Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Strength is not in resistance but in non-resistance to life."

"Power over others is an illusion. True power is mastery over oneself."

"Adventure begins when you release your attachment to security."

"Imagination is the playground of consciousness before it manifests as reality."

"History is the story of consciousness becoming aware of itself."

"What you resist persists. What you accept transforms."

"The mind cannot conceive of its own absence. That absence is your true nature."

"Happiness is not a destination. It is the natural state of being."

"Success is the dissolution of the desire for success."

"Friendship is communion without the burden of expectations."

"Family is the mirror in which you see yourself most clearly."

"Hope is the belief in a future. Truth exists only now."

"Education is the opening of the mind to its own vastness."

"Knowledge of the world is imprisonment. Knowledge of self is liberation."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the end of resistance to what is."

"Nature reflects your consciousness back to you. See the divine in all living things."

"Music is silence expressing itself in sound."

"Faith is the courage to trust the unknown within yourself."

"Leadership is the ability to stand alone in your truth without needing followers."

"Work becomes meditation when it is done without seeking results."

"Dreams are the mind's way of processing the day's impressions. Only waking is real."

"Humor is the recognition of the cosmic joke that you take yourself too seriously."

"Beauty is the reflection of consciousness in form."

"Solitude is where you discover who you are when no one is watching."

"You are caught in the trap of becoming. Be what you already are."

"Technology is merely an extension of human consciousness seeking expression."

"Politics is the collective delusion of the mind seeking control."

"War is the inevitable outcome of ignorance about the unity of all beings."

"Literature is the artist's attempt to capture the uncapturable."

"The body is temporary, consciousness is eternal. Identify with the eternal."