ramanaspeak.....

"We talk of attaining the Self or of reaching God, in time. But there is nothing to attain. We are already Self-existent, nor will there ever be a time when we shall be nearer to God than now. We are ever-blissful, Self-existent, the infinite now. Our consciousness is unbroken, continuous and eternal. It is all maya (illusion), self-hypnotism, to imagine that now we are otherwise. Dehypnotize yourself! It is ego which deludes itself that there are two selves, one which we are conscious of now (the person), and the other--the higher, the divine--of which we shall one day become conscious. This is false. There is only one Self and it is fully conscious now and forever: there is neither past, present nor future for It, since It is out of time." ~Ramana Maharshi