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“I take my stand where no difference exists, where things are not, nor the minds that create them. There I am at home. Whatever happens, does not affect me -- things act on things, that is all. Free from memory and expectation, I am fresh, innocent and wholehearted.

Mind is the great worker (mahakarta) and it needs rest. Needing nothing, I am unafraid. Whom to be afraid of? There is no separation, we are not separate selves. There is only one Self, the Supreme Reality, in which the personal and the impersonal are one.

I am the immovable centre of the movable, the eternal witness of the transient. The centre is a point of void and the witness a point of pure awareness; they know themselves to be as nothing, therefore nothing can resist them.

I am all and all is me. Being the world I am not afraid of the world. Being all, what am I to be afraid of? Water is not afraid of water, nor fire of fire. I am not afraid because I am nothing that can experience fear, or can be in danger. I have no shape, nor name. It is attachment to a name and shape that breeds fear. I am not attached. I am nothing, and nothing is afraid of no thing.”

From “I Am That” by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (1973).

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Head of Christ, 19th century

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1780-1867

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Flat Six Fever

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Jo Ractliffe, Nadir 10, 1987

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Ivanka Demchuk, Crucifixion

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"FREEWAY INTERCHANGE" ANSEL ADAMS | LOS ANGELES, 1967 [gelatin silver print | 9 x 6"]

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