Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life
flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at
the banks, that it becomes a problem. By flowing with life I mean acceptance -- letting
come what comes and go what goes. Desire not, fear not, observe the actual, as
and when it happens, for you are not what happens, you are to whom it happens.
Ultimately even the observer you are not. You are the ultimate potentiality of which the
all-embracing consciousness is the manifestation and expression.
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I am real for I am always now, in the present, and what
is with me now shares in my reality. (…) A thing focussed in the now is
with me, for I am ever present; it is my own reality that I impart to the present
event.
***
Things and thoughts have been changing all the time. But
the feeling that what is now is real has never changed, even in dream.
***
Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory
of pain. Both make the mind restless. Moments of pleasure are merely gaps
in the stream of pain. How can the mind be happy?
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Q: Between the spirit and the body, is it love that provides
the bridge?
M: What else? Mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it.
***
(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj/I Am that)
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