“You need nothing to be happy – you need something to be sad.”

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.

Attention pays attention to a lot of things, but when attention pays attention to attention, then there is a stillness, and that stillness introduces you to your Self.

Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.

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.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

When you see what is not real, this laughter comes.

Face your fears and stop allowing the mind to hold you captive.

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

Your urge to control life controls you.

Leave your existence to existence, stop caring for yourself so much and let the universe care for you; it is the best mother.

Don’t belong to anything. Don’t belong to anyone. Just Be. Feel your Being first and foremost, and don’t compare or compete. Just Be your Being.

You ask, ‘How to live my life?’ But with the question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity.

Don’t try and save yourself. The self that is trying to be saved is not you.

If you could look inside the Heart of any and every single human being, you would fall in love with them completely. If you see the inside as it really Is and not as your mind projects it to be, you would be so purely in love with the whole thing.

When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.

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.

Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].

She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.

Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.

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.

This might sound masochistic or narcissistic‚ I don’t know‚ but when I’m not playing the game‚ the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness‚ in a lot of ways‚ when I’m not playing.

I want to wade into the water on the sidewalk, crawl out of this feeling without giving it a name. Take a lighter to love’s sticky edges so its sadness isn’t caught in my throat.

You are the sand that doesn’t stick when I am dry and sad.

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.