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“The pleasure to be is the simplest form of self-love, which later grows into love of the self.”
― I am That: Talks with Sri 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.”
― I am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
― I am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“She tried to explain to him about the level you reach, with both feet in, when you lose your fear, you lose it all, you’ve penetrated the moment, slipping perfectly into its grooves, metal-gray but soft as latex, and now the figures are dancing, each pre-choreographed exactly where it is,”
― Gravity's Rainbow
― Gravity's Rainbow
“Living in spontaneous awareness, consciousness of effortless living, being fully interested in one's life -- all this is implied.”
― I am That: Talks with Sri 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.”
― Knowledge of the higher worlds and its attainment
― Knowledge of the higher worlds and its attainment
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