Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent, Of everything you think, And of everything you do, Is for yourself - And there isn’t one.
Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role!
Never forget, what your looking for is what is looking.
Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!
It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.
We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one.
Do you realise that when you give a schilling to a beggar you are giving it to yourself?Do you realise that when you help a dog over a stile you yourself are being helped?Do you realise when you kick a man when he is down, you are kicking yourslef?Give him another kick, you deserve it!
Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.
What do you have to do? Pack your bags, Go to the station without them, Catch the train, And leave your self behind.
THIS which is seeking is THAT which is sought, and THAT which is sought is THIS which is seeking.
There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious.
All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.
Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.
Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as systems to be followed. They merely contribute to understanding. They should be for us a source of stimulation, and nothing more... Adopted, rather than used as a stimulus, they are a hindrance.
We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.
A man who is seeking for realization is not only going around searching for his spectacles without realizing that they are on his nose all the time, but also were he not actually looking through them he would not be able to see what he is looking for!
The seeing of Truth cannot be dualistic (a 'thing' seen). It cannot be seen by a see-er, or via a see-er. There can only be a seeing which itself is Truth.
What is your trouble? Mistaken identity.
In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt.
The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.
We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.
Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom.
Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity.
The practice of meditation is represented by the three monkeys, who cover their eyes, ears and mouths so as to avoid the phenomenal world.
The only real service we can render to that which we perceive and interpret in phenomenal existence as 'others' is by awakening to universal consciousness ourselves.
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