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.
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.
You are already that which you seek.
The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind inward and makes it calm.
Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
The world is not outside you.
To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it’s busy or quiet? You are not the mind.
I am that by which I know ‘I am’
Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.
Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.
You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness.