The world is a concept...

From your true being as Awareness alienated and deluded do not pursue appearances, deeming them as real.

They are false, since disappear they must.

But your own being as Awareness is real and cannot cease to be.

The world appears distinctly only in wakefulness and dream with concepts filled.

In concept-free, all empty sleep, one sees no world; so then conceptual is the world's whole substance.



The above Ramana Maharshi quotes are from the book:
The Seven Steps to Awakening.