Self

You realize, in the truth of your being, that you are the totality itself, but you have no interest whatsoever in doing anything with that knowledge, with using that knowledge.

Finally, you realize that you really don’t want to change anybody, not because you shouldn’t want to change them, because you just don’t. You might not want to be around everyone, but still you don’t want to change them.

None of this is an ideal—it’s the end of ideals. None of this is holiness; it’s the end of holiness. It’s the beginning of wholeness. None of this is something to achieve, because it’s not achievable. It’s simply what is in the truth of your being. It’s just what is. You can’t attain what’s naturally so. And nobody anywhere can ever tell you when or why, or to what degree you’ll let go of untruth; you will let go when you let go, usually when nothing else works.

When you’re living in the awakened way, in the awakened being that you are, you’re alone, and you’re finally comfortable with it. You’re alone, but you’re not lonely at all, because the only one who was ever supposed to meet you where you are—the only one who ever could meet you where you are one hundred percent—was you. 

- Adyashanti

Self

To know the Self is but to be the Self, 
For It is non-dual.
In such knowledge 
One abides as That.

('The Essence of Instruction' ('Upadesa Saram'), v. 26)

Mind

Oh mind, why struggle? Fall into the heart, drown in the ocean of your own bliss! Let what happens happen, yours is none of this!

~ Advahut Gita

Mind

Ramana Hridayam

“Once you have recognize the empty nature of mind, to allow love to rise for someone who is harming you becomes easy. 

But without that recognition, it is very hard to stop anger from arising instead, is it not? 

Look into it, and you will see that mind is what does positive actions, and mind is what makes circumstances negative.” 

~ H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Self

Q: Having heard this truth, why does not one remain content? 

Sri Ramana Maharshi : 

Because samskaras [innate mental tendencies] 
have not been destroyed. 

Unless the samskaras cease to exist, 
there will always be doubt and confusion. 

All efforts are directed to destroying doubt and confusion. 
To do so their roots must be cut.
Their roots are the samskaras. 

These are rendered ineffective by practice as prescribed 
by the Guru. 
The Guru leaves it to the seeker to do this much so that
he might himself find out that there is no ignorance. 

Hearing the truth [sravana] is the first stage. 
If the understanding is not firm one has to practise reflection [manana] and uninterrupted contemplation [nididhyasana] on it. 

These two processes scorch the seeds of samskaras 
so that they are rendered ineffective. 

Some extraordinary people get unshakable jnana after hearing the truth only once. 

These are the advanced seekers. 
Beginners take longer to gain it.

~ From Be as you are book

Shastra learning

Lectures and books are of little benefit and are useful only to
point out the way to beginners. 

The real work is done in meditation. 

As the Tamil Saint, Tayumanavar, points out in a poem, a person who sits still and silently can influence a whole country.

The force of meditation is infinitely more powerful than speech or writing. One who sits in silence, meditating on the Self, will draw a whole crowd of people to him, without his going out to anyone. 

Even books like the Bhagavad Gita, and Light on the Path,
must be given up to find the Self by looking within. 

Even the Gita says ,'Meditate on the Self.' It does not say:
“Meditate on the book of the Gita”.

I asked Maharshi why his books are in poem und song. He said
it was easier for people to learn and remember in this form.

Q: How do books help?

M: Only in that they may increase our spiritual aspiration. The study of the sacred books will not be enough to reveal the truth. So long as vasanas are latent in the mind, realization cannot be achieved. 

Shastra learning is itself a vasana. 
Samadhi alone can reveal realization. 
Thoughts cast a veil over reality. and so it cannot be clear in states other than samadhi.

- Conscious Immortality