if you want to become full, let yourself be empty.
If you want to be reborn, let yourself die:
If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
#LaoTzu
Those who desire to remain intoxicated by Reality do not require artificial intoxicants.
Indulging in false things will only increase falsity, for every direction is indeed infinite.
Those who desire the truly genuine Thing proceed of themselves with great intensity so as to progress in their sadhana.
#AnandamayiMa
The mind is like water.
When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see.
When it's calm, everything becomes clear.
#Buddha
"The nature of the mind is like water, it will always flow downward. Consciousness is like fire.
It will always rise up and bring us to God"
#Amma
"All the world is only Consciousness. All is full of Consciousness only. "Yours" and "mine," also, are only Consciousness. There is nothing besides
Consciousness alone."
#RibhuGita
Between two thoughts there is an interval of no thought.
That interval is the Self, the Atman.
It is pure Awareness only.
#YogVashistha
The happiness of the world is transitory. The less you become attached to the world, the more you enjoy peace of mind.
#SriSaradaDevi
THE ORIGINAL PURE MIND
The pure mind is the mind without attachment.
It doesn't get affected by mind-objects. It doesn't chase after the different kinds of pleasant and unpleasant mind-objects. Rather, the mind is in a state of continuous knowing and wakefulness, thoroughly mindful of all it is experiencing. When the mind is like this, no pleasant or unpleasant mind-objects it experiences will be able to disturb it. The mind doesn't 'become' anything.
In other words, nothing can shake it. Why?
Because there is awareness. The mind knows itself as pure. It has evolved its own true independence; it has reached its original state.
#AjahnChah
The Buddha was not a god.
He never claimed to be a God:
He never claimed to be a son of god.
He never claimed to be a messenger of god.
He was a man who achieved NIRVANA
through human effort.