Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes

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• Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind. That is enough.

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  Mind, Enough, Know Yourself

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• Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear.

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  Beautiful, Fear, Real

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• Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.

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  Lost

  "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p. 144, 1973.

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• When I look inside and see that I'm nothing, that's wisdom. When I look outside and see that I'm everything, that's love. And between these two, my life turns.

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  Love, Inspirational, Wisdom

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• Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.

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  Silence, Attention

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• Realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and stop finding fault with the reflection. Attend to yourself, set yourself right; mentally and emotionally. The physical self will follow automatically.

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  Reflection, Self, World

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• To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.

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  Mind, Dawn, Prisoner

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• It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters.

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  Matter

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• If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman, or even human should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first of all abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such or so-and-so, this or that. Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing.

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  Spiritual, Thinking Of You, Ocean

  "I am That". Book by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p.316, 2005.

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• We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

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  Real, Imagination, Missing

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• There is nothing wrong with duality as long as it does not create conflict. Multiplicity and variety without strife is joy. In pure consciousness there is light. For warmth, contact is needed. Above the unity of being is the union of love. Love is the purpose of duality.

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  Spiritual, Love Is, Light

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• My actual experience is not different. It is my evaluation and attitude that differ. I see the same world as you do, but not the same way. There is nothing mysterious about it. Everybody sees the world through the idea he has of himself. As you think yourself to be, so you think the world to be. If you imagine yourself as separate from the world, the world will appear as separate from you and you will experience desire and fear. I do not see the world as separate from me and so there is nothing for me to desire, or fear.

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  Attitude, Thinking, Ideas

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• The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?

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  Silence, Different, Silence Is

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• Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the name is the natural happiness of conscious being.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Names

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• 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.

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  Memories, Imagination, Desire

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• 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.

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  Differences, Mind, Doe

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• The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging in acrobatics of the mind. Whatever you have understood, you are not. Why are you getting lost in concepts? You are not what you know, you are the knower.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Views

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• 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.

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  Attitude, Events, Matter

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• Do you realize the unimaginable greatness, the holiness of what you so casually call 'consciousness'? It is the unmanifest Absolute aware of its awareness through the manifestation, of which your mind-body is presently a part.

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  Greatness, Mind, Body

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• When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, both become just experience - painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.

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  Pain, Inspiration, Practice

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• When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.

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  Spiritual, Yoga, World

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• When you sit quiet and watch yourself,
  many things may come to the surface.
  Do nothing about them, don't react to them.
  As they have come, so will they go, by themselves.
  All that matters is mindfulness, total awareness of oneself,
  or rather, of one's mind.

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  Mind, Watches, May

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• 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.

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  Pain, Moving, Inspiration

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• Awareness neither dies nor is re-born. It is the changeless reality itself.

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  Reality, Awareness, Born

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• The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs. Of these the idea that you are the body is the worst. With the body comes the world, with the world - God, who is supposed to have created the world and thus it starts - fears, religions, prayers, sacrifices, all sorts of systems - all to protect and support the child-man, frightened out of his wits by monsters of his own making. Realize that what you are cannot be born nor die and with the fear gone, all suffering ends.

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  Prayer, Children, Lying

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