This page lists some of the all-time best A. H. Almaas quotes (otherwise known as A. Hameed Ali). Enjoy!
Page Contents:
- Human Being Quotes
- Manifestation & Perception Quotes
- Duality & Nonduality Quotes
- Inquiry & Awakening Quotes
- Truth & Freedom Quotes
50+ A. H. Almaas Quotes on Humans, Awakening, Nonduality, & More
A. H. Almaas Quotes on the Human Being
“Actualization means you live what you realize. You don’t just experience it … I teach a particular approach to actualizing the total human potential … The teaching is mostly about how to open up or access the spiritual dimension of our reality for existence.“ — A. H. Almaas
“My approach is basically how to learn about the spiritual qualities which make us able to connect to the spiritual sphere—which in my work, the emphasis is in ontological presence, the presence of consciousness.” — A. H. Almaas
“We want to learn how to be spiritual which means how to be a complete human being.” — A. H. Almaas
“The human being is a wormhole to the secrets of reality.” — A. H. Almaas
“The human being is the one who allows the sacred to know itself.” — A. H. Almaas
“True nature is good in some kind of fundamental, complete, total way—and that is difficult for most human beings to appreciate.” — A. H. Almaas
“All the trouble, and the hatred, and the violence is on the surface—not at the depth of humanity. The depth is our true nature, and it’s only good.” — A. H. Almaas
“You cannot kill somebody else if you know they are fundamentally good—that they fundamentally have the perfection spirit.” — A. H. Almaas
“General grace is the grace that everybody has—the fact that we exist, that we are, that we live.” — A. H. Almaas
“Knowing how to deal with life—including the spiritual perspective and without denying the material perspective—is to be wise.” — A. H. Almaas
“The enlightened ones are the reason the human race continues to be human because they are what keeps the flame of true humanness alive.” — A. H. Almaas
A. H. Almaas Quotes on Manifestation & Perception
“Everything is really nothing but consciousness manifesting itself.” — A. H. Almaas
“The whole idea is that there is something that is conscious, that is aware, and that is not individual—it is universal, it is everywhere, and it is manifesting all these experiences including manifesting individuals who believe they have experiences.” — A. H. Almaas
“Perception is nothing but the changing of manifestation—manifestation that inherently is a manifestation of consciousness—so the manifestation is conscious of its changes.” — A. H. Almaas
“Life at some point doesn’t just perceive, but it perceives that it perceives which is called ‘sentience’—until it doesn’t only know that it perceives, it knows itself as a perceiver.” — A. H. Almaas
“One of the primary spiritual insights, or awakening, is consciousness awakening to itself … You wake up and realize you are pure consciousness … You realize that the perceiver is this consciousness—that without this consciousness there is no perception.” — A. H. Almaas
“In spiritual realization, you recognize that ‘I am what perceives.’” — A. H. Almaas
“Ultimately, there’s only one subject, and that subject is perceiving through all of our eyes and all of our ears.” — A. H. Almaas
“Life is something that animates the body, flows through the body, and expresses itself through the body.” — A. H. Almaas
A. H. Almaas Quotes on Duality & Nonduality
“We are not separate from each other. We are all not just connected, but one. We are made out of the same spirit. We are inseparable from each other. We all make up one unity.” — A. H. Almaas
“It is all one, unified—there is no separation.” — A. H. Almaas
“Consciousness cannot be divided. It’s not a medium that parcels itself out and gives each person a piece.” — A. H. Almaas
“The unity of being is similar to what the Eastern tradition calls nondual reality. The realization is that the pure consciousness, that is also bliss, is inseparable from what we are—inseparable from our everyday life. It is the nature of everything. Reality is nondual. When we see the world as separate—separate groups, separate individuals, separate objects—it has to do with ego and all of it is really not true. It’s an illusion, a delusion. From the nondual perspective, you see everything as one unified beauty—everything is luminous, transparent, good, and inherently blissful.” — A. H. Almaas
“The knowing of oneself and the being of oneself are the same thing … The ‘I am’ is consciousness immediately conscious of its beingness, and its beingness is the same thing as its knowingness of itself.” — A. H. Almaas
“We all have the spiritual nature as our nature. All of us have the same nature.” — A. H. Almaas
“The heart of spirituality is that consciousness is not simply the capacity to be conscious, but consciousness is something on its own—a presence, a beingness … It can be aware of itself and aware of phenomena.” — A. H. Almaas
“The divine presence extends its presence to the presence of all beings.” — A. H. Almaas
A. H. Almaas Quotes on Inquiry & Awakening
“Spiritual development means you want to know some things more fundamentally—you want to see for yourself, you want to experience for yourself, you want to know directly … The heart has developed to the point where there is a natural desire to know what I am.” — A. H. Almaas
“The sense of self, or thinking mind, or thoughts, or trauma can obstruct us from seeing more of what we are.” — A. H. Almaas
“The way my own experience opened up is by knowing my experience in the moment and being interested to understand it … I’m trying to understand it. I’m interested in knowing what it is. I’m not interested in getting rid of the problem.” — A. H. Almaas
“I use inquiry, similar to Socratic inquiry, as a particular method. That, for me, is more important than sitting meditation … The approach uses inquiry but uses the scientific method which means it has to be verified—not by experiment but by experience, by one’s own direct experience.” — A. H. Almaas
“In science, you have to be detached from the experiment. The observer can’t be part of it. The more detached, the more the experiment is pure. In the inquiry into oneself, it includes the subject, the observer. So, I’m inquiring in both the experiencer and the experienced. They’re both there in the field of experience.” — A. H. Almaas
“Inquiring into oneself is inquiring into the subject.” — A. H. Almaas
“The idea is to find out what the hell are we? What’s going on? What am I? What is the nature of the universe?” — A. H. Almaas
“Most people aren’t awakened yet—to know that I don’t know who the hell I am. What am I? What’s the meaning of my life? Why am I here? That’s the first awakening … The second awakening is to know what you are—to erupt into consciousness. That you know, I am pure spirit that is aware and conscious of itself. Realization means that has become your true Self. It has become constantly integrated.” — A. H. Almaas
“We are not awakened, we are not free, we are not liberated if we don’t recognize we are pure awareness.” — A. H. Almaas
“I am not the physical body, I am what senses the physical body. I am not the mind, I am what makes the mind happen.” — A. H. Almaas
“I am something unknown and unknowable. I know I am. I know what I am, but I cannot say what it is.” — A. H. Almaas
“‘I am’ is a palpable sense of consciousness, conscious of its own being. Consciousness is not a function, consciousness is a reality. Consciousness is something that is. When consciousness knows itself, awakes to itself as that is what I am—I am this kind of luminous, aware presence, aware of myself and can be aware of other things—that will be the realization.” — A. H. Almaas
“The indication of somebody being awakened or realized … is that they are more loving, more compassionate, more humble, or more understanding—and that they become a force of goodness …. They can’t help but be good and do good … To be spiritually realized, you’re naturally compassionate and loving.” — A. H. Almaas
“Recognize you are consciousness, and everything is consciousness. This experience of realization has been like this for thousands of years regardless of what the scientific point of view is—the scientific point of view keeps changing.” — A. H. Almaas
A. H. Almaas Quotes on Truth & Freedom
“Freedom to be your ego is not freedom.” — A. H. Almaas
“The drive for enlightenment is not a matter of being free from suffering or from problem, but it is a love for the truth.” — A. H. Almaas
“The truth is here, but not manifest. It’s not just a matter of discovering it. I need to be ready and interested and open, and then it will appear … If you’re really spacious, you’re open … You’re open in an accepting, non-judgmental way.” — A. H. Almaas
“How we experience what is the truth depends on the experiencer, on the person. Different people can experience it differently. There are different ways reality manifests. So, the experiencer is what makes reality appear in a certain way.” — A. H. Almaas
“The spiritual truth is indeterminate until we experience it. And, how we experience it depends on our worldview, our view of reality, our expectation, our readiness and openness.” — A. H. Almaas
“My understanding is that the actual truth is indeterminate. Just like quantum theory, until you experience it, it’s not set.” — A. H. Almaas
“True nature is primordial.” — A. H. Almaas
“The unfolding of Essence becomes the process of living. Life is no longer a string of disconnected experiences of pleasure and pain but a flow, a stream of aliveness.” — A. H. Almaas
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