Remember

“All my spare time I would spend looking at myself in silence.”
-Nisargadatta Maharaj

Thinking creates personal reality.

The next time you catch yourself wanting something to not be how it is, remember: We make it all up.

A problem is a thought you care about.

When you don’t care what you are thinking about, you don’t have any problems.

Watch your mind for proof of this: Only in thought is anything unacceptable.

Turn awareness back on itself. As the day permits, rather than being aware of anything in particular—just be self-aware. Be aware of awareness itself.

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As you think, life is.

BONUS MATERIAL, from Maharaj:

When I met my Guru, he told me: “You are not what you take yourself to be. Find out what you are. Watch the sense ‘I am’, find your real Self.” I obeyed him, because I trusted him. I did as he told me. All my spare time I would spend looking at myself in silence. And what a  difference it made, and how soon! 

My teacher told me to hold on to the sense ‘I am’ tenaciously and not to swerve from it even for a moment. I did my best to follow his 

advice and in a comparatively short time I realized within myself the truth of his teaching. 

All I did was to remember his teaching, his face, his words constantly. This brought an end to the mind; in the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am—unbound.