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There's nothing you have to do but remember who you are. Isn't that amazing? 

All you have to do is identify with your reality and everything will take care of itself. 

Robert Adams

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Do not engage the mind much in the affairs of

the world.

Ramana Maharshi

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"Be nobody.

When you are somebody, 

there are so many duties

that even to be yourself is 

such a hassle.

When you are nobody, 

you escape from every trap.

It is immediate freedom!" 

🌻 Mooji

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The highest teaching is, do nothing. When you learn to do nothing, the mind will stop thinking all by itself, but when you do something, the mind will accumulate more knowledge, of things that you are doing, and become ever stronger, and stronger and stronger"

 Robert Adams

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THE EGOLESS STATE 

That the One Self alone is true, and all else is superimposed on It by ignorance, has been clearly stated by the Sage in many ways, and on many occasions. The Self is the Real Consciousness, and the persons and things of the world appear by the ascription of names and forms to It. 

This is expressed in the following: “The Self who is Consciousness is alone real, and nothing else. All so-called knowledge, which is manifold, is only ignorance. This ignorance is unreal, since it has no existence of its own, apart from the Consciousness which is the Self, just as the unreal jewels made of gold have no existence apart from the real gold. ( Ulladu Narpadu verse 13 )

Consciousness that is the Self, plus the names and forms created by the mind. These names and forms, says the Sage, are unreal, like the names and forms imposed on gold, calling it ‘jewels’, when in fact it is gold all the time. It is to be noted that the Sage purposely employs the word ‘unreal’ and ‘real’ to qualify ‘jewels’ and ‘gold’. Jewels are not commonly thought of as unreal. But here the purpose is to illustrate the unreality of the manifold knowledge, which is the world. The words are put in here, to make the parallelism complete and accurate. If these words were not there, some misguided disciple would twist the meaning and make it out that the Sage teaches the reality of names and forms. 

Maha Yoga Chapter 8

by K. Lakshmana Sarma

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Question: How does the mind become still? 

Anandamayi Ma: By treading the path that leads to the realization of ’who am I?’

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Why worry about something in future? It is here and now which are important.

You are always Self Realized, but only ignorant of the fact.