Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes

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

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  Matter

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• Having never left the house you are looking for the way home

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  Home, House, Awakening

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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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• 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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• 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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• Believe me, there is no goal, nor a way to reach it. You are the way and the goal, there is nothing else to reach except yourself.

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  Believe, Goal, Way

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• Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.

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  Simple, Goal, Tasks

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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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• There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a new dimension, seen from which the previous ones are mere abstractions. Just like on sunrise you see things as they are, so on self-realization you see everything as it is. The world of illusions is left behind.

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  Self, Sunrise, Dimensions

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• You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need

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  Needs, Asking

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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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• There is no need of a way out! Don't you see that a way out is also part of the dream All you have to do is see the dream as dream. ...Wherever it leads you, it will be a dream. The very idea of going beyond the dream is illusory. Why go anywhere Just realize that you are dreaming a dream you call the world and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another. Love all, or none of it, and stop complaining. When you have seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs be done.

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  Dream, Ideas, Complaining

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• Give up the idea of being a person, that is all. You need not become what you are anyhow. There is the identity of what you are and there is the person superimposed on it. All you know is the person, the identity - which is not a person - you do not know, for you never doubted, never asked yourself the crucial question: 'Who am I?'

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  Giving Up, Ideas, Identity

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• In the mirror of your mind all kinds of pictures appear and disappear. Knowing that they are entirely your own creations, watch them silently come and go. Be alert, but not perturbed. This attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.

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  Attitude, Yoga, Knowing

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• You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over.

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  Ignorance, Knowing, Opposites

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• A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet.

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  Mind, Needs, Quiet

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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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