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“Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself. ”
― Osho

“All desires actually end in freedom. Your desire is fulfilled and you are empty. The emptiness brings you happiness, but it is unconscious. You attribute your happiness to a possession, not the emptiness. It is the freedom from desire that gives you happiness.”
― H.W.L. Poonja, Wake Up and Roar: Satsang With H.W.L. Poonja, Vol. 1

“Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.”
― Sri Ramana Maharshi

“The world is made of rings. The hooks are all yours. Make your hooks straight and nothing can hold you.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“A quiet mind is all you need.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj

“To work in the world is hard, to refrain from all unnecessary work is even harder.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Go deeper, go deeper. Don't land anywhere.”
― H.W.L. Poonja

“There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.”
― Ramana Maharshi

“No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.”
― Ramana Maharshi

“The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realize the Self.”
― Ramana Maharshi

“Whatever draws the mind outward is unspiritual and whatever draws the mind inward is spiritual”
― Ramana Maharshi

“A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts. What you realize on the day you laugh is also here and now”
― Ramana Maharshi

“A dreamer dreams that everyone else in his dream must awaken before he can awaken.”
― Ramana Maharshi

“Grace is ever present. The only thing necessary is that you surrender to it. (p. 369)”
― Ramana Maharshi, Talks With Ramana Maharshi: On Realizing Abiding Peace and Happiness

“Prayer is not verbal; it is from the Heart. To merge into the Heart is prayer. That is also Grace. (p. 237)”
― Ramana Maharshi, Talks With Ramana Maharshi: On Realizing Abiding Peace and Happiness

“Live by the light of your own heart... but make sure this heart is silent and empty.”
― Mooji, White Fire: Spiritual insights and teachings of advaita zen master Mooji

“It does not matter what comes up. What matters is who you are, the one perceiving it.”
― Mooji, White Fire: Spiritual insights and teachings of advaita zen master Mooji

“You imagine a didgeridoo vibrating on your stomach will heal all your bullshit. So we fancy all this stuff, but the Truth we don’t give a second glance—it’s far too simple and effortless for your complex mind.”
― Mooji, White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji

“While the body is still warm, use this bodily life to rediscover your timeless Being.”
― Mooji, Vaster Than Sky, Greater Than Space

“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
So if you love a flower, let it be.
Love is not about possession.
Love is about appreciation.”
― Osho

“Experience life in all possible ways --
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light,
summer-winter. Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience, because
the more experience you have, the more
mature you become.”
― Osho

“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.”
― Osho Rajneesh, Everyday Osho: 365 Daily Meditations for the Here and Now

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
― Osho

“Be — don't try to become”
― Osho

“Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.”
― Osho

“Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that's what maturity is all about.”
― Osho

“Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny--he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally--you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.”
― Osho

“Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you. And you are always following other people, you are always trying to satisfy them. You are always trying to be respectable, you are always trying to decorate your ego. This is suicidal. Rather than being disturbed by what others say, you should start looking inside yourself…

Whenever you are self-conscious you are simply showing that you are not conscious of the self at all. You don’t know who you are. If you had known, then there would have been no problem— then you are not seeking opinions. Then you are not worried what others say about you— it is irrelevant!

When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don’t know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.”
― Osho

“You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.”
― Osho

“Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.”
― OshO