It is not you who makes this choice for Freedom. It is Grace taking you where you must go for Freedom, the Satguru.
#Papaji
Effort is necessary up to the state of Realisation. Even then, the Self should spontaneously become evident; otherwise happiness will not be complete.
Up to that state of spontaneity there must be effort in some form or another.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
The egoless 'I am' is not thought.
It is realisation.
The meaning or significance of I' is God.
The experience of 'I am' is to Be Still.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
The egoless mind is happy in deep, dreamless sleep.
Clearly therefore
Bliss and misery are
only modes of mind.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Real death is death of the ego.
Real birth is to dwell in one's natural state.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
The Guru's
Silence is more
Vast and emphatic then all the Sastras put fogather.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Activity is weakness and consequently miserable;
passivity is strength and therefore blissful.
The dormant strength is not apparent
and therefore not availed of.
The cosmic mind,
manifesting in some rare being, is able to effect the linkage in others of the individual (weak) mind with the universal (strong) mind of the inner recess.
Such a rare being is called the GURU or
GOD in manifestation.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes,
and the grass grows by itself.
#zenproverb
Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much."
#Osho
Progress is for the mind and not for the Self.
The Self is ever perfect.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
God is only an idea in your mind. The Fact is you. The only thing you know for sure is: 'here and now I am'. Remove the 'here and now', the 'I am' remains, unassailable. The world exists in memory, memory comes into consciousnessi consciousness exists in awareness and awareness is the reflection of the light on the waves of existence.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
The mind will rebel in the beginning, but with patience and perseverance it will yield and keep quiet.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj