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There is room for kama [desire] so long as there is an object apart from the subject, i.e., duality. There can be no desire if there is no object. The state of no-desire is moksha. There is no duality in sleep and also no desire. Whereas there is duality in the waking state and desire also is there. Because of duality a desire arises from the acquisition of the object. That is the outgoing mind, which is the basis of duality and of desire. If one knows that bliss is none other than the Self the mind becomes inward turned. If the Self is gained all the desires are fulfilled.

 (Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, talk no. 502)

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Why do you think of other things? 

Why concern yourself with your body, or your mind, or the world? 

Why bother with yourself? 

Quit trying to solve problems. 

This doesn't mean that you are going to do nothing, for as I have told you so often, your body is going to perform the acts it came here to do. If you are meant to be an accountant, you are going to be an accountant. If you are meant to be a preacher, you'll be a preacher. If you are meant to be a homeless person, you will be a homeless person. 

But you have absolute nothing to do with it. For you are Parabrahman, absolute reality, and you have absolutely nothing to do with the workings of your body or your mind. 

Allow your mind to say and think the way it will, only don't identify with it. Allow your body to do what it must, but do not react to it. Everything will happen of its own accord. When you allow your mind to think of its own accord, the thoughts begin to dissipate, and soon you have empty mind. Empty mind is consciousness, realization. That's all you have to do - have an empty mind. But as long as you believe, "I am the doer,” and you force yourself to have an empty mind, you never will, because the forcing makes the mind stronger. Rather, observe your thoughts, watch the mind thinking, and leave it alone. 

Do not identify with your thoughts, or with your body, for in realty there is no body and there are no thoughts, for there is only the self, and you are that.

~ Robert Adams, The Collected Works.