Quotes from Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

There is in the body, a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay with it.

There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.

Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life

Give your real being a chance to shape your life. You will not regret it.

You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos.

Nothing troubles me. I offer no resistance to trouble - therefore it does not stay with me. On your side there is so much trouble. On mine there is no trouble at all. Come to my side.

Past and future are in the mind only - I am now.

Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found.

All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion.

Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.

The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.

The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.

Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life.

Your own self is your ultimate teacher. The outer teacher is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher that will walk with you to the goal, for he is the goal

In reality, time and space exist in you. You do not exist in them.

Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. The rest is a waste of time and energy.

Forget the known, don't be all the time immersed in your experiences.

Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only.

One who is afraid of time becomes a prey of time. But time itself becomes a prey of that one who is not afraid of it.

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

Love.. is seeing the unity under the imaginary diversity.

To see myself in everybody, and everybody in myself, most certainly is love.

In my world love is the only law. I do not ask for love, I give it.