“A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part.”
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
When you know you are silent, the mind is free of resistance, and therefore you are naturally happy.
When you know you are aware, desire disappears, and with it, your problems.
Just be aware. When aware, comparison is absent, and its two evil brothers, desire and resistance, simply vanish. Therefore you are naturally happy.
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A poetic version of the opening quote: “When one is quiet, then something wakes up inside one, something that is quiet and happy like the stars.”
-William Butler Yeats