Douglas Harding

“What actually happened was something absurdly simple and unspectacular: I stopped thinking. [...] Reason and imagination and all mental chatter died down.…

— Douglas Harding

Here is just emptiness. There is no getting my ego out of the way, and all that stuff. There is just the…

— Douglas Harding

Profound things are simple. If it is not simple, it cannot be true. But simple things are difficult.

— Douglas Harding

Inwardly you are God, outwardly you are a person. Instead of thinking you are just a person, that appearance, you can awake…

— Douglas Harding

Whether looked at from outside or inside, bodies dissolve, matter vanishes, spirit remains - once we bother to go into the matter.…

— Douglas Harding

We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else.

— Douglas Harding

The result of observing only the universe is anxiety. Only observing the Observer of the universe will put a stop to a…

— Douglas Harding

There is a Reality which is Indivisible, One, Alone, the Source and Being of all; not a thing, nor even a mind,…

— Douglas Harding

When we dare to doubt what we are told and take a fresh look at what's going on, we are in for…

— Douglas Harding

How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!

— Douglas Harding

Isnt it the very last thing we feel grateful for - having happened? You needn't have happened. But you did happen.

— Douglas Harding

The human mind is not, as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, but a picture gallery.

— Douglas Harding