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Nurtureoneslife:

Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that. ~Adyashanti

The wise renounce at heart and quite forget the wondrous charms of this false world which only ruins those who trust it.   

(Guru Vachaka Kovai)

"When you want nothing and hold no identity you are home." Mooji

❤️

"Life is short, energy limited. And with this limited energy we have to find the unlimited; with this short life we have to find the eternal. A great task, a great challenge. So please don't be concerned with unimportant matters."

 What is important and what is unimportant?

In Atisha's definition, or in the definition of all the buddhas, that which can be taken by death is unimportant and that which cannot be taken by death is important. Remember this definition, let this be a touchstone. You can judge anything immediately on this touchstone.

Have you seen the touchstone on which gold is judged? Let this be a touchstone for you, for what is important: is death going to take it away from you? Then it is not important. Money then is not important, useful but not important, has no import. Power, prestige, respectability - death will come and efface them all, so why make so much fuss about them for the few days you are here? This is a caravanserai, an Overnight stay, and by the morning we go.

OSHO GITA

If you refrain from looking at this or that or any other object then by that overpowering look into absolute Being you become yourself the boundless space of pure Awareness which alone is real Being. 

Guru Vachaka Kovai

Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that. ~Adyashanti

D: Wars are going on in the world. If we do not think, do the wars cease?

M: Can you stop the wars? He who made the world will take care of it.

D: God made the world and He is not responsible for the present condition of the world. It is we who are responsible for the present state.

M: Can you stop the wars or reform the world?

D: No

M: Then why do you worry yourself about what is not possible for you? Take care of yourself and the world will take care of itself .

"Thoughts appear and disappear 

but they are not "mine" 

so they don't bother me. 

Let them come, let them go. 

What does it matter? 

They are nothing to do with me."

- Papaji

The Goal of Human Life is the Realization of the Ultimate Reality that alone can give man supreme fulfillment and everlasting peace.

~  Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Thakur (1836-1886)

❓ Neighbour: “What is discrimination?”

Sri Ramakrishna: “That only God is real (Sat), all else is unreal (Asat). Thinking this way is discrimination. ‘Real’ means eternal, and ‘unreal’ means transient. Whoever has attained discrimination knows, that God is the only reality, that all else is unreal. When you’ve developed discrimination, you want to know God. If you are inclined to the unreal, you like physical comforts, name and fame, money, and all these things. You don’t feel the need to know God, who is Reality Himself. When you know the difference between the real and the unreal, only then will you want to seek God. … You attain discrimination only when dispassion comes to the mind. When you have attained discrimination, you begin to think of the truth. Then the mind has the desire to stroll under the Kalpataru (wish-fulfilling tree) of Kali. When you are under this tree, when you are near God, the four fruits come to you effortlessly. You have only to pick them up – the fruits of dharma (righteousness), artha (wealth), kama (fulfillment of legitimate desires) and moksha (Liberation). When a householder attains Him, whatever he needs – dharma, artha, or kama – he gets”.

Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna

("Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita" word to word translation by Sri Dharm Pal Gupta, V1, Section IX, Chapter II, “Visit to the House of Jaygopal Sen”, 28 November 1883, pp. 205-6)

"To cease to identify yourself with the mind is all that is required."

(Day by Day with Bhagavan)

Stay away from the people who always speaks negative , discouraged rather than encourage.