Bhagavan Sri Ramana Quotes

Whatever we experience in a dream appears to us to be real only so long
as we are experiencing that dream. When we wake up and consider what we
had experienced, we understand clearly and without any doubt that it was all
unreal, being merely a figment of our imagination.
Likewise, all that we experience in this so-called waking state appears to
us to be real only so long as we are experiencing this state. When we wake
up into our real waking state, which is the non-dual state of perfectly clear
self-consciousness or self-knowledge, we will discover that all the duality
that we are now experiencing in our present state of self-ignorance is as
unreal as all the duality that we experienced in our dream, being nothing but
a mere figment of our own imagination.

When our mind appears, the world appears along with it. The appearance
of the world depends upon the appearance of our mind. But our mind cannot
stand alone without a world. Whenever our mind appears, it does so by
attaching itself to a physical body, which it mistakes to be itself. The body
which we mistake to be ourself is a part of the world, but due to our
identification of that one particular body as 'I', we create an artificial
distinction between what we imagine to be ourself and what we imagine to
be other than ourself.
This false distinction is created by our mind, but without it our mind
cannot stand. Though the world is its own imaginary creation, our mind
cannot imagine a world without simultaneously imagining itself to be a
particular body in that world.