“If we can understand just this one truth we will be set free: almost all problems arise from the erroneous understanding that happiness is got from the outside world through either objects or relationships.”
“Maya is the mistaken notion that happiness is obtained from the outside.”
“All pursuit of happiness is futile because it is the pursuit itself that keeps you unhappy since it is based on the mistaken notion that happiness is to be obtained from outside, which makes the mind restless to acquire objects and relationship and even love, resulting in unhappiness, punctuated by temporary periods of respite from the unhappiness when one acquires what one is seeking, leading to the mind becoming calm, but sooner than later the mind becomes restless again as it starts seeking something else, or more of the same thing or a repetition of the same thing.”
“Merrily gallivanting in the world is not compatible with the search for Truth.”
“Desire is based on ignorance of one’s own true nature. In turn, the pursuit of the fulfillment of desires perpetuates the ignorance. This vicious cycle is broken only by understanding this truth.”
“The price of Truth is neither celibacy nor anything else. Truth cannot be bought.”
“The existence of the legal institution of marriage proves that people do not believe in love.”
“Only in freedom there can be love. Marriage operates in the shadow of a legal structure and hence destroys love.”
“Love anyway is now institutionalized. I wonder if a day will come when friendship will be institutionalized. In a way, social clubs have already done it.”
“Institutions come up because we cannot trust one another. Unfortunately, trustworthy people are few and far between.”
“Others are chasing success after success while I am content to admit I am a failure.”
“Ask not why you are unhappy and suffering. Ask why others are unhappy and suffering and try to relieve their burden to make them happy and joyous and lo and behold, you would have found the key to your own happiness and joy.”
“The universe is the temple and we all are the idols in it.”
“Ultimately, we are all desiring the Truth without realizing we are doing so.”
“How many desires is one needed to satisfy before one finds the Truth?”
“Am I just a confluence of thoughts and feelings?”
“When I realize I am just a bunch of organs packed tightly inside skin, I feel a bit weird.”
“All in this world are in pursuit of artha and kama; some through dharmic and some through adharmic means, often leading to a tussle between these two factions. Those disinterested in these state of affairs, abandon the pursuit of artha and kama and go in search of moksha.”
“The demand for pleasure is what keeps us busy and we don’t have time for happiness, love, and Truth.”
“The further you draw away from physical and mental pleasures, the closer you find yourself to the Truth.”
“Almost all problems in life arise from the withholding of love. Love and be free.”
“This pursuit of the Truth is an arduous task. No wonder most people in the world want to have nothing to do with it.”
“That which we seek in this world is not there in this world. This world is a mirage that leaves us thirsty.”
“Strange it is, that which we seek we already are but know it not, and so we keep on seeking. What a deuced state! Who is to blame, who is to save except ourselves.”
“What happens to a mind that wants nothing from this world except food, clothing and shelter?”
“No battles are waged against anyone else in this world. All battles are waged within one’s own mind. This whole world is the projection of one’s own mind, because the drama of this world is going on in one’s mind, the body one is identifying with being one of the projections of one’s own mind just like the rest of the objects in the world, exactly as in a dream.”
“My friend says I am ‘all theory’. I am beginning to think she is somewhat right. ‘Tis time I started ‘walking the talk’ to show the practicality of theory.”
“To discover love and beauty in everything, your mind needs to be at rest.”
“All of us are alike because all of us want more or less the same things in life, maybe differing in degree but not in kind, and maybe differing as to where those things are to be found.”
“Knowledge is knowing the outer world. Wisdom is knowing oneself.”
“There is so much joy in giving that a truly selfless person will keep receiving to enable others to get the joy of giving.”
“The joy that lies in a desireless mind is to be discovered to be believed.”
“They cannot love who see not love as an end in itself.”
“We are trapped in ignorance because we are reluctant to let go of the paltry few pleasures we know in life. We do not understand that if ignorance can be so pleasurable how much more blissful must be wisdom.”
“It is strange how strong our ego is that we prefer to identify with the limited body-mind complex having a particular name than with the Consciousness that is the Totality.”
“A modicum of insight and understanding is worth years of meditation and penance.”
“There can be no celibacy without love in one’s heart.”
“Celibacy is being faithful to Truth.”
“Only he who is not afraid of Public Opinion can make real progress in life.”
“Wisdom is often inimical to traditions.”
“People-first philosophy in the long run produces more profits than profits-first philosophy, and what’s more it promotes the well-being of everyone, the employer and employees alike. To hell with discipline and productivity; only love and compassion.”
“Psychology teaches us that we are different from one another. Philosophy makes us understand that we are one and the same.”
“Who are you philosophically speaking and not psychologically speaking, try to find that out.”
“Desire derails the best of minds.”
“He who has tasted the bliss of a calm mind will never hanker after pleasure.”
“Pleasure is overrated.”
“The key to permanent happiness in life lies in realizing that happiness lies within in a calm mind.”
“All suffering and sorrow comes from taking oneself to be nothing but the body-mind complex.”
“Love is the solution.”
“Love comes from realizing that others are no different from you.”
“Without humility, there can be no love.”
“One should be able to forgive not only others’ mistakes but also one’s own mistakes.”
“Our ego hides the fact that God alone is the sole doer.”
“We are not the doers of any action whatsoever because we are not the thinkers of any thought. Thoughts occur independent of our volition. What’s more, our ego-I is a mere thought.”
“Like a moth pursues the flame, people pursue wealth and women only to perish.”
“Life is not worth the trouble.”
“Humanity would be extinct in no time if people could die just by fervently wishing to not exist.”
“All cultures and societies become stagnant because of fear of public opinion.”
“We are more bothered about the morals of our neighbours than of our own.”
“That friendship which does not set the friend free is no friendship.”
“Civilization comes into being when we realize that to survive and flourish, we cannot do without others.”
“No need to become. Just realize you already are.”
“Most of the mischief in life arises from our wanting to outshine others.”
“Only when you realize how akin to a dream life is will you be able to laugh in all circumstances.”
“I have seen enough of life not to be furthered enamoured by it.”
“Only when you understand life will you be able to love everyone.”
“Without love in one’s heart, knowledge in the mind is a hazard.”
“Love transmutes knowledge into wisdom.”
“No need to meditate. Just realize that you are neither the mind nor the ego-I or I-thought created by it that you are now taking yourself to be.”
“Self-realization is the pot realizing that it always was and will be clay and nothing other than clay.”
“The best way to live in this world is with love, kindness, and compassion for everyone.”
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