“Shapes, sounds, smells, touch and tastes. That’s all the world is. And where are those sensations except in your mind? Thoughts and feelings are anyway in your mind. So, this whole world is in your mind.”
“Just like any other object in this world, one’s body, too, is just a bunch of sensations in the mind. So, one’s body, and indeed the whole world, is in the mind and not the other way round.”
“Since we are individuals with multiple identities, some of which are merely foisted on us, it is misleading to tie our being to one identity. Strictly speaking though, the broader the base on which you form your identity, the more loving you can be. For instance, if you consider your main identity to be, say, that of a Brahmin or Dalit, the more obnoxious you will be. Whereas, think of yourself as a being produced by the earth, lo and behold you will start radiating love all around you. Get it?”
“Learn to get detached from the mind and its contents and from all your identities for at least an hour daily.”
“Enlightenment is the transcendence of the ego. The desire to get enlightened keeps the ego alive. The way to transcend the ego is to investigate what it is and find it to be actually non-existent.”
“I am going to quit thinking about politics because, in the murky world of politics, one can never get to the bottom of things to find out the truth.”
“We do not look at the individual. We see the individual qua his class, caste, religion, nationality, race, etc. Such a viewing prevents the proper understanding of the individual in front of us.”
“A wise man is not bothered by the pettiness of others, but rather understands and accepts others as they are without himself getting affected.”
“We have fallen in love with pleasure, hence we roam in darkness.”
“This world is only as real as your thought makes it out to be.”
“If all of us had the same level of intelligence, wealth, pedigree and looks, none of us would be happy because quite a bit of our happiness derives from a feeling of being better off than others in some respect or the other.”
Know Thyself 