If our relationship is meaningful to you and me, it cannot be accidental. The future affects the present as much, as the past.
Unless you know yourself well, how can you know another? And when you know yourself—you are the other.
Do not look for a Guru, do not even think of one. Make your goal your Guru.
The only trouble is that you are addicted to experience and you cherish your memories.
In reality it is the other way round; what is remembered is never real; the real is now.
As the mind is made of words and images, so is every reflection in the mind. It covers up reality with verbalization and then complains.
The sentence: ‘ I can see that I am false’ contains all you need for liberation. Ponder over it, go into it deeply, go to the root of it.
The Guru only tells you the good news about your real Self and shows you the way back to it. In a way the Guru is its messenger.
There will be many messengers, but the message is one: be what you are.
There is a way out within…easy reach, not a conversion to another set of ideas, but a liberation from all ideas and patterns of living.
You are never without a Guru, for he is timelessly present in your heart. Sometimes he externalizes himself and comes to you.
Earnestness is both necessary and sufficient. Everything yields to earnestness.
Compassion is the foundation of earnestness. Compassion for yourself and others, born of suffering, your own and others.
Realize that the body depends on the mind, and the mind on consciousness, and consciousness on awareness and not the other way round.
You cling to the false, because you do not know the true. Earnestness, not perfection, is a precondition to self-realization.
Virtues and powers come with realization, not before.
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