Anandmath

"Having seen that you are a bundle of memories held together by attachment, step out and look from the outside. You may perceive for the first time, something which is not memory. You cease to be a Mr so- and so, busy about his own affairs. You are at last at peace. You realize that nothing was ever wrong with the world- you alone were wrong and now it is all over. Never again will you be caught in the meshes of desire born of ignorance."

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Are you happy? It seems there are two worlds, mine and yours.
"In your world I would be most miserable. To wake up, to eat, to talk, to sleep again - what a bother!
"To live, to die - what meaningless words are these! When you see me alive, I am dead. When you think me dead, I am alive. How muddled up you are!
"I am quite conscious of your troubles. There is nothing I need do. They come and go. The difficulty may be physical, emotional or mental; but it is always individual. Large scale calamities are the sum of numberless individual destinies and take time to settle. But death is never a calamity.
"Mine is real, yours is of the mind. There is no need of a link between a real world and an imaginary world, for there cannot be any."

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

"See yourself in all that lives and your behaviour will express your vision. Once you realize that there is nothing in this world, which you can call your own, you can look at it from the outside as you look at a play on the stage or a picture on the screen, admiring and enjoying, but really unmoved. As long as you imagine yourself to be something tangible and solid, a thing among things, actually existing in time and space, short lived and vulnerable, naturally you will be anxious to survive and increase. But when you know yourself as beyond time and space, - in contact with them only at the point of here and now, otherwise all pervading and all containing, unapproachable, unassailable, invulnerable- you will be afraid no longer. Know yourself as you are- against fear there is no other remedy."

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

"Freedom means letting go. The finite is the price of the infinite, as death is the price of immortality. Spiritual maturity lies in the readiness to let go of everything. Giving up is the final step. But the real giving up is in realizing that there is nothing to give up, for nothing is your own."

~ Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj.