quotes

real silence

Real silence is the cessation of talking — of both the mouth and of the mind. This is not the kind of silence that oppresses us. It is a very elegant kind of silence, a very powerful kind of silence. It is the silence that heals and nourishes us.  

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

be as you are

Q: What is the difference between yoga and enquiry?

Sri Ramana Maharshi :

Yoga enjoins chitta-vritti-nirodha [repression of thoughts] 

whereas I prescribe atmanveshana [quest of oneself].

This latter method is more practicable.

The mind is repressed in swoon, or as the effect of fasting.

But as soon as the cause is withdrawn the mind revives, that is,

the thoughts begin to flow as before.

There are just two ways of controlling the mind.

Either seek its source, or surrender it to be struck down by the supreme power.

Surrender is the recognition of the existence of a higher overruling power.

If the mind refuses to help in seeking the source, let it go and wait for its return; then turn it inwards.

No one succeeds without patient perseverance.

~ Be as you are

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self

ANNAMALAI SWAMI – FINAL TALKS

You are looking for satisfaction in the outside world because you think that all these objects you see in front of you are real. 

They are not. The Reality is the substratum in which they all appear. This is what you should be seeking, instead of looking for external gods in different pilgrimage places. 

An elephant is made out of wood. If we see it as wood, it is wood. But if we get caught up in the name and form, we will see only an elephant and forget that its underlying nature is wood. 

All is your own Self. This form is different; that form is different. This is more powerful; this is worse. These are all judgments you make when you see separate objects instead of having the true vision that all is an undifferentiated oneness. 

There may be different varieties of light bulbs, but the current that activates and sustains them is the same. You must learn to become one with this activating current, the unmanifest Self, and not get caught up in all the names and forms that appear in IT.

FT-79

spiritual quotes

pain

This pain is not to make you sad, remember. Thats where people go on missing.... This pain is just to make you more alert -- because people become alert only when the arrow goes deep into their heart and wounds them. Otherwise they don't become alert. When life is easy, comfortable, convenient, who cares? Who bothers to become alert?... The pain is not to make you miserable, the pain is to make you more aware! And when you are aware, misery disappears. 

~ Osho

spirit

"I am no longer the wave of consciousness thinking itself separated from the sea of cosmic consciousness. I am the ocean of Spirit that has become the wave of human life."

~ Paramahans Yogananda.

truth

Truth is not something you believe in your head.

Truth is the spirit of life itself.

It cannot be practised. It can only be discovered.

It has never lost its truthfulness.

It cannot become more truthful than it already is.

A person cannot improve it. It recognises no person.

It cannot be shared. It is before time.

It is your true Self.

~ Mooji