Lord Rama gave Hanuman a quizzical look and said, "What are you, a monkey or a man?" Hanuman bowed his head reverently, folded his hands and said, "When I do not know who I am, I serve You and when I do know who 'I' am, You and I are One."

~Saint Tulsidasa

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" ‘I am the body’ is a thought. ‘I am the mind’ is a thought. ‘I am the doer’ is a thought. Worry is only a thought. Fear is only a thought. ... Watch your thoughts. Give attention to your thoughts.

Just by giving attention to your thoughts and letting them go, they lose the ability to convince you about anything or make you suffer. What used to feel like a [snake] earlier is now only a burnt rope. It has no power.

Ramana_Maharshi

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Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

Laozi

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A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

Jiddu_Krishnamurti

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"In between two thoughts, what is there? You cannot think two thoughts at the same time. Try it and see. It cannot be done.
One has to stop before another one starts. In between the stop of one thought and the start of another, what is there? You are there!
But this you is not a person. It is the great emptiness, the womb and source of the universe.
Awaken to your timeless and immutable Self."

Mooji

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In the Bhagvad Gita, as long as Arjuna had a lot to express & vent out, Lord Krsna listened calmly. Finally, Arjuna bows down to Krsna, asks Him to guide him and take him under His shelter. It is only at this point of full SURRENDER to the Lord 🙌 (शिष्यश्यस्ते अहं शाधिमां त्वां प्रपन्नम्; Chapter 2.7), that Lord Krsna starts revealing to him the highest Knowledge.

We must try to Surrender to the Lord, His instructions and divine will🙏

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"Everything that you feel, hear, touch, smell and taste is maya [illusion]. ... Everything your eyes behold, that you believe is so important, is maya. Everything that you hear, everything that you read, everything that you try to do to better yourself, it's all maya."

Robert Adams

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The mind is here to test you, to try and create doubt in you, to challenge your strength.
You must transcend every doubt concerning who you are.
Doubts about other things you can afford, but doubts about yourself, you must clarify until delusions end. You are the immutable awareness,not the psychological mind.
As soon as you are clear about this, mind begins to merge with you as the single Being.

Mooji

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Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.

Rumi

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NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

Osho Rajneesh

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“It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.”

Nisargadatta_Maharaj

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Change is a difficult word for the Ego to accept. Often it revolts when confronted with the Truth.

'People are generally allergic to serious or deep thinking. They don’t thrash out the problem to find a solution. They begin to think, but end up wishing that the problem would solve itself' -

Swami Tejomayananda

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Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

Chogyam_Trungpa

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I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Hafez

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Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind.
To be happy, rest like a giant tree, in the midst of them all.

Buddha

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Music without words means
leaving behind the mind.
And leaving behind the mind
is meditation.
Meditation returns you
to the source.
And the source of all is sound.

Kabir

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Mind, itself, is all the worlds, the greatest enemy, the great transmigration, birth, senility and death.

Ribhu_Gita

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काममया एवायं पुरुष इति
सा यथाकामो भवति तत्क्रतुर भवति
यात्क्रतुर भवति तत कर्म कुरुते
यत कर्म कुरुते तद अभिसम पद्यते

You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny.

~Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 4.4.5

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It is a sign of mental purity when the craving for material pursuits reduces and the love for higher values increases. The mind becomes calm and clear.
- Swami Tejomayananda

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A balanced mind is necessary to balance the
unbalanced minds of others.

Sayagyi_U_Ba_Khin

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