… you still kept the sense of a “me,” an “i/me.” You wanted something to take care of the “me,” but the “me” and the “problem” are connected; that’s why I say: “you must leave also the me.” And the only way you can leave the “me” – the only space left – is to be AWARENESS.
Your I Am is the most precious thing in the world. Don’t give it to anything, don’t combine it with anything. Keep it pure and un-associated and be in the living dynamic remembrance of that. Being one with it, you overcome everything, you transcend the mind. There is nothing more valuable, beyond value even, priceless, […]
The Real cannot be discovered outside yourself. All that which appears through the body, mind and senses is phenomenal and time-bound. Don’t try to become the Self. While the seeker is busy trying to reach the Self, he misses the goal of his search, which is already complete and ever present as his inner-most Being. […]
I exist’ is the only permanent self-evident experience of everyone. Nothing else is so self-evident as ‘I am’. What people call self-evident, that is, the experience they get through the senses, is far from self-evident. The Self alone is that. So to do self-enquiry and be that ‘I am’ is the only thing to do. […]
All that you need to do is find the origin of mind and abide there. Your efforts can extend only thus far. Then the Beyond will take care of itself. You are helpless there. No effort can reach it. -Ramana Maharshi
It is the changing that dies. The immutable neither lives nor dies; it is the timeless witness of life and death. You cannot call it dead, for it is aware. Nor can you call it alive, for it does not change. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Be still and know the ‘I am’ presence which is pure and untouched. Rest in presence, as presence itself. Observe that this conscious presence is not the mind, nor is it trapped inside the mind’s functioning.
Well-Being is always present and ready for us, but cannot operate when we hold on to our person, and waste our attention.
