Whatever can be understood or perceived can never be the eternal Truth. The Unknown is the Truth.
The root of fear is the feeling of not being what you are.
Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren't any.
You cannot change the course of events, but you can change your attitude, and what really matters is the attitude and not the mere event.
In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.
You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.
When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation the person ceases.
The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?
The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of the present moment, harmony with things as they happen.
Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.
Meditation will help you to find your bonds, loosen them, untie them and cast your moorings. When you are no longer attached to anything, you have done your share. The rest will be done for you.
To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop asking questions.
Meet you own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You need no other guide.
Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light.
The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the reader, but the paper is the common factor, always present, rarely perceived. When the ribbon is removed, typing leaves no trace on the paper. So is my mind - the impressions keep on coming, but no trace is left.
When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it.
Awareness neither dies nor is re-born. It is the changeless reality itself.
Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention. Don't look for quick results; there may be none within your noticing. Unknown to you, your psyche will undergo a change; there will be more clarity in your thinking, charity in your feeling, purity in your behavior. You need not aim at these - you will witness the change all the same. For, what you are now is the result of inattention and what you become will be the fruit of attention.
With self-awareness you grow more intelligent. In awareness you learn, in self-awareness you learn about yourself. Of course, you can only learn what you are not. To know what you are, you must go beyond the mind. Awareness is the point at which the mind reaches out beyond itself into reality. In awareness you seek not what pleases, but what is true.
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.
There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.
You have never been, nor shall ever be, a person. Refuse to consider yourself as one. But as long as you do not even doubt yourself to be Mr. So-and-so, there is little hope. When you refuse to open your eyes, what can you be shown?
Your weakness is due to your conviction that you were born into the world. In reality the world is ever recreated in you and by you. See everything as emanating from the light which is the source of your own being.
The unchangeable can only be realised in silence. Once realised, it will deeply affect the changeable, itself remaining unaffected.
It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other, that blinds you.
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