“Ordinary people despise solitude.  But the Master makes use of it, embracing her aloneness, realizing she is One with the whole universe.”  Tao Te Ching

“Look at yourself steadily – – it is enough. The door that locks you in is also the door that lets you out.  The “I Am” is the door.  Stay at it until it opens.  As a matter of fact, it is open, only you are not at it.  You are waiting at the non-existing painted doors, which will never open.  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Never assume that you have attained truth.  Don’t make any claim to knowledge.  Form no conclusion or evaluation concerning truth.  The minute you do, your downfall is assured.  Whenever you imagine you know something, you cease being open to the living exploration.  You have closed a door and cut off the oxygen to the breathing truth.”  Mooji

“Is not thinking itself a notion in the mind?  Thought is absent in seeing things intuitively.  When you think you understand, you don’t.  When you perceive directly, there is no thinking.  You know that you are alive, you do not “think” you are alive.”  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Learn to watch how the mind reacts to sense impressions.  If you can stop the mind from reacting to sense impressions, you can eliminate a large number of your vasanas (wishes or desires).  Annamalai Swami

“The guru may tell his disciples a thousand times, “You are the Self, you are not what you imagine yourself to be,” but none of them believes him.  They all keep asking the guru for methods and routes to reach the place where they already are.”  Annamalai Swami

“One does not walk into the forest and accuse the trees of being off-center, nor do they visit the shore and call the waves imperfect. So why do we look at ourselves this way?”  Tao Te Ching