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All that a guru can tell you is:
'My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself.
You are not the person you take yourself to be.'

There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.

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.

The root of fear is the feeling of not being what you are.

To expound and propogate concepts is simple,
to drop all concepts is difficult and rare

Do not neglect this body. This is the house of God; take care of it, only in this body can God be realized.

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.

Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.

Knowing that you are nothing is Wisdom,
Knowing that you are everything is Love.

All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it.

Whatever you come across- go beyond

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

We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am - unbound.

All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one ...

Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.

When all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love.

Life is love and love is life.

The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.

Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life

It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters.

The mind is what it thinks. To make it true, think true.

To go beyond you need alert immobility, quiet attention.

The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all.

The world you think of is in your own mind.

Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

It is not the right advice that liberates, but the action based on it.

In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.

Who are you?", my answer would be: "Nothing in particular. Yet, I am.

It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other, that blinds you.

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.

Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.

Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you ...

Give your real being a chance to shape your life. You will not regret it.

Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and needs readjustment.

The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.

Let the dream unroll itself to its very end. You cannot help it. But you can look at the dream as a dream, refuse it the stamp of reality.

Past and future are in the mind only - I am now.

Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.

Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression.

What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty.

You may try to trace how a thing happens, but you cannot find out why a thing is as it is. A thing is as it is because the universe is as it is.

I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.

Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.

When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it.

Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words.

All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.

You are not in this world. This world is inside you.

Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.

Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.

Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light.

Being oneself is completely beyond all motivation. You cannot be yourself for some reason. You are yourself, and no reason is needed.

When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.

You are not what you think yourself to be, I assure you. The image you have of yourself is made up from memories and is purely accidental.

Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.

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.

In marriage you are neither the husband nor the wife; you are the love between two.

There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.

You will get to your maturity quickly if you stay in the nothingness.

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

You're free. You've taken this burden of being a human being on yourself. You're free.

Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.

The world has only as much power over you as you give it. Rebel. Go beyond duality.

When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously.

Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.

You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

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.

The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.

Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid.

Earnestness is the most important thing.

Awareness neither dies nor is re-born. It is the changeless reality itself.

Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. The rest is a waste of time and energy.

The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call matter is consciousness itself.

We are the creators and creatures of each other,
causing and bearing each other's burden.

Easier to change, than to suffer. Grow out of your childishness.That is all.

Whatever can be understood or perceived can never be the eternal Truth. The Unknown is the Truth.

The real you is timeless and beyond life and death.

To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.

Stay open and quiet, that is all. What you seek is so near you that there is no place for a way.

Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind. That is enough.

Simply look at whatever happens and know that you are beyond it.

What kind of Yoga do you want to practice, the Yoga of getting or the Yoga of giving? ... One enslaves, the other liberates.

The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?

There is no question of going anywhere, arriving anywhere, or doing anything; you are there already.

Unless you know yourself, what else can you know?

I am told I was born. I do not remember ...

Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.

To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop asking questions.

You are already perfect, only you don't know it. Learn to know yourself and you will discover wonders.

In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.

In reality, time and space exist in you. You do not exist in them.

It does not matter much what happens.

Only the people who have gone beyond the world can change the world.

Find what is it that never sleeps and never wakes, and whose pale reflection is our sense of 'I'

Multiplicity without strife is joy.

What is the worth of a happiness for which you must strive and work?
Real happiness is spontaneous and effortless.

You cannot change the course of events, but you can change your
attitude, and what really matters is the attitude and not the mere event.

Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.

Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.