Nisargadatta Maharaj - Know yourself as you are
"See the person you imagine yourself to be as a part of the world
you perceive within your mind and look at the mind from the outside, for
you are not the mind. After all, your only problem is the eager
self-identification with whatever you perceive. Give up this habit,
remember that you are not what you perceive, use your power of alert
aloofness. See yourself in all that lives and your behavior will express
your vision. Once you realize that there is nothing in this world,
which you can call your own, you look at it from the outside as you look
at a play on the stage, or a picture on the screen, admiring and
enjoying, but really unmoved. As long as you imagine yourself to be
something tangible and solid, a thing among things, actually existing in
time and space, short-lived and vulnerable, naturally you will be
anxious to survive and increase. But when you know yourself as beyond
space and time — in contact with them only at the point of here and now,
otherwise all-pervading and all-containing, unapproachable,
unassailable, invulnerable — you will be afraid no longer. Know yourself
as you are — against fear there is no other remedy."
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