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Knowledge Quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well...desire by itself…
- Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.
- Do not try to know the truth, for knowledge by the mind is not true knowledge. But you can know what is not true-which is…
- 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.
- To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing…
- The world is an illusion. Why is it unreal? Because none of the knowledge is going to remain permanent, as real knowledge. I had a…
- Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.
- To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need nothing. Be…
- 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…
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