Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes - Page 4

All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it.

You are not what you think yourself to be, I assure you. The image you have of yourself is made up from memories and is purely accidental.

Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.

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.

The moment you know your real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power. To be free in the world, you must die to the world. Then the universe is your own, it becomes your body, an expression and a tool. The happiness of being absolutely free is beyond description.

When effort is needed, effort will appear. When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself. You need not push life about. Just flow with it and give yourself completely to the task of the present moment.

It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life

You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet, keep it quiet. Don't get bored with peace, be in it, go deeper into it.

Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination.

The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become.

The world you think of is in your own mind.

Stay open and quiet, that is all. What you seek is so near you that there is no place for a way.

The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real Guru. All others merely show the way.

The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.

To see myself in everybody, and everybody in myself, most certainly is love.

Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren't any.

Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.

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.

Simply look at whatever happens and know that you are beyond it.

If you imagine yourself as separate from the the world, the world will appear as separate from you and you will experience desire and fear. I do not see the world as separate from me and so there is nothing for me to desire, or fear.

All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well...desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing-food, sex, power, fame-will make you happy is to decieve oneself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy.

Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.

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.

Give all your attention to the question: 'What is it that makes me conscious?', until your mind becomes the question itself and cannot think of anything else.