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Spiritual Quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- Once you say 'I want to find Truth', all your life will be deeply affected by it. All your mental and physical habits, feelings and…
- The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging in acrobatics of…
- It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see your bonds as…
- Just keep in mind the feeling 'I am', merge in it, till your mind and feeling become one. By repeated attempts you will stumble on…
- 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…
- The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that only, accept it…
- When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find…
- The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable,…
- Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.
- Look at your mind dispassionately; this is enough to calm it. When it is quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not keep it busy…
- To know that you are neither the body nor mind, watch yourself steadily and live unaffected by your body and mind, completely aloof, as if…
- Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.
- The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.
- The mind exists in two states: as water and as honey. The water vibrates at the least disturbance, while the honey, however disturbed, returns quickly…
- It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind are produced by…
- Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the name…
- Life is worthy of the name only when it reflects Reality in action. No university will teach you how to live so that when the…
- Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the…
- 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…
- If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea…
- It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon…
- Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.
More Spiritual Quotes
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. — Saint Augustine
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race. — Sri Aurobindo
- India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not… — Sri Aurobindo
- I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic. — Dan Aykroyd
- Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles,… — Sai Baba
- Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man… — Sai Baba
- The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. — Richard Bach