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The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Past and future are in the mind only - I am now.
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The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath worship that only, abide in that only, accept it as yourself. And when you worship in this manner, it can lead you anywhere, to any heights- this is the quintessence of my talks.
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Moods are in the mind and do not matter. Go within, go beyond. Cease being fascinated by the content of your consciousness. When you reach the deep layers of your true being, you will find that the mind's surface-play affects you very little.
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How can an unsteady mind make itself steady? Of course it cannot. It is the nature of the mind to roam about. All you can do is to shift the focus of consciousness beyond the mind.
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You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.
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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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All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance - these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss.
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Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.
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Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.
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To expound and propogate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare
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The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real Guru. All others merely show the way.
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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.
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You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.
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Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid.
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I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just try, make a beginning-it is not as hard as you think.
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To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom.
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Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own....Stand still, be quiet.
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In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.
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All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.
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Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation.
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