The unexpected and unpredictable is real.
Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don’t want to suffer, don’t go to sleep.
Being oneself is completely beyond all motivation. You cannot be yourself for some reason. You are yourself, and no reason is needed.
When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the state of nonduality, all separation ceases.
When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, both become just experience – painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.
You know that you are. Don’t burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.
Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide.
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.
It is just like your tape-recorder. It records, it reproduces – all by itself. You only listen. Similarly, I watch all that happens, including my talking to you. It is not me who talks, the words appear in my mind and then I hear them said.
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.
Past and future are in the mind only – I am now.
Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.
Self-remembrance, awareness of ‘I am’ ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.
Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.
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.
Don’t try to understand! It’s enough if you do not misunderstand.
You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness.
Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.
Concentration, Full Confidence, Pure Will. With these 3, what cannot be accomplished?
It is not the right advice that liberates, but the action based on it.