Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.

It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises

The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.