“This is the pathless path. Where the journey leads is to the deepest truth in you. It is really just returning to where you were initially before you got lost. Shedding the layers of the mind is like taking layers off of an onion. You peel them all away until you come to your essence. The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself. Rather you are penetrating the layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being.
What you seek is already within you. This reality is subjective, not the outer objective reality. You may experience it as focused in the center of your chest. It can be called the soul, or in Hinduism the Atman, or in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Jesus Christ said, “The kingdom of God is within you.”
This is the space of full awareness that is in harmony with the universe; this is wisdom itself. The full spirit of God is inside each of us. When you want to approach God, go inward.”
Polishing the Mirror, Ram Dass, p. 6.
