You are not what you think yourself to be, I assure you. The image you have of yourself is made up from memories and is purely accidental.
The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.
Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body, but none compels you to suffer. Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting; it is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life.
Unless you know yourself, what else can you know?
There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. The person merely appears to be, like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume and smell of the pot.
For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.
There is no such thing as unconsciousness for it is not experienceable. We infer unconsciousness when there is a lapse in memory or communication.
Whatever can be understood or perceived can never be the eternal Truth. The Unknown is the Truth.
To know that you are neither the body nor mind, watch yourself steadily and live unaffected by your body and mind, completely aloof, as if you were dead. It means you have no vested interests, either in the body or in the mind.
The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.
To see the unreal is wisdom. Beyond this lies the inexpressible.
Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren’t any.
All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance – these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss.
Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.
I am told I was born. I do not remember...
The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and for you, not by you.
To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.
Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life.
When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it.
Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and is therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily.
The mind is what it thinks. To make it true, think true.