🕉 Nisargadatta Maharaj

You are quite satisfied with pleasures.
There is no place for happiness.

Empty your cup and clean it.
It  cannot be filled otherwise.

Others can give you pleasure,
but never happiness.

Real happiness flows from within.

🕉 Nisargadatta Maharaj

Random sayings of Sri Ramakrishna

Every religion is a path to God

The human mind trying to fathom the nature of God is like an ant trying to carry away a mountain of sugar.

By doing unselfish work,  one gains love for God; and gradually, through His grace one attains Him. One sees God, and talks with Him, just as I am talking to you.

After Realization, one sees God everywhere. He is most conspicuous in man, and among men, in pure souls - who have not the least hankering for lust and wealth

Some blind men happened to come across an elephant. Someone told them what it was and asked them to describe it as it seemed to them. The one who touched the leg said that it was like a column. The second one felt its ear and said it is like a winnowing fan. Similarly, those who had touched its trunk or belly, gave different opinions. So with God, everyone conceives Him according to his experience.

People talk glibly about the highest knowledge, but in their everyday lives they are satisfied with the things of the lower plane
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You cannot realize Him if you have the least bit of attachment in you. A thread with ever so few ragged fibers won’t pass through the eye of a needle.

So long as there is the “I” there is duality. The Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute is an ocean, within which is the pitcher ‘I’. So long as there is the pitcher, the water seems to be separate - one portion is inside the pitcher and the other outside. When the pitcher breaks, there is one mass of water; and that cannot be expressed in words. Who will do so?

Robert Adams

“I remind you again, the only difference between the sage and yourself is you see the world and you identify with it. You think it’s real.
A sage sees the world and he knows it’s a superimposition upon Consciousness. So he identifies with Consciousness.”

Swami Vivekananda

“Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, ‘Thy will be done.’ We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.”
― Swami Vivekananda

Albert Einstein

“A human being is part of the whole, called by us the “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feelings, as something separated from the rest–a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
– Albert Einstein

Chögyam Trungpa

If we face ourselves properly, fully, then we find that something exists in us that is basically awake, as opposed to asleep. We find something intrinsically cheerful and fundamentally pride-worthy. That is to say, we don’t have to con ourselves. We discover genuine one-hundred-percent gold, not even twenty-four carat. We are fundamentally awake. You might think this is just an old myth, another trick to cheer us up. But no! It is real and good.

– Chögyam Trungpa

Adyashanti

Both empathy and intelligence are aspects of your true nature, as is awareness. Awareness experienced through the heart is empathy, while awareness experienced through the mind (which is not limited to the brain) is experienced as intelligence and clarity. Awareness can, however, be experienced independently of the heart or mind as a sort of imageless, empty, aware space. But this is to experience only a small aspect of the totality of one’s true nature of awareness.
—  Adyashanti

Osho, Fame, Fortune, and Ambition

Do nothing, just be. In being all happens naturally. (227)

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj from I Am That

Let things be.  You just go on moving, enjoying whatsoever becomes available.  If success is there, enjoy it.  If failure is there, enjoy it—because failure also brings a few enjoyments that no success can ever bring.  Success brings a few joys that no failure can ever bring.  And a person who has no idea of his own is capable of enjoying everything, whatever happens.  If he is healthy, he enjoys health; if he is ill, he rests on the bed and enjoys illness.
—  Osho, Fame, Fortune, and Ambition

The Tao Te Ching

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.
—  D.T. Suzuki  

We join spokes together in a wheel,
But it is the center hole
That makes the wagon move.
We shape clay into a pot,
But it is the emptiness inside
That holds whatever we want.
We hammer wood for a house,
But it is the inner space
That makes it livable.
We work with being,
But non-being is what we use.
—  The Tao Te Ching

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Mingyur Rinpoche

When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed. ~ Mingyur Rinpoche 

Paramahansa Yogananda

The greatest romance is with the Infinite. You have no idea how beautiful life can be. When you suddenly find God everywhere, when He comes and talks to you and guides you, the romance of divine love has begun. — Paramahansa Yogananda

—Sri Aurobindo (1872 - 1950)

The utmost mission of Mind
is to train our obscure consciousness
which has emerged out of the
dark prison of Matter,
to enlighten its blind instincts,
random intuitions,
vague perceptions till it shall
become capable of this greater light
and this higher ascension.
Mind is a passage,
not a culmination.


—Sri Aurobindo  (1872 - 1950)

OM Lead me from falsehood to truth

“ OM Lead me from falsehood to truth, from darkness to light, from death to immortality.” Though One, Brahman is the cause of the many. Brahman is the unborn (aja) in whom all existing things abide. The One manifests as the many, the formless putting on forms. (Rig Veda)

Jack Kornfield

“Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.” Jack Kornfield

Volume I - The Way of Illumination

Volume I - The Way of Illumination

Section IV - The Purpose of Life

Chapter I

The first thing that a seeker after truth must realize, is the purpose of life. No sooner does a soul begin to feel sober from the intoxication of life, than the first thing it asks itself is, ‘What is the purpose of life?’ Each soul has its own purpose, but in the end all purposes resolve into one purpose, and it is that purpose which is sought by the mystic. For all souls, by the right and the wrong path, either sooner or later, will arrive at that purpose, a purpose which must be accomplished, a purpose for which the whole creation has been intended; but the difference between the seeking soul and the soul who blindly works toward that purpose is like that between the material and the maker of it. The clay works toward the purpose of forming a vessel, and so does the potter. But it is the potter’s joy and privilege to feel the happiness of the accomplishment of the purpose, not the clay’s. And so it is with the beings who are unconsciously striving towards that purpose and the souls who are consciously striving towards it, both in the end coming towards the same accomplishment; the difference is in the consciousness.