. Though these paths are entirely different, they will deliver you to the same place: spontaneous awareness of the Great Oneness. (48) (Hua Hu Ching)

For more quotations from six religions see:

The site (offline) Mysticism in World Religions explores the mystical traditions of six religions by comparing and contrasting quotations drawn from their respective literatures. If comparative mysticism doesn't appeal to you, feel free to focus on Judaism, Christianity, Islam/Sufism, Hinduism, Buddhism, or Taoism. By selecting one of these links you will be able to access everything published at that site which pertains to that religion.

Barry Long

"Nothing makes man more unhappy than the untruth appearing as the truth."

"I speak only of truth, love, life, death and God"

Barry Long was born in Australia in 1926 and is now recognized by many as one of the leading spiritual teachers in the West. In 1968 he had his transcendental realization. Then for several years he was engaged in a Gnostic inquiry into life on earth and the nature of consciousness. He began teaching publicly in 1982 in London, moved back to Australia in 1986 and in the 90's taught widely in Europe and the North America.

His teaching does not come from any tradition but from his own direct experience of life. He does not invite followers or believers. There is nothing to join. He simply asks you to see if his teaching is the truth in your own experience, and if it is, to live it in your own life.

The essence of Barry Long's teaching, and what makes it so irresistibly beautiful or disturbing, is the divine realisation of love between man and woman. Whereas most teachings, particularly religions, ignore this element, he addresses it with inspired authority and practicality as the way to God and truth.

"The brain was a perfect physical instrument. It served the consciousness of man and woman and the will of the earth. Nothing suffered from its activities. Today the instrument has taken over. The servant has usurped the master's role."

"Everyone has to play. The game goes on forever - or until you win. You win by finding death before it finds you."

"It is by grace that I live, it is by grace that I am speaking now, it is by grace and grace alone. And that grace empties the vehicle of what it needs to be emptied of."

"... Because in God realization and being one with God the Most High, the unspeakable one, there's no sense whatsoever of ever having done anything yourself. It is all done for you. It's by grace."

"We are the intelligence that has evolved in time out of the space and matter of the solar system, and specifically the earth."

"This is too simple for the brain to comprehend in its now chronically complicated condition."

"There is only one truth. It is being where you are. And where you are is where your body is."

"It is the consciousness that knows, loves and enjoys life in the physical body while the brain agonises in thought-full depressions, or considers murdering its healthy body."

"I am enlightened. No man is more enlightened than I am, and I am no more enlightened than any other enlightened man. Enlightenment is enlightenment. And that's that. It's an unalterable, unwavering state of knowledge and being beyond doubt, a completion every moment by grace of the Most High, the unspeakable one, God. That's the ultimate; the absolute being beyond any description. But the ultimate, the enlightenment of man, must translate into his living life. And to me and my teaching that means an enlightened man is liberated from unhappiness. Being and living free of unhappiness is the natural and simple state of all life on earth -- except man. He has been misled away from it by spiritual lures and glamor and the result is the conflict and pain, the fluctuating unhappiness, of his short life."

"The only way to get around the ignorance of the brain is for you to live the truth. Living it means doing it, not thinking about it."

More quotes from Barry Long.

See an oficial WebSite at http://www.barrylong.org/

Osho formerly known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

"The root problem of all problems is mind itself. The first thing to be understood is what this mind is, of what stuff it is made; whether it is an entity or just a process; whether it is substantial, or just dreamlike. And unless you know the nature of the mind, you will not be able to solve any problems of your life."

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho) was born on the 11th December, 1931, in the state of Madhya Pradesh in India. Osho's career as a spiritual teacher began in the mid-1960s, when he left his post as a philosophy professor at the University... By the early 1970s, Western visitors were flooding into his newly-formed Pune commune... In 1981 Osho moved to the United States... He died in early 1990 at his ashram in Pune.

He led his disciples on paths, which were philosophical, scientific, psychoanalytical, and religious. His knowledge of the West was as formidable as his knowledge of the East. From Buddha to Jesus, from Heraclitus to Marx, from the Indian mystic, Tilopa to Jung, from Zen to the Sufis, from Yoga to Tantra, he would point out the strengths and weaknesses of each doctrine. His bottom line was always: "From now on, do whatsoever you want, but do it with awareness. Easy and natural are the keys. Don't repress anything, be your own self."

Like Socrates he was considered a corrupter of the morals of young people, like all true philosophers he demolished a belief system that produced only unhappiness, not joy. His greatness was that he didn't give solutions, only tools for people to realize themselves. "The answer is in yourself. I just tell you the potential of your being."

"I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering.... And when you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll come to realize what you were dragging around with you. And for that, no one else other than you was responsible.... The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival...because when you are unhappy, you also throw unhappiness all around."

"In pain you can be more meditative than in pleasure. Pleasure is more distracting.... Pleasure tends to make you unconscious; pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance: you cannot forget pain. If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there, use it as a droning, as a forgetfulness. Both are ways to reach God. One is to remember yourself totally, and one is to forget yourself totally."

"Be worshipful, be respectful towards your body. God has chosen it to be His residence...it is a universe in itself...go withinwards; acqaint yourself with this temple. Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body."

"The mind has its limited uses. Use it. When you are working in your office, I am not telling you to be a no-mind. When you are working in your shop or in the factory, I am not saying to be a no-mind. I am saying be perfectly a mind. Use the mind but don't carry it continuously, twenty-four hours, day in and day out, with yourself. Don't go on dragging it. Use it as you use a chair. You don't go on carrying your chair everywhere, wherever you go, just because you may need it."

"The mind can be used and can be put aside. It is an instrument, a very beautiful instrument; no need to be so obsessed with it."

"My message is: Drop the mind and you will become available to God. Become innocent and you will be bridged with God. Drop this ego, drop this idea that you are somebody special. Be ordinary and you will become extraordinary. Be true to your inner being and all religions are fulfilled. And when you don't have a mind, then you have a heart. When you don't have a mind only then your heart starts pulsating, then you have love. No-mind means love. Love is my message."

"So always remember, whatsoever I say to you, you can take it in two ways. You can simply take it on my authority, "Because I say so, it must be true" -- then you will suffer, then you will not grow. Whatsoever I say, listen to it, try to understand it, implement it in your life, see how it works, and then come to your own conclusions. They may be the same..."

More quotes as above from Osho

For more by Osho from his different talks see: http://osho.org

J. Krishnamurti

"I am only acting as a mirror to your life, in which you can see yourself as you are; then you can throw away the mirror; the mirror is not important."

Krishnamurti claimed allegiance to no caste, nationality, or religion and was bound by no tradition. He traveled the world and spoke spontaneously to large audiences until the end of his life at age ninety. (February 17, 1986)

He said man has to free himself of all fear, conditioning, authority, and dogma through self-knowledge and this will bring about order and psychological mutation. The conflict-ridden violent world cannot be transformed into a life of goodness, love, and compassion by any political, social, or economic strategies. It can be transformed through the mutation in individuals brought about by their own observation without any guru or organized religion. He declared, "Where self is not, the other is."

"Truth is a pathless land and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. My only concern is to set humanity absolutely, unconditionally free."

"Man cannot come to Truth through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection."

You have changed your ideas, you have changed your thought, but thought is always conditioned. Whether it is the thought of Jesus, Buddha, X, Y, or Z, it is still thought, and therefore one thought can be in opposition to another thought; and when there is opposition, a conflict between two thoughts, the result is a modified continuity of thought. In other words, the change is still within the field of thought, and change within the field of thought is no change at all. One idea or set of ideas has merely been substituted for another.

Seeing this whole process, is it possible to leave thought and bring about a change outside the field of thought? All consciousness, surely, whether it is of the past, the present, or the future, is within the field of thought; and any change within that field, which sets the boundaries of the mind, is no real change. A radical change can take place only outside the field of thought, not within it, and the mind can leave the field only when it sees the confines, the boundaries of the field, and realizes that any change within the field is no change at all. This is real meditation.

There can be no learning where there is authority in any form. He stated tirelessly, "We must be very clear on this matter from the very beginning. There is no belief demanded or asked, there are no followers, there are no cults, there is no persuasion of any kind, in any direction, and therefore only then we can meet on the same platform, on the same ground, at the same level. Then we can together observe the extraordinary phenomena of human existence."

For more see Krishnamurti Foundation of America http://www.kfa.org/

My intention is to express my truth the best way I know how. Sometimes using other peoples expressions, if I liked the way they expressed it. And it is a way for me to acknowledge my appreciation them.

So here is a colection of short quotes from the internet (some I've edited) and Short Articles with links. I intent to keep adding.