Remember the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
#Rumi
You are searching the world for treasure, but the real treasure is yourself.
#Rumi
The path to the Truth is a labor of the heart, not of the head.
#ShamsTabrizi
This sixteen minute guided meditation from Mooji will help guide your attention back to yourself in deep peace, love and harmony. Let's just sit back, relax and listen as Mooji provides the ultimate message of truth and freedom.
"There is no need to be afraid of thoughts, because you are bigger.
You can be without thoughts, but thoughts cannot be without you. We need to understand this relationship."
#mooji
"Sometimes God challenges you to find the strength you don't have." Only like this you go beyond your imaginary limits.
You get knocked down so low that you're forced to humble yourself.
Only then when your pride and arrogance are crushed will you discover the strengths that aren't yours.
You will encounter and use the strength of God.
When you completely abandon your ego,
that miracle is possible "
#mooji
Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside.
Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you're truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence.
#ThichNhatHanh
The company of sages converts emptiness into fullness, death into immortality and adversity into prosperity.
#YogaVasistha
One day, when I was still new in the kitchen, I served Bhagavan with a few more pieces of potato than the rest. Bhagavan noticed it and got very angry with me. He turned his face away and would not look at those who were serving food. I could not make out the cause of his anger and wondered who it was who had offended him. The women who worked in the kitchen would collect around him to take leave of him in the evening after the work was over. Usually he would exchange a few words with us, inquire who was accompanying us, whether we had a lantern, and so on. That evening he gave me a sign to come near.
"What did you do tonight?"
"I don't know, Swami, have I done something wrong?....."You served me more curry than others."
"What does it matter? I did it with love and devotion.".
..."I felt ashamed
to eat more than others. Have you come all this way to stuff me with food? You should always serve me less than others.... "But, Bhagavan, how can I treat you worse than others?"
"Is this the way to please me? Do you hope to earn grace through a potato curry?"
..Out of my love for you l committed a blunder...Forgive
me, Bhagavan, I shall respect your wishes.
"The more you love my people, the more you love me," said Bhagavan, and the matter was closed. A good lesson was learned and never forgotten.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Live always in the present; there is no past or future, except in the mind.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Nirvana is perfection In the Perfect State there is neither subject nor object; there is nothing to see, nothing to feel, nothing to know. Seek and know are the functions of the mind In Nirvana there is nothing but pure Blissful Consciousness "I Am".
#SriRamanaMaharshi
If the mind becomes absorbed in the Heart, the ego or 'I', which is the centre of the multitude of thoughts, finally vanishes and pure Consciousness or Self, which subsists during all the states of the mind, alone remains resplendent.
It is this state, where there is not the slightest trace of the 'l'-thought, that is the true Being of oneself. And that is called Quiescence or Mouna (Silence).
#SriRamanaMaharshi
All these universes, humans, objects, thoughts and events are merely pictures moving
on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.
Shapes and phenomena pass away, but Consciousness remains ever.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Control the mind and even hell will be heaven to you.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
See what you are.
Don't ask others,
don't let others tell you about yourself.
Look within and see.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
"[T]he desire for bliss creates pain. Thus bliss becomes the seed of pain. The entire universe of pain is born of desire. Give up the desire for pleasure and you will not even know what pain is."
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
When you let go of your fears,
Your Expectations, and your own ideas...
You become your
"Own Light!"
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
Do you know yourself enough to know what you can do,
and what you cannot?
You do not know your own powers.
You never investigated.
Begin with yourself now.
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Before you agree or disagree,
why not investigate the very idea of a body?
Does the mind appear in the body or the body in the mind?
Surely there must be a mind to conceive the "I-am-the-body" idea.
A body without a mind cannot be "my body." "My body" is invariably absent when the mind is in abeyance. It is also absent
when the mind is deeply engaged in thoughts and feelings.
Once you realize that the body depends on
the mind, and the mind on consciousness, and
consciousness on awareness,
and not the other way round,
your question about waiting for Self
Realization till you die is answered.
It is not that you must be free from the "I-am-the-body" idea first, and
then realize the Self.
It is definitely the other way round
— you cling to the false,
because you do not know the true.
Earnestness, not perfection, is a
precondition to Self Realization.
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#SriNisargadattaMaharaj