338 Quotes by Nisargadatta Maharaj

When the shadow is seen to be only a shadow, you stop following it. You turn around and discover the sun which was there all the time – behind your back!

Stay open and quiet, that is all. What you seek is so near you that there is no place for a way.

You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.

The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call matter is consciousness itself.

When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation the person ceases.

The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all.

In marriage you are neither the husband nor the wife; you are the love between two.

Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don’t disturb your mind with seeking.

You have never been, nor shall ever be, a person. Refuse to consider yourself as one. But as long as you do not even doubt yourself to be Mr. So-and-so, there is little hope. When you refuse to open your eyes, what can you be shown?