"It is your restlessness that causes chaos."
"Love is will, the will to share your happiness with all. Being happy, making happy, this is the rhythm of love."
"If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation."
"The real does not die, the unreal never lived. Set your mind right and all will be right. When you know that the world is one, that humanity is one, you will act accordingly. But first of all you must attend to the way you feel, think and live. Unless there is order in yourself, there can be no order in the world."
"Everybody dies as he lives. I am not afraid of death, because I am not afraid of life. I live a happy and shall die a happy death. Misery is to be born, not to die."
"Nothing is done by me, everything just happens I do not expect, I do not plan, I just watch events happening, knowing them to be unreal."
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
"The greatest guru is your inner self. Truly he is the supreme teacher. He alone can take you to your goal and he alone meets you at the end of the road. Confide in him and you need no outer guru."
"You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself."
"You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need."
"The very search for pleasure is the cause of pain."
"Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause."
"Give up the desire for pleasure and you will not even know what is pain."
"The world is the adobe of desires and fears. You cannot find peace in it. For peace you must go beyond the world. The root cause of the world is self-love. Because of it we seek pleasure and avoid pain."
"By all means be selfish; the right way. Wish yourself well, labour at what is good for you. Destroy all that stands between you and happiness. Be all; love all; be happy; make happy. No happiness is greater."
"Fear and greed cause the misuse of the mind. The right use of mind is in the service of love, of life, of truth, of beauty."
"Were I very rich, what difference would it make? I am what I am. What else can I be? I am neither rich nor poor, I am myself."
"Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself."
"There is no chaos in the world, except the chaos which your mind creates."
"For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing."
. "We know the outer world of sensations and actions, but of our inner world of thoughts and feelings we know very little. The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness. Incidentally, practice of meditation affects deeply our character. We are slaves to what we do not know; of what we know we are masters. Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discover and understand its causes and its workings, we overcome it by the very knowing; the unconscious dissolves when brought into the conscious. The dissolution of the unconscious releases energy; the mind feels adequate and becomes quiet."
