Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
How to get rid of the mind? Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill itself. So your business is to find the real nature of the mind. Then you will know that there is no mind. When the Self is sought, the mind is nowhere. Abiding in the Self, one need not worry about the mind.
True Silence is really endless speech.
Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
The source of the ego is God.
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore it is foolish to attempt to kill the mind by means of the mind. The only way of doing it is to find its source and hold on to it. The mind will then fade away of its own accord.
The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.