Nisargadatta Maharaj

The courage to believe that you are free already

and to act on it.

In the body, the consciousness does the witnessing.

Consciousness is all-pervading, space-like, without form.

If one has an illness or a pain,

It is only a movement in consciousness, a disturbance in the balance of the five elements in the body.

It is because consciousness has identified itself with the body that the pain is felt in the consciousness

By nature, consciousness is pure.

But by identification with the body, it becomes polluted conceptually.

Once that consciousness is conscious of itself,

then because of conditioning by others, it identifies itself with certain items as its own and with other items as not its own.

And it will fight for and try to protect that which it considers its own.

but when consciousness realizes its potential power its universality the me and mind concept is lost

That universal consciousness is the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, all the attributes.

These attributes are given to the universal consciousness

not to the absolute.

The absolute is without attributes.

Whatever natural experiences you encounter, just accept them.

Don't try to alter them.

Just take them as they come.