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Pure joy is not a state.

It’s not, 'Wow, I am having a really good time.'

Good time, bad time - such times make no difference to the Self.

You don't know what good time and bad time is.

You only know the joy of the Supreme.

You are always empty.

Inside, outside: empty.

You don't know how to measure anything.

This emptiness is not a measure.

It’s just your joy - the joy that was there from before the beginning of this world.

And it is here during the great play of the world.

And after the show of the world is over, it will still be here.

Here inside your Heart you find it. 

Mooji

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What comes must go. 

The permanent is beyond all comings 

and goings. 

Go to the root of all experience, to the sense of being. Beyond being and not-being lies the immensity of the real. 

Try and try again.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

3

The only true meditation is the constant impersonal witnessing 

of all that takes place in one's life 

as mere movements in the universal Consciousness.

Ramesh Balsekar

2

The great remedy for the long-lasting disease of samsara is the enquiry, 'Who am I', to whom does this samsara belong?' which entirely cures it.

Yoga Vasishta Sara, Chapter One, Dispassion.

1

nothing

shade

It is pleasant under the shade of a tree and scorching in the heat of the sun outside. A person toiling in the sun seeks the cool shade of the tree and is happy under it. After staying there for a while, he moves out again but, unable to bear the merciless heat of the sun, he again seeks the shade. In this way he keeps on moving from shade to sun and sun to shade. It is an unwise person who acts thus, whereas the wise man never leaves the shade: in the same way the mind of the Enlightened Sage (jnani) never exists apart from Brahman, the Absolute. The mind of the ignorant on the other hand, entering into the phenomenal world, suffers pain and anguish; and then, turning for a short while towards Brahman, it experiences happiness. Such is the mind of the ignorant.

Words of grace 

Ramana maharshi