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Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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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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It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters.
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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.
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No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is in its natural state, it reverts to silence spontaneously after every experience, or, rather, every experience happens against the background of silence.
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The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of the present moment, harmony with things as they happen.
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Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.
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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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The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all.
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The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.
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Give your real being a chance to shape your life. You will not regret it.
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