Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you believe those interpretations, it is there that the suffering begins.
If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.
Don’t let your mind see through your eyes.
Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care...
Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.
You are learning too much, remembering too much, trying to hard relax a little bit, give life a chance to flow its own way, unassisted by your mind and effort. Stop directing the river’s flow!
I don’t have to be anything at all. I don’t even have to be myself, because there is no such thing as not being myself. I am inescapably myself.
If I could give you only one piece of advice, I would say: Don’t identify with anything. Be completely empty – no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.
We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.
Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.
The nature of illusion is that, when you see through it, it disappears.
Some people know they are dreaming when they are asleep. You must also know you are dreaming when you wake-up. When you know you are dreaming when you wake up, then you are really waking up.
There is no need to believe or disbelieve your thoughts – just don’t enter anything. They don’t distract you – you get distracted. Nothing exists in itself as a distraction – it is you who get distracted. Why?
Wanting something to make you happy is a sure way to be miserable.
If you wish to find Love, don’t look for the object of love but rather for the source of love. There you will find the Beloved.
When you are free from delusion, you can enjoy illusion. Enjoy the dream but enjoy the dream being free.
For those whose heart and whose attention is immersed in the truth, they don’t need to have to worry.
When you are free, all who come in contact with you will be blessed. Some may run away, but still they run away blessed.
The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like.
How can you say you are peaceful if you are still identified with mind?