Devotee: From where did ignorance come?
Maharshi: There is no such thing as ignorance. It never arises. Everyone is Knowledge itself. Only Knowledge does not shine easily. The dispelling of ignorance is Wisdom which always exists.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


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The Seer is most important.
You are. That is most important.
Concentrate on the Seer, not on the seen.
All that you see is false and the Seer alone is true.
All knowledge you gather is useless, until you hold on to your Self.
You are the Truth, not what is being told to you, not what you see.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


"When you work for God, not self, it is just as good as meditation. Then work helps your meditation and meditation helps your work.
You need the balance. With meditation only, you become lazy. With activity only, the mind becomes worldly and you forget God."
#ParamahansaYogananda


I am a spark from the Infinite.
I am not flesh and bones.
I am light.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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Life is entertaining when we do not take it too seriously. A good laugh is an excellent remedy for human ills. ... This my master [Swami Sri Yukteswar] taught me. In the beginning of my training in his hermitage, I went about with a solemn face, never smiling. One day Master pointedly remarked, "What is this? Are you attending a funeral ceremony? Don't you know that finding God is the funeral of all sorrows?
Then why so glum? Don't take this life too seriously."
#ParamahansaYogananda


Grieve not for lost love, whether it is through death or the fickle fluctuations of human nature. Love itself is never lost, but just plays hide-and-seek with you in many hearts; that in pursuing it you might find its ever greater manifestations. It will keep hiding from you, and disappointing you, until you have quested long enough to find its abode in the One who resides in the deepest recesses of your own soul, and in the heart of everything. Then you will say: “O Lord, when I resided in the house of mortal consciousness, I thought I loved my parents and my friends; I fancied I loved birds, beasts, possessions. But now that I have moved into the mansion of Omnipresence, I know it is Thee alone I love, manifested as parents, friends, all creatures and all things. By loving Thee alone, my heart expanded to love the many. By being loyal in my love to Thee, I am loyal to all I love. And I love all beings forever.” I see life on earth as only a scenic backdrop behind which my loved ones hide at death. As I love them when they are before my eyes, so does my love follow them with my ever-watching mental gaze when they move elsewhere, behind death’s screen. Those whom I have loved I could never hate, even though they grow uninteresting through ugly behavior. In my museum of recollections, I can still behold those traits that caused me to love them. Beneath the temporary mental masks of those whose behavior I dislike, I see the perfect love of my great Beloved, even as I see it in those worthy souls that I love. To stop loving is to stem the purifying flow of love. I shall loyally love every being, every thing, until I find all races, all creatures, all animate and inanimate objects embraced by my love. I will love until every soul, every star, every forsaken creature, every atom, is lodged in my heart; for in the infinite love of God, my breast of eternity is large enough to hold everything in me. O Love, I see Thy glowing face in the gems. I behold Thy shy blush in the blossoms. I am enraptured, hearing Thee warble in the birds. And I dream in ecstasy when my heart embraces Thee in all hearts. O Love, I met Thee in all things—only a little and for a while—but in Omnipresence I clasp Thee entirely and forever, and I rejoice in Thy joy evermore.
#ParamahansaYogananda


I know there is a law by which God directly supports that devotee who depends solely upon Him... The true renunciant knows that everything comes from God, and that He is the sole support of life...The Power that supports your heartbeat certainly knows your lesser needs. If you live solely for God and have faith in His power, He will give you direct help.
#ParamahansaYogananda


You should transfer your attention from failure to success, from worry to calmness, from mental wanderings to concentration, from restlessness to peace, and from peace to the divine bliss within. When you attain this state of Self realization the purpose of your life will have been gloriously fulfilled.
#ParamahansaYogananda


When you came into this world, you cried and everyone else smiled. You should so live your life that when you leave, everyone else will cry, but you will be smiling.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.
#ThichNhatHanh
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The sages have said that there are two sorts of purification, external and internal. The purification of the body by water, earth, or other materials is the external purification, as bathing etc. Purification of the mind by truth, and by all the other virtues, is what is called internal purification. Both are necessary. It is not sufficient that a man should be internally pure and externally dirty. When both are not attainable the internal purity is the better, but no one will be a Yogi until he has both.
#SwamiVivekananda


Nothing is permanent.
Don't stress yourself too much, because no matter how the bad situation is... it will change.
#Buddha


With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and
obstinate, let a man walk alone.
#Buddha


You must always be open to tolerance for all beings, no matter how bad they are, even if they have hurt you, you must let go, to have pure joy.
#Buddha


The blissful man is one
who lives without expectations,
who simply lives - who is not asking that
"Things should be like this."
Who knows how to live fully alert, whatsoever happens.
In life he is aware, in death he is aware.
In happiness he is aware, in unhappiness he is aware.
In success he is aware, in failure he is aware.
He has the secret key.
That secret key is awareness.
#OSHO


A student asks, "Sir, if you're enlightened, why are you stuck in this body?" Guru replies, "This body is a drop in the ocean. I am the ocean, not a drop. Since you identify yourself as a drop, you only see drops around you."
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A rebel is one who does not react against society. He observes and understands the whole carousel and just decides not to be a part of it.
He's not against society, he's rather indifferent to what's going on there.
That's the beauty of rebellion: freedom.
The revolutionary is not free. He's constantly fighting, fighting with something. So how could he be free?
He systematically reacting to something.
Where is the freedom in the mechanical reaction to external things?
Freedom is born with understanding. You must first understand the mechanisms at play: society prevents the evolution of the soul.
The system doesn't allow you to be you.
Once this is understood, you simply exit the system without even a scar on your soul.
The rebel forgives and forgets, he is content to distance himself from society, with no love or hate related to it.
#Osho
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The day you become courageous enough to enter into your own being, you have become a sannyasin.
#osho
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Remember the three L's: life, love, light.
Life is given to you; you are alive.
Light is present, but you have to make a bridge between life and light.
That bridge is love. With these three L's you can make a total way of life, a way of being, a new way of being
#Osho


Active intelligence is productive intelligence.
#MasterChoaKokSui
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"It is the mind that talks.
It is the Self that experiences."
#SwamiSatchidananda
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It's by God's grace that you think of God.
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All time is wasted that is not spent in seeking God.
#LahiriMahasaya


Don't be emotional when you pray.
At the same time, don't be diplomatic.
God is like a little child. You don't need to be tactful with Him. Talk to Him earnestly, with calm confidence.
Tell Him sincerely how you really feel.
#ParamhansaYogananda
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Perfection
You should transfer your attention from failure to success, from worry to calmness, from mental wanderings to concentration, from restlessness to peace, and from peace to the divine bliss within. When you attain this state of Self-realization the purpose of your life will have been gloriously fulfilled.
#ParamahansaYogananda,


"For a devotee on the right path, the spiritual development is as natural and unnoticed as your own breathing," said the Master. "Once a man gives his heart to God, he becomes so deeply absorbed in Him that he hardly realizes he has solved all of life's problems. Others have started calling him 'Guru' Surprised he thinks :
" 'What! Has this sinner become a saint? Lord, let Your image shine on my face in such a way that no one sees me, but only You! ' "
#ParamahansaYogananda


"All soul are equal. The only difference between you and me is that I made the effort. I showed God that I love Him, and He came to me.
Love is the magnet from which
God cannot escape."
#ParamahansaYogananda


God's nature is like that of a child. Just as a child builds a house, breaks it down, and then rebuilds it in play, in the same way God creates, preserves, and dissolves.
Just as a child is not subject to any guna, He too is beyond the three gunas of Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas.
#SriRamakrishnaParamhansa


When you feel the suffering of every living thing in your own heart, that is consciousness.
#BhagavadGita


"Infinite intelligence is really what you are, but you have to be serious enough to discover for yourself what is true. To do that, you must open yourself to the possibility that everything you've learned is wrong. Otherwise, how can you find out what it really is?
When you become completely open, Truth becomes the most obvious thing...
... There is only One manifesting himself as all. Ponder and meditate on it until you realize it for yourself completely. Wake up to what you are "
#adyashanti


Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind.
Direct knowing is the only valid confirmation!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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That which is yours is not 'You'.
What you can point out
as 'this' or 'that' cannot be yourself.
You observe the heart feeling, the mind thinking, the body acting;
the very act of perceiving shows that
you are not what you perceive.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Most of our karma is collective.
We suffer for the sins of others, as others suffer for ours.
Humanity is one.
Ignorance of this fact does not change it.
We could have been much happier people ourselves, but for our indifference to the sufferings of others.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Do you know yourself enough to know what you can do,
and what you cannot?
You do not know your own powers.
You never investigated.
Begin with yourself now.
......................................
Before you agree or disagree,
why not investigate the very idea of a body?

Does the mind appear in the body or the body in the mind?
Surely there must be a mind to conceive the "I-am-the-body" idea.

A body without a mind cannot be "my body." "My body" is invariably absent when the mind is in abeyance. It is also absent
when the mind is deeply engaged in thoughts and feelings.

Once you realize that the body depends on
the mind, and the mind on consciousness, and
consciousness on awareness,
and not the other way round,
your question about waiting for Self
Realization till you die is answered.

It is not that you must be free from the "I-am-the-body" idea first, and
then realize the Self.

It is definitely the other way round
— you cling to the false,
because you do not know the true.

Earnestness, not perfection, is a
precondition to Self Realization.
.........................

#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


When you let go of your fears,
Your Expectations, and your own ideas...
You become your
"Own Light!"
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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"[T]he desire for bliss creates pain. Thus bliss becomes the seed of pain. The entire universe of pain is born of desire. Give up the desire for pleasure and you will not even know what pain is."
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


See what you are.
Don't ask others,
don't let others tell you about yourself.
Look within and see.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Control the mind and even hell will be heaven to you.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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All these universes, humans, objects, thoughts and events are merely pictures moving
on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.
Shapes and phenomena pass away, but Consciousness remains ever.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


If the mind becomes absorbed in the Heart, the ego or 'I', which is the centre of the multitude of thoughts, finally vanishes and pure Consciousness or Self, which subsists during all the states of the mind, alone remains resplendent.
It is this state, where there is not the slightest trace of the 'l'-thought, that is the true Being of oneself. And that is called Quiescence or Mouna (Silence).
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Nirvana is perfection In the Perfect State there is neither subject nor object; there is nothing to see, nothing to feel, nothing to know. Seek and know are the functions of the mind In Nirvana there is nothing but pure Blissful Consciousness "I Am".
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Live always in the present; there is no past or future, except in the mind.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


One day, when I was still new in the kitchen, I served Bhagavan with a few more pieces of potato than the rest. Bhagavan noticed it and got very angry with me. He turned his face away and would not look at those who were serving food. I could not make out the cause of his anger and wondered who it was who had offended him. The women who worked in the kitchen would collect around him to take leave of him in the evening after the work was over. Usually he would exchange a few words with us, inquire who was accompanying us, whether we had a lantern, and so on. That evening he gave me a sign to come near.
"What did you do tonight?"
"I don't know, Swami, have I done something wrong?....."You served me more curry than others."
"What does it matter? I did it with love and devotion.".
..."I felt ashamed
to eat more than others. Have you come all this way to stuff me with food? You should always serve me less than others.... "But, Bhagavan, how can I treat you worse than others?"
"Is this the way to please me? Do you hope to earn grace through a potato curry?"
..Out of my love for you l committed a blunder...Forgive
me, Bhagavan, I shall respect your wishes.
"The more you love my people, the more you love me," said Bhagavan, and the matter was closed. A good lesson was learned and never forgotten.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The company of sages converts emptiness into fullness, death into immortality and adversity into prosperity.
#YogaVasistha


Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside.
Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you're truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence.
#ThichNhatHanh


"Sometimes God challenges you to find the strength you don't have." Only like this you go beyond your imaginary limits.
You get knocked down so low that you're forced to humble yourself.
Only then when your pride and arrogance are crushed will you discover the strengths that aren't yours.
You will encounter and use the strength of God.
When you completely abandon your ego,
that miracle is possible "
#mooji


"There is no need to be afraid of thoughts, because you are bigger.
You can be without thoughts, but thoughts cannot be without you. We need to understand this relationship."
#mooji


This sixteen minute guided meditation from Mooji will help guide your attention back to yourself in deep peace, love and harmony. Let's just sit back, relax and listen as Mooji provides the ultimate message of truth and freedom.

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The path to the Truth is a labor of the heart, not of the head.
#ShamsTabrizi


You are searching the world for treasure, but the real treasure is yourself.
#Rumi


Remember the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
#Rumi
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When you let go of your fears,
Your Expectations, and your own ideas...
You become your
"Own Light!"
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Do you know yourself enough to know what you can do,
and what you cannot?
You do not know your own powers.
You never investigated.
Begin with yourself now.
......................................
Before you agree or disagree,
why not investigate the very idea of a body?

Does the mind appear in the body or the body in the mind?
Surely there must be a mind to conceive the "I-am-the-body" idea.

A body without a mind cannot be "my body." "My body" is invariably absent when the mind is in abeyance. It is also absent
when the mind is deeply engaged in thoughts and feelings.

Once you realize that the body depends on
the mind, and the mind on consciousness, and
consciousness on awareness,
and not the other way round,
your question about waiting for Self
Realization till you die is answered.

It is not that you must be free from the "I-am-the-body" idea first, and
then realize the Self.

It is definitely the other way round
— you cling to the false,
because you do not know the true.

Earnestness, not perfection, is a
precondition to Self Realization.
.........................

#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Most of our karma is collective.
We suffer for the sins of others, as others suffer for ours.
Humanity is one.
Ignorance of this fact does not change it.
We could have been much happier people ourselves, but for our indifference to the sufferings of others.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


That which is yours is not 'You'.
What you can point out
as 'this' or 'that' cannot be yourself.
You observe the heart feeling, the mind thinking, the body acting;
the very act of perceiving shows that
you are not what you perceive.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind.
Direct knowing is the only valid confirmation!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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"Infinite intelligence is really what you are, but you have to be serious enough to discover for yourself what is true. To do that, you must open yourself to the possibility that everything you've learned is wrong. Otherwise, how can you find out what it really is?
When you become completely open, Truth becomes the most obvious thing...
... There is only One manifesting himself as all. Ponder and meditate on it until you realize it for yourself completely. Wake up to what you are "
#adyashanti


When you feel the suffering of every living thing in your own heart, that is consciousness.
#BhagavadGita


God's nature is like that of a child. Just as a child builds a house, breaks it down, and then rebuilds it in play, in the same way God creates, preserves, and dissolves.
Just as a child is not subject to any guna, He too is beyond the three gunas of Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas.
#SriRamakrishnaParamhansa


"All soul are equal. The only difference between you and me is that I made the effort. I showed God that I love Him, and He came to me.
Love is the magnet from which
God cannot escape."
#ParamahansaYogananda


"For a devotee on the right path, the spiritual development is as natural and unnoticed as your own breathing," said the Master. "Once a man gives his heart to God, he becomes so deeply absorbed in Him that he hardly realizes he has solved all of life's problems. Others have started calling him 'Guru' Surprised he thinks :
" 'What! Has this sinner become a saint? Lord, let Your image shine on my face in such a way that no one sees me, but only You! ' "
#ParamahansaYogananda


Perfection
You should transfer your attention from failure to success, from worry to calmness, from mental wanderings to concentration, from restlessness to peace, and from peace to the divine bliss within. When you attain this state of Self-realization the purpose of your life will have been gloriously fulfilled.
#ParamahansaYogananda,


Don't be emotional when you pray.
At the same time, don't be diplomatic.
God is like a little child. You don't need to be tactful with Him. Talk to Him earnestly, with calm confidence.
Tell Him sincerely how you really feel.
#ParamhansaYogananda
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All time is wasted that is not spent in seeking God.
#LahiriMahasaya


It's by God's grace that you think of God.
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"It is the mind that talks.
It is the Self that experiences."
#SwamiSatchidananda
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Active intelligence is productive intelligence.
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Remember the three L's: life, love, light.
Life is given to you; you are alive.
Light is present, but you have to make a bridge between life and light.
That bridge is love. With these three L's you can make a total way of life, a way of being, a new way of being
#Osho


The day you become courageous enough to enter into your own being, you have become a sannyasin.
#osho
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A rebel is one who does not react against society. He observes and understands the whole carousel and just decides not to be a part of it.
He's not against society, he's rather indifferent to what's going on there.
That's the beauty of rebellion: freedom.
The revolutionary is not free. He's constantly fighting, fighting with something. So how could he be free?
He systematically reacting to something.
Where is the freedom in the mechanical reaction to external things?
Freedom is born with understanding. You must first understand the mechanisms at play: society prevents the evolution of the soul.
The system doesn't allow you to be you.
Once this is understood, you simply exit the system without even a scar on your soul.
The rebel forgives and forgets, he is content to distance himself from society, with no love or hate related to it.
#Osho
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Ideally
the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future, to always remain in
I the present.
#DzongsarKhyentseRinpoche
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Learn to stand unshaken
midst the crash of breaking worlds.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself, you find the path to inner peace.
#ParamahansaYogananda


Sri Krishna is often called a stealer of hearts. Perhaps the two things he steals--butter and heart--are connected?
Tulsidäs says that the heart of a saint is like butter: it melts by the heat of pain and suffering. In fact, he says, it is even better than butter. Butter melts only when it is heated, but the heart of a saint melts with compassion at merely seeing the suffering and pain of others.
Krishna steals only a saintly heart, which is full of compassion, understanding, and selflessness.
A selfish, cruel heart is safe from Krishna's hands.
Krishna, come steal my heart. Look my door is open!
#SwamiTyagananda

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What we call extraordinary, superconscious inspiration is only the result of a higher development of ordinary consciousness,
gained by long and continued effort.
#SwamiVivekananda


If We Don't Leave Ego, God Will be Far away from Us.
" Don't be filled with ego. Take the back seat. That will make you magnetic. So long as the ego is bubbling inside you, God will never be there. He stays away. We own nothing in this world, but we are so much filled with ego. God owns the entire Universe, but He remains silent and simple.
He remains in the background.
When you are with God, you have everything. The billionaire, the millionaire cannot make you bow down. " (But to achieve this, we have to completely get rid of our Ego - because this Ego is the barrier between Man and God)
#YoganandaParamahansa


When a person reaches a certain stage and becomes fit for enlightenment, the same God whom he was worshipping comes as Guru and leads him on. That Guru comes only to tell him 'The God is within yourself. Dive within and realize.
God, Guru and the Self are the same.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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A spiritual-minded man thinks that God is all-pervading and takes God for his Guru.
Later, God brings him in contact with a personal Guru and the man recognises him as all in all.
Lastly the same man is made by the grace of the Master to feel that his Self is the Reality and nothing else.
Thus he finds that the Self is the Master.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


In that state there is Being alone.
There is no you, nor I, nor he; no present, nor past, nor future.
It is beyond time and space, beyond expression.
It is ever there.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


A step toward your own heart is a step toward the Beloved.
#Rumi
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Give up all efforts and surrender.
Let the 'I' that wants the divine world die, and the Divine in you will be realised here and now.
For it is already in you as the Self, not different from the Divine (Brahman), nameless and formless.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Repeat the old practice,
"To whom do thoughts arise?"
Keep up the practice until there are no breaks in awareness.
Practice alone will bring about continuity of awareness.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Thoughts
Come and Go.!
Feelings
Come and Go.!
Find out what it is that remains.!
#SriRamanaMaharshi


'THE REAL' IS ALWAYS 'NOW' !

Questioner:
The fact is that 'here and now' I am asking
you: when did the feeling 'I am the body' arise?
At my birth? or this morning?

Nisargadatta Maharaj: 'Now'!

Q: But I remember having it yesterday too!

M: The memory of yesterday is 'Now' only.

Q: But surely, I exist in time.
     I have a past and a future.

M: That is how you imagine - 'Now'!

Q: There must have been a beginning.

M: 'Now'!

Q: And what about ending?

M: What has no beginning, cannot end.

Q: But I am conscious of my question.

M: A false question cannot be answered.
      It can only be seen as false.

Q: To me, it is Real.

M: When did it appear Real to you? Now.

Q: Yes, it is quite Real to me - now.

M: What is Real about your question?
     It is 'a state of mind'.

     No state of mind can be more real
     than the mind itself.

     Is the mind Real? It is but a collection
     of states, each of them transitory.

     How can a succession of transitory
     states be considered 'Real'?"

#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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THE ILLUSION OF SEPARATION.

“The mind and the world are not separated.
Understand that what you think the world is is your own mind.

All space and all time is in the mind.
Where would you find a world beyond your mind?
There are many levels of the mind, and each one projects its own version, however, everyone is in the mind and is created by it.

Understand that everything happens in consciousness and that you are the root, the source, the foundation of consciousness. The world is nothing but a succession of experiments and you are the one who makes them aware, remaining, even then, beyond all the experiences".

#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only. #SriNisargadattaMaharaj


The Only Stable (Identity) is the Observer..and You Alone are that Observer - The Eternal
One!!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


"No University can teach you to be Yourself.
The Only way to learn is by
Practice."
SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Don't get attached to your identity.
Its going to vanish.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


"Understand one thing: The entire trajectory of our spiritual path, whether it be the progressive path, the straight path, the path of devotion or any other, will ultimately lead us to complete surrender. Everything we do spiritually will lead us to a
spontaneous state of surrender, of letting go. This is the end result, no matter what path or practice chosen.
When you discover this, you realize that every step along the way is a new opportunity to surrender. You may need effort to get to the point where you will surrender yourself to Grace, but ultimately all spirituality is about letting go of the illusion of the separate "self," from what we believe the world is, and from what we think the world should be. "
#adyashanti


Be truthful in every way.
Without purity, one cannot advance towards
Divinity.
#AnandamayiMa
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You can study God through everything and everyone in the universe because God is not confined in a mosque, synagogue, or church. But if you are still in need of knowing where exactly His abode is, there is only one place to look for him: in the heart of a true lover
#ShamsTabrizi


"Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. All things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the Source.
Returning to the Source is stillness, which is the way of Nature."
#LaoTsu
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One early morning in the pre-dawn twilight, a young boy went for a walk on the beach. Up ahead, he noticed an old man stooping down to pick up starfish and gently fling them into the ocean.
Approaching the old man, the boy asked him what he was doing. The old man replied that the stranded starfish would die unless they were returned to the water.
"But, the beach goes on for miles, and there are millions of starfish," said the boy, adding: "How can what you are doing make any difference?" The old man looked at the starfish in his hand and then threw it safely in the waves. "It makes a difference to this one," he said.
~ Every action no matter how small can make a difference -
#TheYogaChi


I am smiling at myself today
There's no wish left in this heart Or perhaps there is no heart left
Free from all desire
I sit quietly like Earth
My silent cry echoes like thunder
Throughout the universe I am not worried about it
I know it will be heard by no one
Except me.
#Rumi


Soul
if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover,
Yet you worry what people are saying.
#Rumi
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"Be quiet, the secret cannot
be spoken, it is wrapped in silence.'
#Rumi


The heart of man is a musical instrument, it contains great music.
Asleep, but it is there, waiting for the appropriate time to be interpreted, expressed, sung, danced. And it is through love that the moment arrives ...
#Rumi


A step toward your own heart is a step toward the Beloved.
#Rumi
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Transcend Your Own Mind and the World Will Not Trouble You. #Mooji

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There is only one thing to be done: give up the idea that you are your personality and be open to a greater truth.
Spirit is presence, not person.
Like this, Grace enters your heart and reveals your true nature as unborn awareness.
#Mooji


Just as you can walk through a busy market place and not touch or talk to a single person, you can also move through this mental field and not engage in any thought activity.
Such a person moves without a trace and is called Buddha.
#mooji


Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity.
#DeepakChopra
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Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.
#ThichNhatHanh


This moment is a small moment, very very small, atomic. Just a little unawareness and it is gone.
One has to be very very alert to catch hold of it, otherwise it will slip by. The whole of life only consists of such atomic moments. If this moment it is slipping by, then other moments will also slip by. You will be continuously desiring and dreaming and never arriving anywhere. This is the situation of the majority, this is the state of ignorance. Everybody wants to be blissful, but bliss is a consequence of being in the moment.
#Osho
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Don't get attached to your identity.
Its going to vanish.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


"No University can teach you to be Yourself.
The Only way to learn is by
Practice."
SriNisargadattaMaharaj


The Only Stable (Identity) is the Observer..and You Alone are that Observer - The Eternal
One!!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only. #SriNisargadattaMaharaj


THE ILLUSION OF SEPARATION.

“The mind and the world are not separated.
Understand that what you think the world is is your own mind.

All space and all time is in the mind.
Where would you find a world beyond your mind?
There are many levels of the mind, and each one projects its own version, however, everyone is in the mind and is created by it.

Understand that everything happens in consciousness and that you are the root, the source, the foundation of consciousness. The world is nothing but a succession of experiments and you are the one who makes them aware, remaining, even then, beyond all the experiences".

#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


'THE REAL' IS ALWAYS 'NOW' !

Questioner:
The fact is that 'here and now' I am asking
you: when did the feeling 'I am the body' arise?
At my birth? or this morning?

Nisargadatta Maharaj: 'Now'!

Q: But I remember having it yesterday too!

M: The memory of yesterday is 'Now' only.

Q: But surely, I exist in time.
     I have a past and a future.

M: That is how you imagine - 'Now'!

Q: There must have been a beginning.

M: 'Now'!

Q: And what about ending?

M: What has no beginning, cannot end.

Q: But I am conscious of my question.

M: A false question cannot be answered.
      It can only be seen as false.

Q: To me, it is Real.

M: When did it appear Real to you? Now.

Q: Yes, it is quite Real to me - now.

M: What is Real about your question?
     It is 'a state of mind'.

     No state of mind can be more real
     than the mind itself.

     Is the mind Real? It is but a collection
     of states, each of them transitory.

     How can a succession of transitory
     states be considered 'Real'?"

#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Thoughts
Come and Go.!
Feelings
Come and Go.!
Find out what it is that remains.!
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Repeat the old practice,
"To whom do thoughts arise?"
Keep up the practice until there are no breaks in awareness.
Practice alone will bring about continuity of awareness.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Give up all efforts and surrender.
Let the 'I' that wants the divine world die, and the Divine in you will be realised here and now.
For it is already in you as the Self, not different from the Divine (Brahman), nameless and formless.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Leave it to God.
Surrender unreservedly.
One of two things must be done.
Either surrender because you admit your inability and require a higher power to help you, or investigate the cause of misery by going to the source and merging into the Self. Either way you will be free from misery.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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In that state there is Being alone.
There is no you, nor I, nor he; no present, nor past, nor future.
It is beyond time and space, beyond expression.
It is ever there.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


A spiritual-minded man thinks that God is all-pervading and takes God for his Guru.
Later, God brings him in contact with a personal Guru and the man recognises him as all in all.
Lastly the same man is made by the grace of the Master to feel that his Self is the Reality and nothing else.
Thus he finds that the Self is the Master.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


When a person reaches a certain stage and becomes fit for enlightenment, the same God whom he was worshipping comes as Guru and leads him on. That Guru comes only to tell him 'The God is within yourself. Dive within and realize.
God, Guru and the Self are the same.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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If We Don't Leave Ego, God Will be Far away from Us.
" Don't be filled with ego. Take the back seat. That will make you magnetic. So long as the ego is bubbling inside you, God will never be there. He stays away. We own nothing in this world, but we are so much filled with ego. God owns the entire Universe, but He remains silent and simple.
He remains in the background.
When you are with God, you have everything. The billionaire, the millionaire cannot make you bow down. " (But to achieve this, we have to completely get rid of our Ego - because this Ego is the barrier between Man and God)
#YoganandaParamahansa


What we call extraordinary, superconscious inspiration is only the result of a higher development of ordinary consciousness,
gained by long and continued effort.
#SwamiVivekananda


Sri Krishna is often called a stealer of hearts. Perhaps the two things he steals--butter and heart--are connected?
Tulsidäs says that the heart of a saint is like butter: it melts by the heat of pain and suffering. In fact, he says, it is even better than butter. Butter melts only when it is heated, but the heart of a saint melts with compassion at merely seeing the suffering and pain of others.
Krishna steals only a saintly heart, which is full of compassion, understanding, and selflessness.
A selfish, cruel heart is safe from Krishna's hands.
Krishna, come steal my heart. Look my door is open!
#SwamiTyagananda

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There are five states of the human heart. By these different states of the heart, man is classified, and his evolutionary status determined. [...]

[1.] The Dark Heart: In the dark state of the heart, man thinks that his material portion of creation is the only real substance in existence, and that there is nothing besides.

[2.] The Propelled Heart: When man becomes a little enlightened, his heart becomes propelled to learn the real nature of the universe and seeks for advice to determine what is truth.

[3.] Steady Heart: The whole of that system is said to be in Dwapara Yuga. Man gradually comes to a pleasant state wherein his heart wholly abandons the ideas of the external world and becomes devoted to the internal one.

[4.] Devoted Heart: Man become able to understand the whole of Darkness, Maya [=illusion] itself. This state of human being is called Treta; the whole of that system is said to be Treta Yuga.

[5.] Clean Heart: Ignorance being withdrawn, his heart comes to a clean state, void of all external ideas. Then man becomes able to comprehend the Spiritual Light, Brahma, the Real Substance in the universe, which is the last and everlasting spiritual portion in creation. This stage of human being is called Satya; the whole of that system is said to be Satya Yuga.

When the heart becomes purified, it no longer merely reflects, but manifests Spiritual Light. In this state, man is called Jivanmukta Sannyasi, like Lord Jesus of Nazareth.
In this state, man comprehends himself as nothing but a mere ephemeral idea resting on a fragment of the universal Holy Spirit of God.

#ShriYukteswar
The Holy Science


Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself, you find the path to inner peace.
#ParamahansaYogananda


Learn to stand unshaken
midst the crash of breaking worlds.
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Ideally
the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future, to always remain in
I the present.
#DzongsarKhyentseRinpoche
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There is only one thing to be done: give up the idea that you are your personality and be open to a greater truth.
Spirit is presence, not person.
Like this, Grace enters your heart and reveals your true nature as unborn awareness.
#Mooji


Just as you can walk through a busy market place and not touch or talk to a single person, you can also move through this mental field and not engage in any thought activity.
Such a person moves without a trace and is called Buddha.
#mooji


Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity.
#DeepakChopra
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Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.
#ThichNhatHanh


This moment is a small moment, very very small, atomic. Just a little unawareness and it is gone.
One has to be very very alert to catch hold of it, otherwise it will slip by. The whole of life only consists of such atomic moments. If this moment it is slipping by, then other moments will also slip by. You will be continuously desiring and dreaming and never arriving anywhere. This is the situation of the majority, this is the state of ignorance. Everybody wants to be blissful, but bliss is a consequence of being in the moment.
#Osho
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"If words come from the heart, they will enter the heart."
#Rumi


"Now enter that silence.
This is the surest way to lose yourself....
What is your life about, anyway?—
Nothing but a struggle to be someone, Nothing but a running from your own silence."
#Rumi


If your religious practices have not made you soft hearted, you have wasted your time
#Mahabharat


Do everything you have to do, but not with ego, not with lust, not with envy but with love, compassion, humility, and devotion.
#LordKrishna


This shakti, this Divine Mother, gives you the urge to look within to find out who she is, what she is, and where she comes from.
She only blesses a few people in this way. There are billions people in this world today, but only a few of them have been picked out by the Mother.
#Papaji


"It is not
necessary to explain things to God, for He knoweth
your need before you speak, and is more ready to give than you are to ask."
#SriGyanamata


Get out of your head and get into your heart.
Think less, feel more.
#Osho


This moment is a small moment, very very small, atomic. Just a little unawareness and it is gone.
One has to be very very alert to catch hold of it, otherwise it will slip by. The whole of life only consists of such atomic moments. If this moment it is slipping by, then other moments will also slip by. You will be continuously desiring and dreaming and never arriving anywhere. This is the situation of the majority, this is the state of ignorance. Everybody wants to be blissful, but bliss is a consequence of being in the moment.
#Osho


If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
#DogenZenji


We don't have to go anywhere to obtain the truth. We only need to be still and things will reveal themselves in the clear water of our heart.
#ThichNhatHanh


You are a witness, so stay like that only. That is the only penance you should perform.
You are only a witness.
Just hold on only to that. Then it is not even necessary to meditate.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


All happiness comes from
awareness.
The more we are conscious, the deeper the joy.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


The only stable [identity] is the observer... and you alone are that observer - the eternal one.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Ulladu Narpadu (Forty Verses on Existence) Verse-35:

"To seek and abide as the (eternally) accomplished existence-reality is (true) accomplishment. All other accomplishments are like the accomplishments that appear in dream. When one wakes up from sleep, are they seen to be real? Will they that are established in the true state and are rid of delusion, be deceived by them? Thus should you know."
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We are the Self. Because of nescience we do not realize our nature as the Self which is existent-reality. We imagine that we are born and we die, that we are confined within the bodies which we call ours, that we are agents and enjoyers, etc. All this is the work of nescience. When through right knowledge nescience is destroyed, we come to our own. It is no new achievement; it is the Self-gain (atma-labha), the greatest of all gains.

All other gains are in fact nothing. Sri Ramana compares them to the gains we may have in our dreams. We may strike a huge treasure in our dream and become millionaires, all of a sudden. But of what use is all this treasure in wakeful life? We cannot buy even a meal with the millions acquired in a dream. Similarly, the gains such as wealth and progeny that we seek for and get in our wakeful experience will prove themselves to be myths when we realize the Self. There is not even a hope of Immortality through wealth, etc., as Sage Yagnavalkya teaches Maitreyi in the 'Brhadaranyaka Upanishad'. When we wake up from the slumber of ignorance, the false ends disappear, the unreal vanish. Those that know the truth are not duped by them, for they are no longer under their spell.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


From ~~~ Self-Enquiry, 18

Q.:
How do the three states of experience, the three bodies, etc.,
which are imaginations, appear in the Self-light
which is one, impartite and self-luminous?

Even if they should appear, how is one to know
that the Self alone remains ever unmoving?

M.:
The Self which is the lamp (1) shines of its own accord
in the inner chamber, i.e.,
the causal body (7) that is endowed with nescience
as the inner wall (4) and sleep as the door (2);

when by the vital principle as conditioned by time, karma, etc.,
the sleep-door is opened, there occurs a reflection of the Self
in the egoity-mirror (5) that is placed next to the
door-step - Mahat-tattva - ;

the egoity-mirror thus illumines the middle chamber, i.e.,
the dream state (8,) and, through the windows which are
the five cognitive sense-organs (6), the outer court, i.e.,
the waking state.

When, again, by the vital principle as conditioned by
time, karma, etc., the sleep-door gets shut,
the egoity ceases along with waking and dream,
and the Self alone ever shines.

The example just given explains how the Self is unmoving,
how there is difference between the Self and the egoity
and how the three states of experience,
the three bodies, etc., appear.
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"If one is surrendered to God, God will look to it."
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Don't pretend to be what you are not, don't refuse to be what you are. Your love of others is the result of self-knowledge, not its cause.
Without self-realization, no virtue is genuine.
When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Pleasure and pain are equal
in a clear heart.
No mountain hides the moon.
#Ikkyu


What is this mind?
Who is hearing these sounds?
Do not mistake any state for self-realization, But continue to ask yourself even more intensely,
What is it that hears?
Who is hearing?
Your physical being doesn't hear,
Nor does the void, Then what does?
Strive to find out.
Put aside your rational intellect, Give up all techniques,
Just get rid of the notion of self.
#BassuiTokusho


The consciousness (chaitanya) associated with the aspect 'am' is called Sakti.
The universe shines by its light.
The entire creation is Sakti's sankalpa (thought):
The state(of mind) which is completely devoid of all attachment is the pure wisdom to be attained.
The Consciousness which shines as 'I' in the Heart lotus is pure and perfectly steady.
By destroying the ego, which rises, (from that Consciousness), that Consciousness itself bestows
the supreme joy of liberation. Be sure about it.
#BhagavanShivDevikalottara


Your Form is like the Moon in the Autumn Sky of Spiritual Consciousness which reflects the million rays contained within it, The Sages and the Enlightened feel Your presence within the caves of their Hearts, Even the Devas do not know Your Transcendental Nature.
#KalikaAshtakam


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"Everything that makes for oneness is truth. Love is truth, and hatred is false, because hatred makes for multiplicity. It is hatred that separates man from man; therefore it is wrong and false. It is a disintegrating power; it separates and destroys."
#SwamiVivekananda
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"Come out into the broad open light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts?"
#SwamiVivekananda


No Buddhist,
no Christian, no Hindu.
Deeply religious people have no religion.
They belong to no seat, theirs is the religion of the heart!
#Yogaswami


" Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."
#Rumi


You are the honored guest.
Do not weep like a beggar for pieces of the world.
#Rumi
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God looks not at your form, nor at your deeds, but at your Heart.
#Rumi
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What a joy, to travel the way of the heart.
#Rumi
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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
#FrancisofAssisi
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"For the one who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his very mind will be his greatest enemy."
#TheBhagavadGita


Breathing in I smile.
Breathing out I let go.
I let go of my projects, of my worries about the future, of my regret concerning the past, because the present moment is so wonderful.
And I am capable of touching the wonders of life in the present moment.

#ThichNhatHanh
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life.
Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
#JidduKrishnamurti
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"There is only one Reality, an Self in which there is no other; and that is you! Here ends all speech and instruction. "
#srianandamayima
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"This imagined division between yourself and God—between yourself and Truth-is the single most toxic belief one can embrace, because it poisons everything else."
#Mooji
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Attention pays attention to a lot of things, but when attention pays attention to attention, then there is a stillness, and that stillness introduces you to your Self.
#Mooji


"When you surrender, you are surrendering the ego.
The way to do this is to look at the world humbly.
Look at the world with love and peace.
Saying to self:
"Not my will but yours" "
#robertadams


To bring about peace means to be free from thoughts and to abide as
Pure Consciousness.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Love itself is the actual form of God.
'I do not love this; I do not love that', you reject all things, that which remains is Swarupa, i.e., the innate Self.
That is pure bliss.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


'Twos' and 'threes' depend upon one thing, the ego.
If one asks in one's Heart,
'What is this ego?' and finds it, they slip away.
Only those who have found this know the Truth,
and they will never be perplexed.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


WHO AM I
The gross body which is composed of the seven humours (dhatus), I am not; the five cognitive sense organs, viz. the senses of hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell, which apprehend their respective objects, viz. sound, touch, colour, taste, and odour, I am not; the five cognitive senseorgans, viz. the organs of speech, locomotion, grasping, excretion, and procreation, which have as their respective functions speaking, moving, grasping, excreting, and enjoying, I am not; the five vital airs, prana, etc., which perform respectively the five functions of in-breathing, etc., I am not; even the mind which thinks, I am not; the nescience too, which is endowed only with the residual impressions of objects, and in which there are no objects and no functioning's, I am not.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Destiny refers only to Name and Shape!
Since you are Neither body nor mind!
Destiny has No control over you!
You are Completely Free.!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Worship nothing else other than the sense of presence, and when you are one with the sense of presence, then whatever is necessary by way of spiritual knowledge will sprout by itself.
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Meet your own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You need no other guide. As long as your urge for truth affects your daily life, all is well with you. Live your life without hurting anybody. Harmlessness is a most powerful form of Yoga and it will take you speedily to your goal. This is what I call nisarga yoga, the Natural yoga. It is the art of living in peace and harmony, in friendliness and love. The fruit of it is happiness, uncaused and endless. M: What prevents you from knowing is not the lack of opportunity, but the lack of ability to focus in your mind what you want to understand. If you could but keep in mind what you do not know, it would reveal to you its secrets. But if you are shallow and impatient, not earnest enough to look and wait, you are like a child crying for the moon.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Worship nothing else other than the sense of presence, and when you are one with the sense of presence, then whatever is necessary by way of spiritual knowledge will sprout by itself.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


I see what you too could see, here and now, but for the wrong focus of your attention. You give no attention to your Self.
Your mind is all with things, people and ideas, never with your Self.
Bring your Self into focus, become aware of your own existence.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Put your awareness to work, not your mind. The mind is not the right instrument for this task. The timeless can be reached only by the timeless.
Your body and your mind are both subject to time; only Awareness is timeless, ever in the NOW.

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"It is very important to understand that it is The Teaching that matters - not the person, or the Guru.
You get a letter that makes you laugh or cry. It is not the postman who does it.
The Guru only tells you the good news about your Real Self, and shows you the way back to IT. In a way, the Guru is ITs
'messenger'.
There will be many messengers, but the message is one: 'Be What You ARE !'

#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height.
Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches.
Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion.
That's its balance.
#OSHO
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"If you trust, everything that happens will help you grow. Life will prove you everything. Whatever you need at any given moment, will be given to you, right at that moment. This is the beauty of being confident. Little by little you will see how existence will give you, take care of you. You are not indifferent to existence. You are not ignored by her
Don't worry unnecessarily; existence provides all you need. Once you learn the art of trust, all worry disappears. "
#OSHO
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Knowledge is available in books, in the college, in the universities, but wisdom is not available anywhere except within your own being. For knowledge you will have to go to others; for wisdom you will have to dig a well deep into your own consciousness.
#OSHO
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Nothing we see or hear is perfect.
But right there in the imperfection
Is perfect reality.
#ShunryuSuzuki
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I have nothing inside, and l seek nothing outside.
#Chaochou

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The cloud has no destination which it must reach. It is purposeless. In much the same way, when there is no longer a sense of worry, a concern for what comes next, one can walk without needing to arrive.
#WuHsin
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Everyone is tempted by the eloquence of speech, but I am the slave of the master of silence.
#Rumi
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I take blindness as my vision, darkness as my hearing ;
I take danger as safety, and prosperity as misfortune.
#ZenrinKushu
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Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.
#Rumi
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At any moment, you have a choice that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
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"Yoga meditation is the process of cultivating and stabilizing the awareness of one's real nature, through definite spiritual and psychophysical methods and laws by which the narrow ego... is displaced by the consciousness of the soul."
#ParamahansaYogananda
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Leonard Cohen: "Meditation is not what you think. You sit in absolute silence and your mind starts going over all your movies. During that process, you become so familiar with the scripts you keep in your life that you end up getting sick of them. Then you realize that the person you think you are is nothing but a complicated script you spend most of your energy on.
After a more thorough examination, you discover your personality disgusts you, and that's because it's not really you. If you feel terrified enough about that personality, you spontaneously allow it to fade away. Then, if you're lucky, you can experience yourself without the distortion of that personality.
There's so much talk about the mechanics of happiness - psychiatry and pills, positive thinking and ideology
- but I really think the mechanism is there. All you have to do is get quiet for a moment."
#LeonardCohen
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Don't try to silence your mind, stay detached, that's the secret. #mooji
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Ribhu Gita
Translated from the Tamil version of the Ribhu Gita
Chapter 26
'Undifferentiated Abidance in the Non-Dual Nature'
#SriRamanaMaharshi often mentioned the Ribhu Gita in his teachings. It is reportedly said that he especially recommended the recitation of chapter 26, and that reciting it could lead one directly to the natural state or sahaja samadhi.
I have subdivided the chapter into four sections: the introduction, 'without a trace of sankalpa', 'I am that, that am I' and the concluding portion of the chapter.
Recite and be free!|
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Surrender,
and all will be well.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Sahaja Samadhi:
You remain calm and composed even while you are active; you realise that you are moved by the deeper Real Self within, and you do or think unaffected by what you do, speak or think.
You have no worries, no anxieties, no cares.
For here you come to realize that there is nothing belonging to you, the ego.
And everything is done by Something with which you get into conscious union.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Your worry is due to thinking.
Anxiety is a creation of the mind.
Your real nature is peace.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Neglecting the modes of mind, look for the light illumining them.
The mind becomes still and the light remains self-shining.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


"All systems of thought postulate the three principles (i.e., the world, soul and God).
Only one principle appears as three principles. To say that the three principles ever remain as there principles is but so long as the egoity lasts. After the destruction of egoity, to remain in one's own state is best."
#SriRamanaMaharshi


A boy of eight and a half years sat in the hall at about five in the evening, when Sri Bhagavan went up the Hill. During His absence, the boy spoke on yoga and Vedanta in pure, simple and literary Tamil, quoting freely from the sayings of saints and the sacred scriptures.

When Sri Bhagavan entered the hall, after nearly three-quarters of an hour, only silence prevailed. For the twenty minutes the boy sat in Sri Bhagavan’s presence, he spoke not a word but was merely gazing at Him. Then tears flowed from his eyes. He wiped them with his left hand and soon after left the place saying that he still awaits Self-realization.

D: How should we explain the extraordinary characteristics of the boy?

M: The characteristics of his last birth are strong in him. But however strong they may be, they do not manifest themselves save in a calm, still mind. It is within the experience of all, that attempts to revive memory sometimes fail, while something flashes into the mind when it is calm and quiet.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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True Knowledge
is being devoid of knowledge as well as ignorance of objects.
Knowledge of objects is not true knowledge.
Since the Self shines self-luminous, with nothing else for It to know, with nothing else to know It, the Self is Knowledge.
Nescience It is not.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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You are the constant illumination that lights up both
the experiences and the void.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Meditation is by you of you and in you.
Abide in the knowledge 'I am'
Don't doubt its efficacy.
Try it.
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I do not want to teach anything to anybody; I only hold up a mirror to those who come here. I will make you stand before the mirror and look at yourself. You have to get the vision of yourself in the light that is emanating from your own Self.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


"Once you realise that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination!
However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it.
Realise that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the Imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear."
I Am That: Talks With
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"The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
#Advashanti
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Some realize the Self within them through the practice of meditation, some by the path of wisdom, and others by selfless service. Others may not know these paths; but hearing and following the instructions of an illumined teacher, they too go beyond death.
#LordKrishna


It is through your ignorance that all this exists.
In reality you alone exist.
Apart from you there is no one within or beyond samsara.
#AshtavakraGita
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Life is a gift. It has been given to you for no reason at all.
You cannot have earned it, because how can you earn it if you were not? life is a gift, but we go on forgetting it, we are not even thankful.
We don't have any gratitude.
We certainly complain for a thousand and one things which we may think we are missing in life, but we never feel grateful for life itself.
#OSHO

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For whom is sadhana?
Again it's for the mind and the ego.
If you think it's helping, by all means continue.
But remember I said, "If you think it's helping".
If you stop thinking you do not have to do any sadhana.
I suppose sadhana is necessary as long as you believe you are the mind and the body.
Again, after all, who is doing the spiritual disciplines?
Does the Self need to do that?
Does consciousness need to do discipline?
What needs discipline? The mind and the body.
Therefore the more you are attached to the mind and body the more you have to do sadhana.
#RobertAdams
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Namaste 🙏 🌞 https://nostrcheck.me/media/4707c8fa26c025f3694dc0a62d45fe597f7819deb8a45abb894f22cffbecb777/53f085450b1789d0e8aa6d74c15ceae20424a4efdba8c03f5103ad6a7e09d865.webp


Over and over we try and try and then we 'fail'.
Then, at some point, we learn
to go deeper.
#ShunryuSuzuki


You are the soul of the soul of the Universe, and your name is Love.
#Rumi
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I once had a thousand desires, but in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
#Rumi
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"Protect yourself from your own thoughts."
#Rumi


The inspiration you seek is already within you.
Be silent and listen.
#Rumi


People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. Your desire for the illusory is a wing, by means of which a seeker might ascend to Reality. When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame and that fantasy flees.
Preserve the wing and don't indulge such lust, so that the wing of desire may bear you to Paradise. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.
#Rumi
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Silence of the Heart
 by #RobertAdams

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What l'm trying to show you is, you cannot depend on anything in the world for your happiness or your peace. It's a false premise.
#RobertAdams


No matter what happens to your body, meditate. Never go to sleep at night until you have communed With God. Your body will remind you that you have worked hard and need rest, but the more you ignore its demands and concentrate on the Lord, the more you will burn With joyous life, like a globe afire. Then you will know that you are not the body. #ParamahansaYogananda
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"Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change around me, in the hall of Eternity I shall be the same."
#AnandamayeeMa
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Being motherly means being capable of unconditional love.
#Osho


Learn to accept life as it comes. When something happens, accept it. When it disappears, accept it. When pleasure comes, accept it. When it evaporates, accept it. And the same with pain: remain non judgmental, just a silent witness to all. This is the most profound secret of all the Buddhas, of all the awakened ones.
#Osho
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"Don't focus so much on what you looking at,
But where are you looking from, And who are you looking at. "
#mooji


"Life is much wiser and kinder than your mind imagines. Trust and Be Still.
#mooji
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"JUST SAY THANK YOU...
Thank you for existing.
Give thanks to the life.
Thank you Lord.
Thank you for the ability to perceive, for the experience, for tasting all the flavors that come to Consciousness.
Thank you for the ability to discern
Thank you for the love
Thank you for painful situations, because they force me to grow quickly. Thank you for the joy
Thank you for the confusion, because in confusion I seek what is real.
Thank you for darkness, because of darkness I look for light. "
#Mooji


Love all as your closest brothers and sisters. For you, my friends, in a universe that is 93 billion light years in diameter, every person you meet today is literally your closest brother or sister.
It does not get more intimate than this. You are breathing the same air they are. You are not at all different; you all desire and deserve the same love.
 #BentinhoMassaro


Gods and Goddesses are purely cosmic functional entities of suprem GOD Brahman to uphold the infinite existence. Which is also known as Sanathana Dharma.
This philosophical view emphasizes the unity and diversity of the divine in Sanatana Dharma, where the worship of multiple deities leads to the realization of the one Supreme Brahman. Each deity's function is essential for the balance and sustenance of the universe, reinforcing the idea that all of existence is a manifestation of the same ultimate reality.
#RaoKalvala


#AshtavakraGita
Truly dualism is the root of suffering. There is no other remedy for it than the realisation that all this that we see is unreal, and that I am the one stainless reality, consisting of consciousness. 2.16
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He is a happy man whose mind is inwardly cool and free from attachment and hatred and who looks upon this (world) like a mere spectator.
#Vasistha
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God is everywhere, only you have to disappear now.
#Papaji


The one who follows the thought is also a thought! The one who follows the thought IS in thought. When you know that both are thoughts, you are home. You are not at home, you ARE home. Then allow thoughts to arise and allow them to be followed. You remain as That unmoved and unconcerned Being. This is the highest understanding.
#Papaji


This world is a garden, a game, play this divine game very well. See things only as they are but do not possess them or you will be in trouble because even your body is transient.
The next breath is not guaranteed so do what you have to do Now: play well, play wisely, by first finding out who you are.
Yoga only, no bhoga, first finish your work, then go to the world with a heart that is dancing. Don't use words for this dance because the game is tricky. Just be silent.
The world is like a tail of a dog, its nature is to curl.
The best you can do is to stay Quiet and not let anything bother you.
Visitors will come and go, don't interfere with these waves.
Be always empty and let desires dance.
Being asleep in the waking state is being asleep to desires and aversions.
#Papaji
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Simply sit down, keep quiet. Keep quiet for one moment. This is the moment you need, this is the moment of rest.
Keep quiet for a moment without going to the past and you will find relaxation.
#Papaji


My advice to you is very simple-Just Remember
Yourself,
' I am
it is enough to heal your mind and take you beyond,
Just have some Trust!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


If you seek the grace of God with your whole heart, Then you may be assured that the gro ceo god
you.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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A few days ago an astrologer came here. At about 10 a.m., the day after his arrival, he asked Bhagavan several questions on astrology and obtained suitable replies.
I give below a brief report of their conversation:

Questioner: “Swami! According to astrological science, predictions are made about coming events, taking into account the influence of the stars. Is that true?”

Bhagavan: “So long as you have the feeling of egoism all that is true. When that egoism gets destroyed all that is untrue.”

Questioner: “Does it mean that astrology won’t be true in the case of those whose egoism is destroyed?”

Bhagavan: “Who is there to say it won’t be true? There will be seeing only if there is one who sees. In the case of those whose egoism is destroyed, even if they appear to see they do not really see. The window is open. Even so there must be some one to see. Does the window see anything?”

Questioner: “If that ego were not there how could the body continue to function from day to day?”

Bhagavan: “Yes. That is it. The body is a house for us.
This house will be properly maintained only if you are in it.
Hence we must realise that we are keeping the house habitable only so long as we are in it and must never give up the knowledge that the house is separate from the Self. The moment that is forgotten the feeling of ego comes in and troubles begin. Everything in the world thus appears real and the destruction of that feeling is the destruction of the ego. When that ego is destroyed nothing (of this world) is real. What is to happen will happen; and what is not to happen will not happen.”

Questioner: “You say that what is to happen will happen and what is not to happen will not happen; if that is so, why should it be said that good deeds must be done?”

Bhagavan: “If something good is done, it results in happiness. Hence people say good deeds must be done.”

Questioner: “Yes. That is why elders say that sorrow is adventitious.”

Bhagavan: “That is so. Sorrow is adventitious. It is only happiness that is natural. Every living being desires happiness because his natural state is the embodiment of happiness. All sadhanas (spiritual efforts) are for overcoming adventitious sorrow. When a headache comes on casually, you have to get rid of it by medicine. If it is a permanent ailment of the body, attached to it from birth to death, why should you try to get rid of it? Just as boils and other diseases of the body are cured by a doctor’s treatment, sorrows which are the result of various difficulties can be overcome by sadhana specially aimed at them. This body itself is a disease. The root cause of it is ignorance. If for that ignorance the medicine called jnana is administered all inherent diseases will disappear at once.”

Questioner: “Is it possible to get immediate results by sadhana?”

Bhagavan: Some yield immediate results and some do not. That depends upon the intensity or otherwise of the sadhana. If good acts or evil acts are done with great intensity the results will manifest themselves immediately; otherwise the results are slow. The results, however, necessarily follow.
It cannot be helped.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Fortunate is the man
who does not lose himself in the labyrinths of philosophy, but goes straight to the Source from which they all
rise.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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None can confront and overcome the mind.
Ignore it, then, as something false, unreal.
Know the Self as the real ground and stand firm-rooted in it. Then the mind's movements will gradually subside.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The guru's grace works automatically and spontaneously.
The disciple gets precisely the help he requires.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Call HIM Ishwara (the Personal God), or Atma (the Self) or what you will.
He is omnipresent and omniscient; only people cannot see Him.
They say that they will do tapas and, as a result of it, they want Him to come to them suddenly.
What can I do?
We are in Him, and we search for Him saying,
'Where is He?'
The little ego l' wells up and does all this mischief.
See its great capacity! "
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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"Surrender to God and accept His will whether He shows up or disappears.
Wait for your treat. If you expect Him to act your way, that's an order, not a delivery. You cannot ask Him to obey you and still think you've surrendered.
He knows what is best for you, how and when to do it. Leave everything entirely to Him. The burden is His and you need no more to worry. All your worries and concerns are in His truth.
That's a surrender. "
#SriRamanaMaharshi


You yourself are always shining naturally as I, I.
Remaining still,
having realised the truth as it is, is the Guru's grace.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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He who turns you towards Self and reveals to you the knowledge of Self, is the Guru.
In truth
He is Self and He is God.
Cling to Him.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Prajapati then meditated on those three syllables:
BHUH, BHUVA and SVAH.
And from these sounds emerged OM. Just as all leaves grow from a stalk, all speech, all words come from OM. All this is Omkara, verily, all this is Omkara.
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All is one Ellam Ondre
#SriRamanaMaharshi

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The ego makes you aware of others
and in its absence there are no others to be seen.
The Self
is beyond the ego and is realised after the ego is eliminated.
The elimination of the ego makes one unaware of others.
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It all disappeared - myself, my guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained, unfathomable silence.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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If ego comes into existence, everything comes into existence; if ego does not exist, everything does not exist.
Ego itself is everything.
Therefore, know that investigating what this is alone is giving up everything.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The cosmos is our home, and we can touch it by being aware of our body. Meditation is to be still: to sit still, to stand still, and to walk with stillness. Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply so we can realize we are already home. Our home is available right here and now.
#ThichNhatHanh
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People keep themselves busy because they find it difficult to bear their own consciousness. People look for various entertainments to escape from themselves.
The greatest challenge lies in looking at oneself; sitting alone by oneself.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


"The way is not really a way. It is a depth.
It is not a distance.
It is a deepening into the stillness, stabilising in the unmoving.
It is not a walking journey.
Journeys are for the body and the ego-mind.
But the subtlety of intuitive seeing takes you deeper into the bliss of the unknowable."
#Mooji


"Just say Thank You...
Thank you for existing.
Give thanks to the life
Thank you Lord.
Thank you for the ability to perceive, for the experience, for tasting all the flavors that come to Consciousness.
Thank you for the ability to discern
Thank you for the love
Thank you for painful situations, because they force me to grow quickly. Thank you for the joy Thank you for the confusion, because in confusion I seek what is real. Thank you for darkness, because of darkness I look for light. "
#Mooji
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"You can meditate in a crowded noisy room because meditation is not an effort to quiet your thoughts. Meditation is to be conscious about them. Your mind can be full of noisy thoughts, your room can be crowded but meditation is to witness them all.
The more conscious you are of your thoughts, of the surrounding noise, the more silent your mind will become in a effortless and relaxing way. You can sit at home with your wife and kids and meditate. There's no need for renunciation.
Meditation is very easy to practice."
#ShunryuSuzuki
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Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
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Change how you see and see how you change.
#Zenproverb
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Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
#Rumi
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I am with you always, you promised that, and when I realized it was true, my soul flared up.
#Rumi
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"Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips." #Rumi


"To reach the truth on the path of God is not realized through words, it is realized through living what you believe in.
When a lover advancing on the path of God feels the divine love in his heart; this is the fortune, prosperity, pleasure and living for him.
For him there is no other buying and selling or profit than this love."
#Rumi
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*The last words of Gautama the Buddha on the Earth were : Be a light unto yourself. Do not follow others, do not imitate, because imitation, following, creates stupidity. You are born with a tremendous possibility of Intelligence. You are born with a light within you. Listen to the still, small voice within, and that will guide you .
Nobody else can guide you, nobody else can
become a model for your life, because you are unique. This is your glory, your grandeur - that you are utterly irreplaceable, that you are just yourself and nobody else." #OSHO
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Remember that the longer your practise meditation with intensity, the nearer you will be to joyous contact with the silent God.
Intensity consists in making every today's meditation deeper than yesterday's and every tomorrow's meditation deeper than today's.
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To be beautiful means to be yourself.
You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
#ThichNhatHanh


You have to decide right now to be free once and for all. Everyone who has found freedom in this lifetime has had to make this decision.
#Papaji
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Know that what appears to be Love for an
'other' is really Love of Self because 'other' doesn't exist. So this innermost Love can be given to no 'other'. Love of friends is for the sake of Self, not for body to body. True love has no Lover or Beloved because all Love is Love of Self.
#Papaji


The Lord that seems not to exist He alone exists; we individuals who seem to exist do not exist at all. The experience of this our complete non-being is what is called the highest knowledge.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


"As long as you search for something other than yourself in order to obtain happiness, there will be no happiness for you. "
#SriRamanaMaharshi


You must find the Master within you, within your own spiritual self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you.
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You are beyond desire, which itself depends on the 'I am'. Do not suppress desires, just don't identify with them and they will disappear.
#SriNisargdattaMaharaj


Find the spark of life that weaves
the tissues of your body and be with it.
It is the only reality the body has.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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I do not want to teach anything to anybody; I only hold up a mirror to those who come here. I will make you stand before the mirror and look at yourself. You have to get the vision of yourself in the light that is emanating from your own Self.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Watching yourself, that itself is meditation.
To keep only consciousness, without mixing it with anything, that is knowledge without words, that you ARE.
Thoughts will be there, but they will be weaker and weaker, so only the feeling of
"I Amness" will remain: just consciousness, without any activity.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


if you read a book about swimming
and actually cannot swim
You missed the point
Same way
If you read a book about Divinity, spirituality
Remembered it
But have not become light electric and magic And you and the world around you has not
Transformed upside down
You missed the point.
Reading a book about quenching the thirst
Wont quench the thirst
Drinking water will quench the thirst
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Words are just words.
Do not take them too seriously.
The reality which you are is beyond the words.
Think of the words that make you angry, words that make you happy, words that make you fearful.
All these words seem to have power, but in reality you give them power.
It's you who give the words power and make them meaningful,
so that when somebody says a certain word you may cringe or even smile or even cry.
To think that words have this power over you, whereas in truth words are completely meaningless unless you give them the power.
#RobertAdams
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True silence cannot be kept.
It can only be discovered.
#Mooji
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To Be is greater than belief for beingness is before belief.
Belief is of the mind and is conceptual whereas beingness is the light of the Eternal.
#Mooji