"My compassion is not for the individual, but for that beingness which has trapped itself into identifying with individuals."

-- Nisargadatta

"Living is life's only purpose."

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you but your own imagination, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas, and live by truth alone."

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"In reality there are no others, and by helping yourself you help everybody else."

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"The witness is the door through which you pass beyond."

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Absolutes should be experienced not discussed."

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Just live life as it comes but alertly, watchfully, allowing everything to happen as it happens, doing the natural things in the natural way suffering, rejoicing -- as life brings."

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"To go beyond the mind, a well-furnished mind is not needed."

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Nothing of value can happen to a mind that knows exactly what it wants."

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"There is a 'stamp of reality' on the actual which the past and future do not have."

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"If your watchfulness is deep and steady, ever turned toward the source, it will gradually move upstream till suddenly it becomes the source."

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Mind create the abyss, the heart crosses it."

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Find yourself first and endless blessings will follow."

-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj