We are the creators and creatures of each other, causing and bearing each other's burden.
Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life.
There is no second, or higher self to search for. You are the highest self, only give up the false ideas you have about your self.
The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens.
To expound and propogate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare
Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.
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.
Use your mind. Remember. Observe. You are not different from others. Most of their experiences are valid for you too. Think clearly and deeply, go into the structure of your desires and their ramifications. They are a most important part of your mental and emotional make-up and powerfully affect your actions. Remember, you cannot abandon what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.
Who are you?”, my answer would be: “Nothing in particular. Yet, I am.
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.
Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression.
Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation.
In reality, time and space exist in you. You do not exist in them.
Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.
Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care of itself. You do not tidy up a dark room. You open the windows first. Letting in the light makes everything easy. So, let us wait with improving others until we see ourselves as we are/ and have changed. There is no need to turn round and round in endless questioning; find yourself and everything will fall into its proper place.
It is not the right advice that liberates, but the action based on it.
To go beyond you need alert immobility, quiet attention.
Imagine a dense forest full of tigers and you in a strong steel cage. Knowing that you are well protected by the cage, you watch the tigers fearlessly. Next, you find the tigers in the cage and yourself roaming about in the jungle. Last, the cage disappears and you ride the tigers!
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.
Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and is therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily.
It does not matter much what happens.
All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.
Knowing that you are nothing is Wisdom, Knowing that you are everything is Love.
All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion.
The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all.
