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"Everyone runs after happiness and enjoyment. Yet, supreme happiness and bliss- are ever There and nowhere else. That which is eternal must be revealed, and then the question of going in search of anything does not arise."

~ Anandamayi Ma.

Reality

 Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself. 

This is the direct method, whereas all other methods are done only by retaining the ego. In those paths, there arise so many doubts and the eternal question `Who am I?' remains to be tackled finally. But in this method, the final question is the only one and it is raised from the beginning. No sadhanas are necessary for engaging in this quest.

There is no greater mystery than this - that being the reality we seek to gain reality. We think that there is something hiding our reality and that it must be destroyed before the reality is gained. It is ridiculous. A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts. That which will be on the day you laugh is also here and now.

- Be as you Are

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Just as we don't deem a dream, a dream till we wake up, the dream looks quite real while it lasts. Similarly, this waking state will not appear a dream till we wake up into jnana ( realization).

~ Ramana Maharshi

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"In the beginning, I used to ask my teacher in school about it, and the teacher sent me to the principal. And the principal called my mother. And my mother did take me to the doctor. And the first doctor said I had hay fever. And then I discussed it with some of my friends and I realized fast I'd better shut up.

Even now my family thinks I'm crazy. I told you before, during Christmas I spoke to my brother who I haven't seen in about sixteen years and he said, 'Are you still good for nothing?' I said, 'Yes, are you good for something?' But then I asked him if he was happy and he shut up."

-- from Silence of the Heart, p 357

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One should remain as witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude ‘Let whatever strange things happen, happen; let us see!' ~ Sri Ramana

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"When the house is full, the thieves will not enter."

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Only when you possess or attain something does the concept and fear of losing arise.

Only Self cannot be lost.

If you have attained peace,

mind will come back; just let it come

just watch from where it arises.

Allow the mind to run, but directing it to Now,

do not let it land in the graveyard of the past.

Clinging to the past is keeping evil association.

When you meditate, 

all these patterns will leave you.

The trick is to keep full attention on 

who wants to meditate,

because when the house is full, 

the thieves will not enter.

Don't expect and do not search and you will find it.

~ PAPAJI

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Let the mind come, but don't `have' a mind.

Mind helps you to exercise your wisdom, your own power of discernment to stay as you are and not divide yourself. When this is appreciated, you will stop fearing the mind. Gradually, as understanding deepens to reveal the Self as one's own reality, the mind becomes a friend and servant.

~ Mooji

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"Everybody lives in his own world. Not all the worlds are equally good or bad. The mind that projects the world, colors it its own way. When you meet a man he is a stranger. When you marry him, he becomes your own self. When you quarrel, he becomes your enemy. It is your mind's attitude that determines what he is to you."

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj.