If you wish to be free, know you are the Self, the witness of all these, the heart of awareness. Set your body aside, sit in your own awareness. You will at once be happy, forever still, forever free.
-Ashtavakra Gita "Ashtavakra Gita"
If you wish to be free, know you are the Self, the witness of all these, the heart of awareness. Set your body aside, sit in your own awareness. You will at once be happy, forever still, forever free.
Fight with yourself, why fight with external foes? He, who overcomes self will obtain happiness.
Service without ideal of self…trains you to transcend all the artificial distinctions imposed by history and geography, and to realise that the human community is one and indivisible.
In thinking, “This is I” and “That is mine”, he binds himself with his self, as does a bird with a snare.
Open yourself, create free space; release the bound one from his bonds! Like a newborn child, freed from the womb, be free to move on every path!
Why don't we understand the simple fact that we have to spend the major part
of our life with ourselves. Then why do we depend on other people or things and
invite sorrows? Obviously, how can a person who is so dependent on others for
his happiness, ever be happy?
-Deep Trivedi
You should discover your own reality and not thwart yourself. For you have the self as your only friend, or as your only enemy.
Any caterpillar who tried to “know himself” would never become a butterfly.
The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.
In reality, what you are is not that important as "are you really what you portray
yourself to be?"
-Deep Trivedi