If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down…

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being m…

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

In the mirror of your mind all kinds of pictures appear and disappear. Knowing that they are entirely your own creations, watch them silently come an…

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your…

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

When I look inside and see that I'm nothing, that's wisdom. When I look outside and see that I'm everything, that's love. And between these two, my l…

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj