Wisdom One-Liners of Nisargadatta
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I have a collection of about 600 short and powerful quotes from Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta Maharaj, two venerated nondual teachers of the 20th century. I collected them the old-fashioned way in the late 1990s — directly from books — including the modern nondual classic of Nisargadatta: I Am That.
More recently, I entered these quotes into my own private competition to narrow them down to my top 20 favorites. My criteria included not only the clarity of the teaching, but also how memorable the quote is, how it rolls off the tongue, and how easy it might be to share in a conversation. I almost called them "catchy quotes," but "wisdom one-liners" seemed more fitting.
Here they are, in reverse order:
Top 20 Wisdom One-Liners of Nisargadatta Maharaj:
20. The only fact you are sure of is that you are.
19. Nothing is wrong with you, but the ideas you have of yourself are altogether wrong.
18. Every event has innumerable causes and produces numberless effects. It is useless to keep accounts, nothing is traceable.
17. A thing worth doing is its own purpose and meaning. Make nothing a means to something else.
16. Pleasure depends on things, happiness does not.
15. To live in the known is bondage, to live in the unknown is liberation.
14. To find truth, you must not cling to your convictions; if you are sure of the immediate, you will never reach the ultimate.
13. All knowledge is a form of ignorance. The most accurate map is yet only paper.
12. Affectionate awareness is the crucial factor that brings Reality into focus.
11. Love is boundless. What is limited to a few cannot be called love.
10. Ignorance is the cause of inevitability.
9. Desire is the memory of pleasure, and fear is the memory of pain.
8. The shape things take is not within your power; the motives of your actions are.
7. In complete obedience to nature there is no effort.
6. Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity.
5. Desire the good of all, and the universe will work with you. But if you want your own pleasure, you must earn it the hard way.
4. The future, left to itself merely repeats the past. Change can only happen now, never in the future.
3. Both anatomy and astronomy describe you.
2. You cannot be rid of problems without abandoning illusions.
1. Remember that you are. This is your working capital. Rotate it and there will be much profit.
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