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- Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire…
- Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.
- There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a new dimension, seen…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care of…
- The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and…
- You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of being. Be with…
- With self-awareness you grow more intelligent. In awareness you learn, in self-awareness you learn about yourself. Of course, you can only learn what you are…
- You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.
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