“When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected. I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the "I am" in my mind and soon the peace and joy and deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared, —myself, my guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained, and unfathomable silence.

Either you remain forever hungry and thirsty, longing, searching, grabbing, holding, ever losing and sorrowing, or go out wholeheartedly in search of the state of timeless perfection to which nothing can be added nor taken away from. In it all desires and fears are absent, not because they were given up, but because they have lost their meaning.

There will be periods of frustration; there will be periods of doubt. Your worldly involvements would hamper your practice, and an atmosphere of defeat would prevail. But, come what may continue your abidance in the ‘I am’ with all earnestness. The ‘I am’ would test your endurance, but a moment would come when it will be pleased with you, become your friend and release its stranglehold on you, and reveal all the secrets.

You are the Supreme Reality- all there is. Just trust and remember that. Wisdom lies in never forgetting the Self, the Supreme Absolute as the ever-present Source of both the experiencer and the experience.”

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj