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Emptiness is emptiness. San Francisco or Delhi. Wherever you go, the emptiness surrounds you. Silence will follow you wherever you go.

~ Sri Poonjaji 'Papaji'

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When there is a hurricane, at the center of the hurricane there is a peaceful spot. The center is peace. There is nothing happening in that center. When there is disharmony going on, anger, frustration, fear. At the center of the anger there is peace. At the center of the fear there is peace. If you can only dive in there long enough and dive past the external condition and dive into the peace. Then you will become one with the peace and the anger will dissipate, it will be gone, it will disappear. Due to the fact in reality the anger never existed. The fear never existed. Only the Self exists, consciousness, pure awareness. And that is at the center of yourself and the condition.

Robert Adams

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The thinker himself cannot possibly effect the cessation of thought. Insofar as he is involved in the thought of ceasing to think, he himself is the perpetuation of thought. But if the thought process is merely watched or impartially witnessed, it will subside on its own and take the thinker with it.

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Spiritual practices are based on the false identification of the seeker with the ego and its efforts, attributing to the Self various defects and limitations conceived by the ego. But the manifestation of the universe is itself an illusion in which the same ego is included only as a helpless and finite part. So who is to make any effort, and for what? That Self which is sought through Self-enquiry is already realized because there is nothing but the Self.

Ramesh Balsekar 

7 December

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Seekers of Truth, 

Whatever is born out of time, you need not be concerned about. Let life take care of that. Let life take care of life. Keep quiet and let your mind rest inside your heart. Don't worry. Right now belongs only to now. 

Just be now. There are no demands, requirements and conditions. You are simply here. As you confirm this and pay attention to this simple fact, the whole world becomes a harmony right in front of you.

🌼 Mooji

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If you live with the conviction that God is in the closest contact with you, you will gradually discover that there is nothing but God. 

- Ma Anandamayi

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The secret to happiness is to be yourself and find that inner reservoir of peace we have all been gifted with. Just be yourself!

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Wherever the mind wanders, 

restless and diffuse in its search for satisfaction without, 

lead it within; 

train it to rest in the Self. 

Abiding joy comes to those who still the mind. 

Freeing themselves from the taint of self-will, with their consciousness unified, they become one with Brahman.

🕉 Bhagvad Gita. Chapter 6. Verses 26 & 27.

✅ Meditation

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"The mind is like the moon, deriving its light of consciousness from the Self, which thus resembles the Sun. Hence when the Self begins to shine, the mind, like the moon, becomes useless."

~ Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi 

(from 'Maha Yoga')

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All the "me’s" and "you’s" are merely the objective expression of the one subjective "I." The sudden realization of this often reduces the individual to a state of explosive, uncontrollable laughter at the primeval joke that is this whole illusion of creation.

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Our natural state, as an intrinsic part of the Totality, is one of utter relaxation. It is only the separation from this Totality (through our illusion of free-will) that brings out fear, aggression and the tension of insecurity. And it is only through surrender to this Totality that all such unnatural tensions are eliminated from our system.

Ramesh Balsekar 

8 December

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If a powerful light shines, it does not need 

to tell the darkness: “please go away”. 

In the presence of such a powerful light, all darkness disappears. 

The jnani spontaneously radiates a spiritual light that 

automatically disperses the darkness of spiritual ignorance. 

Annamalai Swami

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