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Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.
These moments of inner quiet will burn out all obstacles without fail. Don't doubt its efficacy. Try it.
The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of the present moment, harmony with things as they happen.
The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.
Do not neglect this body. This is the house of God; take care of it, only in this body can God be realized.
I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.
Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.
Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.
To find reality you must be real in the smallest daily action; there can be no deceit in the search for truth.
The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.
The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.
Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.
Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity.
Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.
All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion.
Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light.
What is the worth of a happiness for which you must strive and work? Real happiness is spontaneous and effortless.
Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid.
Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life
The attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.
One who is afraid of time becomes a prey of time. But time itself becomes a prey of that one who is not afraid of it.
Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.
Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.
The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real Guru. All others merely show the way.
Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.
All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.
Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks.
All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.
Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.
For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.
In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.
When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.
Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.
When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two.
Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.
What kind of Yoga do you want to practice, the Yoga of getting or the Yoga of giving?... One enslaves, the other liberates.
The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.
Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life.
You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.
Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and needs readjustment.
There is no second, or higher self to search for. You are the highest self, only give up the false ideas you have about your self.
Believe me, there is no goal, nor a way to reach it. You are the way and the goal, there is nothing else to reach except yourself.
Meet you own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You need no other guide.
Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words.
Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn on you.
Nobody ever fails in Yoga....It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end. When one is fully matured, realization is explosive.
If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.
The unchangeable can only be realised in silence. Once realised, it will deeply affect the changeable, itself remaining unaffected.
Being oneself is completely beyond all motivation. You cannot be yourself for some reason. You are yourself, and no reason is needed.
You are not the mind. 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.