The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajCooperate with your destiny, don't go against it, don't thwart it. Allow it to fulfill itself.
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajAbandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajThe first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajI do not suffer; I cannot suffer because I am not an object. Of course there is suffering. But do you realize what this suffering is? I am the suffering. Whatever is manifested, I am the functioning. Whatever is perceptible I am the perceiving of it. Whatever is done I am the doing of it; I am the doer of it, and, understand this, I am also that which is done. In fact, I am the total functioning.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj