“The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.”

The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.

The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.

To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.

The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.

There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.

There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.

Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.

Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.

Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.

The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.

The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.

The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own.

The object of education is not to fill a man’s mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.