Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation.
You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction. And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival. But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream.
Look at your mind dispassionately; this is enough to calm it. When it is quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not keep it busy all the time. Stop it – and just BE.
Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.
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.
Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression.
The world you think of is in your own mind.
The real does not die, the unreal never lived.
Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the name is the natural happiness of conscious being.
You can become a night watchman and live happily. It is what you are inwardly that matters. Your inner peace and joy you have to earn. It is much more difficult than earning money. No university can teach you to be yourself.
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.
Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind. That is enough.
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.
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.
All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion.
The attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.
In reality, there are no others, and by helping yourself, you help everybody else.
True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self and can be found in the Self only. Find your real Self and all else will come with it.
Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found.
Earnestness is the most important thing.