Quotes from Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love. Sometimes I feel I am nothing, I call that Wisdom. Between Love and Wisdom my life continuously flows.

To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom.

When I look inside and see that I'm nothing, that's wisdom. When I look outside and see that I'm everything, that's love. And between these two, my life turns.

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

Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.

Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.

Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the name is the natural happiness of conscious being.

The mind exists in two states: as water and as honey. The water vibrates at the least disturbance, while the honey, however disturbed, returns quickly to immobility.

The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens.

When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously.

To see the unreal is wisdom. Beyond this lies the inexpressible.

Look at your mind dispassionately; this is enough to calm it. When it is quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not keep it busy all the time. Stop it - and just BE.

In marriage you are neither the husband nor the wife; you are the love between two.

If you believe in God, work with Him. If you do not, become one.

What is the worth of a happiness for which you must strive and work? Real happiness is spontaneous and effortless.

In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.

If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.

You cannot change the course of events, but you can change your attitude, and what really matters is the attitude and not the mere event.

Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and needs readjustment.

Our usual attitude is of 'I am this'. Separate consistently and perseveringly the 'I am' from 'this' or 'that', and try to feel what is means to be, just to be, without being 'this' or 'that'.

What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty.

There is no such thing as unconsciousness for it is not experienceable. We infer unconsciousness when there is a lapse in memory or communication.

Concentration, Full Confidence, Pure Will. With these 3, what cannot be accomplished?

The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.