"Inquire 'Where does the mind come from? Who thinks these thoughts?'
Watch the thoughts, watch what they're doing to you, observe them, do not react to them,
but ask, "To whom do they come," and realize they come to you.
'Who are you? Who am I?'
and as you follow the I thread to its source,
there will be perfect peace in your life."
- Robert Adams
spiritual ,
Robert Adams
, advaita-vedanta
, ego
, inner-peace
, sadhana
, self-inquiry
"You never identify yourself with the shadow cast by your body, or with its reflection,
or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination.
Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body, either."
- Adi Shankaracharya
spiritual ,
Adi Shankaracharya
, attachment
, detachment
, ego
, neti-neti
, self-inquiry
, who-am-i
"Step into the fire of self-discovery.
This fire will not burn you,
it will only burn what you are not."
- Mooji
spiritual ,
Mooji
, neti-neti
, self-inquiry
, self-realization
"As you observe the thoughts they disappear,
but more come, more come, and even when you're finished with them from this life, they'll come to you from a previous life. It never stops.
So you have to keep asking the question,
'To whom do they come? To whom do they come?'
And keep observing and following the I thought, and doing nothing, and one day it will all be gone, and you'll be free.
But you have to have patience and persistence.
Remember, it took us so many years to be the way we are, screwy, crazy, insane.
So now it's going to take a little time, perhaps,
to get over it."
- Robert Adams
spiritual ,
Robert Adams
, be-the-witness
, liberation
, patience
, sadhana
, self-inquiry
"The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires"
- Rumi
spiritual ,
Rumi
, desires
, self-inquiry
, self-realization
, soul
"As long as one is mesmerized by the tree,
the root cannot be understood."
- Wu Hsin
spiritual ,
Wu Hsin
, absolute-reality
, advaita-vedanta
, attachment
, self-inquiry
, self-realization
"Anything you can know or know about, you cannot be,
therefore discard it."
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
spiritual ,
Nisargadatta Maharaj
, neti-neti
, self-inquiry
, who-am-i
"Go deeper, go deeper.
Don't land anywhere."
- Papaji
spiritual ,
Papaji
, inner
, meditation
, sadhana
, self-inquiry
"It is the ego that keeps you in bondage.
It is the ego that makes you believe you are what you are.
It is the ego that causes all the problems to come into your life.
The ego is your worst enemy.
Therefore you have to do everything in life that you can do to annihilate the ego.
The ego must be annihilated, totally removed, totally destroyed."
- Robert Adams
spiritual ,
Robert Adams
, advaita-vedanta
, ego
, illusion
, prisoner
, self-inquiry
"Perhaps you're a slave to your own idea of yourself"
- D H Lawrence
spiritual ,
D H Lawrence
, concepts
, introspection
, prisoner
, self-inquiry
, self-image
, who-am-i
"This (Spiritual practises) doesn't mean that you shouldn't go anywhere or do something else.
You can watch TV, you can go to a movie, you can go swimming, you can go play golf, you can go bowling
but never forget who you are, that's all.
Always remember who you really are."
- Robert Adams
spiritual ,
Robert Adams
, advaita-vedanta
, awareness
, sadhana
, self-inquiry
, who-you-are
"The mind turned inwards is the Self;
turned outwards, it becomes the ego and all the world."
- Ramana Maharshi
'Be as You Are' Loc 310
spiritual ,
Ramana Maharshi
, ego
, inner-being
, maya
, sadhana
, self
, self-inquiry
, self-realization
, within-yourself
"The only way is to look within"
- Papaji
spiritual ,
Papaji
, inner
, path
, self-inquiry
, within-yourself
"Find where the ego rises from and it will disappear"
- Papaji
spiritual ,
Papaji
, awakening
, ego
, self-inquiry
, who-am-i
"Begin to spend more time diving within yourself, watching, witnessing.
When thoughts pop up, simply ask yourself, 'To whom do these thoughts come?
To me. I think them.
Who am I? What is the source of the I?'
As you do this, my friends, I can assure you a marvelous change will take place in your life, sooner or later,
and you will become free."
- Robert Adams
spiritual ,
Robert Adams
, be-the-witness
, liberation
, sadhana
, self-inquiry
, source-energy
, who-am-i
"The three states (waking, dream and sleep) owe their existence to non-inquiry
and inquiry puts an end to them"
- Ramana Maharshi
quoted from 'Be As You Are'
spiritual ,
Ramana Maharshi
, advaita-vedanta
, awakening
, dream-sleep
, illusion
, self-inquiry
"The mind, turned outwards, results in thoughts and objects.
Turned inwards, it becomes itself the Self."
- Ramana Maharshi
spiritual ,
Ramana Maharshi
, self
, self-inquiry
, self-realization
, who-am-i
"When there is no 'I' there is only liberation."
- Ashtavakra Gita
spiritual ,
Ashtavakra Gita
, advaita-vedanta
, ego
, liberation
, neti-neti
, self-inquiry
, selfless
, who-am-i
"Realize that who you are is not the voice- the thinker -
but the one who is aware of it."
- Eckhart Tolle
spiritual ,
Eckhart Tolle
, awareness
, be-the-witness
, introspection
, neti-neti
, self-inquiry
, who-you-are
"When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness.
Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence."
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
spiritual ,
Nisargadatta Maharaj
, awakening
, be-the-witness
, emptiness
, infinite
, self-inquiry
, silence
, who-am-i
"Follow the I,
abide in the I
and you will soon come to the conclusion,
that I does not exist."
- Robert Adams
spiritual ,
Robert Adams
, be-the-witness
, ego
, self-inquiry
, self-realization
, who-am-i
"Look past your thoughts,
so you may drink the pure nectar of this moment."
- Rumi
spiritual ,
Rumi
, broader-perspective
, empty-mind
, moments
, no-thoughts
, pure
, reality
, self-inquiry
"Can you remember who you were,
before the world told you who you should be?"
- Charles Bukowski
inspiring ,
law-of-attraction ,
spiritual ,
Charles Bukowski
, be-yourself
, introspection
, self-inquiry
, who-am-i
, who-you-are
"A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart.
We know so many things, but we don’t know ourselves!
Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox’s or bear’s, cover the soul.
Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there."
- Meister Eckhart
inspiring ,
spiritual ,
Meister Eckhart
, be-yourself
, heart
, humanity
, man
, self-inquiry
, self-image
, soul
, who-am-i
"Never mind the mind."
- Ramana Maharshi
spiritual ,
Ramana Maharshi
, advaita-vedanta
, empty-mind
, neti-neti
, no-thoughts
, self-inquiry
"Once you free yourself from the idea, 'I am my body' and the consequences of this idea, you will awaken to your natural state of being."
- Jean Klein
spiritual ,
Jean Klein
, awakening
, inner-being
, liberation
, neti-neti
, self-inquiry
, self-realization
, who-you-are
"Ground yourself, strip yourself down to blind loving silence.
Stay there until you see you are gazing at the light with its own ageless eyes."
- Rumi
spiritual ,
Rumi
, awakening
, eyes
, light
, meditation
, neti-neti
, self-inquiry
, self-realization
, silence
"The reality in the back of the universe is pure awareness.
It has no problems.
And you are that."
- Robert Adams
spiritual ,
Robert Adams
, awareness
, illusion
, non-physical
, pure
, reality
, self-inquiry
, source-energy
, universe
, well-being
, who-am-i
, who-you-are
"The more you remove the burden from yourself
the greater will be the harmony and peace and happiness in your life.
Due to the fact that this harmony and peace and happiness are your very nature."
- Robert Adams
spiritual ,
Robert Adams
, emptiness
, empty-mind
, no-thoughts
, self-inquiry
, self-realization
, who-you-are
, within-yourself
"Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought!
Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?"
- Rumi
spiritual ,
Rumi
, advaita-vedanta
, awakening
, empty-mind
, liberation
, no-thoughts
, non-duality
, self-inquiry
, worry
"Simply work on quieting your mind.
And as you unfold you will find that things are getting better for you.
Life appears brighter, more harmonious, more loving.
It happens by itself.
You merely have to slow down your thoughts."
- Robert Adams
spiritual ,
Robert Adams
, all-is-well
, bliss
, detachment
, empty-mind
, good-life
, meditation
, peace
, quietness
, self-inquiry
, silence
, slow-down
, stillness
, thought
"The single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this:
learn to disidentify from your mind."
- Eckhart Tolle
spiritual ,
Eckhart Tolle
, awakening
, detachment
, empty-mind
, enlightenment
, self-inquiry
, self-realization
"Ask yourself, 'What am I waiting for to make me happy?
Why am I not happy right now?'"
- Barbara Ann Kipfer
inspiring ,
law-of-attraction ,
Barbara Ann Kipfer
, happiness
, happy
, introspection
, mind
, self-inquiry
, start-now
, think
"If there's a path at all-
it's emptying yourself of what you're not."
- Adyashanti
spiritual ,
Adyashanti
, awakening
, emptiness
, empty-mind
, enlightenment
, path
, self-inquiry
, self-realization
, who-am-i
, who-you-are
"Do not let the mind tell you anything- good or bad."
- Robert Adams
spiritual ,
Robert Adams
, emptiness
, empty-mind
, non-duality
, self-inquiry
, silence
, stillness
, who-am-i
"You are not your mind."
- Eckhart Tolle
spiritual ,
Eckhart Tolle
, advaita-vedanta
, awakening
, detachment
, liberation
, mind
, self-inquiry
, self-realization
, stillness
, thought
, who-am-i
, who-you-are
"The best thing you can do, is to dive deep within yourself,
and discover your true nature."
- Robert Adams
spiritual ,
Robert Adams
, be-the-witness
, be-yourself
, inner-being
, introspection
, self
, self-inquiry
, self-realization
, source-energy
, who-you-are
, within-yourself
"The place you are looking for
is the place from which you are looking."
- Mooji
spiritual ,
Mooji
, desires
, home
, inner
, introspection
, self-inquiry
, within-yourself
"When we look with the ‘I’ we dream.
When we look for the ‘I’ we awaken."
- Mooji
spiritual ,
Mooji
, advaita-vedanta
, awakening
, dreams
, introspection
, self-inquiry
, self-realization