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“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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“Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your Self Realization. You are not to expect an explosion, for the explosion has already happened - at the moment when you were born, when you realized yourself as Being-Knowing-Feeling. There is only one mistake you are making: you take the inner for the outer and the outer for the inner. What is in you, you take to be outside you and what is outside, you take to be in you. The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate. You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche. That is the basic confusion and no new explosion will set it right! You have to think yourself out of it. There is no other way.”
― I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
― I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.”
― Caring Enough to Hear and Be Heard: How to Hear and How to Be Heard in Equal Communication
― Caring Enough to Hear and Be Heard: How to Hear and How to Be Heard in Equal Communication
“God comes to you disguised as your life”
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“The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.”
― Church
― Church
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