Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.

Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found.

As long as the mind is there, your body and your world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective, enclosed within the mind, fragmentary, temporary, personal, hanging on the thread of memory.

The 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.

Who are you?”, my answer would be: “Nothing in particular. Yet, I am.

Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.

When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find that it is permeated with a light and a love you have never known; and yet you recognise it at once as your own nature. Once you have passed through this experience, you will never be the same man again; the unruly mind may break its peace and obliterate its vision; but it is bound to return, provided the effort is sustained; until the day when all bonds are broken, delusions and attachments end and life becomes supremely concentrated in the present.