"It is only your self-identification with your mind……" — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
"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 self-created and break the chains of attachment and revulsion. Keep in mind your goal of freedom, until it dawns on you that you are already free, that freedom is not something in the distant future to be earned with painful efforts, but perennially one's own, to be used! Liberation is not an acquisition but a matter of courage, the courage to believe that you are free already and to act on it."
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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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224 Quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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