"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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Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages are nothing but the mind. The bubbles of water and the flames of fire are nothing but the mind. The flowers of the spring and the moon of the autumn are nothing but the mind. Confusions and dangers are nothing but the mind.

Dogen

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A spiritual seeker keeps a balanced attitude towards things & has regulated eat, sleep, work and even recreation ☯

Bhagvad Gita 6.17
युक्ताहार विहारस्य युक्तचेष्टस्य कर्मसु युक्तस्वप्नावबोधस्य योगो भवति दू:खहा

No one's asking you to give up everything. Arjuna became a Sanyasi by changing his vision, while ON the battlefield which was his field of action.

~ You can be a Sanyasi from right where you are

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Do not look back,
No one knows how the world ever began.
Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever.
If you dwell on the past or future,
You will miss the moment.

Rumi

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To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Lao_Tzu

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Excessive attachment to sense pleasures leads to bondage, and detachment from sense pleasures leads to liberation; therefore it is the mind alone that is responsible for bondage or liberation.

Chanakya

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