Camila

“You do not tidy up a dark room. You open the windows first. Letting in the light makes everything easy. So, let us wait to improve others until we have seen ourselves as we are - and have changed.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“If you take people to be what they think themselves to be, you will only hurt them as they hurt themselves so grievously all the time. But if you see them as they are in reality, it will do them enormous good.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Increase and widen your desires until nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means, be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Each pleasure is wrapped in pain. You soon discover that you cannot have one without the other … Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances … Real happiness flows from within.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj