Quotes from Robert Wolfe

When will suffering cease? Not until individuality is lost.

There is mischief, or ignorance, as long as there is an object apart from a subject:

For those in the Self, there is no [separate] seeing—only being.

In this Gospel, Jesus reminds seekers, "It will not come by waiting for it." He said to them, "What you look forward to has already come, but you do not recognize it.

The Self is all-pervasive; all "else" is absent.

Once the I-thought has completely died, there is not even the thought of "I am Self." [There is only Be-ing.]

When there is no one to "experience," where is there a question of an I? Only that which Is remains.

The "mind" is nothing but "thoughts"; and behind every thought, there is the primary thought, which is the I-thought.

As a spark proceeds from fire, "individuality" emanates from the Absolute Self.

So long as "mind" survives, "religion" will also exist. But no religion will persist in the silence that results from looking within. It is the ego that comes up, in the form of saying, "my religion should be embraced by all.

The sage's ego has died, thus he does not pursue activities with the notion that he is the doer; instead, like an actor playing his part in a drama—free from [emotions such as] "love" or "hate." Then, there is no agitation of mind, sense of doership, and personality: when all that is stopped, there is quiet, stillness.

The Church condemned and suppressed his work, and probably destroyed a lot of it. In the 1880s, two Latin manuscripts of Eckhart's were found. Since 1980 the Dominican Order has sought to reveal that Eckhart was an exemplary Christian mystic and priest.

He lived on that high level, on the same highlands of the spirit that were disclosed in the Upanishads and Sufi classics. To go where Eckhart went is to come close to Lao Tzu and Buddha, and certainly to Jesus Christ.

to whom does this free will matter?

Do not find any duality. The wise do not see "this" and "that," they do not perceive the "relative". Completely give up distinctions—the "world" of the relative is transcended by the wise. Free from the pairs of opposites (such as better-worse), the sage sees the same everywhere—his perception is nondual. Duality is the root of misery.

Freedom from desire is the essential pre-requisite; find out the root of desires, the source from whence they proceed

he does not pursue activities with the notion that he is the doer;

There are no "others": the Self is the one and only reality.

When once you realize your own Self, and that there is nothing other than this Self, you will come to look upon the whole universe as the Self.

If you realize you are without form, that you are unlimited, what is there to be seen apart [a "separate" body]? There is no connection, during sleep, with the body, the senses, and the mind: on waking up, you identify yourself with them. All that you have to do, hereafter, is see that you do not identify your self with them.

The truth of one's own real nature is that it is an undivided oneness:

Whatever I do, or consider doing, is really God's doing.

Nothing more can be predicated of the Self than its existence.

One without attachment is free from sorrow.