A.J. Plessner

“Go home, take charge of your father's business, look after your parents in their old age. Marry the girl who is waiting for you, be loyal, be simple, be humble. Hide your virtue, live silently. The five senses and the three qualities (gunas) are your eight steps in Yoga. And 'I am' is the Great Reminder (mahamantra). You can learn from them all you need to know. Be attentive, enquire ceaselessly. That is all.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Living in spontaneous awareness, consciousness of effortless living, being fully interested in one's life -- all this is implied.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The very hearing of it, is a promise of enlightenment. The very meeting a Guru is the assurance of liberation. Perfection is life-giving and creative.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The first is the faculty of discriminating in thoughts between truth and appearance or mere opinion. The second attribute is the correct estimation of what is inwardly true and real, as against what is merely apparent. The third rests in the practice of the six qualities already mentioned in the preceding pages: thought-control, control of actions, perseverance, tolerance, faith and equanimity. The fourthattribute is the love of inner freedom.”
― Rudolf Steiner, Knowledge of the higher worlds and its attainment