You have learnt so much
And read a thousand books.
Have you ever read your Self?
You have gone to mosque and temple.
Have you ever visited your soul?
You are busy fighting Satan.
Have you ever fought your
Ill intentions?
You have reached into the skies,
But have you reached
What's in your heart?

~ Bulleh Shah

Exactly as a shadow appears when light is intercepted by the body, so does the person arise when pure self- awareness is obstructed by the "I-am-the-body" idea.

And as the shadow changes shape and position according to the lay of the land, so does the person appear to rejoice and suffer, rest and toil, find and lose according to the pattern of destiny.

When the body is no more, the person disappears completely without return, only the witness remains and the Great Unknown.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

"I-am" Parabrahman.
"I-am" the absolute reality.
Never was I born.
Never can I die.
I am not the body nor the mind nor the doer.
"I-am" pure consciousness, all-pervading.
Fire cannot burn me.
Water cannot drown me.
No harm can ever come to me.
For I am not what I appear to be.
How wonderful this is.
You should spend all of your spare time thinking of these things.

~ Robert Adams

There will be periods of frustration; there will be periods of doubt. Your worldly involvements would hamper your Sadhana (practice) and an atmosphere of defeat would prevail. But, come what may, just throw everything aside, don't bother about anything and continue your abidance in the 'I am' with all earnestness. The 'I am' would test your endurance, but a moment would come when it will be pleased with you, become your friend and release its stranglehold on you, and reveal all the secrets.

NISARGADATTA

Consciousness and unconsciousness are two aspects of one life. They co-exist. To know the world you forget the self - to know the self you forget the world. What is world after all? A collection of memories. Cling to one thing that matters, hold on to 'I am' and let go all else. This is sadhana. In realization there is nothing to hold on to and nothing to forget. Everything is known, nothing is remembered.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Stay without ambition, without the least desire, exposed, vulnerable, unprotected, uncertain and alone, completely open to and welcoming life as it happens, without the selfish conviction that all must yield you pleasure or profit, material or so-called spiritual.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

When there is no "I" there is no karma. 

Sri Ramana Maharshi

There is neither creation nor destruction,
neither destiny nor free will,
neither path nor achievement.

This is the final truth.

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

When you reach the deep layers of your true being, you will find that the mind's surface-play affects you very little.

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

All thoughts vanish into emptiness

"Good and bad,
Happy and sad,
All thoughts vanish into emptiness,
Like the imprint of a bird in the sky."

from The Sadhana of Mahamudra by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

Nothing is wrong with you

Nothing is wrong with you, but the ideas you have of yourself are altogether wrong. It is not you who desires, fears and suffers, it is the person built on the foundation of your body by circumstances and influences. You are not that person. This must be clearly established in your mind and never lost sight of.

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I have no karma

I have no karma; I'm the sacrificial fire in which all karma's consumed.
I have no sorrow; I'm the sacrificial fire in which all sorrow's consumed.
I have no craving; I'm the sacrificial fire in which all craving's consumed.
I'm nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I'm everywhere, like space.

Sinless, I consume all sins; I'm the sacrificial fire.
Dutiless, I consume all duties; I'm the sacrificial fire.
Boundless, I consume all bondage; I'm the sacrificial fire.
I'm nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I'm everywhere, like space.

~ Dattatreya's Song of the Avadhut (3.9-10)

Even now the mind is not.

Even now the mind is not. Recognize it. How can you do it if not in everyday activities. They go on automatically. Know that the mind promoting them is not real but a phantom proceeding from the Self.

Ramana Maharshi

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Questioner: How to deal with people?

Nisargadatta Maharaj: Why make plans and what for? Such questions show anxiety. Relationship is a living thing. Be at peace with your inner self and you will be at peace with everybody.
Realise that you are not the master of what happens, you cannot control the future except in purely technical matters. Human relationship cannot be planned, it is too rich and varied. Just be understanding and compassionate, free of all self seeking.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

...

"A consciência do justo é o único templo do único Deus; e, nesse templo, a renúncia ao egoísmo é o único culto"

- Antero de Quental.

Longing is the core of mystery.
Longing itself brings the cure.
The only rule is, suffer the pain.

Your desire must be disciplined,
and what you want to happen
in time, sacrificed.

~ Rumi

“(…) Se conhecêssemos melhor a máquina do mundo, talvez descobríssemos que muita tirania se estabelece fora de nós como se fosse a projecção, ou como sendo realmente a projecção, das linhas autocráticas que temos dentro de nós; primeiro oprimimos, depois nos oprimem; no fundo, quase sempre nos queixamos dos ditadores que nós mesmos somos para os outros. (…)”

- Agostinho da Silva, "Sobre as Escolhas"

If your thought is a rose you are a rose garden, if it is thorn , thorn garden. Rumi

Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

Rumi

"Siddhis keep you from becoming enlightened.
Siddhis actually keep you back.
Some people, because of past lives and past experiences,
as they progress on this path, they develop certain siddhis.
They can ... read the future, look into the past,
be able to do astrology, the I Ching,
become a Master of occult powers.
In the Upanishads it clearly states,
occult powers will keep you back for thousands of incarnations.
Do not rest on siddhis.
Leave the siddhis alone.
Go beyond them.
Go beyond everything, until there is no one left to do siddhis.
To do siddhis, there has to be an entity.
There has to be a person to experience these siddhis.
In Advaita Vedanta, the person becomes obliterated.
Therefore for whom are there siddhis?
So when you see a person with great siddhis,
really that person has a mind.
His or her mind is still working, and they will not be free.
Only when you give it all up, and you destroy the ego,
the personality, do you become omnipresence.
If you are everything, why do you need siddhis?
Forget about siddhis."

~Robert Adams - T173: Turn Within Always