advaita...

another subject i love, the principle of non duality, simply put it means "not two", as everything within the field of maya has its opposite, everything, for every positive there exists a negative, for every day there exists a night, for every good a bad, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction...so if it said that god is one, even this "one" stands in opposition to something, so advaita, instead of saying that it is all one, says "it is not two", here is a sampler...
god is all there is, there is nothing else. god alone is the seeker and the doer of all that happens, he is seeking spirituality through some, money or power through some. what you seek is not in your hands, you are merely playing the role god has ordained...
god is within each and every body mind organism he has created. you did not create the ego, god with has created it, he alone can get rid of it...
things and situations are never in your control, you just think they are, human being can be enormously intelligent, but he has no free will...
understanding or enlightenment cannot produce perfection, understanding cannot change destiny, it cannot console, you cannot use it..
do what you will, the ego cannot be annihilated unless it is god's will..
it is god within who brings about all actions, you are like the shadow having no independent existence..
you have no choice in being born to specific parents, you have no choice over your genes, you are not the source of your thoughts, though getting identified with the ego makes you think so, you have no control over what you see or hear, you have no control over how your brain reacts. yet the most prized possession of the thinking mind is that it has free will...