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Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you you need no other guide.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Leave your mind alone, that is all. Do not go along with it. After all, there is no such thing as mind apart from thoughts which come and go obeying their own laws, not yours. They dominate you only because you are interested in them.
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The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all.
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