You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and stop finding fault with the reflection. Attend to yourself, set yourself right; mentally and emotionally. The physical self will follow automatically.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it i... by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.

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Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear. by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.

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Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear.

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We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by e... by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

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When you sit quiet and watch yourself, by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

When you sit quiet and watch yourself,

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Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind.... by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind. That is enough.

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To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdo... by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.

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If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman, or even human should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first of all abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such or so-and-so, this or that. Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing.

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A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. 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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There is no need of a way out! Don't you see that a way out is also part of the dream All you have to do is see the dream as dream. ...Wherever it leads you, it will be a dream. The very idea of going beyond the dream is illusory. Why go anywhere Just realize that you are dreaming a dream you call the world and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another. Love all, or none of it, and stop complaining. When you have seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs be done.

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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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You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for wha... by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need

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Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love. by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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It has nothing to do with effort. Just turn away, look between the thoughts, rather than at the thoughts. When you happen to walk in a crowd, you do not fight every man you meet, you just find your way between. When you fight, you invite a fight. But when you do not resist, you meet no resistance. When you refuse to play the game, you are out of it.

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The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs. Of these the idea that you are the body is the worst. With the body comes the world, with the world - God, who is supposed to have created the world and thus it starts - fears, religions, prayers, sacrifices, all sorts of systems - all to protect and support the child-man, frightened out of his wits by monsters of his own making. Realize that what you are cannot be born nor die and with the fear gone, all suffering ends.

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It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters. by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters.

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Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.

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Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention. Don't look for quick results; there may be none within your noticing. Unknown to you, your psyche will undergo a change; there will be more clarity in your thinking, charity in your feeling, purity in your behavior. You need not aim at these - you will witness the change all the same. For, what you are now is the result of inattention and what you become will be the fruit of attention.

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