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Unless you know yourself, what else can you know?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it.
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Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.
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We grow through investigation, and to investigate we need experience. We tend to repeat what we have not understood. If we are sensitive and intelligent, we need not suffer. Pain is a call for attention and the penalty of carelessness. Intelligent and compassionate action is the only remedy.
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Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.
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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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All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it.
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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.
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There is no such thing as unconsciousness for it is not experienceable. We infer unconsciousness when there is a lapse in memory or communication.
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Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.
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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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By being with yourself, the 'I am', by watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest, with the intention to understand rather than judge, in full acceptance of whatever may emerge, because it is there, you encourage the deep to come to the surface, and enrich your life and consciousness with its captive energies.
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If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos.
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If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.
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The only difference between us is that I am aware of my natural state, while you are bemused.... We discover it by being earnest, by searching, enquiring, questioning daily and hourly, by giving one's life to this discovery.
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