Useful Quotes

"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."
--Franz Kafka

"The teaching is not remote or mysterious. It is not across the sea so (that you could say), "Who will cross the sea and get if for us, so that we might be able to hear it and keep it?" It is very close to you. It is in your mouth and in your heart. So that you can fulfill it. Do not discriminate, do not reflect, do not alter, but let the mind be relaxed, For the unmodulated mind is the natural treasure of the unborn, The nondual path of wisdom-gone-beyond."
--Nagarjuna

"Lift the stone and you will find me; Cleave the wood and I am there."

"What one person has to offer to another is their own being, nothing more, nothing less."

"The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything. If one has realized, he is that which alone is, and which alone has always been. He cannot describe that state. He can only be That. Of course we loosely talk of self-realization for want of a better term."

"That which 'Is' is peace. All that we need do is to keep quiet. Peace is our real nature. We spoil it. What is required is that we cease to spoil it."

"There is no help in change of environment. The obstacle is the mind. It must be got over whether at home or in the forest. If you can do it in the forest, why not at home? Therefore, why change your environment? Your efforts can be made even now - in whatever environment you are now. The environment will never change according to your desire"

"The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is."
--Burach Spinoza

"Step aside from all thinking, and there is nowhere you can't go."

"Your either attaching to your thoughts, or inquiring. There is no other choice."

"Everyone is a mirror image of yourself - Your own thinking coming back at you."

"Reality is always kinder then the stories we tell about it."

"No one can hurt you, that's your job."

"When I argue with reality I lose. But only 100% of the time."

"You don't let go of concepts. You understand them, and then they let go of you."

"Nothing outside you can ever give you what you are looking for."

"Everything happens for me, not to me."

"You move totally away from reality when you believe there is a legitimate reason to suffer."

"There is only one problem, ever; your uninvestigated story in the moment."

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