Philipp > Philipp's Quotes

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. All else is a waste of energy and time.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“We shall suffer as long as our thoughts and actions are prompted by desires and fears.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Do not be afraid of freedom from desire and fear. It enables you to live a life so different from all you know, so much more intense and interesting that, truly, by losing all you gain all.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Our only hope is to stop, to look, to understand, and to get out of the traps of memory. For memory feeds imagination and imagination generates desire and fear.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Things are as they are and nobody in particular is responsible. The idea of personal responsibility comes from the illusion of agency.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“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 … It is only when you cannot come and go freely that the house becomes a jail. I move in and out of consciousness easily and naturally and therefore to me, the world is a home, not a prison.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The experience of being empty, uncluttered by memories and expectations; it is like the happiness of open spaces, of being young, of having all the time and energy for doing things, for discovery, for adventure.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“When the world does not hold and bind you, it becomes an abode of joy and beauty. You can be happy in the world only when you are free of it.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“What problems can there be which the mind did not create? Life and death do not create problems; pains and pleasures come and go, experienced and forgotten. It is memory and anticipation that create problems of attainment or avoidance, colored by like and dislike. Truth and love are man’s real nature, and mind and heart are the means of its expression.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Trace your misunderstandings and abandon them, that is all. There is nothing to seek or find, for there is nothing lost. Relax and watch the “I am.” Reality is just behind it. Keep quiet, keep silent; it will emerge or, rather, it will take you in.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Your ideas about yourself change from day to day and from moment to moment. Your self image is the most changeful thing you have. It is utterly vulnerable, at the mercy of a passerby. A bereavement, the loss of a job, an insult, and your image of yourself, which you call your person, changes deeply. To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not. And to know what you are not, you must watch yourself carefully, rejecting all that does not necessarily go with the basic fact: “I am.” Our usual attitude is of “I am this.” Consistently and perseveringly separate the “I am” from “this” or “that” and try to feel what it means to be, without being “this” or “that.” All our habits go against it and the task of fighting them is long and hard sometimes, but clear understanding helps significantly. The more clearly you understand that on the level of the mind you can be described in negative terms only, the more quickly you will come to the end of your search and realize your limitless being.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj