It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other, that blinds you.
If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.
Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.
Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action - here and now. It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself. Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect - whatever your idea of perfection may be. All you need is courage.
There are always moments when one feels empty and estranged. Such moments are most desirable, for it means the soul has cast its moorings and is sailing for distant places. This is detachment -- when the old is over and the new has not yet come. If you are afraid, the state may be distressing, but there is really nothing to be afraid of. Remember the instruction: Whatever you come across -- go beyond.
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.
You must realize first of all that you are the proof of everything, including yourself. None can prove your existence, because his existence must be confirmed by you first. Your being and knowing you owe nobody. Remember, you are entirely on your own. You do not come from somewhere, you do not go anywhere. You are timeless being and awareness.
I ask you what is the taste of your mouth all you can do is to say: it is neither sweet nor bitter, nor sour nor astringent; it is what remains when all these tastes are not. Similarly, when all distinctions and reactions are no more, what remains is reality, simple and solid.
The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.
The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.
When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.
Give all your attention to the question: 'What is it that makes me conscious?', until your mind becomes the question itself and cannot think of anything else.
Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.
Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only.
Love.. is seeing the unity under the imaginary diversity.
Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.
Contemplate life as infinite, undivided, ever present, ever active, until you realize yourself as one with it. It is not even very difficult, for you will be returning only to your own natural condition.
Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.
Leave your mind alone, that is all. Do not go along with it. After all, there is no such thing as mind apart from thoughts which come and go obeying their own laws, not yours. They dominate you only because you are interested in them.
In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.
Stay open and quiet, that is all. What you seek is so near you that there is no place for a way.
There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.
As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher.
The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.
Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are.
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