"All that is required is that you taste the actual presence of this presence as often as you can. And it is the looking, the tasting that does the work and not anything having to do with the understanding or the confusion of the mind about why it is working, or why it is not working, or why you are doing it, or what you should be doing, or how you should be fixing yourself, or anything else. It is the looking that does the job; nothing needs to be done about the mind."
JOHN SHERMAN

When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, That is love. And between these two, my life flows.
NISARGADATTA

The root cause of all human suffering, misery, aggression, hatred and self-betrayal everywhere is a false belief about what I am.The only solution for this problem is the truth.
JOHN SHERMAN

The self confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men while a warrior is hooked to infinity.
DON JUAN reported by Carlos Castaneda

The conditions of a solitary bird are five:
The first, that it flies to the highest point;
The second, that it does not suffer for company, not even of its own kind;
The third, that it aims its beak to the skies;
The forth, that it does not have a definite colour;
The fifth, that it sings very softly.
SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ, DICHOS DE LUZ Y AMOR

When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the Supreme State will come to you uninvited and unexpected. NISARGADATTA

Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute
nothingness of the self-image.
NISARGADATTA