The discovery that peace, happiness, and love are ever-present within our own Being, and completely available at every moment of experience, under all conditions, is the most important discovery that anyone can make.
~ Rupert Spira
If your desires are strong and true, they will mould your life for their fulfilment. Sow your seed and leave it to the seasons.
Nisargadatta, I Am That
Either the thoughts are eliminated by holding on to the root-thought `I', or one surrenders oneself unconditionally to the higher power. These are the only two ways for realization.
Ramana Maharshi
Awaken to your true nature. There is no consciousness hiding somewhere, and you have to go and find it. Consciousness is you. Simply stop thinking. Quiet your mind. Do not plan for things. Forget about goals. Forget about desires. Simply work on quieting your mind.
Robert Adams
I live in the faith that there is a Presence and Power greater than I am that nurtures and supports me in ways I could not even imagine.
~ Ernest Holmes
By constantly keeping one’s attention on the source, the ego is dissolved in that source like a salt-doll in the sea.
Ramana Maharshi, Maharshi’s Gospel
Nobody suffers in a play, unless one identifies himself with it. Don't identify yourself with the world and you will not suffer.
Nisargadatta, I Am That, Chapter 36
Keep quiet and look within; guidance is sure to come. You are never left without knowing what your next step should be. Only what you discover through your own awareness, your own effort, will be of permanent use to you.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
How perverted are your views! Need courage be given? Your question implies that anxiety is the normal state and courage is abnormal. It is the other way round. Anxiety and hope are born of imagination — I am free of both. I am simple being and I need nothing to rest on.
Once you realize that all comes from within, that the world in which you live is not projected onto you, but by you, your fear comes to an end.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
If you want to understand how maya operates and originates, you should establish yourself in the Self, the one place where you can be free of it, and then watch how it takes you over each time you fail to keep your attention there.
Annamalai Swami
Complete surrender does require that you have no desire of your own. You must be satisfied with whatever God gives you, and that means having no desires of your own.
Ramana Maharshi
Develop the witness attitude and you will find - in your own experience - that detachment brings control. The state of witnessing is full of power, there’s nothing passive about it.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Thought doesn’t know truth; it dissolves in it. Feeling doesn’t find love; it merges in it. Perception doesn’t see beauty; it dies in it. – Rupert Spira, The Ashes of Love
Just as a character in a movie seems to travel the world but never actually leaves the screen, so thought seems to travel into a past and a future but never actually leaves the now. – Rupert Spira, The Ashes of Love