know thyself

    

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Look Within,
Approach with all Devotion,
Stay as Heart.

Only adore yourself,
worship your Self, and seek your Self,
and the rest will be taken care of.


—Papaji

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The flute of the Infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is Love. —Kabir

 

Édouard Boubat

 

 

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No one has heard thought or listened to a mind,

But where people have lived in inwardness
The air is charged with blessing and does bless;
Windows look out on mountains and the walls are kind.
 

—May Sarton
The Work of Happiness

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Just be Quiet and you will receive a precious gift

from the Light hiding inside you.

—Papaji

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It’s your solemn duty to learn how to enjoy this thing! —Alan Watts

  

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All that you are attached to, all that you Love,
all that you know, someday will be gone.

Knowing this, and that the world is your mind
which you create, play in, and suffer from,
is known as discrimination.

Discriminate between the real and the unreal.

The known is unreal and will come and go
so stay with the Unknown, the Unchanging Truth.

All which appears and disappears is not real,
and no nectar will come from it so do not cling to it.


—Papaji

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There are always moments when one feels empty, estranged and afraid. 

You are detaching, the old is over and the new has not yet come. The soul has cast its moorings and is sailing for distant places. 

Remember the instruction: whatever you come across 
- go beyond. 


—Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

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all these things are mind

   

dolphin eye

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My guru told me, "Trust me, I tell you: you are Divine. Take it as the absolute truth. Your joy is divine, your suffering is divine too. All comes from God. Remember it always. You are God, your will alone is done." 

If you have regard for me, remember my words. 

The knowledge "I Am” is the greatest God, the Guru; be one with that, be intimate with it. That itself will bless you with all the knowledge relevant for you and the proliferation of that knowledge will lead you to the state which is eternal.


—Nisargadatta Maharaj 

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Everything that you see is this mind. All manifestation, all the past, the present and the future, all the gods, the heavens and the hells - all these things are mind. What a power this mind has! 

It will pretend to help you by giving you visions or pleasurable inner states, but it will do everything in its power to keep you away from that thought-free encounter with your own Self.

—Papaji

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Though you may be spoken of, you have neither name nor form. 

Whether you are divided or undivided, there is nothing here but you. 

O mind, O shameless, wandering mind! Why do you weary yourself so? 

I am nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I am everywhere, like space.

You and I are not attached to this world of ephemeral forms; It is only the shameless mind which divides the One in parts. 

Division and non-division are the same to you and me; I am nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I am everywhere, like space.

—The Song of the Avadhut

 

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you are this

  

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Rest in peace.

You are the unchangeable Awareness in which all activity takes place.

Always rest in peace. 

You are eternal Being, unbounded and undivided. 
Just keep Quiet. All is well. Keep Quiet Here and Now. 

You are Happiness, you are Peace, you are Freedom. 
Do not entertain any notions that you are in trouble. 

Be kind to yourself. Open to your Heart and simply Be. 
Those who know This know Everything. 
If not, even the most learned know nothing at all.


—Papaji

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love is the whole and more than all —E. E. Cummings

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The Net of Indra is a profound and subtle metaphor for the structure of reality. Imagine a vast net; at each crossing point there is a jewel; each jewel is perfectly clear and reflects all the other jewels in the net, the way two mirrors placed opposite each other will reflect an image ad infinitum. The jewel in this metaphor stands for an individual being, or an individual consciousness, or a cell or an atom. 

Every jewel is intimately connected with all other jewels in the universe, and a change in one jewel means a change, however slight, in every other jewel.

—Stephen Mitchell

The Enlightened Mind

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There is an endless net of threads throughout the universe.
The horizontal threads are in space.
The vertical threads are in time.

At every crossing of the threads, there is an individual,
and every individual is a crystal bead.

And every crystal bead reflects not only the light from every other crystal in the net, but also every other reflection throughout the entire universe.


—The Rig Veda

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I don't give any exercise or practice because all practice is in time and is in mind. What I recommend is to simply stay quiet, don't make effort, don't think. 

This is all you have to do now. Do this now.

—Papaji

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rest now

    

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Rest in peace. You are the unchangeable Awareness in which all activity takes place.

Always rest in peace. 

You are eternal Being, unbounded and undivided. 
Just keep Quiet. All is well. Keep Quiet Here and Now. 

You are Happiness, you are Peace, you are Freedom. 
Do not entertain any notions that you are in trouble. 

Be kind to yourself. Open to your Heart and simply Be. 
Those who know This know Everything. 
If not, even the most learned know nothing at all.


—Papaji

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When you see your own essence, when you have that direct experience, you will see that every plant and animal is your own Self. 

They will all start to speak to you. 

This is the formless Self in the Heart of all beings. 

—Papaji

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It is not the work that hinders (peace) 

but the idea that it is you who are doing it.

—Sri Ramana Maharshi

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