You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?”
Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
It is within our competence to think and become bound, or to cease thinking and thus be free.
The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.