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Wisdom 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…
- I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it…
- When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these…
- When I look inside and see that I'm nothing, that's wisdom. When I look outside and see that I'm everything, that's love. And between these…
- To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.
- 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…
- Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy…
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold