Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Do not deny. Do not affirm. Just be.”

“Mind cannot grasp what is beyond mind.”

“The seer cannot be seen.”

“Don't believe; experience.”

“You cannot find what you have never lost.”

“To be free, give up the idea of being someone.”

“I am not, nor am I not. I am not even this thought.”

“The self is not separate from the world; the world is the self.”

“I am not, I am not at all. Consciousness is not mine. There is no 'me'.”

“The self is only an idea, a thought. When you are free of that idea, you are free.”

“Suffering ceases when you realize its illusory nature.”

“The supreme state is to have nothing and to want nothing.”

“The mind creates a barrier between the inner light and the outer world.”

“The highest wisdom is to realize one's own nothingness.”

“There is nothing to practice. Just do nothing and everything will be done.”

“The mind creates a world, and then the world creates the mind.”

“The self is only a thought.”