Nisargadatta Maharaj

To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.

The problem is not yours.

It is your mind's only.

Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind.

Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.

You were really in search of yourself without knowing it.

You were love, longing for the love worthy, the perfect lovable.

Due to ignorance, you were looking for it in the world of opposites,

and contradictions.

When you find it within your search will be over.

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.

There is no need of a way out.

Don't you see that a way out is also part of the dream?

All you have to do is see the dream as dream.

Wherever it leads you, it will be a dream.

The very idea of going beyond the dream is an illusion.

Why go anywhere?

Just realize that you are dreaming a dream you call the world.

And stop looking for ways out.