Quotes from I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between the two, my life flows.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, quote from I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your Self Realization. You are not to expect an explosion, for the explosion has already happened - at the moment when you were born, when you realized yourself as Being-Knowing-Feeling. There is only one mistake you are making: you take the inner for the outer and the outer for the inner. What is in you, you take to be outside you and what is outside, you take to be in you. The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate. You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche. That is the basic confusion and no new explosion will set it right! You have to think yourself out of it. There is no other way.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, quote from I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease; one is no longer interested in being happy; beyond happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy, the ecstasy of giving from a perennial source.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, quote from I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with
people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need
nothing. Be what you are--conscious being--and don't stray away from
yourself.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, quote from I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own....Stand still, be quiet.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, quote from I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Love tells me, i am everything.
Wisdom tells me, i am nothing.
And in between flows my life.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, quote from I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Have your being outside this body of birth and death and all your problems will be solved. They exist because you believe yourself born to die. Undeceive yourself and be free. You are not a person.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, quote from I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-disgust are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self, all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect. Deny your self nothing--give yourself infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, quote from I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind has built around you.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, quote from I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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