Quotes from Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The real you is timeless and beyond life and death.

The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and for you, not by you.

Having realized that you cannot influence the results, pay no attention to your desires and fears. Let them come and go. Don't give them the nourishment of interest and attention.

Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.

The root of fear is the feeling of not being what you are.

For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.

Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.

Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.

I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.

Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.

Believe me, there is no goal, nor a way to reach it. You are the way and the goal, there is nothing else to reach except yourself.