Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.

When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously.

Once you say 'I want to find Truth', all your life will be deeply affected by it. All your mental and physical habits, feelings and emotions, desires and fears, plans and decisions will undergo a most radical transformation.

In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am - unbound.

Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide.

All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion.

In reality there are no others, and -helping yourself you help everybody else.

Past and future are in the mind only - I am now.

If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos.

When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.

To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need nothing. Be what you are--conscious being--and don't stray away from yourself.

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

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.