“All that a guru can tell you is:
‘My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself.
You are not the person you take yourself to be.’”

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Madness is looking into other people’s eyes to find out who we are…

Perhaps I am a Postman. No, I think I’m a Tram.
I’m feeling rather funny and I don’t know what I am. 

~ A.A.Milne

You are what you are, timelessly, but of what use is it to you unless you know it and act on it?

 Your begging bowl may be of pure gold, but as long as you do not know it you are a pauper. You must know your inner worth and trust it and express it in the daily sacrifice of desire and fear.

 ~Nisargadatta Maharaj

I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood.

Then the knowing comes: I can open
to another life that’s wide and timeless.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

The most cowardly, irresponsible and self-defeating thing I can do is to live and die without bothering to look and see who’s living and dying. ~ D.E. Harding

In the ocean of being There is only one.
There was and there will be Only one.
You are already fulfilled. How can you be bound or free?
Wherever you go, Be happy.
~ Ashtavakra Gita 15:18

You need not worry about your worries.
Just be.
Don’t be restless about ‘being quiet’,
miserable about ‘being happy’.
Just be aware that you are and remain aware -
don’t say: “Yes I am; what’s next?” There is no ‘next’ in ‘I am’.

It is a timeless state.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

I leave my human nature to unfold according to its destiny.
I remain as I am.  ~Nisargadatta Maharaj.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

~Walt Whitman

Koan:

Vedic seers say  “The distance between you and God is ZERO”

What does this mean?