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"It is by yearning and pining for Him that the One is found. 

In times of adversity and distress as well as in times of well-beings and good fortunes, 

try to seek refuge in the One alone. 

Keep in mind that whatever He does is wholly for the best. 

He is the fountain of goodness."

~ Anandamayi MA

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If you make human company too important you will not discover your true Self. Relationships not based in truth are never entirely reliable and are rarely enduring.

Taking time to discover yourself is the best use of time.

Prioritise this.

One should not excessively seek partners or friends, one should seek to know and be oneself. As you begin to awaken to the Truth, you start noticing how well life flows by itself and how well you are cared for. Life supports the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs of the one who is open to self-discovery. Trust opens your eyes to the recognition of this. Surrender allows you to merge in your own eternal being.

~ Mooji

Monte Sahaja, November 2012

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Our so-called Pandits will talk big. They will talk of Brahman, of God, of the Absolute, of Jnana Yoga, of philosophy, of ontology, and the rest. But there are very few, who have realized, what they talk about. The rest are dry and hard, and are good for nothing.

To explain God after merely reading the scriptures is like explaining to a person the city of Banaras after seeing it only in a map.

Those, who have read a little, become puffed up with pride. I had a conversation with a certain person on God. He said: "Oh, I know all this". I said to him: "Does one, who has been to Delhi, go about boasting of it? Does a gentleman ever tell us that he is a gentleman?"

That knowledge, which purifies the mind and heart, alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

In the kingdom of God, reason, intellect and learning are of no avail. There the dumb speak, the blind see, and the deaf hear. 

Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna

("Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna”, Sri Ramakrishna Math, Mylapore, Madras, BOOK I Man and the World, Ch. V, Bondage of Book-learning, Barrenness of Mere Book-Learning, 138, 140, 144, 145, 148)

solitude

Being alone means you are established firmly in the here and the now and you become aware of what is happening in the present moment.

You use your mindfulness to become aware of every feeling, every perception you have. You're aware of what's happening around you in the sangha, but you're always with yourself, you don't lose yourself.

That's the Buddha's definition of the ideal practice of solitude: not to be caught in the past or carried away by the future, but always to be here, body and mind united, aware of what is happening in the present moment.

That is real solitude.

🧘‍♂️ Thich Nhat Hanh

quite mind

A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. 

As the sun on rising makes the world 

active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. 

In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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I am going to tell you something now that you don't hear very often in the world,

and I use myself as an example for you.

If you want to go all the way, give up the sense that you have any rights in life.

Have no right at all. Have no rights for anything.

Then everything is a gift.

When you don't deserve anything, everything is a gift.

Just try.

Just for you. Okay?

This is not a political decision.

Give up this sense that you have rights, that life owes you something, and feel the space that remains. Maybe, initially, you will feel vulnerability like, 'Oh my God, I can't stand up for my rights. I will be abused.' But go beyond this feeling.

Sacrifice it for a greater truth.

You must begin to think with your God-mind.

God does not have rights.

God does not need any rights.

You have to be like God.

Give up this sense you have rights.

You wish to go all the way?

Give up pride also.

Give up future too.

If you give up future, you give up past also.

Just for you. You don't have to tell anybody.

And give up this dependency, 'Who will be here for me?'

And give up projections such as, ‘Yes, in two years time

I will be in a solid relationship and I will own my own apartment.’

There is nothing so great about that.

It just keeps you being a sucker.

You don't want to be a sucker.

There is greater than this to come.

You miss the full adventure and power

that comes from the Holy spirit if you start to choose for yourself.

If you feel to choose for yourself, He will leave you to choose for yourself.

But as soon as you give up this sense of rights; if you say,

'You give me the sense of choice. You are my choice,'

then something else will happen.

In the world nobody tells you this.

There you have to be proud and say, 'Listen, I have rights!'

When I have rights, the world has done me a lot of wrongs.

Give up pride.

Pride in being a woman.

Pride in being beautiful.

Pride in being accomplished in something.

Pride that you are a certain race, religion or nation.

Give up all of these things.

They belong to the devil.

They don't belong to you.

And experience what remains.

A great space will open inside your Heart.

Huge humility.

Huge acceptance, love, wisdom and freedom

as you experience integration with the cosmic being.

And no force on earth can manipulate or bind you, 

because you have made yourself empty of all that makes a 'person'.

Why think it is so great to be a person?

For a while we have to taste that state of personhood,

but there must come a time when you return to purity.

Come back to your purity, your original being!

You ask, ‘How?’

Collapse at God's feet. 

This is no ordinary fall. 

It is not falling down.

It is falling upwards into the embrace of the Living God.

~ Mooji

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