66. All Search for Happiness is Misery

To know that you are is natural, to know what you are is the result of much investigation.

Either let yourself be carried by the river of life & love represented by your Guru, or you make your own efforts guided by your inner star.

If you are earnest, whatever way you choose will take you to your goal. It is the earnestness that is the decisive factor.

Truth gives no advantage. It gives you no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and the freedom from the false.

Truth can be expressed only by the denial of the false—in action.

It is useless to search for truth when the mind is blind to the false. It must be purged of the false completely before truth can dawn on it

Surely, what has no being is false.

What contradicts itself, has no being. Or it has only momentary being, which comes to the same.

The real is inconceivable and cannot be harnessed to a purpose. It must be wanted for its own sake.

Self-interest and self-concern are the focal points of the false. Your daily life vibrates between desire and fear.

Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.

Give up the bondage of self-concern and be what you are—intelligence and love in action.

The body will survive as long as it is needed. It is not important that it should live long. A full life is better than a long life.

Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire…stop thinking of
achievement of any kind.

You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing.

Live in tune with things as they are and not as they are imagined.

That which makes you think that you are a human is not human. It is but a dimensionless point of consciousness, a conscious nothing.

All you can say about yourself is: 'I am.' You are pure being—awareness—bliss. To realize that is the end of all seeking.

Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the now.

If you need time to achieve something, it must be false. The real is always with you; you need not wait to be what you are.

Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery.

It is not experience that you need, but the freedom from all experience.

To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself you need nothing.

Be what you are: conscious being and don't stray away from yourself.

Life is worthy of the name only when it reflects Reality in action.

Most of the people vegetate, but do not live. They merely gather experience and enrich their memory.

Experience is the denial of Reality.

The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable.

The mystical is most practical.