When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking.
The very idea of going beyond the dream is illusory. Why go anywhere? Just realise that you are dreaming a dream you call the world, and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another. Love all, or none of it, and stop complaining. When you have seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs be done.
The now is our self. We are not present in the now. We are the now. The now is not a container that contains our self along with everything else. It is our self, eternal presence.
— Rupert Spira - Presence: The Art of Peace and Happiness, Volume I (via theuniverseworks)
This summer the roses are blue; the wood is of glass. The earth, draped in its verdant cloak, makes as little impression upon me as a ghost. It is living and ceasing to live which are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
— Andre Breton, “Manifesto of Surrealism” (via thesoviette)