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

“You love yourself and you want yourself to be secure and happy. Don’t be ashamed of it; don’t deny it. It is natural and good to love oneself. Only, you should know exactly what it is that you love. It is not the body that you love, it is Life: perceiving, feeling, thinking, doing, loving, striving, creating. It is that Life you love, which is you, which is all. Realize it in its totality, beyond all divisions and limitations, and all your desires will merge in it, for the greater contains the smaller. Therefore find yourself, for in finding that you find all. Everybody is glad to be. But few know the fullness of it. You come to know by dwelling in your mind on “I am,” “I know,” “I love” - with the will of reaching the deepest meaning of these words.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“What is in the world cannot save the world; if you really care to help the world, you must step out of it.”
― 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