Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.Collection: Peace
I am that by which I know 'I am'Collection: Knows
The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.Collection: Mind
In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.Collection: Light
Concentration, Full Confidence, Pure Will. With these 3, what cannot be accomplished?Collection: Attitude
Love.. is seeing the unity under the imaginary diversity.Collection: Love Is
Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.Collection: Inspiration
It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters.Collection: Matter
The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.Collection: Meditation
Leave your mind alone, that is all. Do not go along with it. After all, there is no such thing as mind apart from thoughts which come and go obeying their own laws, not yours. They dominate you only because you are interested in them.Collection: Law
In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.Collection: Silence
Stay open and quiet, that is all. What you seek is so near you that there is no place for a way.Collection: Way
In nature nothing is at standstill, everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep and waking - birth and death - everything comes and goes in waves. Rhythm, periodicity, harmonious alternation of extremes is the rule. No use rebelling against the very pattern of life.Collection: Heart
You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet, keep it quiet. Don't get bored with peace, be in it, go deeper into it.Collection: Inspiration
The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.Collection: Love
Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only.Collection: Reality
There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.Collection: Inspiration
It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other, that blinds you.Collection: Ideas
A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet.Collection: Mind
Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.Collection: Self
As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher.Collection: Dark
It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see your bonds as self-created and break the chains of attachment and revulsion. Keep in mind your goal of freedom, until it dawns on you that you are already free, that freedom is not something in the distant future to be earned with painful efforts, but perennially one's own, to be used! Liberation is not an acquisition but a matter of courage, the courage to believe that you are free already and to act on it.Collection: Spiritual
Do you realize the unimaginable greatness, the holiness of what you so casually call 'consciousness'? It is the unmanifest Absolute aware of its awareness through the manifestation, of which your mind-body is presently a part.Collection: Greatness
The moment you know your real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power. To be free in the world, you must die to the world. Then the universe is your own, it becomes your body, an expression and a tool. The happiness of being absolutely free is beyond description.Collection: Real
All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it.Collection: Want
It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Asking Questions
The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the reader, but the paper is the common factor, always present, rarely perceived. When the ribbon is removed, typing leaves no trace on the paper. So is my mind - the impressions keep on coming, but no trace is left.Collection: Reading
All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.Collection: Play
You have never been, nor shall ever be, a person. Refuse to consider yourself as one. But as long as you do not even doubt yourself to be Mr. So-and-so, there is little hope. When you refuse to open your eyes, what can you be shown?Collection: Eye
There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself" since you do not know yourself. Just be.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Differences
You need not know what you are. Enough to know what you are not. What you are you will never know, for every discovery reveals new dimensions to conquer. The unknown has no limits.Collection: Discovery
You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not needCollection: Needs
The root of fear is the feeling of not being what you are.Collection: Roots
It has nothing to do with effort. Just turn away, look between the thoughts, rather than at the thoughts. When you happen to walk in a crowd, you do not fight every man you meet, you just find your way between. When you fight, you invite a fight. But when you do not resist, you meet no resistance. When you refuse to play the game, you are out of it.Collection: Fighting
There is no question of going anywhere, arriving anywhere, or doing anything; you are there already.Collection: Inspirational
The world has only as much power over you as you give it. Rebel. Go beyond duality.Collection: Giving
You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.Collection: Spiritual
When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation the person ceases.Collection: Memories
Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination.Collection: Imagination
Your weakness is due to your conviction that you were born into the world. In reality the world is ever recreated in you and by you. See everything as emanating from the light which is the source of your own being.Collection: Peace
Don’t try to understand! It’s enough if you do not misunderstand.Collection: Unity
Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention. Don't look for quick results; there may be none within your noticing. Unknown to you, your psyche will undergo a change; there will be more clarity in your thinking, charity in your feeling, purity in your behavior. You need not aim at these - you will witness the change all the same. For, what you are now is the result of inattention and what you become will be the fruit of attention.Collection: Thinking
Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action - here and now. It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself. Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect - whatever your idea of perfection may be. All you need is courage.Collection: Wisdom
There are always moments when one feels empty and estranged. Such moments are most desirable, for it means the soul has cast its moorings and is sailing for distant places. This is detachment -- when the old is over and the new has not yet come. If you are afraid, the state may be distressing, but there is really nothing to be afraid of. Remember the instruction: Whatever you come across -- go beyond.Collection: Mean