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61 " And spirituality or what you call “religion” is mainly to understand this: that you don’t require anything, you are a part of the totality, or reality. "
― Nisargadatta Maharaj , The Ultimate Medicine: Dialogues with a Realized Master
62 " All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious, the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance -- these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss. "
― Nisargadatta Maharaj
63 " When you go deep inside nothing is all there is. There is no 'I am'. The 'I am' merges in the Absolute. "
64 " Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem. By flowing with life I mean acceptance -- letting come what comes and go what goes. Desire not, fear not, observe the actual, as and when it happens, for you are not what happens, you are to whom it happens. Ultimately even the observer you are not. You are the ultimate potentiality of which the all-embracing consciousness is the manifestation and expression. "
― Nisargadatta Maharaj , I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
65 " In dream you love some and not others. On waking up you find you are love itself, embracing all. Personal love, however intense and genuine, invariably binds; love in freedom is love of all. "
66 " Consciousness is power. Be aware of what needs be done and it will be done. Only keep alert – and quiet. Once you reach your destination and know your real nature, your existence becomes a blessing to all. You may not know, nor will the world know; yet the help radiates. "
67 " You may try to trace how a thing happens, but you cannot find out why a thing is as it is. A thing is as it is because the universe is as it is. "
68 " The interval between the beginning of 'I am' (birth or waking) and when you lose it again (death or deep sleep) is called 'time. "
69 " What is religion? A cloud in the sky. I live in the sky, not in the clouds, which are so many words held together. Remove the verbiage and what remains? Truth remains. "
70 " I am’ itself is God. The seeking itself is God. In seeking you discover that you are neither the body nor mind, and the love of the self in you is for the self in all. The two are one. The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love. "
71 " The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it. "
72 " Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. All else is a waste of energy and time. "
73 " You must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless, ever victorious. Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you but your own imagination, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas, and live by truth alone. "
74 " I leave my human nature to unfold according to its destiny. I remain as I AM "
75 " There is nothing impossible in the world if you are determined. The "
― Nisargadatta Maharaj , Meditations With Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
76 " How does the personality come into being? By memory. By identifying the present with the past and projecting it into the future. Think of yourself as momentary, without past and future, and your personality dissolves. "
77 " 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. When you realize the depth and fullness of your love of yourself, you know that every living being and the entire universe are included in your affection. "
78 " Watch your thoughts and watch yourself watching the thoughts. The state of freedom from all thoughts will happen suddenly and by the bliss of it you shall recognize it. "
79 " We shall suffer as long as our thoughts and actions are prompted by desires and fears. "
80 " In the great mirror of consciousness, images arise and disappear and only memory gives them continuity. And memory is material - destructible, perishable, transient. On such flimsy foundations we build a sense of personal existence - vague, intermittent, dreamlike. This vague persuasion, “I am so-and-so,” obscures the changeless state of pure awareness and makes us believe that we are born to suffer and to die. "