Be mindful of your self-talk. It's a conversation with the Universe.
#WuWei
When the five senses and the mind are stilled, when the reasoning intellect rests in silence, then begins the highest path.
#The KathaUpanishad
Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity.
You are God's lover, yet you worry what people are saying.
#Rumi
God looks not at your form, nor at your deeds, but at your Heart.
#Rumi
Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
#RamDass
We have closed down that intuitive heart way of knowing the universe and substituted for it the intellectual way. Knowing is a conceptual analytic structure, so we think about everything to know whether we know it or not. If we know each other through our minds and through our needs and through our personality, through our ego structures, we are always separate from each other, we are always like objects to each other, and the heart is never fed. There is another way.
#RamDass
The only Lasting beauty is the Beauty of the Heart.
Consciousness sleeps in minerals, dreams in plants, wakes up in animals,
and becomes self-aware in humans.
#Rumi
Burn the forest of duality with the fire of the conviction, "I am the one pure Consciousness' and remain happy.
#YogaVasishta
True wisdom comes from within. It is not available from outside. Real knowledge is not 'knowing' but
'self-discovering'.
#Gyaneshwar
ONE IN TEN MILLION
Priest: What does Ma consider the most essential thing in life?
Anandamayi Ma: To try and find out 'Who am I'. To try to know that which has brought into existence one's body and mind. This also may become the search after God. But the first thing is to conceive the desire to know oneself. Finding one's Self, one has found God and finding God one has found one's Self — the one Atma.
Q: Are there many people who succeed in this quest?
Ma: Quite a number attain to some siddhi [a degree of attainment] or mukti [liberation], but only one in ten million arrives at complete Realization. It is very, very rare.
Question: Do you think you have reached the ultimate state?
Ma: (Laughs) Whatever you believe me to be, that I am.
Q: From what moment did you have that Realization?
Ma: When was I not?
#AnandamayiMa
"Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God."
#ParamahansaYogananda
*Shapeless awareness
I am the Self,
the witness of Consciousness, pure awareness.
I um not un object in consciousness but its Source, its witness,
pure shupeless awureness.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
The source of everything is one's own Self,
and if one realises the Self, one will not find anything different from the Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
What is mind after all?
It is a projection of the Self.
See for whom it appears and from where it rises.
The I'-thought will be found to be the root-cause.
Go deeper.
The I-thought disappears and there is an infinitely expanded I'-consciousness.
When it puts on limitations it appears as individuals.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
The present difficulty is that man thinks he is the doer.
But it is a mistake, It is the higher power which does everything and man is only a tool.
If he accepts that position he is free from troubles, otherwise he courts them.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
It is the feeling 'I work' that is the hinderance.
Remember who you are. Then the work will not bind you. It will go on automatically. Make no effort either to work or to renounce; your effort is the bondage. What is destined to happen will happen. So leave it to the Higher Power. It is not really your choice whether you renounce or retain.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Keep your mind still.
That is enough.
The aim of all practices is to give up all practices.
When the mind becomes still, the power of the Self will be experienced.
The Self is all-pervading;
if the mind is in peace, then one begins to experience it.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Soul, mind, ego are mere words. There are no true entities of the kind.
Consciousness is the only truth.
#SriRamanaMaharshi