Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it's busy or quiet? You are not the mind.

To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need nothing. Be what you are--conscious being--and don't stray away from yourself.

In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.

It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see your bonds as self-created and break the chains of attachment and revulsion. Keep in mind your goal of freedom, until it dawns on you that you are already free, that freedom is not something in the distant future to be earned with painful efforts, but perennially one's own, to be used! Liberation is not an acquisition but a matter of courage, the courage to believe that you are free already and to act on it.

The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens.

The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.