It is by awakening a power higher and mightier than the senses and the mind that these can be subdued. If you awaken and nurture the growth of that higher power within you, everything else will unfold mystically. - Ramana Maharshi

A man who is dying from moment to moment, and therefore renewing, is able to meet life. It is not that he is separate from life; he is life.- J Krishnamurti

God is approachable. Talking of him and listening to his words in the scriptures, thinking of him, feeling his presence in meditation, you will see that gradually the unreal becomes real, and this world which you think is real will be seen as unreal. There is no joy like that.-

A bee buzzes as long as it is not sitting on a flower. It becomes silent when it begins to sip the honey. But sometimes intoxicated with the honey it buzzes again. - Sri Ramakrishna

The 'I am' in movement
creates the world.

The 'I am' at peace
becomes the Absolute.

🌷 Nisargadatta Maharaj

Seeing the fact is the beginning of freedom, which is seeing the false as the false and the true as the true, not at a distant future, but from moment to moment; then only is there that freedom in which the mind can be simple and still, and such a mind can know what is beyond-K

Divine joy is in everyone.Sunlight shines equally on the charcoal and the diamond. but the diamond reflects the light. Such are the transparent minds that know and reflect spirit.-PARAMAHAMSA YOGANANDA

Realize that you are the Ocean of Life which has become the tiny wave of each life. -PARAMAHAMSA YOGANANDA

To understand suffering, there must be cessation of all escapes, for only then are you able to face yourself in action; and in understanding yourself in action- which is relationship- you will find a way of freeing thought from all conflict & living in a state of happiness, -J K

For a seeker of reality there is only one meditation- the rigorous refusal to harbour thoughts. To be free from thoughts is itself meditation.- Nisargadatta Maharaj

Just as cloth kept in soapy water will become clean, so will the mind get purified in the stream of pure feeling.- Nisargadatta Maharaj

As soon as the devotee is willing to go to the ends of the earth for spiritual enlightenment, his Guru appears nearby.- From ' Autobiography of a Yogi'

By the force of the tendencies generated by Karma, the ignorant Jiva gets the bodies of Rishis and Devas if the Sattva is the binding element, of Asuras and men if Rajas is the dominant element, and of spirits and brute creations if Tamas happens to predominate. - Srimad Bhagavat

Try to be a little child, and without any effort on your part, the Great Mother will take you in Her arms. Now is the moment to throw yourself into mercy of the Almighty, as one without shelter and support. Leap into Her embrace, and you will be released from all cares.

- MA

By eliminating the intervals of inadvertence during your waking hours you will gradually eliminate the long interval of absent-mindedness which you call sleep. You will be aware that you are asleep.- Nisargadatta Maharaj