Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.

Heaven means to be one with God.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

No saint in the world lived like the great saint Ramana Maharishi. They say Jesus Christ was resurrected and rose again from the dead. But there's no proof of it. Ramana Maharishi is the only Mahan who has resurrected in life, and that, too, at the age of 16.

In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.

There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes.

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

In death, as in sleep, I am all things.

Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea of God.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

If you think you are big, you will become small. If you are willing to become an absolute nothing, you will become larger than creation and Creator.

Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.

When you open up to the ultimate, immediately it pours into you. You are no longer an ordinary human being - you have transcended. Your insight has become the insight of the whole existence. Now you are no longer separate - you have found your roots.

Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one.

A wind blew, and the sand around his drawing scattered. He wrapped his fingers inside his wife's, and Father Time rekindled a connection he had only ever had with her. He surrendered to that sensation and felt the final drops of their lives touch one another, like water in a cave, top meets bottom, Heaven meets Earth. As their eyes closed, a different set of eyes opened, and they rose from the ground as a shared south, up and up, a sun and a moon in a single sky.

Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun is your god-self; It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent. But your god-self does not dwell alone in your being. Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man, But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening.