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“When I see that I am nothing, that is wisdom. And when I see that I am everything, that is love. And between those two, my life moves.” Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“To see myself in everybody, and everybody in myself, most certainly is love.” Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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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.” Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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“Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words.” Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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“There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don’t disturb your mind with seeking.” Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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“To know that you are a prisoner of your mind, that you live in an imaginary world of your own creation is the dawn of wisdom.” Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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“Nothing, physical or mental, can give you freedom. You are free once you understand that your bondage is of your own making and cease forging the chains that bind you.” Nisargadatta, I Am That 

“A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part.”  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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“You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.” Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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“Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.” Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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