Your body is precious, It is your vehicle for awakening.
Ireat it with care.
#Buddha
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"In the end, only three things matter:
how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you."
#Buddha


When the mind and emotions are still, it is possible to achieve illumination or experience one's Buddha nature.
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 time to time you may become restless, and the restlessness will not go away. At such times, just sit quietly, follow your breathing, smile a half-smile, and shine your awareness on the restlessness."
#ThichNhatHanh


When you prepare a meal with artful awareness, it's delicious and healthy.
You have put your mindfulness, love, and care into the meal, then people will be eating your love.
#ThichNhatHanh


If you sit regularly, it will become a habit. You will let go of trying to arrive anywhere. Even the Buddha still practiced sitting every day after his enlightenment. There is nowhere to arrive except the present moment.
#ThichNhatHanh
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The body is a temple.
Tou are a projection
of love...
Earth, love the air, love the water, love the fire. Love the part of self that is of the ethers..
#KuanYin

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Do not drag the negative past or future into the present. Understand the
possibilities of the present. The present, is our way, our vehicle for changing reality. Your escape hatch is right here.
#KuanYin


Close your eyes and you will see clearly.
Cease to listen and you will hear truth.
Be silent and your heart will sing.
Seek no contacts and you will find union.
Be still and you will move forward-
on the tide of the spirit.
Be gentle and you will need no strength.
Be patient and you will achieve all things.
Be humble and you will remain entire.
Stop thinking and you will end problems.
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Spring has its hundred flowers,
Autumn its moon,
Summer has its cooling breezes,
Winter its snow.
If you allow no idle concerns
To weight on your heart, Your whole life will be one Perennial good season.
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...Keep your distance from whatever or whoever creates inharmony.
I wish these truths were taught in childhood.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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If through sincerity and unconditional devotion your prayers reach God, it matters not if your sins be deeper than the ocean and higher than the Himalayas. he will destroy those karmic obstacles. For a time, perhaps, you may sink under a stratum of darkness; but still you are a spark of an Eternal Flame.You can hide the spark,but you can never destroy it.
#ParamahansaYogananda


Saints are sinners who did not give up. No matter what your difficulties, if you do not give up, you are making progress in your struggle against the stream. To struggle is to win the favor of God.
#ParamahansaYogananda


FORGIVENESS is more powerful than revenge. I have forgiven everyone who has knowingly or unknowingly tried to annoy or hurt me. I want nothing for myself anymore. I have found such joy in my heart by giving everything to God and doing everything for Him. Those who do evil stew in their own evil. They can't really hurt you unless you let them. Even our enemies are all part of the tests of life. When an evil person tries to persecute you, remember that he has probably tried to harm you in some way in the past also. If you think of that hurt and how terrible that person is, that is a great mistake. When you give out hateful thoughts, that person receives them and hates you twice as much. Also, hate attracts, as does love. You don't want the magnet of your hate to draw your enemies near you. Never hate anyone.
Love and forgiveness have a healing effect on yourself and on your enemies. And be grateful for all the wonderful friends God has given to you.
#ParamahansaYogananda


Love is the most powerful force that you can have. Love is dynamite. Humbleness is dynamite. Concentration is dynamite.
These will destroy all obstacles and barriers to success. Meditation throws your concentration and the shells of your devotion against the walls of your indifference until you break through and contact that blissful Power within.
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Do not say: 'Tomorrow I will meditate longer! You will suddenly find that a year has passed without fulfillment of your good intentions. Instead, say: 'This can wait and that can wait, but my search for God cannot wait!
#ParamahansaYogananda


"The true state of the Self is prosperity, wisdom, love and peace." Being so happy that no matter what you do, you enjoy what you do. "
#ParamahansaYogananda


Why do you consider non essentials so important?
Most people concentrate on breakiast, lunch, and dinner, work, social activities, and so on. Make your life more simple and put your whole mind on the Lord.
#ParamahansaYogananda


"Realization of God is not a mere matter of reading scriptures or performing rituals; it is a direct experience that transcends the intellect.
Just as one cannot describe
the taste of honey without tasting it, one cannot understand the nature of God without experiencing His presence in one's heart."
#SriRamakrishnaParamhansa


When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing then the Supreme State will come to you uninvited and unexpected!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet.
If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it.
you find that it is permeated with a light and a love you have never known.
And yet you recognize it at once as your own nature.
Once you have passed through this experience,
you will never be the same man again, the unruly mind may break its peace and obliterate its vision,
but it is bound to return, provided the effort is sustained,
until the day when all bonds are broken, delusions and attachments end, and life becomes supremely concentrated in the present.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


I do not even say,
"Be Yourself"!
Since You do not Know Yourself!
Just Be!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


"My intention is to wake you up. My heart wants you awake. I see you suffer in your dream and I know that you must wake up to end your woes.
When you see your dream as dream, then you wake up...you need not bring your dream to a definite conclusion, or make it noble, or happy, or beautiful... all you need is to realize that you are dreaming.
Stop imagining, stop believing. See the contradictions, the inconsistencies...in the dream you love some and not others. On waking up you find you are love itself, embracing all. Personal love, however intense and genuine, invariably binds; love in freedom is love of all.
When you are love itself, you are beyond time...In loving one you love all, in loving all, you love each. One and all are not exclusive."
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


When the meditator forgets himself totally in meditation, it is 'vishranti' which means complete relaxation ending in total forgetfulness. This is the blissful state, where there is no need for words, concepts or even the sense of 'I am. The state does not know 'it is' and is beyond happiness and suffering and altogether beyond words; it is called the
'Parabrahman' - a non-experiential state....
Before the emanation of any words, '!' already exist; later I say mentally 'I am. The word-free and thought-free state is the
'atman'.
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"There is no fortune greater than peace; there is no force greater than peace; there is no excellent tapas greater than peace; there is no immortal life greater than [living in] peace."
...What is here called peace is the state of stillness of mind. This can be achieved only by unceasing enquiry.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Disciple: Is it not funny that the "|" should be searching for the "|"? Does not the enquiry,
"Who am I?" turn out in the end [to bel an empty formula? Or, am I to put the question to myself endlessly, repeating it like [al mantra?
Bhagavan: Self-enquiry is certainly not an empty formula; it is more than repetition of any mantra. If the enquiry, "Who am I?" were a mere mental questioning, it would not be of much value. The very purpose of Self-enquiry is to focus the entire mind at its Source. It is not, therefore, a case of one "I" searching for another "I."
...
Where the "I" merges, another entity emerges as "'" - "I" ( or "| am I") of its own accord. That is the perfect Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Q: In turning the mind inwards, are we not still employing the mind?
A: Of course we are employing the mind. It is well known and admitted that only with the help of the mind can the mind be killed.
But instead of setting about saying there is a mind, and I want to kill it, you begin to seek the source of the mind, and you find the mind does not exist at all. The mind, turned outwards, results in thoughts and objects. Turned inwards, it becomes itself the Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


"The experience of Being is only love, which consists of seeing only love, hearing only love,
feel only love, taste only love, smell nothing but love that's bliss. "
#SriRamanaMaharshi


"Something mysteriously formed, born before heaven and earth.
In the silence and the void,
standing alone and unchanging, ever present and in motion."
#LaoTzu
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Here, I always urge people simply to live in the unborn Buddha-mind. I don't try to make anyone do anything else.
We haven't any special rules. But since everyone got together and decided that they wanted to spend six hours each day (for a period of twelve sticks of incense) doing zazen, I let them do as they wish. That amount of time has been set aside for zazen. But the unborn Buddha-mind has no connection with those sticks of incense. It's just being at home in the Buddha-mind, not straying into illusion, and not seeking enlightenment beyond that. Just sit in the Buddha-mind, stand in the Buddha-mind, sleep in the Buddha-mind, awake in the Buddha-mind, do everything in the Buddha-mind-then you'll be functioning as a living Buddha in all that you do in your daily life. There's nothing further.
#BankeiYotaku
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"This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty.
Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, 'Be more silent! Die and be quiet.
Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence."
#Rumi
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In one of His aspects, a very touching aspect, the Lord may be said to be a beggar. He yearns for our attention. The Master of the Universe, at whose glance all stars, suns, moons, and planets quiver, is running after man and saying: "Won't you give Me your affection? Don't you love Me, the Giver, more than the things I have made for you? Won't you seek Me?" But man says: "I am too busy now; I have work to do. I can't take time to look for You." And the Lord says: "I will wait."
#ParamahansaYogananda


Love is the most powerful force that you can have. Love is dynamite. Humbleness is dynamite. Concentration is dynamite.
These will destroy all obstacles and barriers to success. Meditation throws your concentration and the shells of your devotion against the walls of your indifference until you break through and contact that blissful Power within.
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FORGIVENESS is more powerful than revenge. I have forgiven everyone who has knowingly or unknowingly tried to annoy or hurt me. I want nothing for myself anymore. I have found such joy in my heart by giving everything to God and doing everything for Him. Those who do evil stew in their own evil. They can't really hurt you unless you let them. Even our enemies are all part of the tests of life. When an evil person tries to persecute you, remember that he has probably tried to harm you in some way in the past also. If you think of that hurt and how terrible that person is, that is a great mistake. When you give out hateful thoughts, that person receives them and hates you twice as much. Also, hate attracts, as does love. You don't want the magnet of your hate to draw your enemies near you. Never hate anyone.
Love and forgiveness have a healing effect on yourself and on your enemies. And be grateful for all the wonderful friends God has given to you.
#ParamahansaYogananda


Saints are sinners who did not give up. No matter what your difficulties, if you do not give up, you are making progress in your struggle against the stream. To struggle is to win the favor of God.
#ParamahansaYogananda


If through sincerity and unconditional devotion your prayers reach God, it matters not if your sins be deeper than the ocean and higher than the Himalayas. he will destroy those karmic obstacles. For a time, perhaps, you may sink under a stratum of darkness; but still you are a spark of an Eternal Flame.You can hide the spark,but you can never destroy it.
#ParamahansaYogananda


...Keep your distance from whatever or whoever creates inharmony.
I wish these truths were taught in childhood.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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Spring has its hundred flowers,
Autumn its moon,
Summer has its cooling breezes,
Winter its snow.
If you allow no idle concerns
To weight on your heart, Your whole life will be one Perennial good season.
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Close your eyes and you will see clearly.
Cease to listen and you will hear truth.
Be silent and your heart will sing.
Seek no contacts and you will find union.
Be still and you will move forward-
on the tide of the spirit.
Be gentle and you will need no strength.
Be patient and you will achieve all things.
Be humble and you will remain entire.
Stop thinking and you will end problems.
-A #Taoist #meditation
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Do not drag the negative past or future into the present. Understand the
possibilities of the present. The present, is our way, our vehicle for changing reality. Your escape hatch is right here.
#KuanYin


The body is a temple.
Tou are a projection
of love...
Earth, love the air, love the water, love the fire. Love the part of self that is of the ethers..
#KuanYin

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If you sit regularly, it will become a habit. You will let go of trying to arrive anywhere. Even the Buddha still practiced sitting every day after his enlightenment. There is nowhere to arrive except the present moment.
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When you prepare a meal with artful awareness, it's delicious and healthy.
You have put your mindfulness, love, and care into the meal, then people will be eating your love.
#ThichNhatHanh


 time to time you may become restless, and the restlessness will not go away. At such times, just sit quietly, follow your breathing, smile a half-smile, and shine your awareness on the restlessness."
#ThichNhatHanh


When the mind and emotions are still, it is possible to achieve illumination or experience one's Buddha nature.
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"In the end, only three things matter:
how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you."
#Buddha


Your body is precious, It is your vehicle for awakening.
Ireat it with care.
#Buddha
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"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves."
#Buddha
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"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."
#Buddha


"Whatever has the nature of arising has the nature of ceasing." #Buddha


If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself.
Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.
#LaoTzu
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What is malleable is always superior to that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them of mastery through adaptation.
#LaoTzu


The next Buddha will not take the form of a person. The next Buddha will rather take the shape of a community. a community that practices understanding and loving kindness, a community that practices a way of conscious living. This may be the most important thing for earth's survival
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In mindfulness
one is not only restful and happy,
but alert and awake.
Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.
#ThichNhatHanh


Don't be deceived by appearance.
The person may occupy an old body but the soul may still be very young.
The person may occupy a young body but the soul may be very old.
#MasterChoaKokSui
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Honesty must be balanced with loving-kindness. and non-injury.
It must be balanced with
compassion.
#MasterChoaKokSui


You have to keep your word! You
must produce results and accomplish the target.
#MasterChoaKokSui


Success doesn't lie in listening to my sermons, but in practicing what I have told you.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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Remove the tares of evil traits from your soul and sow more seeds of spiritual qualities, to increase the crop of good harvest.
#ParamahansaYogananda


"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."
#SwamiVivekananda


"All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious, the deeper the joy.
Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance -- these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss."
#SriNisargattaMaharaj
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I am the Self, O Gudakesha, seated in the hearts of all creatures.
I am the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings.
#BhagavadGita


Meditation is the most important way to resurrect the soul from the slavery of the body and from the shackles of all trials. Meditate at the feet of Infinity. Learn to saturate yourself with God consciousness. Your trials may be heavy, they may be great, but your greatest enemy is yourself. You are immortal; your trials are deadly. They are changeable; you are unchangeable. You can release infinite powers and disintegrate your infinite trials.
#ParamahansaYogananda


Once you realize
that all happens by itself (call it destiny or the will of God or mere accident),
you remain as witness only, understanding and enjoying but not perturbed.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Forget me, forget the teachings, stay in the consciousness, be the consciousness,
as the portal to the Absolute.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there.
Don't be deceived.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


What you call matter is
consciousness Itself!

You are the space (akash) in which it moves, the time in which it lasts, the love that gives it life! Cut off imagination and attachment and what
remains?

Q: The world remains. I remain.

M: Yes. But how different it is when you can see it as it is, not through the
screen of desire and fear!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real Guru.
All others merely show the way.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


There is a state beyond our efforts or effortlessness. Until it is realised effort is necessary. After tasting such Bliss, even once one will repeatedly try to regain it.
Having once experienced the Bliss of Peace no one would like to be out of it or engaged himself otherwise.  #SriRamanaMaharshi
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"Don't you see, japa, mantras, puja, prayer and ritual, are all excellent up to a certain point. But the time comes when all that has to be left aside. You have to take a leap into the beyond,.. in the beyond you find the Real.
Only when everything has been left behind, devas along with everything else, can you find the vision which has no beginning and no ending, the vision of Being, of the Self."
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The only language able to express the whole truth is
"Silence"
#SriRamanaMaharshi


What is the mark of the ego?

The individual soul of the form of 'l' is the ego. The Self which is of the nature of intelligence
(chit) has no sense of l. Nor does the insentient body possess a sense of 'I'. The mysterious appearance of a delusive ego between the intelligent and the insentient, being the root cause of all these troubles, upon its destruction by whatever means, that which really exists will be seen as it is.
This is called Liberation (moksha).
 #SriRamanaMaharshi.


You are perfect,
so abandon the idea of imperfection.
There is nothing to be destroyed.
Ego is not a real thing.
It is the mind which makes the effort, and the mind is not real.
Just as it is not necessary to kill the rope which one imagines to be a snake, so also there is no need to destroy the mind.
Knowing the form of the mind makes the mind disappear.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


#Papaji
The power of illusion is very strong, so be vigilant in a joyful play with tendencies because when one is near freedom all demons will consolidate and attack. Continue being self meditating on self, do this playfully always.
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'Your mantra is thank you. Just keep saying thank you.
Don't explain.
Don't complain.
Just say thank you.
Say thank you to Existence.
#Mooji
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There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul,
ready to be filled
You feel it, don't you?
#Rumi
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"When the lover is one with the Beloved, His heart beats with the rhythm of divine will.
He sees with God's eyes,speaks with God's voice."
#Rumi


I went on a journey without me, There I found joy without me.
When the Beloved set my soul free, I was reborn without me.
#Rumi


"You have within you more love than you could ever understand."
#Rumi


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You think you are the mind how its to be foretrolled ?
If the mind exists, it can be controlled, but it does not.
Understand this truth by inquiry (into the nature of the mind).
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Once you realize
that all happens by itself (call it destiny or the will of God or mere accident),
you remain as witness only, understanding and enjoying but not perturbed.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


"All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious, the deeper the joy.
Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance -- these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss."
#SriNisargattaMaharaj
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Meditation is the most important way to resurrect the soul from the slavery of the body and from the shackles of all trials. Meditate at the feet of Infinity. Learn to saturate yourself with God consciousness. Your trials may be heavy, they may be great, but your greatest enemy is yourself. You are immortal; your trials are deadly. They are changeable; you are unchangeable. You can release infinite powers and disintegrate your infinite trials.
#ParamahansaYogananda


I am the Self, O Gudakesha, seated in the hearts of all creatures.
I am the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings.
#BhagavadGita


"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."
#SwamiVivekananda


Remove the tares of evil traits from your soul and sow more seeds of spiritual qualities, to increase the crop of good harvest.
#ParamahansaYogananda


Success doesn't lie in listening to my sermons, but in practicing what I have told you.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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You have to keep your word! You
must produce results and accomplish the target.
#MasterChoaKokSui


Honesty must be balanced with loving-kindness. and non-injury.
It must be balanced with
compassion.
#MasterChoaKokSui


Don't be deceived by appearance.
The person may occupy an old body but the soul may still be very young.
The person may occupy a young body but the soul may be very old.
#MasterChoaKokSui
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In mindfulness
one is not only restful and happy,
but alert and awake.
Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.
#ThichNhatHanh


The next Buddha will not take the form of a person. The next Buddha will rather take the shape of a community. a community that practices understanding and loving kindness, a community that practices a way of conscious living. This may be the most important thing for earth's survival
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What is malleable is always superior to that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them of mastery through adaptation.
#LaoTzu


If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself.
Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.
#LaoTzu
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"Whatever has the nature of arising has the nature of ceasing." #Buddha


"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."
#Buddha


"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves."
#Buddha
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One is not wise only because one speaks a lot. One who is peaceful, without hate, and fearless is said to be wise.
#Buddha
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I know not of anything that brings such happiness as the mind that has been brought under control, is well attended and restrained. Such a mind does indeed yield great happiness.
#Buddha


Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional.
#Buddha


Just remain in the center, watching.
And then forget that you are there.
#LaoTzu
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Around us, life bursts forth with miracles-a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere.
Each human being is a multiplicity of miracles. Eyes that see thousands of colors, shapes, and forms; ears that hear a bee flying or a thunderclap; a brain that ponders a speck of dust as easily as the entire cosmos; a heart that beats in rhythm with the heartbeat of all beings.
When we are tired and feel discouraged by life's daily struggles, we may not notice these miracles, but they are always there.
#ThichNhatHanh


"We need suffering in order to see the path. The origin of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the path leading to the cessation of suffering are all found in the heart of suffering. If we are afraid to touch our suffering, we will not be able to realize the path of peace, joy, and liberation. Don't run away.
Touch your suffering and embrace it.
Make peace with it."
#ThichNhatHanh
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When we walk like (we are rushing), we print anxiety and sorrow on the earth. We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the earth.
Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth.
Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.
#ThichNhatHanh


"please don't try to understand others, that is not the way. Try to understand yourself, that is the way.
You are a miniature Universe.
In you the whole map of existence."
#Osho


"A meditator needs no personal guidance. A meditator, on the contrary, needs only one thing: the atmosphere of MEDITATION."
#Osho
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"I cannot liberate you, nobody can liberate you; only truth can liberate you.
And the truth has to be seen by you.
I may be seeing it, I may be telling it to you.
"In a thousand and one ways I may be showering it upon you, but that is useless if you are not open, if your pot is upside down, if you are not listening."
#Osho
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"Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand ~ relax.
If you relax it comes, if you relax it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it." - #Osho
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There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your 'demand' on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You're Arguing with 'What Is'
- Your demands keep you chained to the
'dream-state' of the conditioned mind.
The desire to 'control'... is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.
#Adyashanti


'Be fearless and pure; never waver in your determination or your dedication to the spiritual life. Give freely. Be self-controlled, sincere, truthful loving, and full of the desire to serve. Realize the truth of the scriptures; learn to be detached and to take joy in renunciation. *Do not get angry or harm any living creature, but be compassionate and gentle; show good will to all. 'Cultivate vigor, patience, will, purity; avoid malice and pride. Ther Arjuna, you will achieve your divine destiny.
#Krishna
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When the ego-self disappears, that is the sign of the ultimate experience. Ego is not Reality, but appears as such.
Everything is consciousness.
#ShriSiddharameshwarMaharaj


"There was a door to which I found no key:
There was the veil through which I might not see."
#OmarKhayyam


Be alone for a few hours daily.
Try to drop all the identities to which you cling: male, female, occupation, relationships, etc.
-The Voice of #Babaji (A Trilogy on Kriya Yoga)


BHAKTI AND KUNDALINI AWAKENING
The Kundalini is speedily awakened if one follows the path of bhakti. God cannot be seen unless She is awakened. Sing earnestly and secretly in solitude: Waken, O Mother! O Kundalini, whose nature is Bliss Eternal! Thou art the serpent coiled in sleep, in the lotus of the Muladhara.
Ramakrishna, The Gospel of #Ramakrishna


"Pray to the Supreme to bless you with love in your hearts. Love alone will purify. Pray for that. Pray to remove all those things which stand as obstacles to the flow of love."
#MataAmritanandamayi
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"The universal everything is made of the singular consciousness of God. When a spark of that
consciousness is individualized by God, it becomes a soul, capable of ultimately expressing the God-image in which it is made"
#ParamahansaYogananda
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The Lord wants us to escape this delusive world. He cries for us, for He knows how hard it is for us to gain His deliverance. But you have only to remember that you are His child. Don't pity yourself. You are loved just as much by God as are Jesus and Krishna. You must seek His love, for it encompasses eternal freedom, endless joy, and immortality.
#ParamahansaYogananda


"Meditation clears the
cosmic mist as the descended consciousness of the soul starts ascending to its lost higher planes of existence."
#ParamahansaYogananda
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By being with yourself, the 'I am', by watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest, with the intention to understand rather than judge, in full acceptance of whatever may emerge, because it is there, you encourage the deep to come to the surface, and enrich your life and consciousness with its captive energies.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation. #SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Love is not selective, desire is selective.
In love there are no strangers.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


What you need will come to You, If you do not ask for What you do not need!
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The real is, behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind.
It is easily had when nothing else is wanted.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real Guru.
All others merely show the way.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


The body is insentient and cannot say I.
The Self is pure consciousness and non-dual. It cannot say I.
No one says I in sleep.
What is the ego then?
It is something intermediate
between the inert body and the Self.
It has no locus standi.
If sought for it vanishes like a ghost.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Let us cherish that Self, which is the reality, in the Heart.
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BHAGAVAN IS EVERYWHERE
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Someone asked Bhagavan to bless them upon their departure knowing that possibly they might never get the chance to be at
Ramanasramam again:

“M.: You do not go anywhere away from the Presence as you imagine. The Presence is everywhere. The body moves from place to
place; yet it does not leave the one Presence. So no one can be out of sight of the Supreme Presence. Since you identify one body with
Bhagavan and another body with yourself, you find two separate entities and speak of going away from here. Wherever you may be,
you cannot leave ME.
“To illustrate it: The pictures move on the screen in a cinema show; but does the screen itself move?
No.
The Presence is the screen: you, I, and others are the pictures. The individuals may move but not the Self.”*
So when we say Bhagavan is everywhere what do we really mean?
Bhagavan is telling us that our goal is here and now but we keep identifying with the pictures and not the screen on which it happens.
Bhagavan does nothing. How can he when he is not identified with or controlled by a body? This may sound strange because the power
of Grace which we ascribe to ‘him’ works wonders but it is true.
It is ‘automatic divine action’ which happens because we are receptive.
For a moment we are in tune with this stillness and are not identified with any thought or feeling. There is no sense of opposition or separateness.
There is no desire, no fear. This simple step is the beginning.
We slowly come to understand that Bhagavan is not bound by time or space nor our concepts as to who ‘he’ is. Once that indelible
revelation is given to us through an unmistakable encounter at the Samadhi, or a dream, or an instant of recognition when we see his photograph or a sentence in his teachings, we are joined to his Name.
We begin to realise that Bhagavan is everywhere and wherever any of us gather in his Name he is there; wherever any one of us prays to him, he is there; wherever any one contemplates him, he is there.
For each one of us, we only need to remember him any time and in any place, he is always there.
We may not always be aware of Bhagavan but Bhagavan is certainly aware of us.

* Venkataramiah, M., (comp.), Talks with #SriRamanaMaharshi


When you're in deep sleep, the l returns to the heart, to the source.
There is nothing going on, nothing happening.
At that time
you are unconsciously self-realized.
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"Tell your mind: You can go as depressed as you want to be." I'll just watch you, not join you! "
#mooji
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.....My heart,
sing the song of longing like a nightingale.
The sound of your voice casts a spell on every stone, on every thorn.
First,
lay down your head, then one by one let go of all distractions.
Embrace the Light and let it guide you, beyond the winds of desire.
There,
you will find a spring and nourished by its see waters like a tree
you will bear fruit forever."
#Rumi


You Are The Light Of My Heart,
You Give Peace And Comfort To
My Soul.
#Rumi


The truth is, you are caught between two worlds: the world of time and the world of the timeless.
Until you know how to navigate between these two, you are like a boat without a rudder.
#Rumi
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This being human is a guest house.
Every morning, a new arrival.
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"Do not let your heart get rusty with grief, and do not stay long with those who are not in the presence"
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The truth was a mirror in the hands of God: It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
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By being with yourself, the 'I am', by watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest, with the intention to understand rather than judge, in full acceptance of whatever may emerge, because it is there, you encourage the deep to come to the surface, and enrich your life and consciousness with its captive energies.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


"Meditation clears the
cosmic mist as the descended consciousness of the soul starts ascending to its lost higher planes of existence."
#ParamahansaYogananda
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The Lord wants us to escape this delusive world. He cries for us, for He knows how hard it is for us to gain His deliverance. But you have only to remember that you are His child. Don't pity yourself. You are loved just as much by God as are Jesus and Krishna. You must seek His love, for it encompasses eternal freedom, endless joy, and immortality.
#ParamahansaYogananda


"The universal everything is made of the singular consciousness of God. When a spark of that
consciousness is individualized by God, it becomes a soul, capable of ultimately expressing the God-image in which it is made"
#ParamahansaYogananda
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"Pray to the Supreme to bless you with love in your hearts. Love alone will purify. Pray for that. Pray to remove all those things which stand as obstacles to the flow of love."
#MataAmritanandamayi
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BHAKTI AND KUNDALINI AWAKENING
The Kundalini is speedily awakened if one follows the path of bhakti. God cannot be seen unless She is awakened. Sing earnestly and secretly in solitude: Waken, O Mother! O Kundalini, whose nature is Bliss Eternal! Thou art the serpent coiled in sleep, in the lotus of the Muladhara.
Ramakrishna, The Gospel of #Ramakrishna


Be alone for a few hours daily.
Try to drop all the identities to which you cling: male, female, occupation, relationships, etc.
-The Voice of #Babaji (A Trilogy on Kriya Yoga)


"There was a door to which I found no key:
There was the veil through which I might not see."
#OmarKhayyam


When the ego-self disappears, that is the sign of the ultimate experience. Ego is not Reality, but appears as such.
Everything is consciousness.
#ShriSiddharameshwarMaharaj


'Be fearless and pure; never waver in your determination or your dedication to the spiritual life. Give freely. Be self-controlled, sincere, truthful loving, and full of the desire to serve. Realize the truth of the scriptures; learn to be detached and to take joy in renunciation. *Do not get angry or harm any living creature, but be compassionate and gentle; show good will to all. 'Cultivate vigor, patience, will, purity; avoid malice and pride. Ther Arjuna, you will achieve your divine destiny.
#Krishna
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There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your 'demand' on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You're Arguing with 'What Is'
- Your demands keep you chained to the
'dream-state' of the conditioned mind.
The desire to 'control'... is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.
#Adyashanti


"Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body.
Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything.
In that state truth will reveal itself to you."
#Kabir


"Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand ~ relax.
If you relax it comes, if you relax it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it." - #Osho
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"I cannot liberate you, nobody can liberate you; only truth can liberate you.
And the truth has to be seen by you.
I may be seeing it, I may be telling it to you.
"In a thousand and one ways I may be showering it upon you, but that is useless if you are not open, if your pot is upside down, if you are not listening."
#Osho
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"Life repeats itself mindlessly unless you become mindful, it will go on
repeating like a wheel."
#Osho


"A meditator needs no personal guidance. A meditator, on the contrary, needs only one thing: the atmosphere of MEDITATION."
#Osho
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"please don't try to understand others, that is not the way. Try to understand yourself, that is the way.
You are a miniature Universe.
In you the whole map of existence."
#Osho


When we walk like (we are rushing), we print anxiety and sorrow on the earth. We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the earth.
Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth.
Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.
#ThichNhatHanh


"We need suffering in order to see the path. The origin of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the path leading to the cessation of suffering are all found in the heart of suffering. If we are afraid to touch our suffering, we will not be able to realize the path of peace, joy, and liberation. Don't run away.
Touch your suffering and embrace it.
Make peace with it."
#ThichNhatHanh
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Around us, life bursts forth with miracles-a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere.
Each human being is a multiplicity of miracles. Eyes that see thousands of colors, shapes, and forms; ears that hear a bee flying or a thunderclap; a brain that ponders a speck of dust as easily as the entire cosmos; a heart that beats in rhythm with the heartbeat of all beings.
When we are tired and feel discouraged by life's daily struggles, we may not notice these miracles, but they are always there.
#ThichNhatHanh


Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
#LaoTzu


Just remain in the center, watching.
And then forget that you are there.
#LaoTzu
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Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional.
#Buddha


One is not wise only because one speaks a lot. One who is peaceful, without hate, and fearless is said to be wise.
#Buddha
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I know not of anything that brings such happiness as the mind that has been brought under control, is well attended and restrained. Such a mind does indeed yield great happiness.
#Buddha


This is It

Always we hope
Someone else has the answer, Some other place it will be better, Some other time It will all turn out.
This is it.
No one else has the answer, No other place will be better, And it has already turned out.
By #LaoTzu
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Look, and it can't be seen.
Listen, and it can't be heard.
Reach, and it can't be grasped.
#LaoTzu
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
#LaoTzu


"Everything that has a beginning has an ending.
Make your peace with that, and all will be well!"
#Buddha
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Every time you drink your tea, you have an eternity to enjoy drinking your tea.
The clouds stop running, the wind stops flying, and time stands still. The clouds are present in your tea. The wind is present in your tea. I am also in your tea.
#ThichNhatHanh


The Buddha taught:
Do not pursue the past.
Do not lose yourself in the future.
The past no longer is.
The future has not yet come.
Looking deeply at life as it is in the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom.
We must be diligent today.
To wait till tomorrow is too late.
Death comes unexpectedly.
How can we bargain with it?
The sage calls a person who dwells in mindfulness night and day, 'the one who knows the better way to live alone.
#ThichNhatHanh


There is no forest,
There is no cave,
There is no mountaintop
Where one can hide From oneself.
#WuHsin
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Since before time, l have been free.
Birth and death are only doors through which we pass.
Sacred tresholds on our journey.
Birth and death are a game of hide-and seek.
#ThichNhatHanh

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An imagined entity desires to become an enlightened imagined entity. What's the point?
It is like trying to measure space.
Yet, this will continue until such time as the distinction is made between this that I am and that that I appear to be.
#WuHsin


If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-0, or even mineral water, or saki. Meditation is
Drinking it!
#DTSuzuki


Why is it that we humans are so wiped out? It is the constant effort to gain a little advantage that wipes us out.
Illusion means being unstable. Illusion means being controlled by the situation.
A person with big desires is easily fooled. Even the greatest conman can't profit from a person with no desires.
Buddhism means no self, nothing to gain. You must be one with the universe and all living beings.
#KodoSawaki


Be still.
When your mind is still, you have no name, no past, no relationships, no country, no spiritual attainment,
no lack of spiritual attainment.
There is just the presence of beingness with itself.
#Gangaji

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God bears the burden ot the cosmos;
He alone can give unerring counsel.
#SwamiSriYukteswar
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Courage
Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you.
#SwamiSriYukteswar


You should make a greater effort.
Forget the past and trust more in God. Our fate is not predestined by Him; nor is karma the sole factor, though our lives are
influenced by our past thoughts and past activities. If you are not happy with the way life is turning out, change the pattern. I don't like to hear people sigh and ascribe present failure to past-life errors; to do so is spiritual laziness. Get busy and weed the garden of your life.
#ParamahansaYogananda


Teach me, O Spirit, to cooperate with Your will, until all my thoughts align with Your harmonious plans.
 #ParamahansaYogananda


God's love is the
supreme love. There's no love greater than that.
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Modern life is becoming very unsatisfactory. It does not give you happiness. There are too many things, too many desires. More nice cars and dresses and entertainments - and more worries!
Free yourself from these so-called
"necessities" and spend more time with God. Make your life simple. Be happy in and by your Self.
#ParamahansaYogananda


Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it.
#ParamahansaYogananda


Just one thought may redeem you. You don't realize how effectively your thoughts work in the ether.
#ParamahansaYogananda


TECHNIQUE TO CREATE AND DESTROY HABIT:

When you want to create a habit or destroy a harmful one, focus on the cells of the
brain, which is the repository of mechanisms of habits.
*TO CREATE A GOOD HABIT, meditate; and, concentrate on the Christian center (intercejo) deeply affirms the good habit you want to establish.
*And when you wish to ELIMINATE ONE BAD HABIT concentrate and affirm that all the vibrations of that habit are being deleted.

I'm going to tell you a story that refers to the effectiveness of this technique. In India, a man with a very bad temper came to see me. I had a habit of slapping asus bosses when I lost control so I lost one job after another. He asked me for help and I told him that every time I lost control I had to count to a hundred before acting. The
came back after a while and told me that it had only made matters worse. Su
case seemed to have no solution.
Then I told him to practice Kriya Yoga: ‘AFTER PRACTICING YOUR KRIYA, THINK OF THAT DIVINE LIGHT ENTERING YOUR BRAIN, TOUCHING IT, CALMING YOUR NERVES, ERASING ALL YOUR ANGER. Yun day your bad temper will be gone. ‘Not long after that, he came to warn me and said, ‘I am free from the habit of anger.’ I am very grateful to you. ’
I decided to give it a try. I told some guys to fight him. I hid in a park
the one I used to go through regularly to observe what was happening. The guys tried
make him mad, but he didn't reply. He kept quite.

Book "The Divine Romance" by #ParamahansaYogananda


There is no form of service greater than to speak to God.
Meditation is the highest form of activity.
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He is the wisest who seeks God. He is the most successful who has found God.
#ParamahansaYogananda


It takes very, very, VERY good karma for a person even to want to know God.
#ParamhansaYogananda


The Invisible Church: "In the trajectory of eternity, I built an invisible church where everyone could worship. Here, under the blue dome, illuminated by the sun, the moon, the aurora, the milky way and the lights of wisdom, gather the families of gathered stars, island universes, solar systems and the tiny earth with their millions of voters from many religions.

Each day, during the Evening Hour, the flying angels of thought soar above infinity, calling upon dumb and noisy beings to abandon their age-old sleep and join the cosmic service of awakening.

The altars of a united rhythm, hearts of blended lives, molten gold of cosmic union and electrified matter--were tenderly burning with their gentle and enchanting Presence.

The kites arrived and shed their joyful tears of light; the stars shed their sparkles at their feet of eternity, and the prodigal souls wept loving tears of remorse for the forgetful wanderers. All the flowers of the earth opened the cork of petals and loosened their liquid fragrance on their omnipresent altar.

The dew of devotion from the heart of all true tears, but constantly, forgiveness flowed upon His feet. Love, hate, light and penumbra, wisdom and ignorance, good and bad, are all gathered in the Church of all Creation.

Then a voiceless sermon of Infinite was heard in silence: a soundless song of joy filled the chalice of all lives; a silent smile of light drove away the hidden sorrow of all.

Under the spell of his sermon, love embraced hate, light embraced sadness, wisdom transmuted ignorance, good enchanted evil, many religions embraced their only faith of truth, many hearts dissolve on an altar of heart, many loves became His One pure, many souls became one Spirit of Love, and all of them - sang with one voice the choir of one religion, one life, one truth, one goal, one devotion, one love and one Spirit."
#ParamahansaYogananda


To hold on the word of the Guru is the Greatest Service.
For this purpose, You have to give full attention to your True Nature all the Time.!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Examine yourself thoroughly:
Are you a Body-Mind?
Were you born?
Who are You?
What are You?
Find out for Yourself.!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


All is Brahman; all is blissful and peaceful.
The sense of individuality, however, is a misery.
Remember that.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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You are not even a human being. You just
'are' - a point of awareness, co-extensive with time and space and beyond both, the ultimate cause, itself uncaused. If you ask me: 'Who are you?", my answer would be:
'Nothing in particular. Yet, I am.'
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj

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All you need is to stop searching outside for what can be found only within. Set your vision right before you operate. You are suffering from acute misapprehension. Clarify your mind, purify your heart, sanctity your life - this is the quickest way to a change in your world.
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MEDITATION

Try to be, only to be.
The all-important word is "try."
Allot enough time daily for sitting quietly and trying,
just trying to go beyond the personality with its addictions and obsessions.
Don't ask how, it cannot be explained.
You just keep on trying until you succeed.
It you persevere there can be no failure.
What matters supremely is sincerity, earnestness. You must really have had surfeit of being the person you are, now see the urgent need of being free of this unnecessary self-identification with a bundle of memories and habits.
Steady resistance against the unnecessary is the secret of success.
After all, you are what you are every moment of your life, but you are never conscious of it, except, maybe at the point of awakening from sleep.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Take the idea
'I was born'.
You may take it to be true.
Itis not.
You were Never born, nor will you ever die.!
It is the idea that was born and shall die, not you.!
By identifying yourself with it you became mortal.
Just like in a cinema all is light, so does Consciousness become the vast world.
Look closely, and you will see that all names and forms are but transitory waves on the ocean of Consciousness,
that only Consciousness can be said to be, not its transformations.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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To remain without thought in the waking state is the greatest worship.
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If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it's busy or quiet? You are not the mind.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Questioner: When your body dies, you remain.
Maharaj: Nothing dies. The body is just imagined. There is no such thing.
Questioner: Before another century will pass, you will be dead to all around you. Your body will be covered with flowers, then burnt and the ashes scattered. That will be our experience. What will be yours?
Maharaj: Time will come to an end. This is called the Great Death (mahamrityu), the death of time.
Questioner: Does it mean that the universe and its contents will come to an end?
Maharaj: The universe is your personal experience. How can it be affected?
You might have been delivering a lecture for two hours; where has it gone when it is over?
It has merged into silence in which the beginning, middle and end of the lecture are all together.
Time has come to a stop, it was, but is no more. The silence after a life of talking and the silence after a life of silence is the same silence.
Immortality is freedom from the feeling:
Yet it is not extinction.
On the contrary,
it is a state infinitely more real, aware and happy than you can possibly think of.
Only self-consciousness is no more.
- Talks with #SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Unselfish work leads to silence, for when you work selflessly, you don't need to ask for help.
Indifferent to results, you are willing to work with the most inadequate means. You do not care to be much gifted and well equipped. Nor do you ask for recognition and assistance.
You just do what needs be done, leaving success and failure to the unknown. For everything is caused by innumerable factors, of which your personal endeavour is but one.
Yet such is the magic of man's mind and heart that the most improbable happens when human will and love pull together.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Do not worry.
It is a waste of intellect and energy!
Spontaneously, Everything is happening in God, through God, and by God..!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


"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


Longing for a tiny grain of pleasure, people toil so hard using the mind to plough the field of the five senses, but they never wish for the flood of Bliss which is the fruit that comes by ploughing the Heart, the Source of the mind, with [simple] Self-attention.
Ah, what a wonder!
#SriRamanaMaharshi - verse 72 from Guru Vachaka Kovai.
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Reality must be always real.
It is not with forms and names. That which underlies these is the reality.
It underlies limitations, being itself limitless. It is not bound.
It underlies unrealities,
itself being real. Reality is that which is. It is as it is.
It transcends speech. It is beyond the expressions 'existence, non-existence', etc.
Be As You Are: The Teachings of #SriRamanaMaharshi


There is
neither
creation
nor
destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor
achievement.
This is the final truth.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


That which is born must die; that which is acquired must be lost.
Were you born?
You are ever existent.
The Self can never be lost.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


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.
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Stillness or peace is realization.
There is no moment when the Self is not.
So long as there is doubt or the feeling of non-realization, the attempt should be made to rid oneself of these thoughts.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The Whole Vedanta is contained in the Two Biblical statements
'I AM THAT I AM' and
BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD.!'
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The mind is made useful by its reflected light.
It is used for seeing objects.
When turned inwards, it merges into the source of illumination which shines by Itself and the mind is then like the moon in daytime.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The real delusion is the feeling
that you are the body.
When you get rid of that delusion, what remains is your Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


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Everybody wants to be something. You will find when you are satisfied with the way things are, just the way things are, right now, at any given moment, that's it. Just the way things are. Not when things are like this or things are like that.
Just the way things are. It makes no difference where you are, what's going on in your life, with whom you are living at this time, what's going on in this world. When you're allowed to be just the way you are, when you allow everything to be just the way it is, then you are yourself, for you're living in that split second of eternity.
It's like an atom exploding. You are that center that goes nowhere, yet is everywhere. And you're always living in that center, in that second. There is no time or space. There's only that second, the instant of a second. You have to find this out for yourself. You have to find this out for yourself.
Don't look at me. For all you know I may have escaped from the funny farm. (laughter) Find out for yourself. And you do this by keeping still!
#RobertAdams
Transcript 115 The Body and the World
December 12th, 1991


Sat Chit Ananda
Truth Consciousness Bliss
This trinity represents the highest form of awareness, a state that transcends the duality of life.


Be patient where you sit in the dark, the dawn is coming.
#Rumi
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I looked for my self, but my self was gone.
The boundaries of my being had disappeared in the sea.
Waves broke....
Awareness rose again....
And a voice returned me to myself.
It always happens like this...
#Rumi


Love helps you see into the invisible.
#Rumi
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Destiny doesn't mean that your life has been strictly predetermined.
Therefore, to leave everything to fate and to not actively contribute to the music of the universe is a sign of sheer ignorance.
The music of the world is all-pervading, and it is composed of 40 different levels.
Your destiny is the level where you play your tune.
You might not change your instrument, but how well to play is entirely in your hands.
#ShamsTabrizi


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Do not worry.
It is a waste of intellect and energy!
Spontaneously, Everything is happening in God, through God, and by God..!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Unselfish work leads to silence, for when you work selflessly, you don't need to ask for help.
Indifferent to results, you are willing to work with the most inadequate means. You do not care to be much gifted and well equipped. Nor do you ask for recognition and assistance.
You just do what needs be done, leaving success and failure to the unknown. For everything is caused by innumerable factors, of which your personal endeavour is but one.
Yet such is the magic of man's mind and heart that the most improbable happens when human will and love pull together.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Questioner: When your body dies, you remain.
Maharaj: Nothing dies. The body is just imagined. There is no such thing.
Questioner: Before another century will pass, you will be dead to all around you. Your body will be covered with flowers, then burnt and the ashes scattered. That will be our experience. What will be yours?
Maharaj: Time will come to an end. This is called the Great Death (mahamrityu), the death of time.
Questioner: Does it mean that the universe and its contents will come to an end?
Maharaj: The universe is your personal experience. How can it be affected?
You might have been delivering a lecture for two hours; where has it gone when it is over?
It has merged into silence in which the beginning, middle and end of the lecture are all together.
Time has come to a stop, it was, but is no more. The silence after a life of talking and the silence after a life of silence is the same silence.
Immortality is freedom from the feeling:
Yet it is not extinction.
On the contrary,
it is a state infinitely more real, aware and happy than you can possibly think of.
Only self-consciousness is no more.
- Talks with #SriNisargadattaMaharaj


If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it's busy or quiet? You are not the mind.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


To remain without thought in the waking state is the greatest worship.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Take the idea
'I was born'.
You may take it to be true.
Itis not.
You were Never born, nor will you ever die.!
It is the idea that was born and shall die, not you.!
By identifying yourself with it you became mortal.
Just like in a cinema all is light, so does Consciousness become the vast world.
Look closely, and you will see that all names and forms are but transitory waves on the ocean of Consciousness,
that only Consciousness can be said to be, not its transformations.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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MEDITATION

Try to be, only to be.
The all-important word is "try."
Allot enough time daily for sitting quietly and trying,
just trying to go beyond the personality with its addictions and obsessions.
Don't ask how, it cannot be explained.
You just keep on trying until you succeed.
It you persevere there can be no failure.
What matters supremely is sincerity, earnestness. You must really have had surfeit of being the person you are, now see the urgent need of being free of this unnecessary self-identification with a bundle of memories and habits.
Steady resistance against the unnecessary is the secret of success.
After all, you are what you are every moment of your life, but you are never conscious of it, except, maybe at the point of awakening from sleep.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


All you need is to stop searching outside for what can be found only within. Set your vision right before you operate. You are suffering from acute misapprehension. Clarify your mind, purify your heart, sanctity your life - this is the quickest way to a change in your world.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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You are not even a human being. You just
'are' - a point of awareness, co-extensive with time and space and beyond both, the ultimate cause, itself uncaused. If you ask me: 'Who are you?", my answer would be:
'Nothing in particular. Yet, I am.'
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj

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All is Brahman; all is blissful and peaceful.
The sense of individuality, however, is a misery.
Remember that.
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Examine yourself thoroughly:
Are you a Body-Mind?
Were you born?
Who are You?
What are You?
Find out for Yourself.!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


To hold on the word of the Guru is the Greatest Service.
For this purpose, You have to give full attention to your True Nature all the Time.!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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The Invisible Church: "In the trajectory of eternity, I built an invisible church where everyone could worship. Here, under the blue dome, illuminated by the sun, the moon, the aurora, the milky way and the lights of wisdom, gather the families of gathered stars, island universes, solar systems and the tiny earth with their millions of voters from many religions.

Each day, during the Evening Hour, the flying angels of thought soar above infinity, calling upon dumb and noisy beings to abandon their age-old sleep and join the cosmic service of awakening.

The altars of a united rhythm, hearts of blended lives, molten gold of cosmic union and electrified matter--were tenderly burning with their gentle and enchanting Presence.

The kites arrived and shed their joyful tears of light; the stars shed their sparkles at their feet of eternity, and the prodigal souls wept loving tears of remorse for the forgetful wanderers. All the flowers of the earth opened the cork of petals and loosened their liquid fragrance on their omnipresent altar.

The dew of devotion from the heart of all true tears, but constantly, forgiveness flowed upon His feet. Love, hate, light and penumbra, wisdom and ignorance, good and bad, are all gathered in the Church of all Creation.

Then a voiceless sermon of Infinite was heard in silence: a soundless song of joy filled the chalice of all lives; a silent smile of light drove away the hidden sorrow of all.

Under the spell of his sermon, love embraced hate, light embraced sadness, wisdom transmuted ignorance, good enchanted evil, many religions embraced their only faith of truth, many hearts dissolve on an altar of heart, many loves became His One pure, many souls became one Spirit of Love, and all of them - sang with one voice the choir of one religion, one life, one truth, one goal, one devotion, one love and one Spirit."
#ParamahansaYogananda


It takes very, very, VERY good karma for a person even to want to know God.
#ParamhansaYogananda


He is the wisest who seeks God. He is the most successful who has found God.
#ParamahansaYogananda


There is no form of service greater than to speak to God.
Meditation is the highest form of activity.
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TECHNIQUE TO CREATE AND DESTROY HABIT:

When you want to create a habit or destroy a harmful one, focus on the cells of the
brain, which is the repository of mechanisms of habits.
*TO CREATE A GOOD HABIT, meditate; and, concentrate on the Christian center (intercejo) deeply affirms the good habit you want to establish.
*And when you wish to ELIMINATE ONE BAD HABIT concentrate and affirm that all the vibrations of that habit are being deleted.

I'm going to tell you a story that refers to the effectiveness of this technique. In India, a man with a very bad temper came to see me. I had a habit of slapping asus bosses when I lost control so I lost one job after another. He asked me for help and I told him that every time I lost control I had to count to a hundred before acting. The
came back after a while and told me that it had only made matters worse. Su
case seemed to have no solution.
Then I told him to practice Kriya Yoga: ‘AFTER PRACTICING YOUR KRIYA, THINK OF THAT DIVINE LIGHT ENTERING YOUR BRAIN, TOUCHING IT, CALMING YOUR NERVES, ERASING ALL YOUR ANGER. Yun day your bad temper will be gone. ‘Not long after that, he came to warn me and said, ‘I am free from the habit of anger.’ I am very grateful to you. ’
I decided to give it a try. I told some guys to fight him. I hid in a park
the one I used to go through regularly to observe what was happening. The guys tried
make him mad, but he didn't reply. He kept quite.

Book "The Divine Romance" by #ParamahansaYogananda


Just one thought may redeem you. You don't realize how effectively your thoughts work in the ether.
#ParamahansaYogananda


Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it.
#ParamahansaYogananda


Modern life is becoming very unsatisfactory. It does not give you happiness. There are too many things, too many desires. More nice cars and dresses and entertainments - and more worries!
Free yourself from these so-called
"necessities" and spend more time with God. Make your life simple. Be happy in and by your Self.
#ParamahansaYogananda


God's love is the
supreme love. There's no love greater than that.
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Teach me, O Spirit, to cooperate with Your will, until all my thoughts align with Your harmonious plans.
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You should make a greater effort.
Forget the past and trust more in God. Our fate is not predestined by Him; nor is karma the sole factor, though our lives are
influenced by our past thoughts and past activities. If you are not happy with the way life is turning out, change the pattern. I don't like to hear people sigh and ascribe present failure to past-life errors; to do so is spiritual laziness. Get busy and weed the garden of your life.
#ParamahansaYogananda


Courage
Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you.
#SwamiSriYukteswar


God bears the burden ot the cosmos;
He alone can give unerring counsel.
#SwamiSriYukteswar
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Be still.
When your mind is still, you have no name, no past, no relationships, no country, no spiritual attainment,
no lack of spiritual attainment.
There is just the presence of beingness with itself.
#Gangaji

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Why is it that we humans are so wiped out? It is the constant effort to gain a little advantage that wipes us out.
Illusion means being unstable. Illusion means being controlled by the situation.
A person with big desires is easily fooled. Even the greatest conman can't profit from a person with no desires.
Buddhism means no self, nothing to gain. You must be one with the universe and all living beings.
#KodoSawaki


If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-0, or even mineral water, or saki. Meditation is
Drinking it!
#DTSuzuki


An imagined entity desires to become an enlightened imagined entity. What's the point?
It is like trying to measure space.
Yet, this will continue until such time as the distinction is made between this that I am and that that I appear to be.
#WuHsin


Since before time, l have been free.
Birth and death are only doors through which we pass.
Sacred tresholds on our journey.
Birth and death are a game of hide-and seek.
#ThichNhatHanh

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There is no forest,
There is no cave,
There is no mountaintop
Where one can hide From oneself.
#WuHsin
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The Buddha taught:
Do not pursue the past.
Do not lose yourself in the future.
The past no longer is.
The future has not yet come.
Looking deeply at life as it is in the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom.
We must be diligent today.
To wait till tomorrow is too late.
Death comes unexpectedly.
How can we bargain with it?
The sage calls a person who dwells in mindfulness night and day, 'the one who knows the better way to live alone.
#ThichNhatHanh


Every time you drink your tea, you have an eternity to enjoy drinking your tea.
The clouds stop running, the wind stops flying, and time stands still. The clouds are present in your tea. The wind is present in your tea. I am also in your tea.
#ThichNhatHanh


"Everything that has a beginning has an ending.
Make your peace with that, and all will be well!"
#Buddha
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
#LaoTzu


Look, and it can't be seen.
Listen, and it can't be heard.
Reach, and it can't be grasped.
#LaoTzu
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This is It

Always we hope
Someone else has the answer, Some other place it will be better, Some other time It will all turn out.
This is it.
No one else has the answer, No other place will be better, And it has already turned out.
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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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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


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


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


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


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


The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.
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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.
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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


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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


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


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


I am a spark from the Infinite.
I am not flesh and bones.
I am light.
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"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


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


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


Whatever this body is to do and whatever experiences it is to pass through was already decided
when it came into existence.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Investigate what the mind is, and it will disappear.
There is no such thing as mind apart from thought.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


DEVOTEE: I have not yet learnt to control my mind so l intend to seek ekantavasam (life in solitude) in North India and want Sri Bhagavan's grace.
BHAGAVAN: You have come all the way to Tiruvannamalai for ekantavasam, and that in the immediate presence and vicinity of Ramana Bhagavan, yet you do not appear to have obtained that mental quiet; you now want to go elsewhere and from there you will desire to go to some other place. At this rate there will be no end to your travels. You do not realize that it is your mind that drives you in this manner.
Control that first and you will be happy wherever you are. I do not know if you have read Swami Vivekananda's lectures. It is my impression that he has somewhere told the story of a man trying to bury his shadow and finding that over every sod of earth he put in the grave he had dug for it, it only appeared again, so that it could never be buried. Such is the case of a person who tries to bury his thoughts. One must therefore attempt to get at the very bottom from which thought springs
and root out thought, mind and desire.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Your glory lies where you cease to exist. In order to gain that state, you should surrender yourself.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


REALITY IS SIMPLE ❤

It is not good to think too much about your meditation practice. Just do it and keep on doing it until you have the firm conviction that nothing that appears in the mind has anything to do with the real you. If you pay attention to thoughts and feelings while you meditate and try to use them to evaluate how well or how badly you are meditating, you will never reach the ultimate silence. Instead, you will just get bogged down in mental concepts.

Some people are distracting their minds in so many different ways: for example, trying to make distinctions between things like turiya [the fourth state] and turiyatita [that which is beyond the fourth].

Reality is very simple: instead of trying to explain it or label it, just be it by giving up all identification with the body and the mind. This is the ultimate jnana. If you follow this path you need not get involved in any mental or philosophical complexities.

People are practicing all kinds of sadhanas to reach the Self.

Some of these methods are hindrances to jnana (meditation). Meditation can be another form of bondage if it starts from the assumption that the body and the mind are real. If this idea is not dropped, meditation will merely enhance it.
#AnnamalaiSwami

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Liberation is not an acquisition but a matter of courage, the courage to believe that you are free already and to act on it.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Humility and
Surrender make you
Realize your inner
Nature.
#SriNisargattaMaharaj


In the mirror of your mind, all kinds of pictures appear and disappear.
Knowing that they are entirely your own creations, watch them silently come and go. Be alert, but not perturbed.
This attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be. #SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Whatever you know is unreal and wherever you say you know is also unreal.
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"A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part." #SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Love takes care of everything. Love is the same as absolute awareness, pure intelligence, or the power of God. When you have enough love inside, there are truly no problems. Problems only arise when you believe you are separate and lacking love.
#RobertAdams


Once you begin to recognise the divine gifts in life, you come to see that there are so many.
Your life is abundant.
#Mooji


I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.
#Rumi


When a true lover of God goes into a tavern, the tavern becomes his chamber of prayer; but when a winebibber goes into the same chamber, it becomes his tavern.
In everything we do, it is our hearts that make the difference, not our outer appearance.
Sufis do not judge other people on how they look or who they are. When a Sufi stares at someone, he keeps both eyes closed, instead opens a third eye — the eye that sees the inner realm.
#ShamsTabrizi
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Outer eyes are the inner eyes reflection,
For outer eyes are under their direction.
#Rumi


Whatever this body is to do and whatever experiences it is to pass through was already decided
when it came into existence.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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