` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` The further one goes, the more difficulties there are; one finds greater faults in oneself as one advances...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` You are beyond happiness itself. You are that place where the waves of happiness arise from. Find that...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` The knowledge of Truth comes about when dispassion arises in a man after he has learned from personal...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Enlightenment consciously chosen means to relinquish your attachment to past and future and to make the Now...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Vain, boastful talk repels acts of kindness and tears the branch of mercy from the trunk of the tree. Speak...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Just because you think or feel that something is true, it still doesn't make it true. Thoughts and feelings...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Life sinks down. We leave. We keep walking day and night, and come back where we began. There is some mysterious...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` The fundamental and unchangeable fact is that there is no human being who can perform any act on his own, any...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Do not undervalue attention. It means interest and also love. To know, to do, to discover, or to create you...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek instead what they sought. - Chinese parable ` ` ` `...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` If this me is not I, then who am I? If I am not the one who speaks, then who does? If this me is only a robe then who...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` As the river surrenders to the Ocean, surrender yourself to the Self, the Source. And if you find you are...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` The highest good is like water. Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive. It flows...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` While we remain locked within the experience of being separate individuals having to negotiate with ...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Man becomes what he believes himself to be. Abandon all ideas about yourself and you will find yourself to be the...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` He who looks at the foam speaks of mystery, but he who looks at the sea is full of wonder. He who looks at...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` When the compulsive striving away from the Now ceases, the joy of Being flows into everything you do. The...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Mukti or liberation is our nature. It is another name for us. Our wanting mukti is a very funny thing....
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` The universe is uncaused, like a net of jewels in which each is only the reflection of all the others in a...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` All judging of others creates an implied hierarchy into which a personal "you" struggles to fit in. ...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` As long as you have an "I" you won't be allowed in. Once you are annihilated you will be treasured like...
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` Remember to remember: `whatever happens - happens because I am. All reminds you that you are. Take full advantage...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lovers, who die knowingly, die like sugar before their Beloved. On the day of Alast they drank the Water of Life --...