Nisargadatta Maharaj

When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet.

If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find that it is permeated with a light and a love you have never known.

And yet you recognize it at once as your own nature.

Once you have passed through this experience, you'll never be the same again.

The unruly mind may break its peace and obliterate its vision, but it is bound to return, provided the effort is sustained.

Until the day when all bonds are broken,

Delusions and attachments end and life becomes supremely concentrated in the present.

You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need.

The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand.

So when we try to understand,

We are only indulging in acrobatics of the mind.

Whatever you have understood, you are not.

Why are you getting lost in concepts?

You are not what you know.

It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy.

Rebel against your slavery to your mind.

See your bonds as self-created and break the chains of attachment and revulsion.

until it dawns on you that you are already free that freedom is not something in the distant future to be earned with painful efforts but parentally one's own

to be used.

Liberation is not an acquisition, but a matter of courage.