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.
Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light.
You are not in this world. This world is inside you.
Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life.
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.
The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging in acrobatics of the mind. Whatever you have understood, you are not. Why are you getting lost in concepts? You are not what you know, you are the knower.
Having never left the house you are looking for the way home.
Stay open and quiet, that is all. What you seek is so near you that there is no place for a way.
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.
You have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the spell and be free.
All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one...
You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.
No particular thought can be mind’s natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is in its natural state, it reverts to silence spontaneously after every experience, or, rather, every experience happens against the background of silence.
All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.
Inquire, investigate, doubt yourself and others. To find truth, you must not cling to your convictions; if you are sure of the immediate, you will never reach the ultimate. Your idea that you were born and that you will die is absurd – both logic and experience contradict it.
The world has only as much power over you as you give it. Rebel. Go beyond duality.
Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination.
Deepen and broaden your awareness of yourself and all the blessings will flow. You need not seek anything, all will come to you most naturally and effortlessly.
Forget the known, don’t be all the time immersed in your experiences.
Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don’t disturb your mind with seeking.