Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens.Collection: Spiritual
Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.Collection: Inspiration
In marriage you are neither the husband nor the wife; you are the love between two.Collection: Inspirational
In my world, nothing ever goes wrong.Collection: Positive Thinking
Use your mind. Remember. Observe. You are not different from others. Most of their experiences are valid for you too. Think clearly and deeply, go into the structure of your desires and their ramifications. They are a most important part of your mental and emotional make-up and powerfully affect your actions. Remember, you cannot abandon what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.Collection: Emotional
Who are you?”, my answer would be: “Nothing in particular. Yet, I am.Collection: Would Be
Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own....Stand still, be quiet.Collection: Meditation
Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression.Collection: Self
Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation.Collection: Inspirational
Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.Collection: Pain
In reality, time and space exist in you. You do not exist in them.Collection: Reality
To go beyond you need alert immobility, quiet attention.Collection: Needs
Imagine a dense forest full of tigers and you in a strong steel cage. Knowing that you are well protected by the cage, you watch the tigers fearlessly. Next, you find the tigers in the cage and yourself roaming about in the jungle. Last, the cage disappears and you ride the tigers!Collection: Strong
It is not the right advice that liberates, but the action based on it.Collection: Advice
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.Collection: Love
We grow through investigation, and to investigate we need experience. We tend to repeat what we have not understood. If we are sensitive and intelligent, we need not suffer. Pain is a call for attention and the penalty of carelessness. Intelligent and compassionate action is the only remedy.Collection: Pain
It does not matter much what happens.Collection: Doe
All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.Collection: Expression
The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all.Collection: Giving Up
When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail.Collection: Humanity
Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.Collection: Spiritual
Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.Collection: Love Is
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.Collection: Time
You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness.Collection: Body
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 partCollection: Light
It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind are produced by the mind itself, for its own protection, continuation and expansion. It is the blank refusal to consider the convolutions and convulsions of the mind that can take you beyond it.Collection: Spiritual
Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are.Collection: Refuse
Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words.Collection: Captured
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.Collection: Spiritual
When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer and stand apart in pure awareness, which is between and beyond the two. The personality, based on self-identification, on imagining itself to be something: 'I am this, I am that', continues, but only as a part of the objective world. Its identification with the witness snaps.Collection: Two
Watch your thoughts as you watch the street traffic. People come and go; you register without response. It may not be easy in the beginning, but with some practice you will find that your mind can function on many levels at the same time and you can be aware of them all.Collection: Inspiration
You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.Collection: Energy
The world you think of is in your own mind.Collection: Thinking
The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real Guru. All others merely show the way.Collection: Real
Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.Collection: Ideas
Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.Collection: Giving Up
Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren't any.Collection: Ideas
Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.Collection: Mind
All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well...desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing-food, sex, power, fame-will make you happy is to decieve oneself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy.Collection: Sex
Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about the present event, which the previous, or the coming do not have. There is livingness about it, an actuality; it stands out as if illumined. There is the "stamp of reality" on the actual, which the past and future do not have.Collection: Inspirational
What you need will come to you if you do not ask for what you do not need.Collection: Needs
When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.Collection: Silence
I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. Where there are no names and shapes, how can there be desire and fear? With desirelessness comes timelessness. I am safe, because what is not, cannot touch what is. You feel unsafe, because you imagine danger. Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerable and needs protection. But not you. Once you realize your own unassailable being, you will be at peace.Collection: Death
Simply look at whatever happens and know that you are beyond it.Collection: Looks
Moods are in the mind and do not matter. Go within, go beyond. Cease being fascinated by the content of your consciousness. When you reach the deep layers of your true being, you will find that the mind's surface-play affects you very little.Collection: Play
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.Collection: Spiritual
I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like. Love says "I am everything". Wisdom says "I am nothing". Between the two, my life flows. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both.Collection: Wisdom