Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.

If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself

You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices to transcend these non-existing limits. But if your practice itself implies the existence of these limits, how could they allow you to transcend them.

It is enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is giving oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining this source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.