Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes About Inspiration

Quotes about: Inspiration

• Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Mind, Bondage

  "I am That". Book by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p. 206, 1973.

• There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Refusal

• Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

• Watch your thoughts as you watch the street traffic. People come and go; you register without response. It may not be easy in the beginning, but with some practice you will find that your mind can function on many levels at the same time and you can be aware of them all.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Practice, People

• Whatever you may have to do, watch your mind. Also you must have moments of complete inner peace and quiet, when your mind is absolutely still. If you miss it, you miss the entire thing. If you do not, the silence of the mind will dissolve and absorb all else.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Practice, Silence

• Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

• Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art of shifting the focus of attention to ever subtler levels, without losing one's grip on the levels left behind. (...) Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind had built around you. Believe me, you will not regret.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Art, Wall, Regret

• You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet, keep it quiet. Don't get bored with peace, be in it, go deeper into it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Practice, Bored

• 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, both become just experience - painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Inspiration, Practice

• Stop, look, investigate, ask the right questions, come to the right conclusions and have the courage to act on them and see what happens. The first steps may bring the roof down on your head, but soon the commotion will clear and there will be peace and joy.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

• Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body, but none compels you to suffer. Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting; it is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Moving, Inspiration

• Live your life without hurting anybody. Harmlessness is a most powerful form of Yoga and it will take you speedily to your goal. This is what I call nisarga yoga, the Natural yoga. It is the art of living in peace and harmony, in friendliness and love. The fruit of it is happiness, uncaused and endless.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Art, Hurt, Powerful

• The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Acceptance, Sight

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