To Know That, "Nothing Is," Is True Knowledge
Why not work on the theory that you are your own creation and creator.
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You are free now. What is it that you want to desire? Desire it. Collect and strengthen your mind and you will find that your thoughts and feelings, words and actions will align themselves in the direction of your will.
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At the root of all creation lies desire. Desire and imagination foster and reinforce each other.
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The world is but a reflection of my imagination. Whatever I want to see, I can see.
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The world has no existence apart from you. At every moment it is but a reflection of yourself. You create it, you destroy it.
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Who came first — you or your parents? You imagine that you were born at a certain time and place, that you have a father and a mother, a body and a name. You have made this world and you can change it. A world of which you are the only source and ground is fully within your power to change. What is created can always be dissolved and re-created. All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it.
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The diversity [of the world] is in you only. Your own creative power projects upon it a picture and all questions refer to the picture.
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There is no power separate from me.
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Of course you can [change the world]. But you must cease identifying yourself with it, and go beyond. Then you have the power to destroy and re-create.
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Be aware that whatever happens, happens to you, by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.
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Absolutely — there are no things. To know that "nothing is," is true knowledge.
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My stand I take where nothing is; words do not reach there, nor thoughts. To the mind it is all darkness and silence. Then consciousness begins to stir and wakes up the mind which projects the world, built of memory and imagination. Once the world comes into being, all you say may be so. It is in the nature of the mind to imagine goals, to strive towards them, to seek out means and ways, to display vision, energy and courage. These are divine attributes and I do not deny them. But I take my stand where no difference exists, where things are not, nor the minds that create them. There I am at home. Whatever happens, does not affect me. Things act on things; that is all.
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"Nothing is me" is the first step. "Everything is me" is the next. Both hang on the idea, "There is a world." When this too is given up, you remain what you are — the non-dual Self.
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You are the Infinite Potentiality; the inexhaustible possibility.
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You are the all-pervading, eternal and infinitely creative awareness — consciousness.
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Nisargadatta Maharaj – from I AM THAT
