Giving energy to the mind, is like giving your neighbour a gun to shoot you with.
MOOJIWanting something to make you happy is a sure way to be miserable.
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Out of the formless the forms appear.
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Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death. Because this death releases you into real life. You have to die as a seed to live as a tree.
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Leave your existence to existence, stop caring for yourself so much and let the universe care for you; it is the best mother.
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Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle.
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When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.
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When you live guided by intuition rather than thought, your life dances like writing on water, fresh and untraceable.
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You are the Master, the mind is your servant. That is the correct relationship.
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You ask, ‘How to live my life?’ But with the question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity.
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Your mantra is thank you. Just keep saying thank you. Don’t explain. Don’t complain. Just say thank you. Say thank you to existence.
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Let the mind come as it wants; just you don’t go with it. The greatest salesman in the world cannot sell you if you don’t buy.
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The greatest step towards a life of happiness and simplicity is to let go. Trust in the power that is already taking care of you spontaneously without effort.
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The final bridge to cross is to let go of the mind-created ‘spiritual’ self. Burn that bridge behind you. Stay empty of self-image and cease looking back. Remain in the neutrality of being. That’s it!
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If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don’t identify with anything. Be completely empty – no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.
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Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.
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The mind is like the wind. You’re trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it?
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Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.
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When you see what is not real, this laughter comes.
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Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you believe those interpretations, it is there that the suffering begins.
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Focus your mind on ‘I Am’, which is pure and simple being. You are Here and Now only. Contemplate what it is to be fully ‘Here’ and fully ‘Now’. For this you must leave all else. Stay only as here-now Conscious presence. This is Heart. This is Self.
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It’s not what the mind says. It’s how seriously it is taken.
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The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like.
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You need nothing to be happy – you need something to be sad.
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There is an intuitive knowing within us that we are eternal but this gets covered over with the noise we create while identifying with the impermanent.
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Some people know they are dreaming when they are asleep. You must also know you are dreaming when you wake-up. When you know you are dreaming when you wake up, then you are really waking up.
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Don’t try and save yourself. The self that is trying to be saved is not you.
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Wanting something to make you happy is a sure way to be miserable.
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