“Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.”

God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.

All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.

All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.

Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.

Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.

He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.

The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.

When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.

Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.

The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.

Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.

The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.

If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.

Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.

The scent of rain is just as much as an illusion as your love.

There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.

Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.

Sometimes love is nothing more than a sticky web; illusions spun, from clever minds and bitter hearts.

Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.