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"Let the world call you lazy for not running about like a frightened ghost. Just be quiet inside yourself. Don't bother about knowing how things should be and simply begin observing without prejudice, projections or desires. Notice how life flows of its own accord. Nothing here is a chaos, but a harmony. You are already inside this flow."
"Life cannot be against you, for you are Life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego's projections, which are rarely the truth."
"Your mantra is thank you. Just keep saying thank you. Don't explain. Don't complain. Just say thank you. Say thank you to existence."
"Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored."
"Your heart is the light of this world. Don't cover it with your mind."
"The greatest step towards a life of happiness and simplicity is to let go. Trust in the power that is already taking care of you spontaneously without effort."
"Actually, being what you are is the simplest. What is difficult is to stop being what you are not."
"Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you believe those interpretations, it is there that the suffering begins."
"When you can bear your own silence, you are free."
"There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no doer of it, no creator of this stillness. It is simply here in you, with you. It is the fragrance of your own self. There is nothing to do about this, it is naturally present. This fragrance of peace, this spaciousness, it is the fragrance of your own being."
"Day by day become more and more intimate with the inner stillness, joy and love which is the fragrance your own pure heart. Keep quiet."
"In the spiritual journey, you cannot be a wine taster, you have to become a drunk."
"Life is so much wiser and kinder than your mind imagines. Trust & Be Still."
"If you sit down and just keep quiet...you are in the state of Self-Awareness. ..keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate...not following the thought stream...not pursuing the senses, no imagination...s uch an intense Self-focusing comes without any effort...then, by itself...out of nowhere, wisdom and insights come."
"You are learning too much, remembering too much, trying to hard relax a little bit, give life a chance to flow its own way, unassisted by your mind and effort. Stop directing the river's flow!"
"Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom."
"When the raindrop touches the ocean, can it tell a story."
"It is the conditioned mind that says, 'I'm lost.' Let mind be lost. Lose your mind. Lose your mind inside your heart."
"Giving energy to the mind, is like giving your neighbour a gun to shoot you with."
"Wanting something to make you happy is a sure way to be miserable."