“If you hear a voice within you saying, ‘You are not a painter,’ then by all means paint … and that voice will be silenced.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“You may have a great learned mind; that is perfectly okay, put it aside. You may have a very ordinary mind, uneducated; no matter, just put it by the side of the great scholar’s mind. Mind has no value here. The value arises only when mind is no more there. Then you start growing into a different dimension, which can only be called existential.”
— Osho
“When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with a sense of self. This is the ego, a mind-made “me.” That mentally constructed self feels incomplete and precarious. That’s why fearing and wanting are its predominant emotions and motivating forces.”
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“Your conduct matters a great deal. What’s in your mind matters even more.”
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“When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.”
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“Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Through allowing, you become what you are: vast, spacious. You become whole. You are not a fragment anymore, which is how the ego perceives itself. Your true nature emerges, which is one with the nature of God.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy.”
— C. JoyBell C.
“Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.”
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“See how you function, watch the motives and the results of your actions. Study the prison you have built around yourself by inadvertence. By knowing what you are not, you come to know your self.”
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Dont believe your thoughts.
I am the body is a thought.
I am the mind is a thought.
I am the doer is a thought.
Worry is only a thought.
Fear is only a thought.
Death is only a thought.”
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~ Sri Ramana
“Beloved, remember,
Love without clinging,
Give without demanding,
Receive without possessing,
Perceive without projecting,
Witness without judging,
Focus without tension,
Work without strain,
Relax without laziness,
Play without competing,
Enjoy without craving,
Reflect without imagining,
Serve without demonstrating,
Surrender without hesitating,
Challenge without dominating,
Meditate without identity,
Correct without blaming,
Overcome without pride,
Master without enslaving,
Laugh without criticism,
Cry without pity,
Confront without hatred,
Guide without superiority,
Enter without self-importance,
Depart without regret,
Live without arrogance,
Exist without self-image,
Be one with God,
Awaken to the real.
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~ Mooji
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This body is not me.
I am not limited by this body.
I am life without boundaries.
I have never been born,
and I have never died.
Look at the ocean and the sky filled with stars,
manifestations from my wondrous true mind.
Since before time, I have been free.
Birth and death are only doors through which we pass,
sacred thresholds on our journey.
Birth and death are a game of hide-and-seek.
So laugh with me,
hold my hand,
let us say good-bye,
say good-bye, to meet again soon.
We meet today.
We will meet again tomorrow.
We will meet at the source every moment.
We meet each other in all forms of life.
